Meet Samin Morshed, a former Graduate Research student at COSMOS.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
My name is Md. Samin Morshed, and I from Bangladesh. I’ve joined UA Little Rock to pursue a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences, and started by taking courses in Social Computing, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning. I am currently working as a research assistant in both the Toxicity analysis and Bias analysis teams. I extensively research previous works, research code and improve them, as well as try to come up with research questions in these sectors.
What was your inspiration for joining COSMOS?
I wanted to get into Natural Language Processing, and the work in COSMOS focuses on online social behavior, through people’s comments and posts available in the public domain. The tremendous amount of work done by Dr. Agarwal and previous Cosmographers is a gold mine of research, where I hope to come up with something new where I can apply state-of-the-art NLP techniques here.
Are you working on any papers or publications? Can you give us a little insight into what it is about? If none, are there any topics you are looking to write on?
Currently I am working in two teams in COSMOS, and one of them is toxicity analysis in online behavior; I want to write on how this online toxic behavior affects community dynamics.
What makes you feel the most appreciated and understood?
I would say if someone not only looks into just the results of my work, but also the struggle behind it, that would make me feel the most understood.
What is something you like to do outside of school/work?
I love to read books, and play video games, though I don’t get that much time to play video games these days.
What would you tell your younger self?
I would tell him to not give up, and to not be lazy as well!
What is a big world problem that you would like to change?
Climate change is the biggest world problem we are facing now. It won’t matter when the climate changes for the worst even if we set aside all our differences. That is something I would urge everyone to work on and improve, to make our planet a healthy one.