Rizwan Parvez
Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Doha, Qatar
Summary
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Top SchoolRizwan Parvez is a research-focused scientist with 11 years of experience in machine learning and NLP, currently working at Qatar Computing Research Institute after a research scientist role at Bosch Research. He holds a PhD from UCLA and has an established record of industry internships at Google, Facebook AI, Salesforce, and Microsoft where he delivered advances in dialogue diversity, dense retrieval for open-domain QA, unsupervised QA, and hyperbolic language models. Rizwan’s work combines strong theoretical grounding with practical systems: his retrieval and generation projects show measurable gains on benchmarks like Google Natural Questions and SGD. Based in Doha, he bridges academic rigor and product-minded research, routinely shipping reproducible results that improve end-to-end QA and dialogue systems. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to diagnose dataset-domain gaps in retrieval systems, turning failure modes into research directions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyUniversity of California, Los AngelesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - First Year Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - First Year Computer Science at University of Virginia
English, Bengali
Github Skills (26)
facebook10
ctc10
sequence-to-sequence10
sequence10
transformer-architecture10
artificial-intelligence9
pytorch9
python9
natural-language-processing9
conformer9
nlp9
machine-learning8
acl7
phonetics7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rizwan09/rizwan09.github.io
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:117 pushes in 2 years 4 months
uclanlp/Fast-and-Robust-Text-Classification
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:58 commits, 28 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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