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Abdul Aziz is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Chittagong where he worked with Dr. Abu Nowshed Chy as a member of CSECU-DSG Research Lab since 2020.

Abdul Aziz works at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision in the field of multimodal and multilingual generative AI, multilingual and low-resources NLP, AI for social good, opinion mining, biomedical and health informatics, NLP and computer vision.

Abdul Aziz publishes at premier academic venues across NLP and ML (e.g., LREC-COLING, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, Elsevier), including 3 International NLP Research Workshop Shared Task winning teams at CLEF-2023, EMNLP-2022, and FIRE-2020.

For more details, check my CV or hit me up on my email.

Research Interests

  • Multimodal Generative AI
  • Time Series Modeling
  • LLMs/VLMs Reasoning and Applications
  • Multilingual and Low-recources NLP
  • AI for Social Good
  • Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computer Vision




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Recent News and Awards


  • Jan 2025
    One Journal Paper Accepted in Elsevier Neurocomputing Journal
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    MMTF-DES: A Fusion of Multimodal Transformer Models for Desire, Emotion, and Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Data
  • May 2024
    Happy to announce that I’ll be joining CSE @ IIUC as an Adjunct Lecturer in starting next Autumn semester!
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    Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC)
  • Feb 2024
    One Long Paper Accepted in LREC-COLING 2024 Conference.
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    BengaliLCP: A Dataset for Lexical Complexity Prediction in the Bengali Texts
  • Oct 2023
    One Journal Paper Accepted in Elsevier Natural Language Processing Journal
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    Leveraging Contextual Representations with BiLSTM-based Regressor for Lexical Complexity Prediction
  • Sep 2023
    Successfully defended undergrad thesis
    Multimodal Desire Understanding on Social Media Data
  • Aug 2023
    Achieved 1st Place (Winning Team) in CheckThat!@CLEF-2023 Subtask 1A Arabic
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    CSECU-DSG at CheckThat! 2023: Transformer-based Fusion Approach for Multimodal and Multigenre Check-Worthiness.
  • Dec 2022
    Obtained 2nd Place in ALTA-2022 Shared Task
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    Enhancing the DeBERTa Transformers Model for Classifying Sentences from Biomedical Abstracts
  • Dec 2022
    Got 1st Place (Winning Team) in CASE@EMNLP-2022 Subtask 1
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    CSECU-DSG @ Causal News Corpus 2022: Fusion of RoBERTa Transformers Variants for Causal Event Classification
  • Jul 2022
    Achieved 4th Place in PreTENS@SemEval-2022 Subtask 1
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    CSECU-DSG at SemEval-2022 Task 3: Investigating the Taxonomic Relationship Between Two Arguments using Fusion of Multilingual Transformer Models.
  • Dec 2020
    Obtained 1st Place (Winning Team) in CEREX@FIRE2020 Task A
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    Feature Fusion with Hand-crafted and Transfer Learning Embeddings for Cause-Effect Relation Extraction.
  • Mar 2020
    New Job: Research Assistant at CSECU-DSG, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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    Join CSECU-DSG research group under the supervision of Abu Nowshed Chy.

Education

  • B.Sc. (Engg.) 2023
    B.Sc. (Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Chittagong

Experience

  • Present 2020

    Research Assistant

    CSECU-DSG Lab,
    University of Chittagong

  • Jan 2025 Jul 2024

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering,
    International Islamic University Chittagong

  • Present Feb 2025

    Assistant Lecturer

    Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering,
    International Islamic University Chittagong