CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA, 2024 – Present
  • CGPA: 3.96
• B.Sc. (Eng.) in Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, 2018 – 2023
  • CGPA: 3.79 (Distinction)

Work Experience

• Aug 2024 – Present: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Computational Biology & Machine Learning Lab, University of Central Florida
  • Applied genome language models to predict novel polyadenylation sites (paper accepted in CSBJ Journal)
  • Worked with diffusion language models in proteomics
  • Maintained tools for alternative splicing and polyadenylation analysis (paper accepted in Experimental & Molecular Medicine Journal)
• Feb 2024 – Jul 2024: Lecturer
  • University of Asia Pacific (UAP), Bangladesh
  • Taught Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming, Structured Programming, and Software Development
• Jul 2023 – Jan 2024: Machine Learning Engineer
  • Reve Systems, Bangladesh — Project: Sothik
  • Built ML-based systems for Bangla grammatical and spelling error detection/correction
  • Reduced false positives in spell-checkers with Named Entity Recognition
  • Improved accuracy with BERT–LSTM ensemble models
  • Strengthened annotated dataset quality via semi-supervised human-in-the-loop processes
• Feb 2023 – Dec 2023: Shared Task Organizer
  • BLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2023
  • Organized the first shared task on Violence-Inciting Text Detection
  • Developed framework, dataset, and benchmark models; 27 teams participated, 16 papers accepted

Publications

PolyA-GLM: A comprehensive framework for De novo polyadenylation site prediction using genome language models

Saha, S. et al. (2025). "PolyA-GLM: A comprehensive framework for De novo polyadenylation site prediction using genome language models." Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. Elsevier, Q1, Impact Factor 5.2.

Computational Methods for Alternative Polyadenylation and Splicing in Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation

Second Author. (2025). "Computational Methods for Alternative Polyadenylation and Splicing in Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation." Experimental & Molecular Medicine. Nature Publishing Group, Q1, IF 12.8.

BnPC: A Gold Standard Corpus for Paraphrase Detection in Bangla

Saha, S. et al. (2024). "BnPC: A Gold Standard Corpus for Paraphrase Detection in Bangla." BUCC Workshop @ LREC-COLING 2024.

Data, Annotation, and Meaning-Making: Faith-Based Communal Violence

Co-author. (2024). "Data, Annotation, and Meaning-Making: Faith-Based Communal Violence." ACM FAccT 2024.

BLP Shared Task 1: Violence-Inciting Text Detection

Saha, S. et al. (2023). "BLP Shared Task 1: Violence-Inciting Text Detection." BLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2023.

Vio-Lens: Annotated Social Network Posts Leading to Communal Violence

Saha, S. et al. (2023). "Vio-Lens: Annotated Social Network Posts Leading to Communal Violence." BLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2023.

garNER at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Knowledge Augmentation for Multilingual NER

Equal Contribution. (2023). "garNER at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Knowledge Augmentation for Multilingual NER." SemEval @ ACL 2023.

Talks

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant – Introduction to Computer Concepts

Lecturer – Computer Science & Engineering

Service and Leadership

• Program Committee Member & Reviewer, Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing, IJCNLP-AACL 2025
• Reviewer, ISMB 2025, 2026
• Shared Task Organizer, BLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2023
• Coach, Programming Team, University of Asia Pacific (2024)
• Top 10 in 10 tracks (Team: garNER), SemEval 2023 Task 2