Welcome!
I am Naushad UzZaman, a third 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, Temporal Reasoning, Data Mining.
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. Currently I am working on understanding temporal locations of events and temporal relations between events in the text for better natural language understanding. My URCS related information can be found in this page.
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). Details about my previous work and publications are available online at
naushadzaman.com
I worked as a Research Intern at Bosch RTC, Palo Alto, CA in the summer of 2008 with
Dr. Junling Hu. During my stay at Bosch, I developed syntactic and semantic grammar for a commercial in-car dialog system and also worked on a large-scale data-mining project of identifying breast cancer.
In the summer of 2009, I worked at Microsoft Medical Media Lab (M3L) in Washington DC, as a Research Intern under the supervision of Dr. Hank Rappaport, PD Singh and Dr. Michael Gillam. I implemented an Information Extraction tool that can learn different patterns from user's examples and extract the pattern instances from natural language texts in medical domain, e.g. release notes.
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.
Area Paper
Interpreting the Temporal Aspects of Language [
pdf]
Advisor: James Allen
Committee: James Allen, Len Schubert and Dan Gildea.
Research Internship
- Summer 2009:
Research Intern
Washington DC, USA
Advisor: Dr. Hank Rappaport, PD Singh and Dr. Michael Gillam
- Implemented an Information Extraction tool that can learn different patterns from user's examples and extract the pattern instances from natural language texts in medical domain, e.g. release notes, radiology reports, etc.
- 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]