Eftekhar Hossain

:wave: Bio: Hi, I'm Eftekhar, a 2nd-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 interests are Natural Language Understanding and Multimodal Learning, with a broader interest in the areas of Machine Learning and Generative AI. My current work specifically focuses on investigating the ability of large language models in Multi-Perspective Narrative Understanding to support better decision-making in urgent scenarios.

In my earlier research, I developed resources and computational models for Multilingual NLP with an emphasis on Multimodality in machine learning. My work focused on developing benchmarks and techniques for effectively integrating information from multiple modalities (e.g., image and text) and jointly evaluating them to solve complex language and vision problems in low-resource scenarios.

News

17 May, 25 💥 Two papers (FIHA, BenNumEval) accepted at ACL'25.
10 Feb, 25 💥📢 One of our paper has been accepted at NAACL'25. [Paper] [Code]
19 Aug, 24 🏂 Started PhD in Computer Science at UCF, USA.
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 Business 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 Business Incubator. [Certificate]
14 Oct, 22 One paper on Multimodal accepted at AACL-SRW-2022. :smile:
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 Business 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]
06 Apr, 22 One paper accepted at CONSTRAINT@ACL-2022.
04 Apr, 22 One paper on Multimodal accepted at LREC-2022 main conference. :sparkles: :smile:
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.