Welcome to my website

I am a fourth year PhD student at the University of Utah, pursuing my doctoral studies in Computer Science. I am currently working as a research assistant for my advisor, Professor Ellen Riloff.

My research area is Natural Language Processing. In particular, I am currently working on semantic lexicon induction, information extraction, and emotion analysis in social media. I also find interest in research related to text summarization, subjectivity analysis and question answering systems. I am a member of the Natural Language Processing research group at the University of Utah. Our research lab is located at 4158A (MEB).

NLP research fascinates me. What we naturally understand just by reading a few sentences, computer programs would struggle hard to comprehend the same. They cannot make effective inferences based on real world knowledge like we do. This makes the task of automatic processing of natural language both challenging and interesting.

Before coming to the University of Utah, I received my masters degree in 2010 from the University of Wolverhampton, UK and the Université de Franche-Comté, France under the Erasmus Mundus masters program in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology. I completed my undergrad in 2006 in Computer Science and Information Technology at Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is my home country.