Publications

Conferences

• Amanul Haque, Fardin Saad, Nirav Ajmeri, and Munindar P. Singh (2027). Moderate Selectivity is a Good Thing. In Proceedings of the 21st International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Edinburgh, Scotland, 2027. Preprint coming soon.

• Fardin Saad, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, and Munindar P. Singh (2025). Gricean Norms as a Basis for Effective Collaboration. In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS). Detroit, May 2025.

• Nowshin Tabassum*, Tasfia Tabassum*, Fardin Saad*, Tahiya S. Safa*, Hasan Mahmud, Md. Kamrul Hasan. (2023). Exploring the English Accent-independent Features for Speech Emotion Recognition using Filter and Wrapper-based Methods for Feature Selection. In INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland.

• Md Mezbaur Rahman, Saadman Malik, Md Saidul Islam, Fardin Saad, Md Azam Hossain, Abu Raihan Kamal. (2022). An Efficient Approach to Automatic Tag Prediction from Movie Plot Synopses using Transformer-based Language Model. In 25th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) 2022 Dec 17 (pp. 501-505). IEEE.

Journals

• Fardin Saad, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Munindar P. Singh (2026). Theory of Mind in Action: The Instruction Inference Task in Dynamic Human-Agent Collaboration. Artificial Intelligence, vol. 361, 2026, p. 104621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2026.104621.

• Fardin Saad, Hasan Mahmud, Md. Ridwan Kabir, Md. Alamin Shaheen, Paresha Farastu, Md. Kamrul Hasan. (2021). A Case Study on the Independence of Speech Emotion Recognition in Bangla and English Languages using Language-Independent Prosodic Features. arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10776. 

Workshop

• Divya Sundaresan*, Fardin Saad*, Sanjana Cheerla*, Munindar P. Singh (2025). Navigating Risk: Do LLMs Make the Right Call?  Accepted in COINE AAMAS 2025.

Awards

• AAMAS Student Scholarship Award ($1200) - Recognized for research excellence at the AAMAS conference.

• Graduate Merit Award ($3000) - College of Engineering, North Carolina State University (2024, 2026): Offered to selected graduate students with outstanding academic excellence.