Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid

I am a graduate student in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, Canada, under the supervision of Professor Davood Rafiei. Currently, I serve as a research assistant at the AI and Database Lab, where I actively contribute to cutting-edge research initiatives.

My research interests span across Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Large Language Models. I am passionate about exploring innovative approaches to enhance language understanding and retrieval systems.

Prior to my graduate studies, I completed my Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Bangladesh.

🧭 🎓 🤖 Research Overview

My research explores how large language models (LLMs) can understand and reason over structured and semi-structured data such as tables and databases—domains traditionally dominated by symbolic systems. I aim to build frameworks that integrate understanding, retrieval, and reasoning with the adaptability and generalization power of large language models. The unifying vision behind my work is to develop trustworthy, interpretable, and agentic AI systems capable of performing complex reasoning, grounding, and decision-making across structured data and natural language.

📆 News

📢 Paper Alert! - Accepted one paper at EACL 2026
Attened COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada
✨ Joined Huawei Canada as an Associate Researcher (Intern)
📢 Paper Alert! - Accepted one paper at EMNLP 2024
📢 Started PhD in Computing Science at UAlberta
📢 I have defended my MSc Thesis
✨ Attended NAACL 2024 in Mexico City
📢 Paper Alert! - Accepted one paper at NAACL 2024
✨ Attended AMII UpperBound Conference May, 2024
✨ Attended ACL 2023

Contact Me

✉️ Email
📧 Official: mnahid[at]ualberta[dot]ca
📧 Other: nahid-cse[at]sust[dot]edu

🔗 Website: mahadi-nahid.github.io
🔗 LinkedIn: mahadi-nahid
🐙 GitHub: mahadi-nahid
🐦 Twitter: mhn_nahid

🏠 Address
Department of Computing Science
1-13 Athabasca Hall
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E8
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