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Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
Dr. Nafis Sadeq is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at East West University, Bangladesh. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego in 2025. The University of California San Diego is one of the top universities in the world, ranking 12th in Computer Science according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings and 36th according to the Times Higher Education rankings for 2026. He holds both M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
His Ph.D. thesis titled Acquiring, Exploiting, and Suppressing Parametric Knowledge in Language Models focused on improving frontier Large Language Models (LLMs). His doctoral research was conducted under the supervision of Julian McAuley, with guidance from his dissertation committee consisting of Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Jingbo Shang, and Zhiting Hu.
His research spans Natural Language Processing, Recommender Systems, and Large Language Models (LLMs), with notable contributions in areas such as parametric knowledge, hallucination mitigation, inductive reasoning, and conversational recommendation. He has published in flagship NLP and RecSys venues including EMNLP, NAACL, ICASSP, EACL, WWW, and LREC and actively serves as a reviewer for top-tier conferences like NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, COLM, NAACL, EACL, KDD, WWW, CIKM, WSDM.
Dr. Nafis brings industry experience from internships at Intuit and Samsung Semiconductor Inc., where he worked on retrieval-augmented generation, goal-oriented conversational agents, and customer-facing AI assistants. Prior to academia, he served as a software engineer at Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh and REVE Systems.
Personal Webpage: https://www.nsadeq.com/home
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4Hz60mgAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/nafis-sadeq
Program Committee Experience
ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL reviews were submitted via ACL Rolling Review since 2023
Received Jacob's school of engineering fellowship at University of California San Diego (2021-2022)
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