CV

Complete CV

APPOINTMENTS

• November 2022 ~ Present: Lecturer (Assitant Professor)

  School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University,
  Edinburgh, UK. Working on: Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Applied machine learning, and Deep Learning Lecturing: Algorithms and Data Structures, Advanced machine learning, Machine learning for conversational AI, Data processing and management, Data wrangling, and Scripting for Data Science (Python)

• June 2022 ~ October 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher

  Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT),
  Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures (UT2J),
  Toulouse, France. Working on: Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Information extraction, Applied machine learning, and Deep Learning
  Supervisor : Professor Josiane Mothe

• September 2019 ~ Decmber 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher

  Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT),
  Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS),
  Toulouse, France.
  Worked on: Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Information extraction, Network analysis, and Applied machine learning
  Project: EU H2020 PREVISION
  Supervisor : Professor Josiane Mothe

• April 2017 ~ August 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher

  Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT),
  Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier,
  Toulouse, France.
  Worked on: Information retrieval, data analysis, and Applied machine learning
  Project: EU H2020 FabSpace 2.0
  Supervisor : Professor Josiane Mothe

• January 2017 ~ March 2017: Assistant Professor

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  Port City International University (PCIU),
  Chittagong, Bangladesh.
  Taught courses: Object-oriented programming (Java), C programming and computer fundamentals, and Competitive programming (Algorithms, Data structure)

• October 2016 ~ December 2016: Research Assistant

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT),
  Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan.
  Worked on: Information retrieval and applied machine learning

• June 2011 ~ September 2011: Lecturer

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT),
  Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  Taught courses: Computer graphics, Data communications, and Computer fundamentals

• April 2011 ~ May 2011: Software Engineer

  Proggasoft Limited,
  Dhaka, Bangladesh. Worked on: Web application development using PHP, MySQL, JS, CSS

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., 2013 ~ 2016

  Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
  Toyohashi University of Technology,
  Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan.

• M.Engg., 2011 ~ 2013

  Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
  Toyohashi University of Technology,
  Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan.

• B.Sc. (Hons.), 2005 ~ 2010

  Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
  University of Chittagong,
  Chittagong, Bangladesh.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Information retrieval (IR)

• Adaptive information retrieval
• Query performance prediction
• Contextual query expansion
• Diversification (ranking)
• Short-text retrieval and ranking
• Fair ranking
• Bipartite graph-based ranking
• Conversational information retrieval
• Ambiguous query classification
• Query understanding

Natural language processing (NLP)

• Check-worthy claim prediction
• Embedding-based data representation
• Search intent mining
• Social media analysis
• Skill extraction and matching

Applied machine learning, and

• Learning to rank
• Classification and regression
• Causal machine learning
• Clustering

Deep learning for Information retrieval

• Neural network
• Convolutional neural networks (Resnet),
• LSTM, Bi-LSTM
• Transformers
• Graph nueral networks
• Multimodal conversational interaction
• Neural ranker

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, R, Ruby, C/C++, AWK
• Deep Learning Frameworks: PyTorch, Tensorflow
• Machine Learning Framework: RankLib, SVM-rank, Scikit-learn
• Search Engine/IR Tools: Indri IR, Terrier IR, Lucene, Elastic-Search
• Web application development: Python-Flask, RESTful-API, RabbitMQ, PHP, JS, CSS
• Other Tools: Docker, Singularity