Hugging Face Iām 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 aspects. I study how user attributes such as age, language, dialect, intent, and preferences can be integrated into the development of large language models (LLMs) and into downstream synthesis tasks such as generation and summarization, aiming to build 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, the Area Chair Favorite Paper Award at COLING 2018, and most recently, the Best Short Paper Award at VIS 2025.
I regularly serve as an Area Chair (AC) for the *ACL conferences, including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and EACL. Previously, several of my reviews were recognized as Great Reviews at ACL 2024 and NAACL 2025.
For additional information, please see my CV and publications.
Announcements
- Sep 2025 š ChartDeception received the Best Short Paper Award at VIS 2025.
- Aug 2025 š Three papers accepted at EMNLP 2025.
- Jul 2025 š One paper accepted at COLM 2025.
- Jun 2025 š One paper accepted at VIS 2025.
- May 2025 š§āāļø Serving as an Area Chair (AC) for EMNLP 2025.
- May 2025 š One paper accepted at ACL 2025 (Industry Track).
- Mar 2025 š§āāļø Serving as an Area Chair (AC) for ACL 2025.
- Feb 2025 š One paper accepted at NAACL 2025 (Industry Track).
- Nov 2024 š KidLM received the Best Resource Paper Award at EMNLP 2024.
- Sep 2024 š Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2024.
- May 2024 š One paper accepted at ACL 2024.