Hello, this is Omar,
I am a PhD student in the Computer Science department at Dartmouth. I am passionate about leveraging AI and NLP to advance Social Science and Computational Health. Currently, I am working on information extraction from health texts to derive structured knowledge from unstructured narratives, aiming to improve discourse understanding. I am also enthusiastic about Multimodal NLP—particularly in designing models that can effectively fuse information across various modalities to enhance reasoning capabilities and enable seamless Human-AI interaction. In Spring 2025, I interned at Amazon with Patrick's team to improve the visual reasoning abilities of MLLMs using Reinforcement Learning. Please check details about my research here.
Contact: 📧 omar.sharif.gr@dartmouth.edu
My latest: [Resume]
Updates
9 June,25 Thrilled to receive Outstanding TA Award for my teaching contribution at Dartmouth CS. 15 May,25 Two papers accepted at ACL-2025 (1 Main, 1 Findings). 29 Apr,25 One paper accepted at JMIR (Impact Factor: 6.0). 10 Mar,25 Started my research internship at Amazon with Patrick's team. 12-16 Nov,24 Attended EMNLP-2024 and presented our paper (DiscourseEE). 27 Oct,24 Received Gurarini Travel Award to present my research. 20 Sep,24 One paper accepted at EMNLP-2024. 30 July,24 Our group is in OpenAI Researcher Access Program. We received a $5k API credit and will continue to assess OpenAI models on human-centric NLP tasks. 16 May,24 One paper accepted at ACL-2024. 13 Apr,24 Received AAAI Travel Grant as a support to attend and present my paper at ICWSM-2024. 06 Feb,24 Received Volunteer Award as a support to attend and present my papers at EACL-2024. 22 Jan,24 One paper accepted at EACL-SRW-2024. 09 Dec,23 One paper accepted at AAAI-2024. 6-10 Dec,23 Virtually attended EMNLP-2023 and presented our papers (Paper-1, Paper-2). 27 Oct,23 Received Volunteer Award as a support to attend and present my papers at EMNLP-2023. 23 Oct,23 One paper accepted in GEM-Workshop at EMNLP-2023. 06 Oct,23 Feeling awesome!! One paper accepted at EMNLP-2023 Findings. 19 Sep,23 Presented a poster at Digital Mental Health & AI Symposium organized by CTBH. 15 July,23 One paper accepted at ICWSM-2024. 20-23 Nov,22 Presented our paper virtually at AACL-SRW 2022. 12 Sep,22 Awarded Presidential Graduate Fellowship from Dartmouth. 12 Sep,22 Joined Dartmouth to pursue my PhD in CS. 27 Jun,22 Promoted to Assitant Professor in Dept. of CSE, CUET. Feeling super happy!!! 20-25 Jun,22 Virtually attended LREC-2022 and presented our paper MemoSen 17 Jun,22 Our journal on Multimodal Learning accepted at JKSU Journal.[IF: 13.437] Feeling awesome!!! 22-27 May,22 Received D&I Award as a support to attend and present our papers at ACL-2022. 6 Apr,22 One paper accepted at CONSTRAINT@ACL-2022. 4 Apr,22 One paper accepted at LREC-2022 main conference. 26 Mar,22 4 shared task papers accepted at ACL-2022 workshops. 02 Jan,22 Feeling awesome!!! Successfully defended my Master's thesis.[Slides] 20 Dec,21 Bengali Aggressive Text Dataset (BAD) is released. Hope this dataset will pave the way for undesired/toxic language detection research in Bengali. 5 Dec,21 Feeling super happy!!! Paper accepted at Neurocomputing Journal.[IF: 5.719, HI: 143] 7-11 Nov,21 Received D&I Award and virtually attended EMNLP-2021. 5 Nov,21 Two papers (Sentiment, Emotion) accepted in SN Computer Science journal. 1-6 Aug,21 Virtually attended ACL-2021. 26 June,21 Successfully organized International Workshop on Computational Analysis of Undesired Texts on Social Media. 7 June,21 Presented our paper virtually at NAACL-SRW 2021. 7 Apr,21 Received D&I Award as a support to attend and present my work at EACL-2021. 27 Mar,21 One paper accepted at NAACL-SRW 2021.[Acceptance rate: 44%] 15 Feb,21 Three papers (Hope, Offensive, Multimodal) accepted at EACL-2021 workshops. 8 Feb,21 Achieved Best paper award (research track) at CONSTRAINT collocated with AAAI-2021.[Acceptance rate: 37.1%] 16 Jan,21 Our team NLP@CUET secured 1st, 3rd and 3rd position at Hope speech, Offensive language and Multimodal meme detection shared tasks. 19 Dec,20 Presented a paper at ICON-2020. 12 Sep,20 Paper accepted at Jouranl of Applied Sciences.[IF: 2.67]
Academic Service
Program Committee Member/Reviewer for,
- Conferences: ACL-[23, 24, 25], EMNLP-[23, 24, 25], NAACL-24, ACL Rolling Review, ICWSM-24, LREC-[22, 24], COLING-25
- Journals: TALLIP, IEEE Access, Scientific Reports, TCSS, LREV
NLP Resources
List of few books, courses and blog posts that I find really helpfull.
- Advices
- Collection of Advices [link]
- Advice for Researchers and Students [link]
- Career advice by [Andrew Ng]
- Advice for Research Students [Jason Eisner]
- Books
- Courses
- CMU Advanced NLP course [Advanced NLP]
- Deep Learning Specialization (all courses) [link]
- NTU NLP course [Deep NLP]
- TensorFlow Specialization [DeepLearning.AI]
- Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning [CS224n]
- Follow
- ACL Year-Round Mentorship [Link]
- Awesome illustrations of [Jay Alammar].
- Colah’s Blog [Link].
- Machine Learning Mystery [Jason Brownlee]