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Dr. Firoj Alam
Senior Scientist
Dr. Firoj Alam
Senior Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Computer Science
MSc in Human Language Technology and Interface
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Divison
Social Computing
Biography
Dr. Firoj Alam is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. He earned his PhD from the University of Trento, Italy, and has over a decade of experience in Artificial Intelligence, Deep/Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Social Media Content Analysis, Image Processing, and Conversational Analysis. He has published over 100 research papers (including 6 book chapters and 11 journal articles) in international journals, conferences, and notable workshops.
Dr. Alam has served as the lead principal investigator for several funded projects. His current research focuses on large language models (benchmarking, native and cultural alignment), generative AI content detection, disinformation detection, fact-checking, and multimodal propaganda detection. He has also been actively contributing to building a community of researchers in these areas by organizing workshops and shared tasks. Some notable shared tasks include the CheckThat! lab at CLEF, NLP4IF 2021, and several SemEval tasks.
He has significantly contributed to developing AI-based tools and resources to support humanitarian organizations during disaster events and aid the UN-OCHA in streamlining their Education Insecurity efforts. Dr. Alam has served as a program committee member for several top-tier conferences, including ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICLR, Interspeech, ICASSP, AAAI, IJCAI, and ICWSM. Additionally, he has reviewed numerous journals, including Computer Speech and Language (CSL), ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), and PLOS ONE.
PhD in Computer Science
University of Trento, Italy
2016
MSc in Human Language Technology and Interface
University of Trento, Italy
2011
BSc in Computer Science & Engineering
BRAC University, Bangladesh
2007
- Generative AI
- Large language models (LLMs): Benchmarking, native, local, and cultural alignment
- Machine Learning (Deep Learning)
- Natural Language Processing
- Speech Processing
- Affective behavioral signal processing (Empathy, Emotions, Personality traits) from speech and text
- Social media analysis
Senior Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2024 - Present
Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2019 - 2024
Post-doctoral Researcher
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2017 - 2019
Research Associate
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2016 - 2017
PhD Researcher
SIS Lab, University of Trento, Italy
2011- 2016
Research Intern
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
2011
Research Programmer
Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Bangladesh
2006 - 2010
- Full scholarship for PhD, University of Trento, Italy.
- Full scholarship for MSc, University of Trento, Italy.
- Grant from ISCA to attend SLTU2010 Conference, 2010.
- Grant from ADD to attend ADD4 Summer School, 2009.
- Grant from PAN Localization to attend CLT’09 Conference, 2009.
- Grant from ADD to attend ADD3 Summer School, 2008.
- Full scholarship for the Summer School organized by PAN Localization, 2006.