Sekh Islam
PHD Student at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen - DIKU
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolSekh Islam is a first-year PhD student at the CopenNLU group, University of Copenhagen, with eight years of research and engineering experience spanning misinformation detection, NLP, and graph representations. Previously a Research Engineer at NYU Abu Dhabi and an MS Researcher at IIT Kharagpur, he has applied BERT-based and constrained generation methods to problems like relation extraction, fair data augmentation, and controlled text generation. His recent work focuses on aspect-based sentiment analysis, interpretability, concept mining, and debiasing language models, blending empirical engineering with principled research. Notably, he has experience translating research prototypes into practical systems—from adapting self-supervised models for e-commerce relation extraction to deploying fairness-driven language model augmentations accepted at NeurIPS-W. Based in Copenhagen, he combines strong academic training with hands-on industry collaborations and a keen interest in graph-informed NLP.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenB.Tech, Computer Science, 9.13, B.Tech, Computer Science, 9.13 at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal formerly WBUTMS by Research, Computer Science, MS by Research, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Bengali, Hindi, English
Github Skills (22)
mxgraph9
aspect8
ubuntu8
scilab8
highcharts7
adaptation7
codemirror7
flask7
sentiment6
css6
sentiment-classification6
simulation6
simulator6
html5
javascript5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mainuliitkgp/mainuliitkgp.github.io
Jul 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:129 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
mainuliitkgp/AR-BERT
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:90 commits, 87 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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