Shifat E Arman is a DPhil student in Engineering Science at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME), University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Alison Noble. His research focuses on deep learning for automated analysis of fetal echocardiography video.

Shifat is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Dhaka, where he founded the Cortex AI Research Group. He completed his BSc and MSc in Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Dhaka, with an MSc thesis on neural architecture search.

His broader interests include AI for health, agentic AI, AI safety, and bioinspired robotics, with papers at venues like Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).