Firoj Alam

LLMs | Artificial Intelligence | NLP | Speech Processing | Disinformation

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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:

  • AI/Deep Learning/Machine Learning: Large Language Models, Multitask, Mulingual and Multimodal Representation Learning

  • 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

Affliated member: ACL, ACM, IEEE, AAAI, ISCA

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    Reasoning About Persuasion: Can LLMs Enable Explainable Propaganda Detection?
    Maram Hasanain, Md Arid Hasan, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi , and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16550, 2025
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    MemeIntel: Explainable Detection of Propagandistic and Hateful Memes
    Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Abul Hasnat, Md Arid Hasan , and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16612, 2025
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    NativQA: Multilingual Culturally-Aligned Natural Query for LLMs
    Md. Arid Hasan, Maram Hasanain, Fatema Ahmad , and 6 more authors
    2024
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    LlamaLens: Specialized Multilingual LLM for Analyzing News and Social Media Content
    Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Maram Hasanain , and 3 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 , Apr 2025
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    AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMs
    Basel Mousi, Nadir Durrani, Fatema Ahmad , and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics , Jan 2025
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    LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models
    Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Chowdhury , and 14 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , Mar 2024
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    LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking
    Fahim Dalvi, Maram Hasanain, Sabri Boughorbel , and 10 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations , Mar 2024
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    Large Language Models for Propaganda Span Annotation
    Maram Hasanain, Fatema Ahmad, and Firoj Alam
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 , Nov 2024
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    Discovering Latent Concepts Learned in BERT
    Fahim Dalvi, Abdul Rafae Khan, Firoj Alam , and 3 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations , Nov 2022