- Published in top-tier conferences such as ACL 2022, EuroVis 2022, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2024, EMNLP 2024, COLING 2025, ICLR 2025
- Published in workshops at Neurips 2024, ICLR 2025, AAAI 2024, CVPR 2021, where he received the Best Paper Award
- The ChartQA benchmark has been featured as a key multimodal evaluation benchmark by OpenAI’s GPT-4 official blog post and Google’s Gemini paper
- As of March 7th, 2025, his publications have received 946 citations, and he has an h-index of 9 on Google Scholar
- Received the Google PaliGemma Academic Award
Research Experience
- ServiceNow Research, Visiting Researcher, September 2024 - Present
- Arteria AI, Senior Data Scientist, January 2024 - September 2024
- Arteria AI, Data Scientist, May 2022 - December 2023
- York University, Research Assistant, Sep 2020 - June 2022
- York University, Teaching Assistant, Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
- ShallowAI, Data Scientist Intern, July 2020 - Sep 2020
- Koc University, Undergraduate Research Assistant, June 2019 - Jan 2020
Education
- York University, PhD in Computer Science, Sep 2024 - Present
- York University, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Sep 2020 - June 2022, GPA: 9/9, Exceptional A+
- Koc University, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sep 2017 - June 2020, GPA: 3.9/4.0, supported by the fully-funded Al Ghurair Foundation (AGFE) STEM scholarship
Background
Research interests include Multimodal Large Language Modeling, Multimodal Chart Understanding, Multimodal Document Understanding, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, and Vision-Language. Currently a PhD student in Computer Science at York University, supervised by Prof. Enamul Hoque.