Co-organized two workshops at EMNLP 2023 (CALCS and Bangla Language Processing). Organized MultiCoNER as part of SemEval. Published papers at EACL 2023, ACM Computing Surveys, KDD, NAACL. Won Best Ph.D. student award. Holds a patent.
Research Experience
Feb 2025 - Present: Principal Applied Scientist at Oracle Health AI, Seattle, WA. Dec 2023 - Feb 2025: Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI, Seattle, WA. Jul 2020 - Nov 2023: Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI, Seattle, WA. Jan 2020 - May 2020: Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa, Seattle, WA.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Houston, advised by Dr. Thamar Solorio, member of RiTUAL Lab. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh.
Background
Currently a Principal Applied Scientist at Oracle Health AI. Research interests span across Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval. Specifically interested in Conversational AI, Language Modeling, Low-resource Languages and Multilinguality, and Computational Social Science. Also interested in human psychology, open to exploring psycholinguistics and human-centric AI technologies and policy-making.
Miscellany
Loves music, plays instruments, and sings. Regularly attends hard-rock and metal concerts. Created a YouTube series in Bangla for Computer Science undergrads. Runs a podcast interviewing people from different backgrounds about their career journeys.