Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif

Graduate student at Dartmouth CS, advised by Prof. Sarah M. Preum. Interested to apply deep learning to understand natural language.

Hello, this is Omar,

Shifted the domain. Please check this webpage https://omar-sharif.github.io/. to get updated information.

I am a PhD student in the Computer Science departiment at Dartmouth. My primary research interest lies in Natural Language Processing; with a focus on extracting meaningful information from social media and health data. I am also enthusiastic about Multimodal NLP—particularly in designing models that can effectively fuse information across various modalities to enhance reasoning capabilities and enable seamless human-machine interaction. In Spring 2025, I interned at Amazon with Patrick's, where I worked on improving the visual reasoning abilities of MLLMs using reinforcement learning.

Previously, I earned my M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from CUET under the supervision of Dr. Moshiul Hoque as a member of the CUET NLP Lab. Besides research, I love to work with Data structures and Algorithms. Throughout my academic career, I have participated in ICPC, NCPC, and numerous national-level programming contest.

Contact: 📧 omar.sharif.gr@dartmouth.edu

My latest CV: [Resume]

Updates 

12-16 Nov,24 Attended EMNLP-2024 and presented our paper (DiscourseEE).
20 Sep,24    Feeling motivated!! One paper accepted at EMNLP-2024 main conference.
30 July,24   Our group is in OpenAI Researcher Access Program. We received a $5k API credit and will continue to assess OpenAI models on human-centric NLP tasks.
16 May,24    One paper accepted at ACL-2024.
13 Apr,24    Received Student Travel Grant from AAAI  as a support to attend and present my paper at ICWSM-2024.
06 Feb,24    Received Volunteer Award as a support to attend and present my papers at EACL-2024.
22 Jan,24    One paper accepted at EACL-SRW-2024.
09 Dec,23    One paper accepted at AAAI-2024.
6-10 Dec,23  Virtually attended EMNLP-2023 and presented our papers (Paper-1, Paper-2).
27 Oct,23    Received Volunteer Award as a support to attend and present my papers at EMNLP-2023.
23 Oct,23    One paper accepted in GEM-Workshop at EMNLP-2023.
06 Oct,23    Feeling awesome!! One paper accepted at EMNLP-2023 Findings.
19 Sep,23    Presented a poster at Digital Mental Health & AI Symposium organized by CTBH.
15 July,23   One paper accepted at ICWSM-2024.
20-23 Nov,22 Presented our paper virtually at AACL-SRW 2022.
12 Sep,22    Awarded Presidential Graduate Fellowship from Dartmouth.
12 Sep,22    Joined Dartmouth to pursue my PhD in CS.
27 Jun,22    Promoted to Assitant Professor in Dept. of CSE, CUET. Feeling super happy!!!
20-25 Jun,22 Virtually attended LREC-2022 and presented our paper MemoSen
17 Jun,22    Our journal on Multimodal Learning accepted at JKSU Journal.[IF: 13.437] Feeling awesome!!! 
22-27 May,22 Received D&I Award as a support to attend and present our papers at ACL-2022.
6 Apr,22     One paper accepted at CONSTRAINT@ACL-2022.
4 Apr,22     One paper accepted at LREC-2022 main conference.
26 Mar,22    4 shared task papers accepted at ACL-2022 workshops.
02 Jan,22    Feeling awesome!!! Successfully defended my Master's thesis.[Slides]
20 Dec,21    Bengali Aggressive Text Dataset (BAD) is released. Hope this dataset will pave the way for undesired/toxic language detection research in Bengali.
5 Dec,21     Feeling super happy!!! Paper accepted at Neurocomputing Journal.[IF: 5.719, HI: 143]
7-11 Nov,21  Received D&I Award and virtually attended EMNLP-2021.
5 Nov,21     Two papers (Sentiment, Emotion) accepted in SN Computer Science journal.
1-6 Aug,21   Virtually attended ACL-2021.
26 June,21   Successfully organized International Workshop on Computational Analysis of Undesired Texts on Social Media.
7 June,21    Presented our paper virtually at NAACL-SRW 2021.
7 Apr,21     Received D&I Award as a support to attend and present my work at EACL-2021.
27 Mar,21    One paper accepted at NAACL-SRW 2021.[Acceptance rate: 44%]
15 Feb,21    Three papers (Hope, Offensive, Multimodal) accepted at EACL-2021 workshops.
8 Feb,21     Achieved Best paper award (research track) at CONSTRAINT collocated with AAAI-2021.[Acceptance rate: 37.1%]
16 Jan,21    Our team NLP@CUET secured 1st, 3rd and 3rd position at Hope speech, Offensive language and Multimodal meme detection shared tasks.
19 Dec,20    Presented a paper at ICON-2020.
12 Sep,20    Paper accepted at Jouranl of Applied Sciences.[IF: 2.67]

Academic Service

Program Committee Member/Reviewer for,

  • Conferences: ACL-[23, 24], EMNLP-[23, 24], NAACL-24, ACL Rolling Review, ICWSM-24, LREC-[22, 24], COLING-25
  • Journals: TALLIP, IEEE Access, Scientific Reports, TCSS, LREV

NLP Resources

List of few books, courses and blog posts that I find really helpfull.