I am a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI. I have obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Houston. My adviser was Dr. Thamar Solorio and I was a member of RiTUAL Lab. My research interests are spread across Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval.
More specifically, I am interested in Conversational AI, Language Modeling, Low-resource Languages and Multilinguality, and Computational Social Science. I also feel interested in human psychology, hence, open to exploring the areas of psycholinguistics and human-centric AI technologies and policy-making.
Previously, I did my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. I am one of the early developers of the first Bangladeshi Bangla search engine Pipilika. My major contribution is the automated Pipilika Top News service.
I love music, love to play instruments, and sing! I attend hard-rock and metal concerts on a regular basis. Check out some of my videos on YouTube.
I have created a YouTube series in Bangla for Computer Science undergrads. At the very beginning, getting good guideline is important and many students can not do well because they do not know the right information in the right time. In this series, I am interviewing people from different background just to collect information that can help the students.
I am currently running another podcast, where I talk to people from different backgrounds and try to know their career journey. The tip of an iceberg is always visible and beautiful, what I focus in this podcast is what is under the water for years.
Recent News
- 01/21/2023 Paper with my first intern Christopher is accepted at EACL 2023.
- 12/18/2022 I am co-organizing two workshops at EMNLP 2023. 1) The sixth workshop on Computational Approaches for Linguistic Code Switching (CALCS) and 2) The first workshop on Bangla Language Processing.
- 01/07/2022 New papers will appear at ACM Computing surveys, KDD, NAACL. Check out publications page.
- 06/01/2022 We are organizing the second edition of MultiCoNER as part of SemEval.
Experience
- 12/2023 – Present: Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI, Seattle, WA.
- 07/2020 – 11/2023: Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI, Seattle, WA.
- 01/2020 – 05/2020: Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa, Seattle, WA.
- 05/2019 – 08/2019: AI/ML Research Intern at GE Healthcare, San Ramon, CA.
- 05/2018 – 09/2018: Deep Learning Engineering Intern at Intel AI, San Diego, CA.
- 06/2013 – 06/2015: Researcher and developer at Pipilika search engine.
It is the first Bengali search engine in Bangladesh. My major contribution in Pipilika is Pipilika Top News, an automated news search engine that can identify trending/breaking/important news of current time and aggregate all other similar news from different sources. - 2012 – 2015: Freelance game developer at Upwork.
- 01/2012 – 06/2012: Game developer at Webcraft Bangladesh Ltd.
Professional Services
- Co-Cheif Technical Officer ACL Rolling Review (ARR) (01/2024- Present)
- Co-organizer The first workshop on Bangla Language Processing
- Co-organizer The sixth workshop on Computational Approaches for Linguistic Code Switching (CALCS)
- Co-organizer SemEval 2022 Task 2: MultiCoNER II – Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition
- Co-organizer SemEval 2021 Task 11: MultiCoNER- Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition
- Co-organizer SemEval 2020 Task 5: SentiMix – Sentiment Analysis for Code-Mixed Language
- Student co-chair NAACL 2019 Student Research Workshop
- Area Chair/Reviewer ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, LREC, ICON, ACL-SRW
- Elected General Secretary CSE Society (2012-2013), SUST
Community Services in Bangladesh
I often accept invitations from differnt organizations and try to help out young students in (mostly in Bangladesh) through live QA sessions. Maintaining a log here.
- 01/18/2022 [With BDOSN, Dhaka]: The first NLP Hackathon in Bangladesh
- 09/12/2021 [EMK Center, Dhaka]: Career and Opportunities on NLP and Machine Learning
- 08/07/2021 [Polytechnic News]: Career in Ai, Machine Learning & Data Science
- 08/01/2021 [Erudapy]: Into the real world of AI and Data Science
- 07/18/2021 [Notre Dame College Science Club]: Prospects of 4th Industrial Revolution: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- 05/16/2020 [SUST Career Club]: Higher study in US
- 07/19/2020 [Society for the Popularization of Science, Bangladesh]: Youth Science Congress
- 05/13/2020 [IEEE Rajshahi University Student Branch Community] Story of NLP
- 12/27.2019 [Bangladesh Open Source Network] Story of NLP