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Past Lives: The Screenplay
Excerpt: "Hae Sung: What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are then?
Nora: I don’t know.
Hae Sung: Me neither... See you then."
The Myth of Sisyphus
Excerpt: "The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
How Do You Live?
Excerpt: "Three of them lay there quietly for a while. They already felt close enough that there was no need to speak. How nice it was just to lie there in silence."
Meditations
Excerpt: "Have you reason? I have. Why don’t you use it? When it performs its proper office, what more do you require?"
Crime and Punishment
Excerpt: "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
Animal Farm
Excerpt: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Digital Image Processing
Excerpt: "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
Introduction to Algorithms
Excerpt: "Before there were computers, there were algorithms. But now that there are computers, there are even more algorithms, and algorithms lie at the heart of computing."
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Excerpt: "To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality."
Welcome to the Universe
Excerpt: "As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge."
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Excerpt: "We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us."
A Brief History of Time
Excerpt: "We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?"
The Kite Runner
Excerpt: "For you a thousand times over!"
The Last of the Mohicans
Excerpt: "When a man consorts much with a people, if they are honest, and he no knave, love will grow up atwixt them."
The Little Match Girl
Excerpt: "She took the little girl in her arms, and both of them flew in brightness and joy above the earth, very, very high, and up there was neither cold, nor hunger, nor fear—they were with God."
Oliver Twist
Excerpt: "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
Treasure Island
Excerpt: "Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
Bicycle Magic and Other Stories
Excerpt: "If you're dealing with clever people you've got to be clever yourself."
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BanglaBook: A Large-scale Bangla Dataset for Sentiment Analysis from Book Reviews
Published in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023
Authors:
Citation (IEEE format): M. Kabir, O. B. Mahfuz, S. R. Raiyan, H. Mahmud, and M. K. Hasan, “BanglaBook: A Large-scale Bangla Dataset for Sentiment Analysis from Book Reviews,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06595, 2023.
arXiv PDF Code/Data Slides Video@misc{kabir2023banglabook,
title={BanglaBook: A Large-scale Bangla Dataset for Sentiment Analysis from Book Reviews},
author={Mohsinul Kabir and Obayed Bin Mahfuz and Syed Rifat Raiyan and Hasan Mahmud and Md Kamrul Hasan},
year={2023},
eprint={2305.06595},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
Math Word Problem Solving by Generating Linguistic Variants of Problem Statements
Published in Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), 2023
Authors:
Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan, Md. N. Faiyaz, S. Md. J. Kabir, M. Kabir, H. Mahmud, and M. K. Hasan, “Math Word Problem Solving by Generating Linguistic Variants of Problem Statements,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.13899, 2023.
arXiv PDF Code/Data Slides Poster Video@misc{raiyan2023math,
title={Math Word Problem Solving by Generating Linguistic Variants of Problem Statements},
author={Syed Rifat Raiyan and Md. Nafis Faiyaz and Shah Md. Jawad Kabir and Mohsinul Kabir and Hasan Mahmud and Md Kamrul Hasan},
year={2023},
eprint={2306.13899},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
HaSPeR: An Image Repository for Hand Shadow Puppet Recognition
Published in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops (WCCA Oral), 2025
Authors:
Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan, Z. Z. Amio, and S. Ahmed, “HaSPeR: An Image Repository for Hand Shadow Puppet Recognition,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10360, 2024.
arXiv PDF Code/Data@misc{raiyan2024hasper,
title={HaSPeR: An Image Repository for Hand Shadow Puppet Recognition},
author={Syed Rifat Raiyan and Zibran Zarif Amio and Sabbir Ahmed},
year={2024},
eprint={2408.10360},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
SCReedSolo: A Secure and Robust LSB Image Steganography Framework with Randomized Symmetric Encryption and Reed-Solomon Coding
Published in Proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2025), 2025
Authors:
Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan and M. H. Kabir, “SCReedSolo: A Secure and Robust LSB Image Steganography Framework with Randomized Symmetric Encryption and Reed-Solomon Coding,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12368, 2025.
arXiv PDF Code/Data@article{raiyan2025screedsolo,
title={SCReedSolo: A Secure and Robust LSB Image Steganography Framework with Randomized Symmetric Encryption and Reed-Solomon Coding},
author={Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Kabir, Md Hasanul},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12368},
year={2025}
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teaching
Competitive Programming Classes 2021–22
Training, Islamic University of Technology, Department of CSE, 2021
Winter Semester 2023
Undergraduate courses, Islamic University of Technology, Department of CSE, 2023
Summer Semester 2023
Undegraduate courses, Islamic University of Technology, Department of CSE, 2024