I am Homaira, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. I am conducting my research under the guidance of Dr. Sourav Medya. My research interests include Data Science, Multimodal Artificial Intelligence, LLM Evaluation, and Machine Learning on Graphs.
- February 2025: Our paper “How Older Adults Communicate their Technology Problems: Challenges and Design Opportunities" has been accepted at CHI LBW 2025.
- January 2025: Our paper "Fact-Based Counter Narrative Generation to Combat Hate Speech" has been accepted at The Web Conference 2025.
- January 2025: Will be TAing "CS 418: Introduction to Data Science".
- December 2024: Attended NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, Canada, to present "IMPACT: A Large-scale Integrated Multimodal Patent Analysis and Creation Dataset for Design Patents".
- September 2024: My paper "IMPACT: A Large-scale Integrated Multimodal Patent Analysis and Creation Dataset for Design Patents" has been accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
- August 2023: Joined University of Illinois Chicago as a PhD student.
