Scholar
Mashrur Rashik
Google Scholar ID: 7JcNp48AAAAJ
Research Scientist, Meta
Citations & Impact
Citations
50
H-index
3
i10-index
2
Publications
6
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'AI-Enabled Conversational Journaling for Advancing Parkinson's Disease Symptom Tracking' accepted to CHI 2025 with Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
- Paper 'Beyond Text and Speech in Conversational Agents: Mapping the Design Space of Avatars' accepted to DIS 2024
- Paper 'CommunityBots: Creating and Evaluating A Multi-Agent Chatbot Platform for Public Input Elicitation' accepted to CSCW 2023
- CLAImate system development and preliminary evaluation accepted to VIS 2025 (short paper)
- Awarded Dr. Dave Lomet Graduate Scholarship for Systems Research (Oct 2023)
- Awarded Jim Gray Scholarship for Systems Research (June 2022)
Research Experience
- Conducting research in HCI and NLP at the HCI-VIS Lab, UMass Amherst
- Summer 2024: Data Science for Common Good (DS4CG) Fellow at Media Cloud
- Served as Web Chair for IEEE VIS 2023–2024
- Reviewer for ACM CHI 2024
- Previously worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at TigerIT Bangladesh Ltd on Conversational AI and Machine Translation
Background
- Final-year Computer Science PhD Candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst)
- Research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Works in the HCI-VIS Lab under the supervision of Dr. Narges Mahyar and Dr. Ali Sarvghad
- Primary research focus: designing and developing conversational agents to elicit rich user input
- Aims to address challenges in multi-topic sustained conversations, conversational interface design impacts on user experience, and long-term data collection using chatbots
