About Me

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Currently, I am working as a Teaching Assistant at CS@UIUC and a PhD Student Researcher at eBay. During the summer of 2023, I worked as a Research Scientist Intern at IBM Research - Almaden Lab where my manager was Lucian Popa. Before that, I had an experience as a Research Assistant at the Data and Information Systems (DAIS) Laboratory under the supervision of my Ph.D. advisor Professor Kevin C.C. Chang. I am also fortunate to work with Professor ChengXiang Zhai under IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR). Before being admitted to UIUC as a Ph.D. student, I completed my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Software Engineering from Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka. I did my master thesis on improving the performance of tree-based classifiers (Decision trees and Random forests).

Research interests: Natural Language Processing (i.e., understanding and using LLMs), Text Mining and Recommender Systems.

Highlights

[10/2023] One paper was submitted to The Web Conference 2024.
[06/2023] Five papers were submitted to EMNLP 2023.
[05/2023] One paper was accepted to ACL 2023.
[10/2022] Two long papers were submitted to EACL 2023.
[10/2022] Our work- “Coordinated Topic Modeling” has been accepted to EMNLP 2022.
[02/2022] Our work- “Domain Representative Keywords Selection” is accepted to ACL 2022.
[08/2020] Started PhD in CS at UIUC.
[01/2020] One long paper is accepted to Proceeding of PAKDD 2020.
[09/2019] Won HASCA Nurse care activity detection challenge at UbiComp 2019 with a long paper publication.
[05/2019] One long paper has been accepted to Proceeding of IJCAI 2019.