Sabrina Akter

PhD Candidate @ GMU | Graduating Summer 2026 (Expected) | Seeking full-time roles in Applied AI for specialized domains

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

💡Can LLMs speed up expert coding without skewing their judgment?
We explore the trade-offs of AI-assisted topic modeling in education research, where speed, cost, and bias all matter.
🧾Presenting our work at #ACL2025 in Vienna!
🗓️BEA Workshop Poster Session B
📍Friday, Aug 1st

[Antonis Anastasopoulos @anas_ant]

Join us tomorrow at @iwslt for an exciting day (1 of 2) around spoken language translation:

https://t.co/bzsCohnhht

- keynote by @mohitban47 multimodal understanding and generation
- The findings of 7 Shared Tasks
- 7 oral presentations
- a poster session
#ACL2026nlp

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

@ArminPCM @SnorkelAI Very interested. I’m a final-year CS PhD working on LLM evaluation, benchmarking, and human-in-the-loop AI systems, graduating soon. Publications at EMNLP & NAACL.
Website + CV: https://t.co/pnZqfgCBCG

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

It was a pleasure to work with Seth Hunter, David Woo and @anas_ant on this publication!

📄 https://t.co/LzKkyC43Wd

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

💡Can LLMs speed up expert coding without skewing their judgment?
We explore the trade-offs of AI-assisted topic modeling in education research, where speed, cost, and bias all matter.
🧾Presenting our work at #ACL2025 in Vienna!
🗓️BEA Workshop Poster Session B
📍Friday, Aug 1st

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

Findings:
⚡ LLMs significantly reduce annotation time
💵 AITM lowers cost—even accounting for compute
⚠️ BUT: AI suggestions strongly anchor humans
🧠 Awareness prompts alone don't fully prevent it

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

On my way to MIAMI, to attend EMNLP!
We will be presenting our paper on the poster session D.
If you are attending and want to catch up, DM me.
Also, feel free to drop by and talk NLP.

[Alex Choi @alex_choi_cs]

🧑🤖The LLM Effect: Are Humans Truly Using LLMs, or Are They Being Influenced By Them Instead❓

This is obviously a massive question that is both important and timely.

Accepted to #EMNLP2024 Main, our paper examines the integration of LLMs into specialized expert workflows, and explores both the potential benefits and worrisome pitfalls of this emerging partnership.

📜Preprint available: https://t.co/bq7qYCIUZ6

w/ @SyedaSabrina11, @Prof_JPSingh, and @anas_ant

1/6

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

We will be presenting our paper in Miami at #EMNLP2024. Looking forward to the conference! 🎊🎊🎉🎉

[Alex Choi @alex_choi_cs]

🧑🤖The LLM Effect: Are Humans Truly Using LLMs, or Are They Being Influenced By Them Instead❓

This is obviously a massive question that is both important and timely.

Accepted to #EMNLP2024 Main, our paper examines the integration of LLMs into specialized expert workflows, and explores both the potential benefits and worrisome pitfalls of this emerging partnership.

📜Preprint available: https://t.co/bq7qYCIUZ6

w/ @SyedaSabrina11, @Prof_JPSingh, and @anas_ant

1/6

[Chahat Raj @chahatsaidit]

We have seen the usual man:doctor🧑‍⚕️ and woman:nurse👩‍⚕️ stereotypes.
But guess what? VLMs are also throwing out wild associations like blonde:dumb🤦‍♀️, old person:dinosaur🦕, or college student:broke. 🧑‍🎓💸

BiasDora, our #EMNLP2024 Findings Paper: https://t.co/3qYn6YWNHP, explores them all! 🧵

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

@Naimul_H0que @uiowa Congratulations vai

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

@visegrad24 Thanks for bringing attention to this. But, there are lot of other people from other religions who are also dying. Do you not care about them? Do you think it’s okay for HUMANS to die as long as they are not Hindus?

[Sultan Mohammed Zakaria @smzakaria]

#Bangladesh August Revolution: What many Indians got wrong!

During the August mass uprising in Bangladesh that ousted the country's dictator #SheikhHasina, I participated in nearly a dozen interviews with both Indian and non-Indian channels over the last few days. What’s fascinating is the lack of understanding shown by my Indian colleagues regarding the situation in Bangladesh. Here, I will summarize how my Indian friends have been framing the developments in Dhaka and whether their perspectives hold any merit.

Here are the four main misconceptions that every interview I faced presented:

1) It was a military coup.
2) Jamaat and Islamists will now take over the country.
3) Sheikh Hasina was a democratic leader.
4) India will now face threats due to right-wing radical forces taking hold.

Here is how I typically responded:

Was it a military coup?

1) No, it was NOT a military coup. The military played three different, sometimes contradictory, roles:

- In the First Phase, during the third week of July when the curfew was enforced after the initial massacre and the military was deployed, some rogue elements within the military indiscriminately shot at protesters using automatic weapons, killing and wounding many. Worse, some used UN-marked vehicles to perpetrate these crimes. Additionally, some military officers seconded to other law enforcement agencies (RAB, DGFI, etc.) proactively supported Sheikh Hasina's killing machine.

- In the Second Phase, the public erupted in anger over the military’s involvement in the killing spree, leading to a global campaign to isolate the military and engage the UN regarding the misuse of UN-marked vehicles. The military leadership, fearing the loss of public trust and lucrative UN jobs, became extremely nervous. Army Chief Waqar-uz-Zaman played a crucial role by convening senior leadership and almost unanimously advising disengagement and not to shoot at protesters. With the military not engaged, the public became more confident about the protest’s outcome.

- The Third and most consequential phase was the military's role in providing a safe exit for #SheikhHasina. After unleashing all her firepower on the protesters and killing nearly a thousand of them, Hasina was unable to subdue the movement. Instead, millions more joined, giving it a true mass character. When the student leadership called for a march towards Dhaka to seize Sheikh Hasina's residence, estimates suggested nearly 5-7 million people from across the country were marching towards the capital. By then, the military had disengaged, and the police were exhausted. Sheikh Hasina should have realized that her time was over. Yet, according to news reports, she continued to insist that law enforcement officials shed more blood to protect her regime. The military leadership wisely refused to carry out these orders and instead airlifted her to a safe zone, preventing further carnage.

Will Jamaat and Islamists now take over the country?

2) The movement is by far the most inclusive of its kind. Not only the BNP and Jamaat but every major political force in the country, except the regime and its remnants, joined the movement. Garment workers, students from Islamic schools, private posh schools, parents, rickshaw pullers, and other low-income groups—all came together. It was heartening to see people from all walks of life, of all colors, en masse take to the streets to say, "enough is enough." It was a MASS uprising in every sense. A significant and fascinating aspect was the large presence of female students. The participation of elites was truly surprising. It was astonishing to see how Ms. Hasina had lost the confidence of all segments of society!

Was Sheikh Hasina a democratic leader?

3) When Sheikh Hasina was ousted, she was NOT a democratically elected leader. Though she came to power via credible elections in 2009, she stole the next three general elections using brute force, thus usurping power illegally. She held sham elections to claim legitimacy from the people, which never materialized.

Will India now face threats due to right-wing radical forces taking hold?

4) The concerns about potential threats from the rise of right-wing politics are outsized and grossly inflated. These concerns are mutual, not one-way. Bangladeshis are equally concerned about the rise of right-wing politics in India, which has ruled the country for a decade now. Their policies, such as the new citizenship law, are troubling. Any concerns emanating from radicalism and radical ideologies must be addressed through democratic means rather than suppressing these ideas. We have to give democracy a chance, just as Indians are dealing with the threats from their own right-wing politics.

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[Ridoan Mahbub @ridoanmahbub]

What a moment for Bangladesh! 🇧🇩
"Beginning of new era"

[Nirab @Nirab23]

New Bangladesh

[Nazmul Ahasan @the_nazmul]

A day after euphoria-driven mayhem, Bangladeshi youth cleaned up around the national parliament, other major buildings and even helped manage traffic in the absence of police. Reflects the enormous confidence and hope in what they’ve just achieved.

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

@thefrontpagebd Please use #Bangladesh as well. It is already trending and unfortunately if we search it all of the fake tweets come up. We need to highlight these tweets.

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

@JusticeBengal Please use #Bangladesh as well. It is already trending and unfortunately if we search it all of the fake tweets come up. We need to highlight these tweets.

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

@buetian62 Please everyone, use #Bangladesh as well. It is already trending and unfortunately if we search it all of the fake tweets come up. We need to highlight these tweets.

[Sabrina Akter @SyedaSabrina11]

@buetian62 Please everyone, use #Bangladesh as well. It is already trending and unfortunately if we search it all of the fake tweets come up. We need to highlight these tweets.