Firoj Alam
LLMs | Artificial Intelligence | NLP | Speech Processing | Disinformation

Short Bio: I am a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento, under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Riccardi. I also earned my master’s degree from the same department and completed my undergraduate studies at BRAC University. I have authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and contributed as LPI and PI to several local, international and EU-funded research projects. In addition to my research, I actively organize workshops and shared tasks, and I mentor students and junior researchers. My work focuses on advancing AI technologies for low-resource and underrepresented languages.
Research Interests:
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AI/Deep Learning/Machine Learning: Large Language Models, Multitask, Mulingual and Multimodal Representation 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.
Find me here: LinkedIn | Google-Scholar | Researchgate | Github | Bangla NLP
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- Reasoning About Persuasion: Can LLMs Enable Explainable Propaganda Detection?arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16550, 2025
- MemeIntel: Explainable Detection of Propagandistic and Hateful MemesarXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16612, 2025
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- AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMsIn Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics , Jan 2025
- Discovering Latent Concepts Learned in BERTIn International Conference on Learning Representations , Nov 2022