Dr. Sahinur
Rahman Laskar

Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) and NLP-AI Researcher

School of Computer Science · UPES, Dehradun, India

38Conference & workshop papers
14Journal articles
2Book Chapters
2Granted utility patents
6+Teaching Experience

01 / ABOUT

About me

I am an academician and researcher in Computer Science and Engineering, currently serving as an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) at the School of Computer Science, UPES, Dehradun.

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. My academic work spans natural language processing, neural machine translation, multilingual & muiltimodal systems, deep learning, LLM and language-resource development.

I am interested in research that makes NLP technologies more effective for languages and communities that are underrepresented in digital resources.

Academic background

2019–2023
Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering

National Institute of Technology Silchar, India

2013–2015
M.Tech., Information Technology

Assam University, Silchar, India

2007–2011
B.E., Computer Science & Engineering

Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, India

02 / RESEARCH

Research interests

My research explores language understanding and generation across languages, with particular interest in low-resource settings.

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Neural Machine Translation

Neural and multilingual translation systems, translation evaluation, and methods for improving performance with limited parallel data.

Low-resource MTMultilingual NMT
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Language Resources

Building corpora, datasets, and benchmarks that support research on underrepresented languages and language pairs.

Corpus creationBenchmarking
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Multilingual & Multimodal NLP & LLMs

Applying machine learning and deep learning to multilingual text processing, summarization, question answering, and language applications.

LLMsText generation
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Information Retrieval

Research on retrieval methods and language-aware systems, including work related to mathematical information retrieval.

IRSemantic similarity

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Publications

14 journal articles, 38 conference/workshop papers, 2 book chapters and 2 granted patents. Use the filters to browse by type.

2026 JOURNAL

A multi-dimensional similarity scoring function for mathematical information retrieval

Malik, A., Dadure, P., & Laskar, Sahinur Rahman.

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Malik, A., Dadure, P., & Laskar, Sahinur Rahman. (2026). A multi-dimensional similarity scoring function for mathematical information retrieval. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 1.53).  doi:10.1177/18758967261490757

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2025 JOURNAL

A review of mathematical information retrieval: Bridging symbolic representation and intelligent retrieval

Malik, A., Dadure, P., & Laskar, Sahinur Rahman.

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Malik, A., Dadure, P., & Laskar, Sahinur Rahman. (2025). A review of mathematical information retrieval: Bridging symbolic representation and intelligent retrieval. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 12.1) SJR 2024(2.038)(Q1), 1–35.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-025-10319-3

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2024 JOURNAL

Cyberbullying detection in a multi-classification codemixed dataset

Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Gupta, G., Badhani, R., & Avenda, D. E. P.

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Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Gupta, G., Badhani, R., & Avenda, D. E. P. (2024). Cyberbullying detection in a multi-classification codemixed dataset. Computación y Sistemas (SCOPUS) (Impact Factor: 0.4), SJR 2024(0.178)(Q4), 28(3).  doi:https://doi.org/10.13053/CyS-28-3-4989

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2023 JOURNAL

Neural machine translation for limited resources english-nyishi pair

Kakum, N., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Sambyo, K., & Pakray, P.

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Kakum, N., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Sambyo, K., & Pakray, P. (2023). Neural machine translation for limited resources english-nyishi pair. Indian Academy of Sciences (Sadhana) (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 1.4) SJR 2024(0.321)(Q2).  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-023-02308-8

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2023 JOURNAL

Addressing data scarcity issue for english–mizo neural machine translation using data augmentation and language model. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 1) SJR 2024(0.364)(Q2).  doi:https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-235740

Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Khan, A. K.

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Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Khan, A. K. (2023). Addressing data scarcity issue for english–mizo neural machine translation using data augmentation and language model. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 1) SJR 2024(0.364)(Q2).  doi:https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-235740

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2023 JOURNAL

Multimodal text summarization with evaluation approaches

Khilji, A. F. U. R., Sinha, U., Singh, P., Ali, A., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Dadure, P., . . . Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Khilji, A. F. U. R., Sinha, U., Singh, P., Ali, A., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Dadure, P., . . . Bandyopadhyay, S. (2023). Multimodal text summarization with evaluation approaches. Indian Academy of Sciences (Sadhana) (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 1.4) SJR 2024(0.321)(Q2).  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-023-02284-z

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2023 JOURNAL

English-assamese neural machine translation using prior alignment and pre-trained language model

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Dadure, P., Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Dadure, P., Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2023). English-assamese neural machine translation using prior alignment and pre-trained language model. Computer Speech Language Journal (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 3.4 SJR 2024(0.778)(Q2)).  doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2023.101524

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2023 JOURNAL

English-assamese multimodal neural machine translation using transliteration-based phrase augmentation approach. Procedia Computer Science Journal (SCOPUS) SJR 2024(0.471), 218, 979–988.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.01.078

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2023). English-assamese multimodal neural machine translation using transliteration-based phrase augmentation approach. Procedia Computer Science Journal (SCOPUS) SJR 2024(0.471), 218, 979–988.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.01.078

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2022 JOURNAL

Machine translation for low-resource english–mizo pair encountering tonal words

Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Khan, A. K.

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Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Khan, A. K. (2022). Machine translation for low-resource english–mizo pair encountering tonal words. Computación y Sistemas (SCOPUS) (Impact Factor: 0.4) SJR 2024(0.178)(Q4), 26(3). Retrieved from  https://www.cys.cic.ipn.mx/ojs/index.php/CyS/article/viewFile/4358/3432

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2022 JOURNAL

Improved neural machine translation for low-resource english-assamese pair

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). Improved neural machine translation for low-resource english-assamese pair. Journal of Intelligent Fuzzy Systems (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 1) SJR 2024(0.364)(Q2), 42, 4727–4738.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-219260

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2022a JOURNAL

A domain specific parallel corpus and enhanced english- assamese neural machine translation

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022a). A domain specific parallel corpus and enhanced english- assamese neural machine translation. Computación y Sistemas (SCOPUS) (Impact Factor: 0.4) SJR 2024(0.178)(Q4), 26(4). Retrieved from  https://www.cys.cic.ipn.mx/ojs/index.php/CyS/article/view/4423/3457

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2022 JOURNAL

Investigation of negation effect for english–assamese machine translation

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). Investigation of negation effect for english–assamese machine translation. Indian Academy of Sciences (Sadhana) (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 1.4) SJR 2024(0.321)(Q2), 47(4), 1–11.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-022-01965-5

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2021 JOURNAL

CookingQA: Answering questions and recommending recipes based on ingredients

Khilji, A. F. U. R., Manna, R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., Das, D., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Gelbukh, A.

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Khilji, A. F. U. R., Manna, R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., Das, D., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Gelbukh, A. (2021). CookingQA: Answering questions and recommending recipes based on ingredients. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (SCIE) (Impact Factor: 2.9) SJR 2024(0.521)(Q1), 46(4), 3701–3712.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-020-05236-5

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2020 JOURNAL

Question classification and answer extraction for developing a cooking qa system

Rahman Khilji, A. F. U., Manna, R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., Das, D., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Gelbukh, A.

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Rahman Khilji, A. F. U., Manna, R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., Das, D., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Gelbukh, A. (2020). Question classification and answer extraction for developing a cooking qa system. Computación y Sistemas (SCOPUS) (Impact Factor: 0.4) SJR 2024(0.178)(Q4), 24(2), 927–933.  doi:https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-24-2-3445

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2026 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Bahash-AI at ArGuard Shared Tasks: Multimodal Ensemble Learning for Hateful Meme Detection

Laskar, Ahmadullah, & Laskar, Sahinur Rahman.

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Laskar, Ahmadullah, & Laskar, Sahinur Rahman. (2026). Bahash-AI at ArGuard Shared Tasks: Multimodal Ensemble Learning for Hateful Meme Detection. In Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks (pp. 432–436). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/2026.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.55

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2026 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Overview of cross lingual mathematical information retrieval at fire 2025

Dadure, P., Malik, A., & Laskar, Sahinur Rahman.

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Dadure, P., Malik, A., & Laskar, Sahinur Rahman. (2026). Overview of cross lingual mathematical information retrieval at fire 2025. In Proceedings of the 17th annual meeting of the forum for information retrieval evaluation (pp. 44–47).  doi:10.1145/3777867.3778263

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2026 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

NERDS-NITS at WMT 2026: Pivot-based and direct neural machine translation for arabic–asian low-resource language pairs

Karim, M., Ahmed, F., Al Islam, M., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Laskar, R. H.

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Karim, M., Ahmed, F., Al Islam, M., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Laskar, R. H. (2026). NERDS-NITS at WMT 2026: Pivot-based and direct neural machine translation for arabic–asian low-resource language pairs. In Proceedings of the eleventh conference on machine translation (pp. 2325–2330). Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from  https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/pdf/2026.wmt-1.173.pdf

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2026 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Findings of the WMT 2026 shared task on low-resource arabic-asian language translation

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Alam, F., Paul, B., Ahmad, I., Lydia, M. S., & Dadure, P.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Alam, F., Paul, B., Ahmad, I., Lydia, M. S., & Dadure, P. (2026). Findings of the WMT 2026 shared task on low-resource arabic-asian language translation. In Proceedings of the eleventh conference on machine translation (pp. 1124–1137). Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from  https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/pdf/2026.wmt-1.54.pdf

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2026 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Argynnet: Arabic gynecological disease classification using hybrid deep network

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Laskar, A., Ahsan, M., Biran, A., & Ranjan, R.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Laskar, A., Ahsan, M., Biran, A., & Ranjan, R. (2026). Argynnet: Arabic gynecological disease classification using hybrid deep network. In 2026 ieee 18th international conference on computational intelligence and communication networks (cicn) (pp. 1582–1587).  doi:10.1109/CICN70047.2026.11594132

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2025 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Bahash-AI at BLP-2025 task 1: Bangla hate speech detection using data augmentation and pre-trained model

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Paul, B.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Paul, B. (2025). Bahash-AI at BLP-2025 task 1: Bangla hate speech detection using data augmentation and pre-trained model. In F. Alam, S. Kar, S. A. Chowdhury, N. Hassan, E. H. Prince, M. Tasnim, . . . M. T. R. Rahman (Eds.), Proceedings of the second workshop on bangla language processing (blp-2025) (pp. 402–407). Mumbai, India: Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2025.banglalp-1.33/

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2025 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

NativQA: Multilingual culturally-aligned natural query for LLMs

Hasan, M. A., Hasanain, M., Ahmad, F., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Upadhyay, S., Sukhadia, V. N., . . . Alam, F.

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Hasan, M. A., Hasanain, M., Ahmad, F., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Upadhyay, S., Sukhadia, V. N., . . . Alam, F. (2025). NativQA: Multilingual culturally-aligned natural query for LLMs. In W. Che, J. Nabende, E. Shutova, & M. T. Pilehvar (Eds.), Findings of the association for computational linguistics: Acl 2025 (pp. 14886–14909). Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.770/

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2025 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

LlamaLens: Specialized multilingual LLM for analyzing news and social media content

Kmainasi, M. B., Shahroor, A. E., Hasanain, M., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Hassan, N., & Alam, F.

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Kmainasi, M. B., Shahroor, A. E., Hasanain, M., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Hassan, N., & Alam, F. (2025). LlamaLens: Specialized multilingual LLM for analyzing news and social media content. In L. Chiruzzo, A. Ritter, & L. Wang (Eds.), Findings of the association for computational linguistics: Naacl 2025 (pp. 5627–5649). Albuquerque, New Mexico: Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-naacl.313/

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2025 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Hindgk: A llm-based question answering system for hindi general knowledge

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Deepanshu, Saxena, D., Badhani, R., Vishwakarma, A. K., & Ranjan, R.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Deepanshu, Saxena, D., Badhani, R., Vishwakarma, A. K., & Ranjan, R. (2025). Hindgk: A llm-based question answering system for hindi general knowledge. In 2025 ieee 17th international conference on computational intelligence and communication networks (cicn) (pp. 485–489).  doi:10.1109/CICN67655.2025.11368192

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2023 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Findings of the wmt 2023 shared task on low-resource indic language translation

Pal, S., Pakray, P., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Dash, S. K., Laitonjam, L., Khenglawt, V., . . . Dadure, P. K.

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Pal, S., Pakray, P., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Dash, S. K., Laitonjam, L., Khenglawt, V., . . . Dadure, P. K. (2023). Findings of the wmt 2023 shared task on low-resource indic language translation. In Proceedings of the eighth conference on machine translation. Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore. Retrieved from  https://www2.statmt.org/wmt23/pdf/2023.wmt-1.56.pdf

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2022 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Exploring text summarization models for indian languages

Chakraborty, S., Kaushik, D., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Chakraborty, S., Kaushik, D., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). Exploring text summarization models for indian languages. In Forum for information retrieval evaluation, ceur workshop proceedings (pp. 1–6). India. Retrieved from  https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3395/T6-9.pdf

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2022 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Ontology-based healthcare hierarchy towards chatbot

Adhikary, P. K., Manna, R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Pakray, P.

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Adhikary, P. K., Manna, R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Pakray, P. (2022). Ontology-based healthcare hierarchy towards chatbot. In Computational intelligence in communications and business analytics, crc press (pp. 326–335).  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10766-5_26

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2022a CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Mizo visual genome 1.0: A dataset for english-mizo multimodal neural machine translation

Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Kumar Khan, A.

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Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Kumar Khan, A. (2022a). Mizo visual genome 1.0: A dataset for english-mizo multimodal neural machine translation. In Artificial intelligence, data science computing, ieee silcon 2022.  doi:10.1109/SILCON55242.2022.10028882

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2022b CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Recent trends on low-resource neural machine translation and research scope for english-mizo pair

Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Kumar Khan, A.

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Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Kumar Khan, A. (2022b). Recent trends on low-resource neural machine translation and research scope for english-mizo pair. In International conference on intelligent computing systems and applications, springer, 2022. (Accepted) (In press).

2022 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Language resource building and english-to-mizo neural machine translation encountering tonal words

Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pal, S., Pakray, P., & Khan, A. K.

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Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pal, S., Pakray, P., & Khan, A. K. (2022). Language resource building and english-to-mizo neural machine translation encountering tonal words. In Proceedings of the wildre-6 workshop @lrec2020, marseille, european language resources association (elra) (pp. 48–54). Retrieved from  http://www.lrec- conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/WILDRE6/pdf/2022.wildre6-1.9.pdf

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2022 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

English to bengali multimodal neural machine translation using transliteration-based phrase pairs augmentation. In 9th workshop on asian translation wat2022, colling

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Dadure, P., Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Dadure, P., Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). English to bengali multimodal neural machine translation using transliteration-based phrase pairs augmentation. In 9th workshop on asian translation wat2022, colling. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2022.wat-1.14.pdf

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2022b CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Investigation of multilingual neural machine translation for indian languages

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022b). Investigation of multilingual neural machine translation for indian languages. In 9th workshop on asian translation wat2022, colling. ACL. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2022.wat-1.9.pdf

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2022 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Improving english-assamese neural machine translation using transliteration-based approach

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). Improving english-assamese neural machine translation using transliteration-based approach. In Proceedings of the international conference on frontiers of intelligent computing: Theory and applications, ficta 2022.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7513-4_20

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2022 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Investigation of english to hindi multimodal neural machine translation using transliteration-based phrase pairs augmentation

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Singh, R., Karim, M. F., Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Singh, R., Karim, M. F., Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). Investigation of english to hindi multimodal neural machine translation using transliteration-based phrase pairs augmentation. In 9th workshop on asian translation wat2022, colling. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2022.wat-1.15.pdf

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2022 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Cnlp-nits-pp at wanlp 2022 shared task: Propaganda detection in arabic using data augmentation and arabert pre-trained model

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Singh, R., Manna, R., Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Singh, R., Manna, R., Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). Cnlp-nits-pp at wanlp 2022 shared task: Propaganda detection in arabic using data augmentation and arabert pre-trained model. In Emnlp 2022 propaganda detection in arabic shared task, wanlp-22. ACL. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2022.wanlp-1.65.pdf

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2022 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Cnlp-nits-pp at mixmt 2022: Hinglish-english code-mixed machine translation

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Singh, R., Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Singh, R., Manna, R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). Cnlp-nits-pp at mixmt 2022: Hinglish-english code-mixed machine translation. In Emnlp 2022 seventh conference on machine translation (wmt22). ACL. Retrieved from  https://www.statmt.org/wmt22/pdf/2022.wmt-1.116.pdf

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2021 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Enkhcorp1. 0: An english–khasi corpus

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Darsh, A. F. U. R. K., Pakray, P., Bandyopadhyay, S. et al.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Darsh, A. F. U. R. K., Pakray, P., Bandyopadhyay, S. et al. (2021). Enkhcorp1. 0: An english–khasi corpus. In Proceedings of the 4th workshop on technologies for mt of low resource languages (loresmt2021), mtsummit (pp. 89–95). Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2021.mtsummit-loresmt.9

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2021 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Improved english to hindi multimodal neural machine translation

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Kaushik, D., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Kaushik, D., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2021). Improved english to hindi multimodal neural machine translation. In Proceedings of the 8th workshop on asian translation (wat2021), ijcnlp (pp. 155–160). ACL.  doi:https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.wat-1.17

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2021a CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Neural machine translation for low resource assamese–english

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2021a). Neural machine translation for low resource assamese–english. In Proceedings of the international conference on computing and communication systems: I3cs 2020, nehu, shillong, india (Vol. 170, p. 35). Springer.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4084-8_4

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2021b CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Neural machine translation: Assamese–bengali

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2021b). Neural machine translation: Assamese–bengali. In Modeling, simulation and optimization: Proceedings of comso 2020 (pp. 571–579). Springer.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9829-6_45

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2021 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Neural machine translation for tamil–telugu pair

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Adhikary, P. K., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Adhikary, P. K., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2021). Neural machine translation for tamil–telugu pair. In Proceedings of the sixth conference on machine translation (wmt), emnlp (pp. 289–292). ACL. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.29

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2021 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Multimodal neural machine translation for english-assamese pair

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Paudwal, S., Gautam, P., Biswas, N., & Pakray, P.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Paul, B., Paudwal, S., Gautam, P., Biswas, N., & Pakray, P. (2021). Multimodal neural machine translation for english-assamese pair. In 2021 international conference on computational performance evaluation (compe) (pp. 387–392). IEEE.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ComPE53109.2021.9752181

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2020a CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

EnAsCorp1.0: English-Assamese corpus

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2020a). EnAsCorp1.0: English-Assamese corpus. In Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on technologies for mt of low resource languages, aacl (pp. 62–68). ACL. Suzhou, China. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2020.loresmt-1.9

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2020b CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Multimodal neural machine translation for English to Hindi

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2020b). Multimodal neural machine translation for English to Hindi. In Proceedings of the 7th workshop on asian translation, aacl (pp. 109–113). ACL. Suzhou, China. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2020.wat-1.11

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2020 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Urdu fake news detection using generalized autoregressors

Khilji, A. F. U. R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Khilji, A. F. U. R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2020). Urdu fake news detection using generalized autoregressors. In Ceur workshop proceedings, forum for information retrieval evaluation 2020, december 16-20, 2020, hyderabad, India. CEUR-WS. Retrieved from  http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2826/T3-3.pdf

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2020 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Healfavor: Dataset and a prototype system for healthcare chatbot

Khilji, A. F. U. R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., Kadir, R. A., Lydia, M. S., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Khilji, A. F. U. R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., Kadir, R. A., Lydia, M. S., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2020). Healfavor: Dataset and a prototype system for healthcare chatbot. In 2020 international conference on data science, artificial intelligence, and business analytics (databia) (pp. 1–4). IEEE.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/DATABIA50434.2020.9190281

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2020c CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Hindi-marathi cross lingual model

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2020c). Hindi-marathi cross lingual model. In Proceedings of the fifth conference on machine translation (pp. 396–401). ACL. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.45

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2020d CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Zero-shot neural machine translation: Russian-hindi@ loresmt 2020

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2020d). Zero-shot neural machine translation: Russian-hindi@ loresmt 2020. In Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on technologies for mt of low resource languages, aacl (pp. 38–42). ACL. Retrieved from  https://aclanthology.org/2020.loresmt-1.5

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2019 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Neural machine translation: English to hindi

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Dutta, A., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Dutta, A., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2019). Neural machine translation: English to hindi. In 2019 ieee conference on information and communication technology (pp. 1–6). IEEE.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/CICT48419.2019.9066238

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2019 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Neural machine translation: Hindi-nepali

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2019). Neural machine translation: Hindi-nepali. In Proceedings of the fourth conference on machine translation (volume 3) (pp. 202–207). ACL.  doi:https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-5427

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2019 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

English to hindi multi-modal neural machine translation and hindi image captioning

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Singh, R. P., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Singh, R. P., Pakray, P., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2019). English to hindi multi-modal neural machine translation and hindi image captioning. In Proceedings of the 6th workshop on asian translation, emnlp (pp. 62–67). ACL.  doi:https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-5205

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2016 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Documents clustering using quantum clustering algorithm

Bhagawati, R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Swain, B.

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Bhagawati, R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Swain, B. (2016). Documents clustering using quantum clustering algorithm. In 2016 international conference on microelectronics, computing and communications (microcom) (pp. 1–4). IEEE.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/MicroCom.2016.7522562

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2015 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP

Analyzing quantum probability ranking principle with the concept of hyperspace analogue to language (hal)

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Swain, B.

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Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, & Swain, B. (2015). Analyzing quantum probability ranking principle with the concept of hyperspace analogue to language (hal). In 2015 international symposium on advanced computing and communication (isacc) (pp. 266–271). IEEE.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ISACC.2015.7377353

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2022 PATENT

System zur Vorbereitung und Untersuchung eines Englisch-Mizo-Korpus durch Auffinden von tonalen Wörtern

Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Khan, A. K.

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Khenglawt, V., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., & Khan, A. K. (2022). “System zur Vorbereitung und Untersuchung eines Englisch-Mizo-Korpus durch Auffinden von tonalen Wörtern” (System for Preparing and Investigating an English-Mizo Corpus by Encountering Tonal Words). German Utility Patent, 03 August 2022 (Status: Granted).

2022 PATENT

Ein System zur Beantwortung von Fragen und zur Empfehlung von Rezepten auf der Grundlage von Zutaten

Pakray, P., Manna, R., Khilji, A. F. U. R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Das, D., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

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Pakray, P., Manna, R., Khilji, A. F. U. R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Das, D., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). “Ein System zur Beantwortung von Fragen und zur Empfehlung von Rezepten auf der Grundlage von Zutaten” (A System on Answering Questions and Recommending Recipes based on Ingredients). German Utility Patent, 09 September 2022 (Status: Granted).

2022 BOOK CHAPTER

Healfavor: Machine translation enabled healthcare chat based application

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., Kadir, R. A., Lydia, M. S., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

Full citation

Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Khilji, A. F. U. R., Pakray, P., Kadir, R. A., Lydia, M. S., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). Healfavor: Machine translation enabled healthcare chat based application. doi:https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003138013-6

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2021 BOOK CHAPTER

Healfavor: A chatbot application in healthcare

Khilji, A. F. U. R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., Kadir, R. A., Lydia, M. S., & Bandyopadhyay, S.

Full citation

Khilji, A. F. U. R., Laskar, Sahinur Rahman, Pakray, P., Kadir, R. A., Lydia, M. S., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2021). Healfavor: A chatbot application in healthcare. doi:https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003146810-3

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04 / CAREER

Experience

Professional experience

2023–Present (Onsite)
Assistant Professor (Senior Scale)

School of Computer Science, UPES, Dehradun, India

2012-2013, 2016-2018 (Onsite)
Guest Faculty / Lecturer

Assam University, Silchar, and an affiliated college

2026 (Jan-Dec) (Online/Remote)
Visiting Faculty

UPES ONLINE Program, UPES, Dehradun, India

2015–2016 (Onsite)
Junior Research Fellow

Assam University, Silchar, India

05 / COMMUNITY

Research activities & recognition

Shared task organization, invited talks, shared task participation, and awards.

Shared Task Organizer

2027

Organizer (shared task@SemEval-2027 co-located at ACL 2027 )

MMCultureQA

Task website ↗
2027

Organizer (shared task-2@BLP-2027 co-located at NAACL 2027)

Multilingual Cultural Question Answering

Task website ↗
2026

Lead Organizer (Arabic-Asian MT@WMT-2026 co-located at EMNLP-2026)

Low-Resource Arabic-Asian Language Translation

Task website ↗
2025

Organizer (CLMIR @FIRE 2025)

Cross-Lingual Mathematical Information Retrieval (CLMIR)

Task website ↗
2023

Organizer (Indic MT@WMT 2023 co-located at EMNLP-2023)

Low-Resource Indic Language Translation

Task website ↗

Guest Speaker

2026

Resource Person

Faculty Development Programme “Machine Learning for Social Good: Applications in Healthcare, Education and Smart Cities” (29 June – 3 July 2026), organized by IEM, Kolkata.

2025

Guest Speaker

“AI Reboot: Revisiting Foundations and Frontiers” international webinar series — NLP applications, tools and techniques (27 July 2025). Organized by IEEE Computer Society Student Branch Chapter, UPES, Dehradun.

2021

Guest Speaker

Demonstration of Deep Learning for Machine Translation (29 June 2021) at the Faculty Development Program on Deep Learning for NLP (DL-NLP 2021), Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida.

Shared Task Participation

2026

ArGuard . ArabicNLP 2026

Hateful Meme Detection in Subtask A1 (team Bahash-AI).

Results ↗
2025

BLP . IJCNLP-AACL 2025

Bangla Hate Speech Detection in Task 1 (team Bahash-AI).

Results ↗
2022

Rank 3 · WANLP / EMNLP 2022

Propaganda Detection in Arabic, subtask 1 (team CNLP-NITS-PP).

Results ↗
2022

Best Results · WAT2022

Multi-Modal Translation Task, English to Bengali (team CNLP-NITS-PP).

Results ↗
2022

Second Best · WAT2022

Multi-Modal Translation Task, English to Hindi (team CNLP-NITS-PP).

Results ↗
2020

Rank 2 · FIRE 2020

Fake News Detection in the Urdu Language (UrduFake), team CNLP-NITS.

2020

WMT 2020

Similar Language Translation (team NITS-CNLP): 10th rank Hindi→Marathi, 15th rank Marathi→Hindi.

2019

Rank 1 · WMT 2019

Similar Language Translation: first rank for Hindi→Nepali and Nepali→Hindi (team NITS-CNLP).

Paper ↗
2019

Rank 1 · WAT2019

Multi-Modal Translation Task (team 683).

Award

2022

Best Paper Award Presenter

FICTA 2022, NIT Mizoram, India — “Improving English-Assamese Neural Machine Translation using Transliteration-based Approach”.

06 / SERVICE

Academic service & mentorship

Journal reviewing

Reviewer for journals including:

  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • Language Resources and Evaluation
  • Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
  • Natural Language Engineering
  • Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Additional conference reviewing activities are listed in the full CV.

Student mentorship

Supervision and project guidance in areas including:

  • Mathematical information retrieval (Ph.D. co-supervision Since 2024)
  • Low-resource news categorization (M.Tech. 2025-26)
  • Code-mixed cyberbullying detection (M.Tech. 2024-25)
  • Hindi general-knowledge question answering using LLMs (B.Tech. 2025)
  • Additional mentorships are listed in the full CV.

Membership – professional bodies

  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Natural Language Processing Association of India (NLPAI)

07 / ELSEWHERE

Academic profiles

LET'S CONNECT

Interested in research collaboration?

I welcome academic discussions and collaborations related to NLP, machine translation, multilingual language technologies, LLM and low-resource languages.

sahinurlaskar.nits@gmail.com ↗