I’m Mir Tafseer Nayeem, a third-year Computing Science PhD student at the University of Alberta, advised by Prof. Davood Rafiei. My research primarily focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), with special emphasis on Human-centered NLP, Summarization, and Multilingual & Cross-Lingual NLP.

My PhD research involves human-centric modeling of content across various modalities, including text, tables, images, and ratings, particularly considering two key factors: (1) who are the creators of the content and (2) to whom the model will serve, specifically the intended audience. Below, you can find an overview of my research and its broader implications.

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

• [July 2025] - 📌 One paper accepted at COLM 2025.
• [Jun 2025] - 📌 One paper accepted at 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.

• [Feb 2024] - 📌 One paper accepted at LREC-COLING 2024.
• [Aug 2023] - 📌 One paper accepted at CIKM 2023.
• [Jan 2023] - 📌 Two papers accepted at EACL 2023.
• [Jun 2022] - 🏅 I am thrilled to receive Huawei PhD Fellowship.
• [Sep 2021] - 🎓 Started PhD in Computing Science at University of Alberta.
• [Feb 2021] - 📌 One paper accepted at EACL 2021.
• [Jan 2021] - 📌 One paper accepted at AAAI 2021.
• [Jun 2018] - 🏆 Our paper received Area Chair Favorite Paper Award at COLING 2018.

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