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I go by the name 𝐔𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐚. I have graduated with an MSc in Computer Science from Université de Sherbrooke, Canada (QC). During my graduate research, I introduced Open-Target Stance Detection, a zero-shot framework that jointly generates targets and detects stances from raw text, which I evaluated across multiple LLMs and datasets and published as the leading author at ACL 2025. Earlier, I worked as a Research Engineer on a national-scale medical scribing project, architecting data pipelines for a clinical named entity recognition model. And earlier still, I developed the Shironaam corpus and a multimodal headline generation system for Bengali news, a low-resource language, resulting in publications at EACL 2023 and ACL 2024.
Currently, I am working on developing Agentic AI based solutions. My previous work included various NLP tasks i.e. stance detection, abstractive summarization, and named entity recognition, with a focus on zero-shot and few-shot learning using large language models. I have experience in evaluation metric design and LLM evaluation, developing RAG application(s), alongside prompt engineering techniques. I have also worked with model fine-tuning of transformer-based architectures for low-resource and multilingual settings. Recently, I have been learning about MLOps and system design.
I am seeking full-time opportunities as a Machine Learning / NLP Enigneer (Research or Applied) to contribute to impactful projects in language understanding, generative AI, and scalable deployment. Open to opportunities in Canada / Remote.
Email: akash [dot] ubaida [at] gmail [dot] com
📢 Recent News
(not up-to-date)
- [May 15, 2024] One long paper has been accepted at ACL 2024 (findings).
- [May 01, 2024] Received the Marc-Andr´e Roy scholarship from UdeS.
- [Sep 01, 2023] Started pursuing my master’s and working as a Graduate Student Researcher at UdeS.
- [Aug 18, 2023] Moved to Canada.
- [Jun 30, 2023] Quit from the Research Engineer role of UIU.
- [May 02, 2023] Attended EACL 2023 (Dubrovnik, Croatia) virtually.
- [Feb 01, 2023] Started working for AIMS Lab, UIU as a Research Engineer.
- [Jan 22, 2023] One long paper has been accepted at EACL 2023 (main).
- [Jun 15, 2022] Selected as one of the finalists in the Robi-Datathon 2.0 competition.
- [May 01, 2022] Quit from the full-time job of Intelsense AI.
- [Jan 13, 2022] Officially completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from AUST.
- [Jan 03, 2022] Successfuly defended my undergraduate thesis!
- [Sep 01, 2022] Got promoted as Machine Learning Research Engineer at Intelsense AI under the Speech and Engineering Division.
- [Jun 01, 2021] Started 3 months long internship at Intelsense AI as a Machine Learning Research Intern.
