Shadab
Choudhury

I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where I am advised by Dr. Lara Martin . My research interests are Human-AI Collaboration and Accessibility, with a focus on supporting people with communication disabilities and ensuring that Explainable AI systems account for disabled users as well.

See About for more details on my research interests and background.

I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where I am advised by Dr. Lara Martin . My research interests are Human-AI Collaboration and Accessibility, with a focus on supporting people with communication disabilities and ensuring that Explainable AI systems account for disabled users as well.

See About for more details on my research interests and background.

News

05/'26

I'll be returning to UMBC and the LARA Lab to start my Ph.D. this Fall!

02/'26

One short Paper on the perceptual gap in XAI accepted to CHI 2026 (Posters).

01/'26

Joined Nymph Solutions as a Senior Software Engineer, where I'll be working on AI and Agentic Systems.

10/'25

One Paper accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2025 (Findings). See you in Mumbai!

05/'25

Finished my MS in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County!

04/'25

I successfully defended my Master's thesis on Connecting Language and Emotion in LLMs for Human-AI Collaboration .

02/'25

The preprint of my paper on Human-LLM Representation Alignment for AAC applications is out.

01/'25

My paper on Gold Nanoparticle imaging and analysis published in ACS Omega (IF: 3.7)!

01/'25

Three papers from my previous lab published in PLoS ONE (IF: 3.1), IJEST (IF: 3.0) and TRENG (IF: 5.4). I had relatively small contributions to each of them.

09/'24

Won the Best First Time Hackers Category at HackUMBC 2024 with Naren . We built Valkyrie, a system that parses video game controls with a VLM, then uses a LLM to convert speech to commands.

03/'24

My paper on Gold Nanoparticle counting was published in RSC Analyst (IF: 4.2)!

01/'24

Joined the LARA Lab , working on affective and personalized text generation with Dr. Lara Martin !

08/'23

Started MS in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County!

10/'21

One paper on Audio Processing presented at MICAI 2021. Shout-out to my co-author Ishrat for leading!

08/'21

Joined the Nanotechnology, IoT and Applied ML Group at Brac University working with Dr. Abu Mohsin .

05/'21

One paper on Fuzzy Logic published (first pub!) in Inderscience IJIIDS (IF: 1.4).