I am a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at United International University (UIU), Bangladesh. I earned my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), graduating summa cum laude and ranking 2nd in my class. Previously, I served as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southeast University.
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Multimodal Learning, with a particular emphasis on building intelligent systems that integrate text, image, audio, and video understanding for low-resource languages such as Bengali. To this end, I develop methods for multimodal fusion and content moderation [1–2] 1Multimodal Fusion for Hate Speech Detection: A Transformer-Based Approach with Cross-Modal AttentionDravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 2Finetuning Sentence Transformer to Find Semantic Textual RelatednessSemEval 2024 , leverage large language models to estimate check-worthiness and combat misinformation [3–5] 3Leveraging Large Language Models to Estimate Check-Worthiness of Multilingual TweetsICCIT 2024 · Best Paper Award 4Pre-trained Transformer-based Approach to Detect Check-Worthy TweetsCLEF 2024 5Finding Subjectivity in News Articles using LlamaCLEF 2024 , and investigate cross-dialect intent classification [6] 6Classification of Cross-Dialect Intent in the Banking Domain using TransformersArabicNLP 2024 .
I have served as a reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (ARR), NAACL, CLEF, and SemEval, contributing to the peer-review process of high-impact NLP conferences and workshops.
I am passionate about teaching and mentoring students in areas such as Machine Learning, Operating Systems, and Data Mining. My broader interests include open-source development, competitive programming (1200+ solved problems across Codeforces, UVA, LightOJ, and AtCoder), and community building within the Bangladeshi research ecosystem.
Updates
2026
2025
20 OctJoined Southeast University as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. 31 JulAttended ACL 2025 and presented our research paper. 12 JunOur paper on multilingual check-worthiness published in IEEE Xplore. 03 JunAttended NAACL 2025 and presented our paper. 31 MayServed as a Virtual Volunteer for NAACL 2025.
20 MarSelected as a Virtual Volunteer for NAACL 2025.
2024
27 DecAwarded the "Best Technical Presentation Award" at the 27th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2024). 22 DecAwarded the prestigious "Best Paper Award" at the 27th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2024). 28 NovPaper accepted at ICCIT 2024.
29 AugVirtually attended the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024). 10 AugTwo papers published at CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France. 29 JunPaper published at the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024). 27 JunTwo submissions accepted at ArabicNLP 2024.
27 JunTwo submissions accepted at CLEF 2024.
22 JunVirtually attended NAACL 2024.
28 AprOur team SemanticCUETSync achieved 5th place (out of 47 teams) at the IUT ICT Fest 2024 Datathon: ASR for Regional Dialects.
Selected Papers
ICCIT 2024 · Best PaperAshraful Islam Paran, Md. Sajjad Hossain, Symom Hossain Shohan, Jawad Hossain, Shawly Ahsan, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025Md. Sajjad Hossain, Symom Hossain Shohan, Ashraful Islam Paran, Jawad Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
SemEval 2024Md. Sajjad Hossain, Ashraful Islam Paran, Symom Hossain Shohan, Jawad Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
ArabicNLP 2024Ashraful Islam Paran, Symom Hossain Shohan, Md. Sajjad Hossain, Jawad Hossain, Shawly Ahsan, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
CLEF 2024Ashraful Islam Paran, Md. Sajjad Hossain, Symom Hossain Shohan, Jawad Hossain, Shawly Ahsan, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
CLEF 2024Ashraful Islam Paran, Md. Sajjad Hossain, Symom Hossain Shohan, Jawad Hossain, Shawly Ahsan, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque