BIO
I am a CS master’s student at University of Saskatchewan. I work with Professor Michael Horsch and Roy Ka-wei Lee. I am also a member of SocialAI.Studio based at SUTD. Before moving to Canada, I worked at Goava, a B2B sales intelligence startup as a software engineer. I completed bachelor in Computer Science at Noakhali Science and Technology University in Bangladesh in 2018.
I am running a Dhaka-based reading group on NLP research started this summer [course-page], an advance graduate-level reading course will continue for Fall 2021 season also [webpage].
This site double as my personal blog. Posts range from computer science to my perspectives on life and absurdity. In my free hours, I like reading paperbacks, cooking, and blogging sometimes.
Research
I am broadly interested in machine learning models that can learn, multi-task and adapt from small data.
- NLP for Social Good - Cross-domain multilingual disinformation detection, cross-lingual meta-training for low-resource hate speech, commonsense reasoning and implicit hate speech detection.
- Multilingual NLP: Cross-lingual transfer. Efficient and flexible multi-task learning with multilingual pre-trained sentence encoders.
- Transfer Learning & Meta-learning - Efficient transfer learning and preventing negative transfer. Learning from small data [slides] and fast adaptation on novel tasks.
Locate me at UofS
☕🍕I work at G60 lab in the basement of Thorvaldson Building. If you are interested in deep learning or nlp, feel free to drop by during office hours.
Pointers
🇧🇩❤️ To access my about-me in Bengali [page link]
🎉👋 Fall NLP Reading Group 2021 @Dhaka [details here].
Applying for MS/Phd? Check Misc section for resources.
Tired of surfing? Grab some coffee and listen this track or this.
My third person bio page.
Books I read in 2021
- #Novel A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
- #Novel Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- #Novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- #Tech The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
- #Tech The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Updates
| Oct 2, 2020 | Paper accepted at NLP+CSS workshop @EMNLP |
| Sep 27, 2020 | My talk on “Online abuse and emotion during COVID-19” at TWIML NLP [Slides] |
| May 27, 2020 | On Analyzing Annotation Consistency in Online Abusive Behavior Datasets got accepted in ICWSM-2020. |
| May 22, 2020 | Got selected at machine learning summer school @Indonesia (MLSS-INDO ‘20)! |
| Jan 6, 2020 | Talk on undergraduate research and opportunities at AI startup, @Noakhali S&T Univ |