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Program committee member as a reviewer at ACL ARR (2023-2025), ICLR (2024-2025), ACL (2022-2023), EMNLP (2022-2023), EACL (2023), WWW (2024), WSDM (2024)

Publications

1. Ahmad Bin Rabiah, Nafis Sadeq, Julian McAuley. Bridging Conversational and Collaborative Signals for Conversational Recommendation WWW 2025 [paper]

2. Yu Wang, Chi Han, Tongtong Wu, Xiaoxin He, Wangchunshu Zhou, Nafis Sadeq, Xiusi Chen, Zexue He, Wei Wang, Gholamreza Haffari, Heng Ji, Julian McAuley. Towards LifeSpan cognitive systems TMLR 2025 [paper]

3. Nafis Sadeq, Zhouhang Xie,  Byungkyu Kang, Prarit Lamba, Xiang Gao and Julian McAuley. Mitigating Hallucination in Fictional Character Role-Play  EMNLP 2024 findings [paper] [code] 

4. Nafis Sadeq, Byungkyu Kang, Prarit Lamba and Julian McAuley. Unsupervised improvement of factual knowledge in language models  EACL 2023 [paper] [code]

5. Nafis Sadeq*, Canwen Xu*, Julian McAuley. InforMask: Unsupervised informative masking for language model pretraining EMNLP 2022  [paper] [code] 

6. Nafis Sadeq, Md. Shohrab Hossain. Privacy Breach in Android Smartphone Through Inaudible Sound IEEE WCNC 2022. [paper] 

7. Nafis Sadeq*, Nafis Tahmid Chowdhury*, Farhan Tanvir Utshaw, Shafayat Ahmed, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan. Improving End-to-End Bangla Speech Recognition with Semi-supervised Training  Findings of EMNLP 2020 [paper]

8. Nafis Sadeq, Shafayat Ahmed, Sudipta Saha Shubha, Md. Nahidul Islam, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan. Bangla Voice Command Recognition in End-To-End System using Topic Modeling Based Contextual Rescoring ICASSP 2020 [paper]

9. Shafayat Ahmed*, Nafis Sadeq*, Sudipta Saha Shubha*, Md. Nahidul Islam, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan and Mohammad Zuberul Islam. LREC 2020 [paper] 

10. Sudipta Saha Shubha, Nafis Sadeq, Shafayat Ahmed, Md. Nahidul Islam, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan, Md. Yasin Ali Khan and Mohammad Zuberul Islam. Customizing Grapheme-to-Phoneme System for Non-Trivial Transcription Problems in Bangla Language. HLT-NAACL 2019. [paper]

11. Nafis Sadeq, Fazle Rabbi Rahat, Ashikur Rahman, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Md. Kamrul Hasan. Smartphone-based Calorie Estimation From Food Image Using Distance Information. NSysS 2018 [paper]

[* denotes equal Contribution]

News and Events

1. [July 2025] Joined East West University, Bangladesh as an Assistant Professor in department of CSE.

2. [May 2025] Successfully defended my dissertation "Acquiring, Exploiting, and Suppressing Parametric Knowledge in Language Models"

3. [January, 2025] Paper with Ahmad and Julian got accepted in WWW 2025

4. [January, 2025] Paper with Yu and Julian got accepted in TMLR 2025

5. [September, 2024] RoleFact paper with Zhouhang, Byungkyu, Prarit, Xiang, and Julian got accepted in EMNLP 2024 findings

6. [June, 2024]  Joined Samsung Semiconductor as a Research Scientist Intern for Summer 2024

7. [June, 2024]  Advanced to Ph.D. candidacy

8. [June, 2023]  Returned to Intuit as a Data Scientist Intern for Summer 2023

9. [January, 2023]  Summer '22 Internship work at Intuit with Byungkyu, Prarit, Julian got accepted in EACL 2023

10. [January, 2023]  Became a dad with the grace of Allah.

11. [October, 2022]  InforMask paper with Canwen, Julian got accepted in EMNLP 2022

12. [June, 2022]  Joined Intuit as a Data Scientist Intern for Summer 2022

13. [September, 2021] Started Ph.D. at University of California San Diego