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Naushad UzZaman

Graduate Student
Computer Science Department
University of Rochester
Email: naushadzaman AT gmail DOT com
naushad AT cs DOT rochester DOT edu
Office: 585-275-9499
Web: www.naushadzaman.com
www.cs.rochester.edu/~naushad

Postal Address
728 Computer Studies Building
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York 14627

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]

Higher Education Related Articles by Naushad UzZaman

  • How to Apply for Higher Studies (Especially to US Universities). [link]
  • How to USA Visa and My Visa Experience. [link]
  • How to TOEFL iBT. [link]
  • How to GRE and My GRE Experience. [link]

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