Mir Tafseer Nayeem

Area of Study / Keywords

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Large Language Model (LLM) Human-Centered NLP Summarization Multilingual NLP

About

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 research is generously 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.

Research

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.