Labiba Jahan, Ph.D.

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Labiba Jahan, Ph.D

Clinical Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location: Caruth Hall 483

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Education

  • B.S.,Shahjalal University of Science & Technology at Bangladesh

  • M.S. & Ph.D. Florida International University at Florida

Biography

Labiba Jahan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Lyle School of Engineering. Before joining 91³Ô¹ÏÍø, she was an assistant professor at Augustana College, IL. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida International University under the guidance of . In 2019, she served as a research intern at the Product Simulation and Modeling Group at Siemens Corporate Technology in Princeton, NJ.

She enjoys working in both roles, as a teacher and researcher. She loves to teach courses related to competitive programming and artificial intelligence (AI). Her research expertise is in the domain of narrative understanding, semantic analysis, and NLP pipeline design. She received several internal grants and fellowships from Augustana College, IL and published many of her research works at the top NLP conferences including EMNLP, COLING.

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Paper, workshop on NLP for Positive Impact co-located with EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi.

Research

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Narrative Understanding
  • Machine Learning

Recent Publications

  • Motti Kelbessa, Ilyas Jamil, and Labiba Jahan (2022). . In Proceedings of the workshop on NLP for Positive Impact co-located with EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi.
  • Labiba Jahan, Rahul Mittal, and Mark Finlayson (2021). . In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (pp. 492-497)
  • Labiba Jahan, Rahul Mittal, W. Victor H. Yarlott, Mark A. Finlayson (2020). . In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Barcelona, Spain (Online). (pp. 6089-6100)
  • Labiba Jahan & Mark A. Finlayson (2019). . In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Narrative Understanding (WNU) co-located with NAACL, Minneapolis, Minnesota, (pp 12-18).
  • Labiba Jahan, Geeticka Chauhan, Mark A. Finlayson (2018). . In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Santa Fe, New Mexico, (pp. 1-12).