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. Previously, I did my MSc (2023) and BSc (2018) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETE) from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Bangladesh. 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. My current work specifically focuses on text summarization, which is driven by a core question: How can we leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand and retrieve complex information from multi-perspective narratives, and construct a coherent alternative narrative from fragmented key information units scattered across those narratives, in a constraint-guided manner, to support better decision-making in urgent scenarios? In my earlier research, I spent time on developing resources and computational models for Multilingual NLP with an emphasis on Multimodality in machine learning. My work aimed to develop benchmarks and techniques for effectively integrating the information of multiple modalities (i.e., image, text) and jointly evaluating them to solve complex language and vision problems in low-resource scenarios.