The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at BRAC University is proud to celebrate a series of outstanding research achievements by its students and faculty members at leading international conferences in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.

These accomplishments highlight the department's growing research capacity and the breadth of work being undertaken by members of the BRACU CSE community, particularly in areas such as large language models, multilingual AI, Bengali language technologies, responsible AI, bias and fairness, knowledge unlearning, and multimodal intelligence.

Recent Research Contributions

European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) — A

MathMist: A Parallel Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Mathematical Problem Solving and Reasoning
Mahbub E Sobhani, Md Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Muhammad Tasnim Mohiuddin, Md Mofijul Islam, and Swakkhar Shatabda

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) — A*

Ready to Translate, Not to Represent? Bias and Performance Gaps in Multilingual LLMs Across Language Families and Domains
Mahbub E Sobhani, Md Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Muhammad Tasnim Mohiuddin, Md Mofijul Islam, and Swakkhar Shatabda

BnMMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Bengali
Saman Sarker Joy and Swakkhar Shatabda

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) — A*

Benchmarking Bengali Dialectal Bias: A Multi-Stage Framework Integrating RAG-Based Translation and Human-Augmented RLAIF
K. M. Jubair Sami, Dipto Sumit, Ariyan Hossain, and Farig Sadeque

Contaminated Collaboration: Measuring Gender Bias Transfer in LLM-Assisted Student Writing
Ariyan Hossain, Kazi Kamruzzaman Rabbi, Farig Sadeque, and Dr. S. M. Taiabul Haque

Representation-Aware Unlearning via Activation Signatures: From Suppression to Entity-Signature Erasure
Syed Naveed Mahmood, Md. Rezaur Rahman Bhuiyan, Tasfia Zaman, Jareen Tasneem Khondaker, Md. Sameer Sakib, K. M. Shadman Wadith, Nazia Tasnim, and Farig Sadeque

Below the Noise Floor: Bimodal Seed Collapse and Distinct Failure Modes in Small-Model Knowledge Distillation
Dipto Sumit, Sakib Ul Haque, and Farig Sadeque

Systematic Failure Analysis of Open-Weight LLM Annotators for Classification Tasks: Taxonomy, Uncertainty Signals, and Deployment Boundaries
Nahid Hossain, Siam Rahman Karip, Md Faisal Kabir, Swakkhar Shatabda, and Salekul Islam

Many Dialects, Many Languages, One Cultural Lens: Evaluating Multilingual VLMs for Bengali Culture Understanding Across Historically Linked Languages and Regional Dialects
Sayeedi, N. L., Sayeedi, M. F. A., Dipta, S. R., Tabassum, R., Hridoy, A. E., Mahmood, M., et al., and Shatabda

The department extends its sincere congratulations to all the students, faculty members, researchers, and collaborators involved in these achievements. Their work represents the continued growth of research at BRAC University CSE and strengthens the department's contribution to the global research community.