Azher Ahmed Efat

Azher Ahmed Efat

Position
  • PhD Student
Azher Ahmed Efat is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, working under the supervision of Dr. Wallapak Tavanapong. His research focuses on large multimodal language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP), and software engineering. He is particularly interested in how LLMs can be applied to complex reasoning tasks involving scientific figures and software development artifacts. Azher aims to design efficient, scalable AI systems that bridge visual and textual understanding for real-world applications.

Area of Expertise

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Software Engineering

Education

  • B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Brac University, 2021

Publications

  1. Efat, A.A., Atiq, A., Abeed, A.S., Momin, A. and Alam, M.G.R., 2023. EMPOLITICON: NLP an ML based approach for context and emotion classification of political speeches from transcripts. IEEE Access, 11, pp.54808-54821.
  2. Abeed, A.S., Atiq, A., Anjum, A.A., Efat, A.A. and Karim, D.Z., 2022, December. Bomacnet: A convolutional neural network model to detect bone marrow cell cytology. In 2022 25th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) (pp. 686-691). IEEE.