Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Vision)

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I was born and raised at Dhaka, which is the capital of Bangladesh. To avail all the great opportunities of contributing in research and innovations in tech world, I choose to study in Computer Science, and completed my undergraduate and masters in the Department of Computer Science at the American International University- Bangladesh (AIUB). After completing my masters in Intelligent System, I worked as a Lecturer in the same department at AIUB from 2018 till joining as a Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona.

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I grew up in a beautiful village in the North most tip of my island nation Sri Lanka. From my childhood I was very interested in mathematics and astronomy. I got my bachelors degree from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering. My areas of interests are Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence. Complexity of mathematics used in these disciplines attracted me to it. Currently my research is on Bandit based recommendation algorithms under the supervision of Dr.Kwang-Sung Jun. 

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To interact with people in the United State of America without knowing English, I relied on non-verbal communications to infer people's intention. Inspired by such life experience, I aim to develop an artificial social intelligent system that can socialize with people by predicting their intentions through observation and interactions. I hope that, when robots have the capability to understand people, people and robots can collaborate to solve challenging problems such as climate change and environmental crises.

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Hi, I am a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, under the instruction of Prof. Chicheng Zhang. Before that, I worked as a Research resident at VinAI from 2019-2022. Besides research, I have three years of working experience as a Junior Software Developer, Team leader, and Scrum Master.

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My early introduction to technology, courtesy of my father's passion and an exceptional computer science teacher during my school years, combined with elements of fate, led me to pursue Information Technology for my bachelor's degree. In my first year, I noticed a significant gender disparity in technology opportunities. Driven to effect change, I co-founded the Pehia Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to breaking down barriers hindering women's access to technology.

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I was born in Adelaide, Australia, when my father was a PhD student at the University of Adelaide. After having wonderful years in Australia, we moved back to Iran, and my father started his profession as a professor at the University of Zanjan, where I got my BSc in Electrical Engineering, Communication Systems. Right after, I went to France and spent one year as an MSc student at IMT Atlantique (Télécom Bretagne), Brest, in the same field.

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I am a first year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. I grew up in Chihuahua, a northern state in Mexico. I got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at El Paso. Currently I work with Dr. Jason Pacheco at the SSLG Lab.

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Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Deep Learning

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I grew up in Nigeria. I got my Bachelor's degree in Informatics and Computer Engineering from Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Russia. 

​​​​​Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.

What long-term project do you want to work on?

Currently, I am interested in working on AI systems committed to effective information dissemination.

What do you enjoy most about your work?

The intricacies of problem solving in CS.

Biography

I started my Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Fall 2022. My current research topic is developing an efficient Outlier/Anomaly detection method. Outlier detection has many applications in various real-world domains, including machine learning.

Apart from research, I was born and raised in Bangladesh, a beautiful South Asian country. I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from American International University-Bangladesh(AIUB). After my Master's, I worked as Lecturer for a few years at that same University.

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I was born in a small oil-producing town in southern China. At the age of six, I moved to Beijing with my parents. I was lucky to have entered Tsinghua University High School, where I enjoyed the best education in China. In 2020, I graduated from the University of Science and Technology Beijing with a bachelor's degree in Intelligence Science.

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I am interested in reinforcement learning and imitation learning.

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I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science, working with Prof. Chicheng Zhang. I was born and raised in a city in the northern part of China. Prior to UA, I obtained my bachelor's degree in Economics from Nankai University in 2018, and MS in Quantitative Finance from Fordham University in 2020. I also had a short working experience as a quant in New York City. Now I am very excited to see where this PhD journey would take me to.

​​​​​Research Interests

I am interested in Machine Learning, especially Learning Theory.

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I grew up in Saigon, Vietnam, a lovely city with unique culture,  moderate weather with two seasons (sunny and rainy), and many good foods. 

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I am a first-year PhD student in University of Arizona’s Department of Computer Science, advised by Professor Mihai Surdeanu. I grew up in Tehran, Iran and got my Bachelor's degree there. Then, I worked for three years as a software developer in one of Iran's top-tier software companies. After that, I came to the U.S. and received my M.S. degree in computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I started my PhD program at UofA in spring 2019.

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I’m a first year PhD student in the University of Arizona’s department of Computer Science. I am originally from Pakistan. I obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree in 2021. Previously, I have also interned at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) where I worked on applying machine learning to high energy physics problems.

​​​​​Research Interests

I am interested in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Neuro-Symbolic AI and Reinforcement Learning.

Biography

I grew up in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Before coming to UofA, I worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) from November 2018 to July 2021. I have completed my M.Sc. and B.Sc. in CSE from BUET in August 2021 and October 2018 respectively.

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I was born and grown up in Suzhou, which is a city famous for silk and traditional Chinese garden located in the eastern part of China. I got my B.E. in Software Engineering at the Nanjing University. After my graduation, I worked in the industry for two years in Shanghai. When I got bored with dealing with daily routine of work, I decided to purse a higher level education abroad. So I entered the University of Washington, Tacoma for a master's degree in Computer Science, where I found my interest in Machine Learning. And now I'm the first year CS Ph.D.

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I am a third-year PhD student under the supervision of Professor Mihai Surdeanu. I am originally from Romania. I earned my Bachelor of Computer Science in 2018, followed by a Master in Computer Science in 2020.

​​​​​Research Interests

Machine Learning in general and Natural Language Processing in particular.

What long-term project do you want to work on?

Program synthesis, interpretability in neural networks, fairness and bias, neural network architectures.

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I am a first year PhD student majoring in Computer Science at The University of Arizona. Previously I got my master's degree and bachelor's degree, both in Computer Science, at ASU (you know that one) and BISTU, Beijing, China, respectively.

​​​​​Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

What long-term project do you want to work on?

Still investigating. Currently I am working on a project related to Question answering

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I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Arizona, where I am fortunate to be mentored by Dr. Kwang-sung Jun. My academic journey has encompassed a diverse range of disciplines, as I hold degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering as well.