• Ashraful Islam Paran
  • Publications
  • Teaching
  • Experience
  • Awards
  • Projects
  • Misc
    Best Paper Award
    27th ICCIT, 2024
    Honda YES Award Finalist
    Top 15 in Bangladesh, 2024–25
    3rd Place · DravidianLangTech
    Co-located with NAACL, 2025
    Summa Cum Laude · 2nd Rank
    CUET CSE (CGPA: 3.95/4.00), 2025

    Conference & Research Awards

    2024
    Best Paper Award
    27th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2024)
    2024
    Best Technical Presentation Award
    27th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2024)
    2024–25
    Top 15 Finalist — Honda YES Award
    Young Scientist Extra Award by Honda Foundation, Japan
    2023–24
    Top 15 Finalist — Honda YES Award
    Young Scientist Extra Award by Honda Foundation, Japan

    International Shared Tasks & Competitions

    2025
    3rd Place — Multimodal Hate Speech Detection
    DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico
    2025
    6th Place — SemEval-2025 Task 11
    19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
    2024
    4th Place — Finding Subjectivity in News Articles (CheckThat! Lab Task 2)
    CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France
    2024
    5th Place — Detecting Check-Worthy Tweets (CheckThat! Lab Task 1)
    CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France
    2024
    5th Place — AraFinNLP Shared Task 2024
    Subtask 1: Multi-dialect Intent Detection in Banking Domain, Bangkok, Thailand
    2024
    6th Place — ArAIEval Shared Task 2024
    Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content
    2024
    11th Place — SemEval-2024 Task 1
    Semantic Textual Relatedness across Multilingual Datasets, Mexico City
    2019
    Gold Honour — International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC)
    Global mathematics competition
    2018
    Finalist — International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC)
    Global mathematics competition

    Domestic Competitions & Hackathons

    2024
    5th Place (out of 47 teams) — IUT ICT Fest Datathon
    Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Regional Dialects, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    2023
    99th Place — ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Onsite Contest
    National collegiate competitive programming championship
    2022
    19th Place — Code Samurai Hackathon
    National Software Engineering Competition, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    2020–22
    Honorable Mention — ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Preliminary Contest
    Qualified and competed across three consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022)

    Academic Honors & Scholarships

    2025
    Summa Cum Laude — B.Sc. in CSE
    Graduated 2nd in class with CGPA 3.95/4.00, CUET
    2023
    CUET Ex-students Merit Award
    For obtaining the highest GPA in an academic year, CUET
    2020–24
    Technical Board Scholarship
    Awarded for sustained academic excellence throughout the 4-year undergraduate degree, CUET
    Updated on Oct 27, 2026