Welcome!
I am Naushad UzZaman, a second year grad student at University of Rochester in Computer Science PhD program. (
Why URCS?)
Area of interest
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Dialog System.
Brief Introduction
I had started my PhD on Computer Science at University of Rochester (
URCS) from fall of 2007. My academic advisor is
Professor James F. Allen. I started my research with Professor Allen by understanding the functionality and design of
TRIPS project, collaborative planning assistants developed at URCS. In that process, we worked on another project of semantic search engine for searching software help files. Recently I have started working on understanding temporal locations of events and temporal relations between events in the text for better natural language understanding.
Before coming here at Rochester, I had worked two years (2005-2007) 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.
Details about my previous work and publications are available online at
naushadzaman.com
I did my undergraduate studies on Computer Science at
BRAC University,
Bangladesh (2001-2005). Before that I spent an amazing six years in
Faujdarhat Cadet College,
Bangladesh (1995-2001).
CV
If you are interested, here is my
CV.
Research Internship
- Summer 2008:
Research Intern
Bosch RTC, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Advisor: Junling Hu
Recommendation from Bosch [click here]
- Developed syntactic and semantic grammar for a commercial in-car dialog system
- Worked on a large-scale data-mining project of identifying breast cancer
Courses at Rochester
Seminar Talks at Rochester
- Bangla Language and Research on Bangla Language Processing: Its Motivation and Impact!, Big Picture Seminar Series, URCS, Rochester NY, February 2008. [presentation]
Course Survey Papers
- Semantic Search on Help Files, Individual Project for Problem Seminar (CSC 400), University of Rochester, Fall 2007, Advisor: James F Allen. [paper] [presentation]
- Using Logic Proofs to justify answers in Open-Domain Question-Answering system, Survey Paper for CSC 444 (Logical Foundation of AI), University of Rochester, Fall 2007, Instructed By: Lenhart K. Schubert. [paper]
- Survey on Google File System, Survey Paper for CSC 456 (Operating Systems), University of Rochester, Fall 2007, Instructed By: Sandhya Dwarkadas. [paper] [presentation]