Ashique KhudaBukhsh

Assistant Professor

Department of Software Engineering

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

khudabukhsh@mail.rit.edu

Ashique KhudaBukhsh

Assistant Professor

Department of Software Engineering

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

Education

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Bio

Ashique KhudaBukhsh is an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Department and is affiliated with the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, where he directs the Social Insight Lab.

Dr. KhudaBukhsh's current research lies at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and AI for Social Impact, as applied to: (i) globally important events arising in linguistically diverse regions, requiring methods to tackle practical challenges involving multilingual, noisy, social media texts; (ii) polarization in the context of the current US political crisis; and (iii) auditing generative AI systems and platforms for unintended harms. In addition to having his research accepted at top artificial intelligence conferences and journals, his work has also received widespread international media attention, including coverage from The New York Times, BBC, Wired, Times of India, The Indian Express, The Daily Mail, VentureBeat, and Digital Trends.

Dr. KhudaBukhsh has been selected for the New Faculty Highlight program at AAAI 2024 and was the recipient of the RIT GGCIS Emerging Scholar Award in 2023. He enjoys melding teaching and research and, in 2022, he offered a course that studied contemporary US politics through the lens of cutting-edge AI and NLP techniques. This course was offered simultaneously at RIT and CMU (team-taught with Dr. Mark Kamlet, a noted political scientist), and students from both schools conducted collaborative research. KhudaBukhsh received his PhD in artificial intelligence in 2017 from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and started his tenure-track position at RIT in 2021.

khudabukhsh@mail.rit.edu

Personal Links

Personal Website

Google Scholar

Areas of Expertise

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing

AI for Social Impact

Computational Social Science

Currently Teaching

DSCI-601

Applied Data Science I

3 Credits

This is the first of a two course applied data science seminar series. Students will be introduced to the data science masters program along with potential projects which they will develop over the course of this series in con-junction with the applied data science directed studies. Students will select a project along with an advisor and sponsor, develop a written proposal for their work, and investigate and write a related work survey to refine this proposal with their findings. Students will begin preliminary design and implementation of their project. Work will be presented in class for peer review with an emphasis on developing data science communication skills. This course will keep students up to date with the broad range of data science applications.

DSCI-602

Applied Data Science II

3 Credits

This is the second of a three course applied data science seminar series. Students will design an implementation plan and preliminary documentation for their selected applied data science project, along with an in class presentation of this work. At the end of the semester students will present preliminary demos of their project and write a preliminary project report. Writing and presentations will be peer reviewed to further enhance data science communication skills. This course will keep students up to date with the broad range of data science applications.

DSCI-789

Advanced Topics In Data Science

1 - 3 Credits

This course will cover advanced specialized topics data science. Such topics are may be emerging and advanced. Specific prerequisites will be noted for each specific special topic.

DSCI-790

Independent Study

1 - 3 Credits

This course provides the graduate student an opportunity to explore an aspect of data science independently and in depth, under the direction of an advisor. The student selects a topic and then works with a faculty member to describe the value of the work and the deliverables.

SWEN-780

Capstone Research Project

3 - 6 Credits

This course provides the student with an opportunity to explore a project-based research experience that advances knowledge in that area. The student selects a research problem, conducts background research, develops the system, analyses the results, and builds a professional document and presentation that disseminates the project. The report must include an in-depth research report on a topic selected by the student and in agreement with the student's adviser. The report must be structured as a conference paper, and must be submitted to a conference selected by the student and his/her adviser.

SWEN-790

Thesis

6 Credits

This course provides the student with an opportunity to execute a thesis project, analyze and document the project in thesis document form. An in-depth study of a software engineering topic will be research focused, having built upon the thesis proposal developed prior to this course. The student is advised by their primary faculty adviser and committee. The thesis and thesis defense is presented for approval by the thesis adviser and committee.

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October 31, 2023

AI Research Team at RIT Publish Findings on Generative Harmful Content

In a recent preprint paper, faculty and Ph.D. students in RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, identified issues surrounding generative hate speech in Google’s PaLM2 Large Language Model (LLM), which powers Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT. Google was informed about the toxic content generated by PaLM2, and thanks to their responsible approach, have since rectified issues identified by the team in their initial study.

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