Ph.D. in Computer Science · University of Central Florida
Genome Language Models · Bioinformatics · NLP · LLMs
I'm a Ph.D. student in the Computational Biology & Machine Learning Lab at UCF, where I apply language modeling techniques to biological sequences — particularly genome language models for understanding RNA regulatory elements.
- 🎓 Passed my PhD Qualifying Review (March 2026)
- 🔬 Currently working on genome LMs for polyadenylation site prediction and diffusion language models in proteomics, with applications in drug discovery and cancer research
- 📄 First author of PolyA-GLM (CSBJ, 2025) — a framework for de novo polyA site discovery
- 🧪 Maintain tools for alternative splicing and polyadenylation analysis (survey published in Experimental & Molecular Medicine, IF 12.8)
- 🌏 Previously: ML Engineer at Reve Systems building Bangla NLP systems, and Lecturer at UAP, Bangladesh
- 🤝 Co-organized the first Violence-Inciting Text Detection shared task at BLP @ EMNLP 2023 (27 teams)
- 📫 Reach me at saha.sourav@ucf.edu
🧬 Bioinformatics & Genome Language Models
- PolyA-GLM: A Comprehensive Framework for De Novo Polyadenylation Site Prediction Using Genome Language Models Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (Elsevier, Q1, IF 5.2), 2025 · First author
- Computational Methods for Alternative Polyadenylation and Splicing in Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation Experimental & Molecular Medicine (Nature Publishing Group, Q1, IF 12.8), 2025 · Second author
📝 NLP, LLMs & Responsible AI
- BnPC: A Gold Standard Corpus for Paraphrase Detection in Bangla — BUCC @ LREC-COLING 2024 · First author
- Vio-Lens: Annotated Social Network Posts Leading to Communal Violence — BLP @ EMNLP 2023 · First author · 31 citations
- BLP Shared Task 1: Violence-Inciting Text Detection — BLP @ EMNLP 2023 · First author · 19 citations
- Data, Annotation, and Meaning-Making: Faith-Based Communal Violence — ACM FAccT 2024 · Co-author · 16 citations
- garNER at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Knowledge Augmentation for Multilingual NER — SemEval @ ACL 2023 · Equal contribution
📖 Full list on Google Scholar →
- 🔍 Reviewer — ISMB 2025, 2026
- 🧑⚖️ Program Committee & Reviewer — 2nd Workshop on Bangla Language Processing, IJCNLP-AACL 2025
- 🎯 Shared Task Organizer — Violence-Inciting Text Detection, BLP @ EMNLP 2023
- 👨🏫 Programming Team Coach — University of Asia Pacific (2024)
- 🏆 Top 10 in 10 tracks — SemEval 2023 Task 2 (Team garNER)
"Can the same architectures that decode human language also decode the language of life?"