I’m Mir Tafseer Nayeem, a PhD Candidate in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, advised by Prof. Davood Rafiei. My research centers on Language Modeling with a focus on User-Centric NLP. Specifically, I study how user attributes—such as age, dialect, intent, and stylistic preferences—can be systematically integrated into the development of large language models (LLMs) and downstream synthesis tasks, including summarization and opinion generation, to build more inclusive, adaptive, and context-aware language technologies.
My research is supported by the Huawei PhD Fellowship. My work received the Best Resource Paper Award at EMNLP 2024 and the Area Chair Favorite Paper Award at COLING 2018.
For additional information, please see my CV and publications.
Announcements
- [Aug 2025] - 📌 Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2025.
- [July 2025] - 📌 One paper accepted at COLM 2025.
- [Jun 2025] - 📌 One paper accepted at IEEE VIS 2025.
- [May 2025] - 🧑⚖️ Serving as an Area Chair (AC) for EMNLP 2025.
- [May 2025] - 📌 One paper accepted at ACL 2025 (Industry Track).
- [Mar 2025] - 🧑⚖️ Serving as an Area Chair (AC) for ACL 2025.
- [Feb 2025] - 📌 One paper accepted at NAACL 2025 (Industry Track).
- [Nov 2024] - 🏆 KidLM received the Best Resource Paper Award at EMNLP 2024.
- [Sep 2024] - 📌 Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2024.
- [May 2024] - 📌 One paper accepted at ACL 2024.