Contact

                                                                                              Computer Science Department

                                                                                               University of British Columbia

                                                                               2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. Canada

                                                               email: rjoty [at] cs [dot] ubc [dot] ca

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UBC. I am a member of the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence and Summarization group, working with Dr. Giuseppe Carenini and Dr. Raymond T. Ng.

• Natural Language Processing

  • Computational Discourse

    • Topic Modeling, Dialog Act Modeling, Rhetorical Structure.

  • Text Summarization

    • Generic and Query-focused summarization.

  • Question Answering

    • Simple and Complex Question Answering.

• Machine Learning

  • Graphical Models

• Intelligent User Interfaces

  • Conversation Visualization

I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), and completed my M.Sc. from University of Lethbridge (UofL) where I worked with Dr. Yllias Chali on Text Summarization and Question Answering systems.

Major Awards:

• NSERC CGS-D

• Microsoft Excellent Intern (Research)

• Four Year Fellowship (UBC)

• Faculty of Science Graduate Student

My Resume (in pdf)

My Research Statement (in pdf)