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I am Syed Rifat Raiyan.I am a Lecturer of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Islamic University of Technology (IUT). In May of 2023, I attained my Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree with Honors from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Islamic University of Technology (IUT). I was affiliated with the Systems and Software Lab (SSL) research group of IUT while I was working on my undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Mohsinul Kabir.

My research interests lie broadly in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning. These days, I am working on projects related to Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models, In-context Learning for Text Classification, Bangla Sentiment Analysis, and Image Classification.

Some people in academia that I follow/look up to —
Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, Autar Kaw, Bret Weinstein, Christopher D. Manning, Danqi Chen, David J. Malan, Donald E. Knuth, Erik Demaine, Gilbert Strang, Grant Sanderson, John McCarthy, Jonathan Haidt, Jordan B Peterson, Justin Johnson, Károly Zsolnai-Fehér, Linan Chen, Noam Chomsky, Rebecca Shafee, Roger Penrose, Srinivas Devadas, Terence Tao.

Chronicle

17th July 2024: Submitted my CSE 4836 project's paper to IEEE TAI. Preprint is available at arXiv. Let's hope for the best!

2nd February 2024: Became a reviewer at Springer Nature Computer Science.

16th August 2023: Got my first-ever job — Lecturer at IUT CSE.

9th July 2023: Virtually presented a poster of my B.Sc. thesis work at ACL 2023.

8th June 2023: My B.Sc. thesis work on MWPs got accepted for publication in ACL-SRW 2023. Alhamdulillah!

2nd May 2023: My first-ever paper got accepted for publication in the Findings of ACL 2023. Alhamdulillah!