About

Hi, my name is Mehedi and I am a second year doctoral student at Rutgers University - New Brunswick! I am pursuing my PhD in Information Science at the School of Communication & Information (SC&I). My research interests lie in the intersection of Computational Social Science and Computational Linguistics. I am currently being advised by Dr. Kiran Garimella. In the past, I have collaborated as a Research Intern at the AI Institute of University of South Carolina (AIISC), and I will soon start a summer research internship at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)!

Latest News:

Our project about using Moral Reframing through AI to persuade extreme partisan views to moderate views has received the Catalyst Fund (USD 8,000) from the Rutgers Democracy Lab (RDL) as part of RDL’s summer fellowship program 2026!
I’ll be doing a summer internship at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany under the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program 2026! (Program link)
Our poster on Privacy Concerns and ChatGPT won the Best Poster Award at iConference 2026! (link)
Our poster on Privacy Concerns and ChatGPT has been accepted to iConference 2026! (poster)
Our paper on Polarization on US Cable Debate Shows has been accepted to ICWSM 2026! (paper)
Received my first funding (internal school funding of $1000) for a research practicum project!
Our poster on Emerging Adults’ Health Information Practices with AI has been published in ASIST 2025! (poster)
A new preprint of ours regarding How Undergrads use ChatGPT is out! (Check it out here)
I’ve been offered a fully funded PhD position at the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University - New Brunswick! Excited to embark into this new journey!
Hallucination mitigation using [Pause] tokens paper of ours is out now! (Check it out here)
Our survey paper on Context length extension of Generative AIs is out now! (Check it out here)
A preprint of ours related to a survey on Hallucination Mitigation is online now! (Check it out here)
Our paper received the Outstanding Paper Award for the Research and Evaluation track at EMNLP 2023! (Check out here)
Our recent paper on AI generated text detection has just been accepted to EMNLP 2023! (See it here)
A new preprint of ours regarding LLM hallucinations and prompt linguistic nuances is out! (Check it out here)