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Iffat Maab
Project Researcher (2024-present),
National Institute of Informatics
Research Fields
Natural Language Processing
Representation Learning
Information Retrieval
Biography
Iffat Maab is a Project Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. She received her Ph.D. in 2024 from the Matsuo Lab at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and has industrial experience at Toshiba Corporation, Japan. Her research focuses on knowledge representation and retrieval-augmented techniques for automated fact-checking, utilizing large language models (LLMs) to tackle misinformation detection issues. She also works on bias detection across digital media, analyzing representation disparities in online platforms and news sources.
Career
- 2021-2024
- University of Tokyo, PhD candidate
- 2022
- Toshiba Corporation Research Intern
- 2023
- Visiting Researcher, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- 2024 - Present
- Project Researcher,
National Institute of Informatics
Awards
- 2023 Women in Engineering, Asia Rising Star, Japan
Academic Activities
- Member of the Association for Natural Language Processing, the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and the International Collegiate Programming Contest
Recent Research
- Investigating Behaviours of Reasoning-Based Language Models for Social Bias Mitigation
- AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages
- Towards Automated Fact-Checking of Real-World Claims: Exploring Task Formulation and Assessment with LLMs
- Polarity Classification of Low Resource Roman Urdu and Movie Reviews Sentiments Using Machine Learning-Based Ensemble Approaches