Nazia Tasnim

Hello there!! I am a PhD student at Boston University, advised by Prof. Bryan Plummer on topics related to multimodal learning and vision-language problems. My research interest lies at the crosssection of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision, with a special emphasis on responsible applications and under-resourced domains.

Prior to joining BU, I was fortunate to be advised by Dr. Isaac Johnson and Dr. Martin Gerlach at the Wikimedia Research Team, where I built resources and pipelines for NLP research across the Wikimedia projects. I also have a year of industry experience as a Machine Learning Engineer at Giga Tech Ltd., where I worked on developing the National Syntactic TreeBank for Bangla.

Outside research and courseworks, I am interested in plants, pottery and pop-culture. Shoot me an email if you want to collaborate on a project, have a question, or just want to say hi~

news

Aug 1, 2023	Received Dean’s Fellowship from the Boston University 🤩🤩 !!
Jun 1, 2023	Released a new package!! 🎉 Install from PyPI!

selected publications

OOD-Speech: A Large Bengali Speech Recognition Dataset for Out-of-Distribution Benchmarking

Fazle Rabbi Rakib, Souhardya Saha Dip, Samiul Alam, and 11 more authors

2023

Bib

@misc{rakib2023oodspeech,
  title = {OOD-Speech: A Large Bengali Speech Recognition Dataset for Out-of-Distribution Benchmarking},
  author = {Rakib, Fazle Rabbi and Dip, Souhardya Saha and Alam, Samiul and Tasnim, Nazia and Shihab, Md. Istiak Hossain and Ansary, Md. Nazmuddoha and Hossen, Syed Mobassir and Meghla, Marsia Haque and Mamun, Mamunur and Sadeque, Farig and Chowdhury, Sayma Sultana and Reasat, Tahsin and Sushmit, Asif and Humayun, Ahmed Imtiaz},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {INTERSPEECH 2023},
  publisher = {INTERSPEECH 2023},
  dimensions = {false},
}

Vista: vision transformer enhanced by u-net and image colorfulness frame filtration for automatic retail checkout

M. I. H. Shihab, N. Tasnim, H. Zunair, and 2 more authors

2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2022

Bib

@article{10.1109/cvprw56347.2022.00359,
  author = {Shihab, M. I. H. and Tasnim, N. and Zunair, H. and Rupty, L. K. and Mohammed, N.},
  title = {Vista: vision transformer enhanced by u-net and image colorfulness frame filtration for automatic retail checkout},
  journal = {2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1109/cvprw56347.2022.00359},
}

On leveraging data augmentation and ensemble to recognize complex named entities in bangla

N. Tasnim, M. I. Shihab, A. S. Sushmit, and 2 more authors

Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), 2022

Bib

@article{10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.209,
  author = {Tasnim, N. and Shihab, M. I. and Sushmit, A. S. and Bethard, S. and Sadeque, F.},
  title = {On leveraging data augmentation and ensemble to recognize complex named entities in bangla},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.209},
  dimensions = {false},
}

Choice of assemblers has a critical impact on de novo assembly of sars-cov-2 genome and characterizing variants

R. Islam, R. S. Raju, N. Tasnim, and 4 more authors

Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021

Bib

@article{10.1093/bib/bbab102,
  author = {Islam, R. and Raju, R. S. and Tasnim, N. and Shihab, I. H. and Bhuiyan, M. A. and Araf, Y. and Islam, T.},
  title = {Choice of assemblers has a critical impact on de novo assembly of sars-cov-2 genome and characterizing variants},
  journal = {Briefings in Bioinformatics},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {22},
  issue = {5},
  doi = {10.1093/bib/bbab102},
}