Firoj Alam
LLMs | Artificial Intelligence | NLP | Speech Processing | Disinformation
I am a Senior Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute. My research interest encompasses LLMs, multilingual, and multimodal representation learning.
Research Interests:
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AI/Deep Learning/Machine Learning: Large Language Models, Multitask, Mulingual and Multimodal Learning,
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Applicative Contexts: Natural Language Processing, Behavioral and Social Signal Processing (Emotion, Personality traits) from Speech and Text; Social Media Text Analysis.
Short Bio: Currently working for QCRI, Qatar, as a Senior Scientist. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento, under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Riccardi, master’s from the same department, and undergrad from BRAC University.
Find me here: LinkedIn | Google-Scholar | Researchgate | Github | Bangla NLP
news
Oct 23, 2024 | Will present two papers at EMNLP 2024 |
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Sep 18, 2024 | Our summer interns won 2nd place among 25 projects for their project -- 'Native vs. Non-Native Language Prompting: A Comparative Analysis' |
Aug 09, 2024 | ArAIEval shared task at ArabicNLP 2024 |
Aug 01, 2024 | Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content at COLING 2025 |
May 23, 2024 | Presented our paper titled “Can GPT-4 Identify Propaganda? Annotation and Detection of Propaganda Spans in News Articles” at LREC-COLING 2024 |
latest posts
selected publications
- AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMsarXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11404, 2024
- LlamaLens: Specialized Multilingual LLM for Analyzing News and Social Media ContentarXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15308, 2024
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- Discovering Latent Concepts Learned in BERTIn International Conference on Learning Representations , Nov 2022