About Me

Hi, I’m Pritom Saha Akash, a fifth-year Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant in Computer Science at UIUC, advised by Professor Kevin Chang. My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP)—from text mining to LLM-based generation—and recommender systems, with a recent focus on designing multi-agent systems. I have also contributed to collaborative research projects between IBM-UIUC and eBay-UIUC.

Beyond academia, I have gained hands-on industry research experience during the summers of 2023, 2024, and 2025. As a Research Scientist Intern at IBM Research (2023), I worked on Conversational AI, and at Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios (2024, 2025), I contributed to LLM-driven Product Search for Amazon Prime Video.

I hold BS and MS degrees in Software Engineering from the University of Dhaka, IIT, which laid the groundwork for my current research in software systems, machine learning, and NLP.

🎓 Graduating December 2025 — Actively Seeking Full-Time Research/Engineering Opportunities

Recent News

[08/2025] One paper accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
[05/2025] Three papers accepted to ACL 2025 — two in the Main Conference and one in the Findings of ACL.
[05/2025] Started internship as Applied Scientist at Amazon
[01/2025] Co-instructing the course: LLMs for Long-Form Text Generation (previously in 08/2024 and 01/2024)
[09/2024] Two papers got accepted to EMNLP 2024 (Findings).
[05/2024] Started internship as Applied Scientist at Amazon
[05/2023] One co-authored paper accepted to ACL 2023
[05/2023] Started internship as Research Scientist at IBM