Paper titled 'CareLab at #SMM4H-HeaRD 2025: Insomnia Detection and Food Safety Event Extraction with Domain-Aware Transformers' accepted to SMM4H 2025@AAAI ICWSM; BanglaQuAD: A Bengali Open-domain Question Answering Dataset accepted for presentation at LREC-COLING 2024; Multimodal Hate Speech Detection from Bengali Memes and Texts paper accepted to SPELLL, 2022; DeepHateExplainer: Explainable Hate Speech Detection in Under-resourced Bengali Language accepted to IEEE (DSAA'2021).
Research Experience
Before starting his PhD, worked as a data scientist for two Singapore-based startups: LeadBook, a sales intelligence company, and EVCo, an electric mobility service startup. Interned remotely with the Vis4Sense research group under the guidance of Professor Kai Xu, focusing on Data Science, Visual Analytics, HCI, and NLP.
Education
PhD in Computer Science and Informatics from Emory University, advised by Prof. Azra Ismail; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh
Background
Research interests lie at the intersection of healthcare, natural language processing (NLP), and human-computer interaction (HCI). Particularly interested in developing fair and inclusive AI systems to improve health equity and outcomes for underserved communities. Also explores human behavior and wellbeing through social media and online data.
Miscellany
Enjoys participating in Kaggle competitions and exploring Kaggle datasets in spare time. An amiable person who loves music and enjoys playing the violin.