Firoj Alam
Senior Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Qatar
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Top SchoolFiroj Alam is a Senior Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute with over a decade of experience advancing NLP, speech, and machine learning research focused on generative AI and LLM benchmarking. He specializes in domain-specific, multilingual, and multimodal models, with applied work in automated fact-checking, disinformation detection, and reasoning across diverse social media content and languages. His background spans academia and industry—from a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Trento to developing Bangla speech synthesis and crisis-computing tools—bringing both deep research rigor and practical system-building experience. Known for tackling humanitarian informatics and low-resource language challenges, he combines technical depth with a pragmatic focus on real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Science & Engineering at BRAC UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Trento / University of TrentoMS, Human Language Technology and Interface, MS, Human Language Technology and Interface at Università degli Studi di Trento / University of Trento
English, Bengali, Italian
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Github Skills (69)
multilingual10
evaluation-framework10
benchmarking10
evaluation10
acl9
social-media9
nlp9
transformer9
open-access9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
intellij9
pytorch9
large-language-models9
alt9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Bangla-Language-Processing/Bangla-Speech-Corpora
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
banglanlp/bangla-sentiment-classification
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Bangla Sentiment Classification
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 8 months
nlpbanglasentimentsentiment-analysissentiment-classification
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