Homaira Huda Shomee

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.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science,
University of Illinois Chicago (Aug 2023 – Ongoing)
BSc in Computer Science,
Brac University (Jan 2017 – December 2020)

Academic CV
Homaira Huda Shomee

  • ■ June 2026 📄 Our paper "Helping the Helper: LLM-Assisted Problem Articulation for Older Adults Seeking Technology Support" was accepted at ASSETS 2026.
  • ■ May 2026 🏆 Received the CoE Graduate Student Award for Teaching Assistant Excellence from the College of Engineering at UIC.
  • ■ March 2026 🎤 Gave a short research talk at the IDEAL workshop on “Automation in the Workforce” at Loyola University Chicago.
  • ■ September 2025 🎤 Attended the DPI meeting at Cardiff University, UK.
  • ■ September 2025 🎤 Gave an invited talk on "Artificial Intelligence for Patent Understanding and Generation" at Cardiff University, UK.
  • ■ August 2025 📄 Our paper "DesignCLIP: Multimodal Learning with CLIP for Design Patent Understanding" was accepted at EMNLP 2025.
  • ■ July 2025 🎤 Attended ACL 2025 virtually to present our paper “A Survey on Patent Analysis: From NLP to Multimodal AI”.
  • ■ May 2025 💼 Started summer internship at Argonne National Laboratory as a W.J. Cody Associate.
  • ■ May 2025 📄 Our paper “A Survey on Patent Analysis: From NLP to Multimodal AI” was accepted at ACL 2025.
  • ■ February 2025 📄 Our paper “How Older Adults Communicate their Technology Problems: Challenges and Design Opportunities” was accepted at CHI LBW 2025.
  • ■ January 2025 📄 Our paper “Fact-Based Counter Narrative Generation to Combat Hate Speech” was accepted at The Web Conference 2025.
  • ■ January 2025 🎓 Teaching Assistant for CS 418: Introduction to Data Science at UIC.
  • ■ December 2024 🎤 Attended NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, Canada, to present our paper “IMPACT: A Large-scale Integrated Multimodal Patent Analysis and Creation Dataset for Design Patents”.
  • ■ September 2024 📄 Our paper “IMPACT: A Large-scale Integrated Multimodal Patent Analysis and Creation Dataset for Design Patents” was accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
  • ■ August 2023 🎓 Joined University of Illinois Chicago as a PhD student.

Experience

Aug 2023 – Ongoing
Graduate Research Assistant,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois Chicago
May 2025 – Aug 2025
W.J. Cody Associate (Summer Intern)
Argonne National Laboratory
June 2021 – May 2023
Lecturer,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Brac University, Bangladesh
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