Md Shad Akhtar

Assistant Professor, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Joined

July 2021

Names

Md Shad Akhtar (Preferred)

Md. Shad Akhtar

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@iiitd.ac.in (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (iiitd.ac.in)

2020 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Asif Ekbal

2015 – 2019

Expertise

Conversational Dialog Systems

Present

Code-mixed Languages

Present

Mental-Health Analysis

Present

Misinformation (Fake news

Rumour

Claim)

Present

Hatespeech and Counterspeech

Present

Publications

Redefining Experts: Interpretable Decomposition of Language Models for Toxicity Mitigation
Zuhair Hasan Shaik, Abdullah Mazhar, Aseem Srivastava, Md Shad Akhtar
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Figurative-cum-Commonsense Knowledge Infusion for Multimodal Mental Health Meme Classification
Abdullah Mazhar, Zuhair Hasan Shaik, Aseem Srivastava, Polly Ruhnke, Lavanya Vaddavalli, Sri Keshav Katragadda, Shweta Yadav, Md Shad Akhtar
- WWW 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
LESA: Linguistic Encapsulation and Semantic Amalgamation Based Generalised Claim Detection from Online Content
Shreya Gupta, Parantak Singh, Megha Sundriyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
- The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Readers: Everyone
Persona-aware Generative Model for Code-mixed Language
Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
A Good Learner can Teach Better: Teacher-Student Collaborative Knowledge Distillation
Ayan Sengupta, Shantanu Dixit, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Manifold-Preserving Transformers are Effective for Short-Long Range Encoding
Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
From Multilingual Complexity to Emotional Clarity: Leveraging Commonsense to Unveil Emotions in Code-Mixed Dialogues
Shivani Kumar, Ramaneswaran S, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
- EMNLP 2023 Main
- Readers: Everyone
Don’t Bet on Sparsity: Designing Brain-inspired Distance-preserving Encoder
Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
- 22 Sept 2022 (modified: 13 Feb 2023)
- ICLR 2023 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Public Wisdom Matters! Discourse-Aware Hyperbolic Fourier Co-Attention for Social Text Classification
Karish Grover, S M Phaneendra Angara, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets
Shraman Pramanick, Dimitar Dimitrov, Rituparna Mukherjee, Shivam Sharma, Md. Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty
- 2021 (modified: 25 Sept 2021)
- ACL/IJCNLP (Findings) 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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