Faculty Profile

Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801738150127
  • Email: nahid-cse@sust.edu, mnahid@ualberta.ca

Biography

Mr. Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) where he obtained his BSc.(Engg.) in Computer Science, with a focus on Natural Language Processing. His research interests include Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning. Mr. Nahid is an active member of various professional organizations, including the SUST ACM Student Chapter, and is dedicated to teaching and mentoring the next generation of computer scientists. He has taught multiple undergraduate courses in Computer Science and has a passion for making a positive impact on society, collaborating with industry partners and non-profit organizations on various initiatives. Currently, Mr. Nahid is on study leave.

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Education

  • MSc (Thesis), Computing Science, University of Alberta, AB, Canada
  • BSc (Engineering), Computer Science and Engineering, SUST
  • HSC, GPA 5.0 (Science)
  • SSC, GPA 5.0 (Science)

Research Interests

  • Information Retrieval
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Large Language Models
  • Machine Learning
  • HCI

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Co-Investigator, "A New Approach for Bengali Document Summarization", SUST Research Center, 2020-21
  • 2. Principal Investigator, "Design and development of a Virtual Reality (VR) based E-Learning application to train people with Autism and connect them to the society", SUST Research Center, 2019-20
  • 3. Co-Investigator, "SUST Admission Chatbot: A conversational agent to answer all the admission related query", SUST Research Center, 2018-19
  • 4. Co-Investigator, "Automatic Access System Using Biometric Recognition", SUST Research Center, 2017-18

External Affiliations

  • Member: Center for Research, Testing and Consultancy, CSE, SUST.

Journal Publications

  • 1. Shahrear, Pabel, SM Saydur Rahman, and Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid. "Prediction and mathematical analysis of the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Bangladesh." Results in Applied Mathematics (2021): 100145.
  • 2. Soumik Sarker, Ali Hasan Md. Linkon, Faisal Haque Bappy, Md Forhad Rabbi, Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, "Improving Joint Attention in Children with Autism: A VR-AR Enabled Game Approach", International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT), ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-10 Issue-3, February 2021
  • 3. Saifuddin Al Azad Sagor, Nurul Azim Rizvi and Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid. Machine Learning Approaches for Bengali Automated Question Detection System. International Journal of Computer Applications 178(22):1-4, June 2019.
  • 4. Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Bishwajit Purkaystha, Md Saiful Islam, "End-to-End Bengali Speech Recognition using DeepSpeech" Journal of Engineering Research, Innovation and Education (JERIE), 1(1), 1-10, SUST, 2019.
  • 5. Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Md Ashraful Islam and Md Saiful Islam. Comparison of VQ and GMM for Text Independent Speaker Identification System for The Bengali Language. International Journal of Computer Applications 178(47):18-21, September 2019.
  • 6. Nahid, Md Mahadi Hasan, Md Ashraful Islam, Bishwajit Purkaystha and Md Saiful Islam. "Comprehending Real Numbers: Development of Bengali Real Number Speech Corpus", 2018

Conference

  • 1. Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid and Davood Rafiei. 2024. NormTab: Improving Symbolic Reasoning in LLMs Through Tabular Data Normalization. The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. [EMNLP 2024]
  • 2. Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid and Davood Rafiei. 2024. TabSQLify: Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs Through Table Decomposition. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5725–5737, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.[NAACL 2024]
  • 3. Md. Yasir Ahmed, Sk Shabaz Uddin, Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, "Bangla Handwritten Text Recognition: A Segmentation-based Approach to Recognize Bangla Numeral Using Deep CNN", 7th International Conference on Engineering Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE 2023), 2023.
  • 4. Foysal, T. A., Mahadi, M. A., Nahid, M. M. H., & Tasnim, A. (2021, November). Bangla-ExtraSum: Comparative Analysis of Different Methods in Automated Extractive Bengali Text Summarization. In 2021 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Communication Technology (ICEEICT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • 5. Azad, M. A., Singha, H. S., & Nahid, M. M. H. (2021, August). Zilla-64: A Bangla Handwritten Word Dataset Of 64 DistrictsName of Bangladesh and Recognition Using Holistic Approach. In 2021 International Conference on Science & Contemporary Technologies (ICSCT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • 6. Azad, Md Ali, Hijam Sushil Singha, and Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid. "Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Autoencoder Neural Network." 2020 2nd International Conference on Advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICAICT). IEEE, 2020. (IEEE Honorable Mention Award)
  • 7. Soumik Sarker, Md. Ekramul Islam, Jillur Rahman Saurav, Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, "Word Completion and Sequence Prediction in Bangla Language Using Trie and a Hybrid Approach of Sequential LSTM and N-gram", 2nd International Conference on Advanced Information and Communication Technology 2020 (ICAICT 2020), November 28-29, 2020.
  • 8. Syeda Tamanna Alam Monisha, Sourav Sarker, Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid , "Classification of Bengali Questions Towards a Factoid Question Answering System ", 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT-2019) , P. 660-664, 3-5 May, 2019
  • 9. Sourav Sarker, Syeda Tamanna Alam Monisha and Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid , "Bengali Question Answering System for Factoid Questions: a statistical approach", International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), IEEE, 2019.
  • 10. Shomi Khan, Khadiza Tul Kubra, Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, "Improving Answer Extraction For Bangali Q/A System Using Anaphora-Cataphora Resolution", International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET) 27-29 December, 2018
  • 11. Zakia Sultana Ritu, Nafisa Nowshin, Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Sabir Ismail, "Performance Analysis of Different Word Embedding Models on Bangla Language ", International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing(ICBSLP), IEEE, 21-22 September, 2018
  • 12. Nahid, Md Mahadi Hasan, Bishwajit Purkaystha, and Md Saiful Islam. "Bengali Speech Recognition: A Double Layered LSTM-RNN Approach", Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017 20th International Conference, IEEE, 2017.
  • 13. Nahid, Md Mahadi Hasan, Md Ashraful Islam, and Md Saiful Islam. "A noble approach for recognizing Bangla real number automatically using CMU Sphinx4." Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV), 2016 5th International Conference on, IEEE, 2016.

Teaching

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Introduction To Computer Language
  • Digital Signal Processing

Awards & Recognition

  • Bangladesh Government’s Ministry of Education Scholarship (HSC) 2011
  • 56th Position, ICPC World Final Contest,Beijing, China (Co-coach) 2018
  • Vice Chancellor Award 2020
  • Prime Minister Gold Medal 2016
  • IEEE Honorable Mention Award, Awarded by CAICT Conference 2020
  • Dr Md Khairullah Research Award 2021

Graduate Supervision

  • 1. Actively mentored 15 undergrad students on their final-year research projects.