Farjana Sultana Samia

Professional Service

• Session Chair — Efficient Methods for NLP

  Oct 2026

  EMNLP 2026 · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (virtual session)

  • Chaired a virtual session of nine research presentations on making NLP models more efficient, covering speculative decoding, compute allocation, quantization and memory-efficient training.
  • Introduced the speakers and moderated the question-and-answer discussion after each talk.

  

Leadership & Outreach

• Campus Ambassador

  Aug 2018 – Dec 2018

  Microsoft · Young Bangla

  • Represented Microsoft’s youth outreach programme on campus, promoting its platforms and programmes to students. Certificate of Recognition.
  • Promoted and shared Young Bangla’s youth development initiatives across the university community, under its “Connecting the Dots” programme.

• Volunteer

  Dec 2017 – Dec 2018

  Women Techmakers

  • Supported community activities aimed at strengthening women’s participation and technical skills in computing.

Competitions & Presentations

• NSU Inter Girls Programming Contest

  2018

  North South University

  • Participated in the inter-university programming contest. Certificate.

• Anti Smartphone Addiction Application — poster presentation

  2020

  CSE Fest 2020, Manarat International University

  • Designed a concept application that tracks screen time and per-app usage to help users recognise and manage phone addiction.
  • Proposed features covered usage tracking and scheduling, overuse notifications and break reminders, progress sharing and community support.
  • Motivated by a survey run through Google Forms, in which most respondents reported anxiety without their phone and agreed that smartphone addiction is a real problem.