Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif

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

Research Grants

  • ICT division Bangladesh research grant (2020-2021): 1000K BDT
  • CUET IT business incubator research grant (2019-2020): 400K BDT

Technical Skills 

Proficient             C, C++, Python, Matlab, Octave 
Moderate               PyTorch, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, Verilog HDL
Libraries              TensorFlow, Keras, NLTK, Scikit-learn, Gensim, Pandas 
Frameworks & Tools     Flask, Django, Jupyter, Beautiful Soup, Git, Latex

Competitive Programming

Solved 1000+ competitive programming problems in different online platforms as part of my preparation for proramming contests (ICPC, NCPC, etc). Sloved Problems (GitHub) 

Codeforces     Solved 500+ problems 
UVA            Solved 200+ problems 
LightOJ        Solved 120+ problems 
CS Academy     Solved 50+ problems

Honors and Awards

  • Presidential Graduate Fellow (2022): Awarded to only two incoming graduate student in Dartmouth
  • Student Travel Grant (AAAI) (2024): To present my paper at ICWSM-2024
  • Best Research Publication (2022): At research fair organized by CUET
  • CUET Ex-students merit award (2015, 2016, 2017): For obtaining highest GPA in an academic year
  • Honorable mention (2017, 2018): ACM ICPC Dhaka Regional
  • Best paper award: CONSTRAINT collocated with AAAI-2021
  • Winner: Hope speech detection shared task, EACL-2021
  • D&I Award (EACL-21, EMNLP-21, ACL-22): To attend and present our papers
  • 2nd runner-up: Multimodal meme detection and offenisve language classification shared task, EACL-2021
  • 27th position (among 1600+ teams): ACM ICPC Dhaka Regional Preliminary, 2017
  • 31st position (among 150 selected teams): National Collegiate Programming Contest, 2017
  • 5th position (among 70+ teams): Divisional Programming Contest, 2017
  • 1st position (among 50 teams): Inter University Programming Contest, 2016
  • Best internship trainee award (2017): For doing best team project
  • Technical scholarship (2014-2018): To get position among top 50% students in the class
  • Primary & high school scholarship (2005, 2008): Government of Bangladesh

Leadership

CUET NLP Lab
Mentor [Aug 2019 - Aug 2022]

  • Meet weekly with the undergrads working under CUET NLP lab. Discuss research problems, share ideas and track their progress.
  • Teach students the basics of deep learning and NLP.

Competitive Programming Club, CUET
Coach [Jan 2019 - Aug 2022]

  • Teach students advanced data structures, number theory, and algorithms.
  • Organize contests, keep track of individual performance and form up teams.

ACM Student Chapter, CUET
Vice Chair [Mar 2021 - Aug 2022]

  • Lead a team of 30+ active members. Plan and assess the growth of the chapter.
  • Arrange research seminars, talks and workshops on different trending topics.

Co-curricular

  • Organized Real-Info workshop at ICWSM-2024.
  • Organized CUET CSE Fest 2017, 2018, 2019.
  • Organized CUET National Collegiate Programming Contest 2017.
  • Champion of CUET Teachers Association Football Tournament 2019.
  • Champion of CUET Football League 2018, 2019.
  • Champion of Intra Hall Badminton Tournament 2017.
  • Runner-up of Intra Hall Badminton Tournament 2016.
  • Runner-up of Inter University Volleyball Tournament 2017.