Scholar
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury
Google Scholar ID: h9GHCBsAAAAJ
IBM Research AI
Citations & Impact
Citations
754
H-index
12
i10-index
18
Publications
20
Co-authors
34
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications in top tier AI/NLP/Bioinformatics conferences and journals such as AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, COLING, Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Publisher: Elsevier), Journal of Biomedical Semantics (Publisher: BMC). Best paper award from International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) in 2014. Winner in various international academic shared tasks like SemEval, *SEM Shared task, CLEF Evaluation, DDIExtraction Challenge, CALBC Challenge. Multiple IBM awards including Client and Partner Success Award (2024), Outstanding Technical Achievement (OTA) Awards (2019, 2021), Technical Collaboration Achievement Program (TCAP) Award (2022), and Outstanding Research Accomplishment (2020).
Research Experience
- Before joining IBM, worked at top European research labs including German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-irst), and Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI-CNRS). Worked as a Project Lead and Senior Software Engineer between 2005 and 2007 in various software companies.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento, Italy (2013); M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics from Saarland University, Germany (2009); M.Sc. in Computer Science from Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (2008); B.Sc. (Eng.) in Computer Science and Engineering from Khulna University, Bangladesh (2005). Erasmus Mundus scholar (2007-2009).
Background
- Currently a member of the Automated Machine Learning team in IBM Research AI. Previously, a member of the DeepQA team, Watson division, and Knowledge Induction group.
Miscellany
- Scientific expert in research grant evaluation panel of French National Research Agency (ANR) and European Commission (EC). Reviewer for Journals - Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press), and Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier). Program committee member for top AI/NLP conferences, including AAAI, ACL, IJCAI, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING.
