Projects
Funded research datasets, and systems I built or supervised. Most of the Bangladesh work ran
with undergraduate teams, which is how much of it was taught as well as built.
Funded research projects
Development of a Large Corpus of Spontaneous Speech for Bangladeshi Bangla
2022–23 · Co-Investigator · SUST Research Centre AS/2022/1/24
A speech corpus for research on recognition of spontaneous Bangladeshi Bangla, a setting where
available corpora were mostly read speech.
BATS: A Dataset for Bangla Automatic Text Summarization
2021–22 · Principal Investigator · SUST Research Centre AS/2021/1/19
Roughly 100,000 document–summary pairs, built to make encoder–decoder summarization trainable for a
language where dataset scarcity was the binding constraint.
BED: A Bangla Emotion Dataset
2020–21 · Principal Investigator · SUST Research Centre AS/2020/1/27
Around 50,000 sentences annotated with six basic emotions. Related work from the group appeared as
EmoNoBa at AACL-IJCNLP 2022.
Automated Assessment System for MCQ and Subjective Tests
2019–20 · Principal Investigator · SUST Research Centre AS/2019/1/20
An examination platform handling fixed-answer questions alongside descriptive answers graded by a
Python program.
SUST Online Judge
2018–19 · Co-Investigator · SUST Research Centre AS/2018/1/11
A judge for running programming contests and programming examinations in several languages, for use
across the university.
Systems
MBBS and BDS admission test result processing
2017–19 · Team led by Prof. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Result processing for Bangladesh's national medical and dental college entrance tests — roughly 60
colleges and 100,000 candidates per cycle, where a processing error is a national news story.
SUST Exam Management System
2020–21 · Supervised across three student cohorts
Online examinations with multiple-choice, matching, coding and descriptive questions, program-based
grading, and basic proctoring.
Source
SUST Class Routine Management
2020–21 · Supervised as a course project
Scheduling under scarce classrooms: allocate rooms and slots while respecting instructor preferences
as far as the constraints allow.
NanoMapper
2016 · Undergraduate thesis, supervised by Md. Eamin Rahman
A read-mapping tool for long, noisy Oxford Nanopore reads, using gapped minimizers and FM-indexing.
Source ·
Thesis and slides