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
Innovator & Engineer
Samsung Research
News
- Jul 2026 Patent accepted by Samsung Research, South Korea, with the highest grade of A1. The patent has been submitted to NAME, a Korean law firm, for filing.
- Jun 2026 Served as a reviewer for the May round of the 21st International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2027).
- 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 · 2024
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DLSprint'23 Technical Report · 2023 · 1 citation
Under Review
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Under Review · ACM TSC Special Issue · Feb 2026
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arXiv · Rejected, ICSE Workshop · 2024
Patents
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Accepted (Highest Grade Achieved) . Samsung Research HQ, Suwon, South Korea · June 2026A Novel Method for Face 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 Toronto
Prof. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed & Prof. Ebrahim Bagheri
Collaboration on IR fairness and the analysis of biased narratives in retrieval systems (ECIR'26).
State University of New York, OW
Prof. Shebuti Rayana
Collaboration on NLP analysis of Reddit communities as part of the NSF-funded ACOSUS project (Award #2219623).
Oxford Semantics
Prof. Ian Horrocks and his Team
Worked on Formal Ontology as part of internal Samsung Research project during my tenure at Samsung.
Meta
Dr. Tanzir Pial
Mentor; Research Scientist at Meta. Collaborated on internal projects at BARTA Lab
Stony Brook University
Shahreen Salim
Mentor; PhD in Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA. Collaborated on ongoing research on Representation Discrimination (ACM TSC'26).
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.