Education and Awards

Education

🎓 PhD in Computing Science, Sep 2024 - Present

• University of Alberta (UofA), Edmonton, Canada.
• Supervisor: Prof. Davood Rafiei

🎓 MSc (Thes.) in Computing Science, Aug 2024

• University of Alberta (UofA), Edmonton, Canada.
• Thesis Title: “Improving Table Reasoning through Table Decomposition and Normalization” Thesis
• Supervisor: Prof. Davood Rafiei
• Committee Members: Prof. Greg Kondrak and Prof. Mario Nascimento

🎓 BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, 2016

• Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Work experience

• September 2024 - Present: Associate Researcher (Intern) at Huawei Canada
• September 2022 - Present: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Alberta.
  • Course: CMPUT 291 - File and Database Management, F22, W23, F23, W24
• May 2023 - August 2023: Graduate Research Assistant, University of Alberta.

Service

• Subreviewer: WSDM 2024, SIGIR 2023, CIKM 2023, ICBSLP 2019, ICERIE 2019

Achievements and Awards

• UAlberta Travel Award, June 2024
• Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship (AIGSS), Sep 2023
• Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES), Sep 2023
• Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Talent Bursary, Amii 2023
  • Upperbound AI Conference, 2023, 2024
• University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship Sep 2022
  • Awarded by the University of Alberta for excellent academic background.
• Runner Up Award - AIForBangla Feb 2022
  • Awarded By AIforBangla season 1, which is a national project contest focusing on the Bangla NLP research, funded by the government of Bangladesh.
  • Received this award for developing a toolkit for Bangla Natural Language Processing called ’SUST Bangla NLP Toolkit (SBNLTK)’. I was the mentor of this project. link
• Vice Chancellor Award - 2020
• IEEE Honorable Mention Award, Awarded by CAICT Conference, 2020
• Prime Minister Gold Medal - 2016

Skills

• NLP, IR, LLM

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