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I am a Ph.D. candidate at University of California San Diego Computer Science department. My general area of interest involves conversational AI and recommender systems.
I am a recipient of Jacobs School of Engineering Fellowship at CSE, UC San Diego (2021-2022). Previously, I completed my B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (BUET).
News and Events
[June, 2024] Joined Samsung Semiconductor as a Research Scientist Intern for Summer 2024
[June, 2024] Advanced to Ph.D. candidacy
[June, 2023] Returned to Intuit as a Data Scientist Intern for Summer 2023
[January, 2023] Summer '22 Internship work at Intuit with Byungkyu, Prarit, Julian got accepted in EACL 2023
[January, 2023] Became a dad with the grace of Allah.
[October, 2022] InforMask paper with Canwen, Julian got accepted in EMNLP 2022
[June, 2022] Joined Intuit as a Data Scientist Intern for Summer 2022
[September, 2021] Started Ph.D. at University of California San Diego
Publications
Nafis Sadeq, Zhouhang Xie, Byungkyu Kang, Prarit Lamba, Xiang Gao and Julian McAuley. Mitigating Hallucination in Fictional Character Role-Play arXiv 2024 [See preprint]
Nafis Sadeq, Byungkyu Kang, Prarit Lamba and Julian McAuley. Unsupervised improvement of factual knowledge in language models EACL 2023 [See Publication]
Nafis Sadeq*, Canwen Xu*, Julian McAuley. InforMask: Unsupervised informative masking for language model pretraining EMNLP 2022 [See Publication]
Nafis Sadeq, Md. Shohrab Hossain. Privacy Breach in Android Smartphone Through Inaudible Sound IEEE WCNC 2022. [See Publication]
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 [See Publication]
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 [See Publication]
Shafayat Ahmed*, Nafis Sadeq*, Sudipta Saha Shubha*, Md. Nahidul Islam, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan and Mohammad Zuberul Islam. LREC 2020 [See Publication]
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. [See Publication]
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 [See Publication]
[* denotes equal Contribution]