Munim Thahmid

FORMAL METHODS · SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

Munim Thahmid

Research Intern, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Recent CSE graduate, BUET

I work on formal methods and dependable software systems. My primary research examines how AI systems can construct and complete machine-checkable TLA+ proofs and how such systems should be evaluated rigorously. I also contribute to SREGym, which evaluates AI agents on realistic Site Reliability Engineering problems in live system environments.

Research interests: formal verification, machine-assisted reasoning, AI for SRE, distributed systems, and software reliability.

Machine-assisted formal reasoning

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Advisor: Prof. Tianyin Xu

I contribute to TLAPS-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating AI systems on completing and constructing machine-checkable TLA+ proofs. My work focuses on the methodology required for credible experiments: scalable proof verification, reliable multi-round evaluation, and accurate measurement of model behavior and cost.

More broadly, I am interested in how machine assistance can make formal reasoning practical for complex software systems without weakening correctness guarantees.

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SREGym: AI agents for software reliability

AI agents for Site Reliability Engineering · Current research

I contribute to SREGym, an AI-native platform for developing and evaluating SRE agents in live system environments with realistic cloud-system failures.

My work includes building reproducible Kubernetes incidents, including node conntrack exhaustion that can disrupt an agent's normal diagnostic access path. These scenarios test whether agents can reason about degraded systems and recover them safely.

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Bengali speech representations

BUET · Supervisor: Dr. Sadia Sharmin

My undergraduate research examined where Bengali phone-like information emerges across Whisper encoder layers using speaker-disjoint probing, cross-model comparison with XLS-R, and robustness analyses. The resulting paper was accepted to INTERSPEECH 2026.

Layer-wise Probing of Whisper's Encoder Representations for Bengali Phone-like Units

Munim Thahmid, Sadia Sharmin

INTERSPEECH 2026. Accepted paper.

Speaker-disjoint layer-wise probing across Whisper-small, Whisper-medium, and Whisper-large-v3, with XLS-R comparison and robustness analyses.

Research Intern

May 2026 - Present

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Advisor: Prof. Tianyin Xu

Research on machine-assisted formal reasoning and dependable systems, with current work on evaluating AI-generated TLA+ proofs.

Software Engineer

Oct 2024 - Feb 2026

Yobo AI · Intern, then part-time engineer

Spent over a year building backend systems, testing infrastructure, and production features for AI voice-agent applications.

Undergraduate Researcher

2025 - 2026

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology · Supervisor: Dr. Sadia Sharmin

Research on Bengali representations in multilingual speech encoders, leading to an accepted INTERSPEECH 2026 paper.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering

Dhaka, Bangladesh · January 2022 - May 2026

For research discussions or collaboration, email me at

munimthahmid2@gmail.com