Researcher · Engineer
Abhijit Paul
Innovator at Samsung Research and Lead Researcher at BARTA Lab, University of Dhaka. My research sits at the intersection of Provable Trustworthy Computing, AI, and HCI - with a focus on developing theory for practical applications.
Privacy
AI Safety
Formal Methods
HCI
Systems
Software Engineer
Samsung R&D Inst.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
News
- Feb 2026 🎓 Government Scholarship — Undergraduate, Bangladesh.
- Nov 2025 Excellence in Research Award, Q2 2025 — Samsung R&D Institute, Bangladesh.
- Jul 2025 AI PoC received highest votes in Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh's internal contest. Patent submitted on the final algorithm.
- Feb 2025 Joined Samsung R&D Institute, Bangladesh full-time. Working on Formal Ontology with Oxford Semantics (acquired by Samsung).
- Jun 2024 Secured Innovation Fund from Samsung Research (~3,000,000 BDT). Possibly the youngest innovator to have ever received this prestigious grant (Undergrad Intern).
- Sep 2024 🎓 Awarded Mitsubishi UFJ Foundation Scholarship Program FY 2024, Japan.
- Jul 2024 🏆 Team received Best Innovator Team Award Q1 — Samsung R&D Institute, Bangladesh.
- Nov 2023 🥈 1st Runners-Up — ITVerse 2.0 Blockchain Segment, University of Dhaka. 📷 Photo
- Oct 2023 🥉 2nd Runners-Up — Notre Dame Inter-University Ideathon Contest. 📷 Photo
- 2023 🥉 2nd Runners-Up — Inter-University Project Showcasing & IEEE BUP Branch Fest. 📷 Photo
- Jun 2023 🥈 1st Runners-Up — Deep Learning Sprint 2.0, BUET. 📷 Photo
- Dec 2020 🏆 Champion — Datathon, Coding Object Private Limited, India. 📷 Photo
- 2020–24 🎓 Government Scholarship — Higher Secondary Certification Examination, Bangladesh.
- 2015–17 🎓 Government Scholarship — Junior School Certification Examination, Bangladesh.
Publications
Journal & Conference Papers
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ECIR'26 · A-Ranked · 2026How Information Retrieval Systems Construct and Amplify Biased Narratives
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ACL-MeLLM · A* · 2026Breaking the Silence: A Dataset and Benchmark for Bangla Text-to-Gloss Translation
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TyDe @ ICFP'25 · A* · 2025 · Solo Author
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ICJR-I'25 · 2025Temporal Analysis of the Gap Between Media Narratives and Public Sentiment During Bangladesh's July Revolution
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Samsung Best Paper Award · Extended Abstract · 2024Can LLM improve Test Suite Selection in Agile? An Industry Case Study
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DLSprint'23 Technical Report · 2023 · 1 citation
Under Review
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Under Review · ICWSM'26 · A-RankedEmotional and Informational Trajectories of Immigrants: A Longitudinal Study of Reddit Communities
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Under Review · ACM TSC Special Issue · Feb 2026
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arXiv · Rejected, ICSE Workshop · 2024
Patents (Ongoing)
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In Review · Samsung Research HQ, Suwon, South Korea · May 2026A Method for Automated Anonymization
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Prior Art Search: Passed · Preparing for HQ SubmissionAn Optimization of dLoRA Architecture
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Prior Art Search: OngoingA Method to Reduce False Positives in Wearable Stress Detection
Past Research Collaborations
University of Dhaka
Prof. Ahmedul Kabir
Primary supervisor at BARTA Lab. Collaboration on Bangla NLP, media fairness, and the IMLI-funded language tools.
University of Toronto
Prof. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed & Prof. Ebrahim Bagheri
Collaboration on IR fairness and the analysis of biased narratives in retrieval systems (ECIR'26).
Stony Brook University
Shahreen Salim
Mentor; PhD in Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA. Collaborated on ongoing research on Representation Discrimination (ACM TSC'26).
SUNY Old Westbury
Prof. Shebuti Rayana
Collaboration on NLP analysis of Reddit communities as part of the NSF-funded ACOSUS project (Award #2219623).
Meta
Dr. Tanzir Pial
Mentor; Research Scientist at Meta. Collaborated on internal projects at BARTA Lab
Monash University
HumaniSE Lab
Collaboration on Automated Localization of Android Apk for ICSE (A*) SCORE 2023.
Talks
- 2023How to Use Linux — sophomore undergraduate students.
- 2023How to Maintain Large Projects in C — sophomore undergraduate students.
- 2024, 2026Ongoing Bangla AI Research — senior undergraduate students.
Grants & Funding
Grants I secured
Innovation Fund — Samsung Research
Awarded for an innovative direction on Commercial AI Safety. Possibly the youngest innovator to have received this prestigious grant to-date (an undergraduate intern in 7th semester).
Seed Funding — Bus Koi (DU Bus Tracking System)
Low-cost privacy-preserving bus tracking for 5,000+ DU students. Version 1 being acquired by NCP Bangladesh for 170,000 BDT.
Grants I contributed to as a researcher
International Mother Language Institute (IMLI) Grant — IMLI, Bangladesh
Contributed to design and implementation of an automated Bangla NLP tool with junior students, under Prof. Ahmedul Kabir. The tool is deployed at IMLI.
NSF Grant — ACOSUS (Award #2219623)
Contributed NLP analysis of Reddit communities as part of the AI-driven counseling system for underrepresented transfer students project.