Experience
Internship
- Visiting Research Scholar, Johns Hopkins University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE), Speech Translation, Summer 2023 – Conducted research on speech translation systems for low-resource languages.
Research Assistant
Natural Language Processing Research Assistant to Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
- Spring 2024 - Fall 2023 – Spring 2023 – Fall 2022 – Summer 2022 – Spring 2022 – Fall 2021 – Summer 2021 - Supported projects in multilingual NLP, low-resource machine translation, and speech translation research.
Teaching Assistant
CS 499, Natural Language Processing, Undergraduate, Computer Science, George Mason University, Spring 2021
SWE 619, Object-Oriented Software Specification/Consistency, Graduate, Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fall 2020 & Spring 2021
CS/SWE 332, Object-Oriented Software Specification/Consistency, Undergraduate, Computer Science, Fall 2020
CS 465, Computer Systems Architecture, Undergraduate, Computer Science, Fall 2019 & Spring 2020 Assisted in course instruction, grading, and mentoring students in programming, software engineering, and data science concepts.
Awards & Honors
Distinguished Academic Achievement, George Mason University, CS Department, 2025
Outstanding Academic Achievement, George Mason University, CS Department, 2022
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, George Mason University, CS Department, 2021
Best Paper Award, W-NUT, 2020
Ph.D. Research Initiation Award, George Mason University, CS Department, 2020
Service & Outreach
Co-Organizer, Shared Task: Machine Translation using Terminologies, WMT 2021
Co-Organizer, Shared Task: Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for African Languages, WMT 2022 & 2023
Participant/Volunteer, Machine Translation Marathon in the Americas, 2023
Industry Experience
- Software Engineer, Enosis Solutions, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2019 – July 2019 – Developed software solutions, contributed to system design, and implemented backend functionality.