Eftekhar Hossain
Bio:
Hi, I'm Eftekhar, a first-year CS PhD student at the University of Central Florida, USA. At UCF, I am a part of the Bridge-AI Lab . I served as an
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETE)
at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Bangladesh. Before that, I was a Lecturer in Dept. of EEE at
Premier University, Bangladesh. Previously, I did my MSc (2023) and BSc (2018) in ETE from CUET. I was a research member of
CUET NLP Lab from 2021-2024, where I had the privilege to work
with Prof. Dr. M. Moshiul Hoque and Omar Sharif.
🌲Research Interests: My primary research interest lies at the intersection of machine learning,
natural language processing, and computer vision. Specifically, I try to develop resources
and computational models for Multilingual NLP. Currently, my research focuses on Multimodality in machine learning.
I am trying to develop techniques to effectively integrate the information of multiple modalities (i.e., image, text) and
jointly evaluate them to solve complex language and vision problems. Besides, I am enthusiastic about exploring
how we can distill the knowledge of high-resource languages to develop or improve the efficiency of computational tools
for resource-constrained languages.
News
| 19 Aug, 24 | 🏂 Started PhD in Computer Science at UCF, USA. |
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| 15 May, 24 | ✨😊🎺 One paper is accepted at main track of ACL'24. [Paper] [Code] |
| 20 Jan, 24 | 🔥✨ One paper accepted at main track of EACL'24. [Paper] [Code] |
| 17 Jan, 24 | 📢 One paper on Hateful Memes accepted at EACL-SRW-2024. [Paper] [Code] |
| 28 Aug, 23 | Wins 20k BDT Prize for Best Research Publication at Research Fair 2023, Organized by CUET. [Certificate] |
| 07 June, 23 | Successfully defended my master's thesis. [Thesis] [Slide] |
| 21 Feb, 23 | Conducted a training on Bangla Language Processing organized by CUET IT Bussiness Incubator. [Certificate] |
| 19 Feb, 23 | Successfully organized two NLP Competition ( Task 1 , Task 2 ) as a part of CLBLP, 2023. |
| 27 Oct, 22 | Presented two papers (paper-1, paper-2) at ICO-2022 (Springer). |
| 21 Oct, 22 | Successfully organized a NLP Competition as a part of ETE DecaHertz, 2022. |
| 19 Oct, 22 | Conducted a training on Machine Learning with Python organized by CUET IT Bussiness Incubator. [Certificate] |
| 14 Oct, 22 |
One paper on Multimodal accepted at AACL-SRW-2022. 
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| 3 July, 22 | Give a speech on Understanding Social Media Beyond Texts at the Seminar on Role of NLP in ERA of 4IR. [Slide] |
| 2 July, 22 | Successfully conducted a training on AI and Machine Learning with Python organized by CUET IT Bussiness Incubator. [Certificate] | [Code & Slides] |
| 17 June, 22 | One paper (MSc Thesis) accepted at Journal of KSU-Computer and Information Sciences.[IF: 8.839] |
| 19 Apr, 22 | One paper accepted at IEEE Access Journal.[IF: 3.367] |
| 6 Apr, 22 | One paper accepted at CONSTRAINT@ACL-2022. |
| 4 Apr, 22 |
One paper on Multimodal accepted at LREC-2022 main conference. 
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| 26 Mar, 22 | Four shared task papers (Emotion, Troll, Multimodal, Abusive) accepted at ACL-2022 workshops. |
| 15 Feb, 21 | Three shared task papers (Hope, Offensive, Multimodal) accepted at EACL-2021. |