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NAUSHAD UZZAMAN

Graduate Student
Computer Science Department
University of Rochester
Email: naushadzaman AT gmail.com
naushadzaman AT naushadzaman.com
naushad AT cs DOT rochester DOT edu
Web: http://www.naushadzaman.com
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~naushad

Brief Biography

After my high school at Faujdarhat Cadet College, Bangladesh (2001), I did my undergraduate studies on Computer Science at BRAC University, Bangladesh (2001-2005). From 2005 to 2007, I had worked as a full-time Research Programmer for Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP) at BRAC University (Bangladesh), funded by PAN Localization Project, grant from the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada. My job was to conduct research on Bangla Language Processing and implement the research output. At the same time, I also assisted and supervised undergraduate students in relevant research projects. I have started my PhD on Computer Science at University of Rochester from Fall 2007. My academic advisor is Prof. James Allen.

Please find my current academic details in my URCS website.  

RESEARCH INTEREST

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Processing, Dialog System, Data Mining.

CV: [pdf]

EDUCATION

PhD Student in Computer Science
University of Rochester, NY (Fall 2007 - Present)

M.S., Computer Science
University of Rochester, NY (Fall 2007 - Fall 2008)

B.S., Computer Science
BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (May, 2005)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Vice Chancellor Gold Medal, 2006 - awarded for the best academic performance among all undergraduate students of Computer Science department, BRAC University
• Recipient of scholarship from BRAC University in the undergraduate program (full tuition waiver) - awarded in recognition of excellence in the Higher Secondary Certificate examination and the performance at BRAC University, 2001 - 2005
• Ranked 12th (out of roughly 40 thousands examinees) in the combined merit list (Chittagong education board) of Higher Secondary Certificate examination, 2001
• Board merit scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh- awarded in recognition of excellence in the Higher Secondary Certificate examination, 2001
• Chief of Army Staff, Bangladesh Army Award for excellence in Higher Secondary Certificate Exam, 2001

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Intern, May 2008 - August 2008
Robert Bosch Corporation, Research and Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Research Programmer, June 2005 - June 2007
Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Intern Research Programmer, January 2005 - May 2005
Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

• Fahim Muhammad Hasan, Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, Comparison of Unigram, Bigram, HMM and Brill's POS Tagging Approaches for some South Asian Languages, Proc. Conference on Language and Technology (CLT07), Pakistan, August 7 - 11, 2007. [paper]
• Fahim Muhammad Hasan, Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, Comparison of different POS Tagging Techniques (n-gram, HMM and Brill’s tagger) for Bangla, Proc. of International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCS2 06) of International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2E 06), December 4 - 14, 2006. [paper]
• Ayesha Binte Mosaddeque, Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, Rule based Automated Pronunciation Generator, Proc. of 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2006. [paper]
• Munirul Mansur, Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, Analysis of N-gram based text categorization for Bangla in a newspaper corpus, Proc. of 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2006. [paper] [presentation]
  
• Md. Jahangir Alam, Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, N-gram based Statistical Grammar Checker for Bangla and English, Proc. of 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2006. [paper] [presentation]
  
• Naira Khan, Md. Tarek Habib, Md. Jahangir Alam, Rajib Rahman, Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, History (forward n-gram) or Future (backward n-gram)? Which model to consider for n-gram analysis in Bangla?, Proc. of 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2006. [paper]
• Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, A Comprehensive Bangla Spelling Checker, Proc. International Conference on Computer Processing on Bangla (ICCPB-2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 17 February, 2006. [paper] [presentation]
• Naushad UzZaman, Arnab Zaheen and Mumit Khan, A Comprehensive Roman (English) to Bangla Transliteration Scheme, Proc. International Conference on Computer Processing on Bangla (ICCPB-2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 17 February, 2006. [paper] [presentation]
• Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, A Double Metaphone Encoding for Bangla and its Application in Spelling Checker, Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Wuhan, China, October 30 - November 1, 2005. [paper] [presentation]
• Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, A Double Metaphone Encoding for Approximate Name Searching and Matching in Bangla, Proc. 4th IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 2005. [paper] [presentation]
  

POSTER PUBLICATIONS

• Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, T12: An Advanced Text Input System With Phonetic Support For Mobile Devices, Proc. 2nd IEE International Conference of Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Guangzhou, China, November 2005. [paper]
• Naushad UzZaman and Mumit Khan, A Bangla Phonetic Encoding for Better Spelling Suggestions, Proc. 7th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2004), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2004. [paper]
  

WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS

• Naushad UzZaman, Fahim Muhammad Hasan and Mumit Khan, Transformation based Brill’s tagger or HMM? Which technique to consider for Bangla POS tagging?, to appear in the Proc. of Workshop on Morpho-Syntactic Analysis by The School of Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (ADD), Bangkok, Thailand, March 6 – 14, 2007. [presentation]

THESIS

• Naushad UzZaman, Phonetic Encoding for Bangla and its Application to Spelling Checker, Name Searching, Transliteration and Cross Language Information Retrieval, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, May 2005. [paper] [presentation]
  Supervisor: Mumit Khan
  

OTHERS

• Naushad UzZaman, Status and Challenges of Bangla Language Computing and BRAC University's Initiative, D.Net's 5th Anniversary Seminar Series. Youth and ICTS: ICT and Localization, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2006. [presentation]
• Naushad UzZaman, Bangla Language and Research on Bangla Language Processing: Its Motivation and Impact!, Big Picture Seminar Series, URCS, Rochester NY, February 2008. [presentation]
  
  

Partial list of my publications can also be found in the google scholar page.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

I had been involved in the following Research Projects:

• Semantic Search on Help Files at University of Rochester, NY, USA 
  
• In-Car Dialog System at Bosch RTC, CA, USA
  
• Breast Cancer Detection at Bosch RTC, CA, USA
  
• Bangla Spelling Checker at CRBLP, Bangladesh [details]
• Bangla Name Searching at CRBLP, Bangladesh [details]
• English-to-Bangla Transliteration at CRBLP, Bangladesh [details]
• Text Input System with Phonetic Support for Mobile Devices at CRBLP, Bangladesh [details]
• Automated Bangla Pronunciation Generator at CRBLP, Bangladesh [details]
• Bangla Automated Parts-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging at CRBLP, Bangladesh [details]
• Bangla Text Categorization at CRBLP, Bangladesh [details]
• Bangla Grammar Checker at CRBLP, Bangladesh [details]

Details of these projects can be found in the research page.

SOFTWARE

Software I have developed or contributed to:

• BanglaPad, open source, platform independent, Unicode rich text editor, capable of editing Bangla and English [details]
• Pata, English-to-Bangla Transliteration software [details]
• Puspa Speller, Spelling checker for Bangla [details]

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant, Computer Programming (Java), University of Rochester, Fall 2008

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computers, University of Rochester, Spring 2008

Laboratory Instructor, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), BRAC University, Spring 2007

Laboratory Instructor, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), BRAC University, Spring 2006

Teaching Assistant, Programming Language I (C) and Data Structures, BRAC University, Fall 2004

Teaching Assistant, Programming Language I (C), BRAC University, Spring 2004

Teaching Assistant, Programming Language I (C), BRAC University, Fall 2003

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