Hello! I'm Sabrina, currently in my fourth year of the Computer Science PhD program at George Mason University. My primary research area is in the larger domain of NLP and LLMs Applications in high-stakes specialized domains. The domains I am currently focusing on are Educational Assessments and Policy Studies (More Specifically, AI Policies). In the education domain, I am developing AI tools to automate and enhance the accuracy of school principals' performance assessments using a blend of qualitative and quantitative methods, including training LLMs with zero-shot and few-shot learning techniques. In the policy domain, my work involves creating systems to parse and analyze extensive AI policy documents from various countries to determine how LLMs can be effectively utilized in document analysis with minimal human intervention.
Alongside this, I am equally invested in studying Computational Approaches of Multilingual News Framing Analysis. The research leverages LLMs and crowdsourcing to enhance the Framing Analysis Task, examining the complex ways news is framed across different languages and cultures.
I have experience working with Speech Recognition and Translation tasks. I'm lucky to be advised by Prof. Antonis Anastasopoulos and be a part of GMU's NLP lab .
Before starting my PhD at Mason, I received my Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Professionals in 2018. My bachelor's thesis focused on developing a machine learning framework for sorting and classifying unstructured data from resumes.
In my free time I like to read, and travel. One of my bucket list task is to visit all 50 states of the USA within the next few years.
I have already visited 14 states and 1 US territory. (And, DC. Does it count??) (Last updated: Aug 2024)News
- Actively seeking summer internship opportunities for NLP applications.
- My Paper on the LLM Application efficacy has been accepted for publication at EMNLP 2024 (Main)!!
- Visiting Mexico to attend NAACL 2024 and present my poster on Multilingual News Framing Analysis
- Received my Masters in Computer Science from GMU, with a cool Academic Achievement Award
- Presented my current findings of the education project in MASC-SLL 2024 at JHU
- Present a poster on my current findings of the education project in AEFP conference, 2024 at Baltimore.
- I have passed my comprehensive exam!!
- I have received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for academic year 2022-2023!
- I am excited to be selected for my first research talk on my current work in Multilingual News Framing nalysis at the CAPWIC 2023!
Email: sakter6 at gmu dot edu
Twitter: @SyedaSabrina11
GitHub: @syedasabrina
LinkedIn: @syeda-sabrina-akter
Scholar: Syeda Sabrina Akter