Hi, I'm Nafis(na-fees) Abrar, the co-founder and CTO of Edutechs. I graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) majoring in Computer Science (co-op).
Previously, I have done ML Research in the UBC CS department under Dr. Kevin Leyton Brown's supervision. My research focused on leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and using weak supervised/active learning/domain source adaptation techniques to classify novel long text datasets. I conducted in-depth research and experimentation with transformer architectures and
used Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning methods and prompt engineering for different downstream tasks.
I have been a part of the BigScience workshop and also co-authored Bloom.
I have also worked in Scotiabank's AI/ML team (Data Scientist co-op) and BC Cancer Research Centre (Software Developer co-op) under Dr.Sohrab Shah's supervision.
Besides that, I enjoy playing music and have been playing guitar since I was ten and I also love reading about philosophy.