Research output

Publications

My name in bold. A superscript m marks mentees I co-authored with. The colored pill on each paper gives its area, matching the tags on my CV.

40+
Publications
700+
Citations
14
h-index
19
i10-index
Google Scholar Full CV (PDF)
Journal articles
J3
Multi-SALLM: A Multilingual Security Assessment of Generated Code
Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Noshin Ulfat, Nishat Raihan, Joanna C. S. Santos, Marcos Zampieri
Automated Software Engineering, Springer (2026)
AI Safety
Paper
J2
On the Performance of Large Language Models on Introductory Programming Assignments
Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Christian Newman, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Joanna C. S. Santos, Marcos Zampieri
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer (2025)
Code LLMs
PaperCode
J1
An Android-Based Useful Text Extraction Framework Using Image and Natural Language Processing
Rafsanjany Kushol, Imamul Ahsan, Md. Nishat Raihan
International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE), vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 77–83 (2018)
Vision
Conference papers
C13
On the Robustness of Code LLM Guardrails to Code-mixed and Transliterated Inputs
Nishat Raihan et al.
Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), to appear
AI Safety
C12
TigerCoder: A Novel Suite of LLMs for Code Generation in Bangla
Nishat Raihan, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)
Code LLMs
PaperModel
C11
CodeGuard: Improving LLM Guardrails in CS Education
Nishat Raihan, Noah Erdachewm, Jayoti Devim, Joanna C. S. Santos, Marcos Zampieri
Findings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2026)
AI Safety
PaperarXiv
C10
TigerLLM: A Family of Bangla Large Language Models
Nishat Raihan, Marcos Zampieri
63rd Annual Meeting of the ACL (ACL 2025), Short Papers
NLP
PDFCodeModel
C9
mHumanEval: A Multilingual Benchmark to Evaluate Large Language Models for Code Generation
Nishat Raihan, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri
NAACL 2025, Main, Long Papers
Code LLMs
PDFCodeDatasetBlog
C8
MojoBench: Language Modeling and Benchmarks for Mojo
Nishat Raihan, Joanna C. S. Santos, Marcos Zampieri
Findings of NAACL 2025
Code LLMs
PDFCodeModel
C7
Large Language Models in Computer Science Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Nishat Raihan, Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Joanna C. S. Santos, Marcos Zampieri
56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE-TS 2025)
CS Education
PaperPDFCode
C6
Code LLMs: A Taxonomy-based Survey
Nishat Raihan, Christian Newman, Marcos Zampieri
2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2024)
Code LLMs
PaperPDF
C5
CSEPrompts: A Benchmark of Introductory Computer Science Prompts
Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Christian Newman, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri
27th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2024)
CS Education
PaperPDFCode
C4
MentalHelp: A Multi-Task Dataset for Mental Health in Social Media
Md Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspom, Shafkat Farabi, Ana-Maria Bucur, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri
LREC-COLING 2024
NLP
PaperPDFDataset
C3
An Experimental Analysis on the Sensitivity of the Most Widely Used Edge Detection Methods to Different Noise Types
M. Raihan, N. Ulfat, N. Saqib
International Conference on Computing Advancements (ICCA 2022)
Vision
C2
A Novel Approach to Classify Electrocardiogram Signals Using Deep Neural Networks
T. Ahmed, A. Rahman, T. M. Chowdhury, R. Kushol, M. N. Raihan
2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS 2020), IEEE
Time Series
C1
A Complete Bangla Optical Character Recognition System: An Effective Approach
T. Ahmed, M. N. Raihan, R. Kushol, M. S. Salekin
22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2019), IEEE
Vision
Workshop & shared-task papers
W18
Temporal Text Classification with Large Language Models
Nishat Raihan, Marcos Zampieri
6th International Conference on NLP for the Digital Humanities (NLP4DH 2026)
NLP
W17
Large Language Models for Mental Health: A Multilingual Evaluation
Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Ana-Maria Bucur, Stevie Chancellor, Marcos Zampieri
2nd Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM @ EACL 2026)
NLP
PDF
W16
Overview of BLP-2025 Task 2: Code Generation in Bangla
Nishat Raihan, Mohammad Anas Jawad, Md Mezbaur Rahman, Noshin Ulfat, Pranav Gupta, Mehrab Mustafy Rahman, Shubhra Kanti Karmakar, Marcos Zampieri
2nd Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025)
Code LLMs
PDF
W15
Py-holmes: Causal Testing for Deep Neural Networks in Python
Wren McQueary, Sadia Afrin Mim, Md. Nishat Raihan, Justin Smith, Brittany Johnson
Companion Proceedings of FSE 2024
ML Testing
PDF
W14
The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline
Matthew Shardlow et al. (incl. M. N. Raihan)
19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024)
NLP
PDF
W13
An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset Using the MultiLS Framework
Matthew Shardlow et al. (incl. M. N. Raihan)
3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with Reading Difficulties (READI @ LREC-COLING 2024)
NLP
PDF
W12
EmoMix-3L: A Code-Mixed Dataset for Bangla-English-Hindi Emotion Detection
Nishat Raihan et al.
WILDRE Workshop, LREC-COLING 2024
NLP
PDF
W11
MasonTigers at SemEval-2024 Task 9: Solving Puzzles with an Ensemble of Chain-of-Thoughts
Md Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Al Nahian Bin Emran, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Amrita Ganguly, Marcos Zampieri
18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval @ NAACL 2024)
NLP
PDF
W10
MasonTigers at SemEval-2024 Task 1: An Ensemble Approach for Semantic Textual Relatedness
D. Goswami, S. S. C. Puspo, M. N. Raihan, A. N. B. Emran, A. Ganguly, M. Zampieri
18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval @ NAACL 2024)
NLP
PDF
W9
MasonTigers at SemEval-2024 Task 8: Performance Analysis of Transformer-based Models on Machine-Generated Text Detection
S. S. C. Puspo, M. N. Raihan, D. Goswami, A. N. B. Emran, A. Ganguly, O. Uzuner
18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval @ NAACL 2024)
AI Safety
PDF
W8
MasonPerplexity at ClimateActivism 2024: Advanced Ensemble Techniques and Data Augmentation for Stance and Hate Event Identification
A. Ganguly, S. S. C. Puspo, D. Goswami, M. N. Raihan
LT-EDI Workshop, EACL 2024
NLP
PDF
W7
MasonPerplexity at Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detection 2024: Hate Speech and Target Detection Using Transformer Ensembles
A. Ganguly, A. N. B. Emran, S. S. C. Puspo, M. N. Raihan, D. Goswami, M. Zampieri
7th CASE Workshop (CASE @ EACL 2024)
NLP
PDF
W6
MasonTigers at LT-EDI-2024: An Ensemble Approach towards Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Social Media Comments
D. Goswami, S. S. C. Puspo, M. N. Raihan, A. N. B. Emran
4th LT-EDI Workshop (LT-EDI @ EACL 2024)
NLP
PDF
W5
Offensive Language Identification in Transliterated and Code-Mixed BanglaBest Paper
Md Nishat Raihan, Umma Hani Tanmoy, Anika Binte Islam, Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri
1st Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP @ EMNLP 2023), Singapore
NLP
PDFDataset
W4
nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Two-Step Classification for Violence Inciting Text Detection in Bangla
Md Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Marcos Zampieri
1st Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP @ EMNLP 2023), Singapore
NLP
PDF
W3
nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 2: A Transfer Learning Approach to Bangla Sentiment Analysis
Dhiman Goswami, Md Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Marcos Zampieri
1st Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP @ EMNLP 2023), Singapore
NLP
PDF
W2
OffMix-3L: A Novel Code-Mixed Dataset in Bangla-English-Hindi for Offensive Language Identification
Dhiman Goswami, Md Nishat Raihan, Antara Mahmud, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri
1st Workshop in South East Asian Language Processing (SEALP @ AACL 2023), Bali
NLP
PDFDataset
W1
SentMix-3L: A Bangla-English-Hindi Code-Mixed Dataset for Sentiment Analysis
Md Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Antara Mahmud, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri
11th International Workshop on NLP for Social Media (AACL 2023), Bali
NLP
PDFDataset
Preprints & technical reports
P5
A Taxonomy of Programming Languages for Code Generation
Nishat Raihan, Christian Newman, Marcos Zampieri
arXiv:2604.00239 (2026)
Code LLMs
P4
Mixed-Distil-BERT: Code-mixed Language Modeling for Bangla, English, and Hindi
Md Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Antara Mahmud
arXiv:2309.10272 (2023)
NLP
PDFModel
P3
Determining the Optimal Number of Clusters for Time Series Datasets with Symbolic Pattern Forest
Md Nishat Raihan
arXiv:2310.00820 (2023)
Time Series
PDF
P2
Contrast Enhancement of Medical X-Ray Image Using Morphological Operators with Optimal Structuring Element
R. Kushol, M. Raihan, M. S. Salekin, A. B. M. Rahman
arXiv:1905.08545 (2019)
Vision
PDF
P1
An Effective Navigation System Combining Object Detection and Obstacle Detection Based on Depth Information for the Visually Impaired
Md Raihan, Hossain Mohammad Seym
B.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (2018)
Vision