I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Intelligent Visualization Lab at York University supervised by Prof. Enamul Hoque and funded by the prestigious NSERC CGS-D Doctoral Award. I received an MSc in CS from York University in 2022 and a BSc in Computer Engineering from Koc University in 2020, funded by AGFE STEM scholarship.
I work on advancing vision-language models (VLMs) for understanding visually rich content that integrates visual, spatial, and textual information, such as PDFs, charts, tables, and forms. My work is motivated by the friction of everyday “paperwork” and the need to unlock, extract, and reason over information buried in documents. I aim to automate tasks such as data entry, information extraction, financial analysis, and legal review, reducing time, cost, and human error. More recently, I have begun exploring broader modalities with VLMs, including video understanding and interactive visual data analysis.
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NeurIPS '25 COLM '25 ICLR '25 ACL '25 '24 '22 EMNLP '25 (Industry) '24 '23 COLING '25 (Industry) EuroVis '22
Work Experience
| | Sept 2025 - Dec 2025 |
| Visiting Researcher, Host: Aaron Courville | Montreal, Quebec |
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| | Sept 2024 - July 2025 |
| Visiting Researcher, Host: Sai Rajeswar | Montreal, Quebec |
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| | May 2022 - Sept 2024 |
| Senior Data Scientist (Promoted in Jan 2024) | Toronto, Ontario |
Education
| | Sept 2024 - Present |
| Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | GPA: A+ |
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| | Sept 2020 - June 2022 |
| MSc in Computer Science | GPA: A+ |
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| | Sept 2017 - June 2020 |
| BSc in Computer Engineering | GPA: 3.9/4.0 |
Recent News
| Paper accepted at ICLR 2025 | January 2025 |
| Attended NLP Winter School at MBZUAI (Abu Dhabi, UAE) | January 2025 |
| Attended Multimodal Winter School at SDAIA (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) | December 2024 |
| Paper accepted at COLING 2025 | November 2024 |
| Started as a Visiting Researcher at ServiceNow Research | September 2024 |
| Received Google's PaliGemma Academic Program Award | September 2024 |
| Started my PhD at York University | September 2024 |
| Paper accepted at ACL 2024 | May 2024 |
| Paper accepted at AIFinSI@AAAI 2024 | January 2024 |
| Promoted to Senior Data Scientist at Arteria AI | January 2024 |
| Paper accepted at EMNLP 2023 | October 2023 |
| Presented ChartQA Poster at TMLS 2023 | June 2023 |
| Defended my M.Sc. Thesis at York University | June 2022 |
| Presented ChartQA Poster at CVR/VISTA 2022 | June 2022 |
| Paper accepted at EuroVis 2022 | May 2022 |
| Started working at ArteriaAI as an NLP Data Scientist | May 2022 |
| Paper accepted at ACL 2022 | March 2022 |
| Won Best Paper Award at ChartQA@CVPR 2021 | June 2021 |
| Paper accepted at ChartQA@CVPR 2021 | June 2021 |
| Joined as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at York University | January 2021 |
| Joined as a Graduate Research Assistant at York University | September 2020 |
| Started Fully Funded M.Sc. in Computer Science at York University | September 2020 |
| Started as a Data Scientist Intern at Shallow AI | July 2020 |
