Shadab Choudhury

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where I am advised by Dr. Lara Martin .

My research interests span interdisciplinary work broadly under the umbrella of Human-AI Collaboration for Accessibility, with a particular focus on supporting people with communication disabilities and ensuring Explainable AI accounts for disabled users.

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

I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where I am advised by Dr. Lara Martin.

My research interests span interdisciplinary work broadly centered around Accessibility and Human-AI Collaboration. Particularly, I'm focused on supporting people with communication disabilities, and on ensuring that Explainable AI accounts for disabled users of AI-powered assistive technologies.

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

News

02/'26

One short Paper on the Perceptual gap in XAI conditionally 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).