University Of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Expected: August 2021
PhD in Computer Science (before coming to UCLA)
University Of Virginia
CGPA: 4.00 in scale of 4.00
Date: August 2016 - August 2017
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (September 2015)
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
CGPA: 3.80 in scale of 4.00 (with HONOURS)
Merit Position: 15 / 134
Dissertation: An Efficient Approach to Network Voronoi Diagram in a Large Graph using Asynchronous Parallel Computation
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning.
June 2017 - Present (NLP group @UCLA)
Carrying out research work on "Language Models for Text with Entity Names". Here, we develop an efficient a language model for text with lots of entity names (recipe ingredients) using their type information under the supervision of Professor Kai-Wei Chang (UCLA) and Professor Baishakhi Ray (UVA)
June 2017 - April, 2018 (NLP group @UCLA)
Carrying out research work on "Budget Learning on Text Classification Problems". Here, we develop an efficient Natural Language Processing technique for text classification problems limited to some constraint under the supervision of Professor Kai-Wei Chang (UCLA) and Professor Venkatesh Saligrama (BU)
Sep 2016 - July 2017 (NLP group @UVA)
Carrying out research work on a project titled "A Modular Template Matching Approach to VQA". Here, we develop an efficient Natural Language Processing technique for answering visual questions under the supervision of Professor Kai-Wei Chang (UCLA) and Professor Venkatesh Saligrama (BU)
Sep 2016 - May, 2017 (NLP group @UVA)
Carrying out research work on a project "Transcending the Limits of 2D Materials Growth with Targeted Data Mining". here we develop a learning-based text analytics system for automated generation of synthesis maps for 2D materials under the supervision of Professor Hongning Wang (UVA)
Dec 2014 - May 2016 (Samsung Innovation Lab, BUET)
Carried out research work on a project titled "An Efficient Approach of Computing Voronoi Diagrams in a Large Graph" for the preparation of my thesis for the degree of B.Sc. Engg. (CSE) under the supervision of Professor Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Assistant Professor Sarana Yi Nutanang.
May 2014 - Nov 2015 (Samsung Innovation Lab, BUET)
Carrying out research work on a project titled "A Novel Approach of Identifying Spatio-Termporal Crime Pattern in Dhaka City'' under the supervision of Professor Dr. Mohammed Eunus Ali.
May 2013 - April 2014 (BUET)
Carrying out research work on a project titled “DhakaSim” under the supervision of Assistant Professor A. B. M. Alim Al Islam.
1. Md Rizwan Parvez, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, Kai-Wei Chang, "Building Language Models for Text with Named Entities", SoCal NLP symposium, University of California, Irvine, 2018 [poster].
Teaching Assistant (UCLA): Fall 2017
Teaching Assistant (UVA): Fall 2016, Spring 2017
October 2015 - August 2016
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University (UIU)
Dhaka - 1209, Bangladesh.
1. 6'th position in thesis poster presentation in CSE, BUET.
2. 5'th position in poster presentation of level four students of CSE, BUET.
3. 2nd position in HSC Examination, Rajshahi Education Board, 2009 from New Govt. Degree College, Rajshahi.
1. ACL student travel grant, 2018.
2. UCLA graduate students' fellowship, 2017
3. Professor M. A. Nasser Memorial Scholarship, BUET, 2014.
4. 'Dean's List Award' in level two, three, and four of B.Sc. Engg. (CSE) program.
5. 'University Merit Scholarship' in level three, and four of B.Sc. Engg. (CSE) program.
6. Rajshahi Board Merit Scholarships in HSC (2'nd in order of merit) and SSC Examinations.
7. Merit Scholarships in Junior Scholarship Examination.
1. Champion in the Inter-University System Design and Development Competition (Bytecode), Track: Web (php), organized by KonaSoft, 2015.
2. DhakaSim: A Tool for Simulating Traffic Mobility in Dhaka City, In Proceedings of Workshop on Mobile Computing and Human Computer Interaction (MoHCI) [DEMO], Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2014 [Best Demo Award].
3. DhakaSim: A Simulating Tool for Improving Road Safety , Appeared in a nationallevel competition on Innovative Projects on Improving Road Safety using ICTs, organized by Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), 2014 [Second Runner-Up Award].
1. Dr. Kai-Wei Chang
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, UCLA
Email: kwchang.cs@gmail.com