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Mahmud Akhter

Mahmud

Research Assistant

Email: m.akhter@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Peter Landin, CS 400

Profile

Mahmud Elahi Akhter is a Research Assistant at Maria Liakata NLP lab at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London, UK. In 2020, He earned his B.Sc. degree in computer science and engineering from North South University, Bangladesh. Before joining QMUL, he was a Research Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Dhaka, and the Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka. His research interests include explainable (XAI) and interpretable AI, multilingual language modelling, natural language inference, cross lingual transfer, domain adaptation and generalisability and adversarial robustness. His current work focuses on explainability of PLM’s and LLM’s for rumour and claim veracity and longitudinal NLP.

Research

Research Interests:

  • Rumour and Claim veracity
  • XAI and Interpretability
  • Multilingual language modelling and cross lingual transfer
  • Natural Language Inference
  • Adversarial robustness
  • Domain adaption and Generalizability
  • Catastrophic forgetting and continual learning
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