Syed Mostofa Monsur


I am a PhD Student in the Computer Science Department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Previously, I led the AI/ML Team at Celloscope. I received my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from CSE BUET.

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Research Interests

I'm interested in NLP, LLM Reasoning, AI for Science, etc.

Publications

[6] Teaching and Evaluating LLMs to Reason About Polymer Design Related Tasks
Dikshya Mohanty, Mohammad Saqib Hasan, Syed Mostofa Monsur, Size Zheng, Benjamin Hsiao, Niranjan Balasubramanian
ACL Findings, 2026
[paper]
[5] Scaling down, Powering up: A Survey on the Advancements of Small Vision-Language Models
Sheikh Iftekhar Ahmed, Muhammad Zubair Hasan, Abrar Jahin Niloy, Syed Mostofa Monsur, Mark V. Albert
Information Fusion, 2025
[paper]
[4] SynthNID: Synthetic Data to Improve End-to-end Bangla Document Key Information Extraction
Syed Mostofa Monsur, Shariar Kabir, Sakib Chowdhury
BLP Workshop at EMNLP, 2023
[paper]
[3] Grid-Coding: An Accessible, Efficient, and Structured Coding Paradigm for Blind and Low-Vision Programmers
Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque, Syed Mostofa Monsur, Syed Masum Billah
UIST, 2022 (Best Paper Award)
[paper] / [video] / [featured]
[2] SHONGLAP: A Large Bengali Open-Domain Dialogue Corpus
Syed Mostofa Monsur, Sakib Chowdhury, Md Shahrar Fatemi, Shafayat Ahmed
LREC, 2022
[poster] / [paper]
[1] Distributing Active Learning Algorithms
Syed Mostofa Monsur, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan
NSysS, 2020
[video] / [slides] / [paper]

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