sadat shahriar

Ph.D

Computer Science

University of Houston

Graduate Research Assistant

– Led an impactful research initiative of developing a system that could leverage quantification of persuasion psychology and intelligent knowledge transfer, to improve web-based deception detection in various mediums, like, news, tweets, reviews, emails, and YouTube comments, using Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing. – Performed data collection and processing, designed experiments and model training, and built Deep Learning systems based on cutting-edge technology, including Transformers, BERT, SBERT, CNN, and LSTM – Achieved a significant performance improvement of up to 18% over cutting-edge methods, which led to six papers across renowned conferences including RANLP, SOCINFO, WBC (Best Paper), and SemEval (ACL ‘23).