About Me
Hi there! I'm Adiba Mahbub Proma and I'm
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I’m a Computer Science PhD candidate at the University of Rochester, where I am advised by Dr. Ehsan Hoque. I'm interested in developing systems that can influence people to be more informed. My research projects include building systems to dissuade individuals out of misinformation, modelling the influence of human interactions in online settings and designing technology to promote sustainable consumption. Previously, I have also worked on designing a framework for risk assessment and early detection of breast cancer for Bangladeshi women.
Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Large Language Models, Computational Social Science, AI for Social Good, Network Science
Publications and Invited Articles
Invited Article
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A. Proma, R. Wachter, E. Hoque. The Untapped Potential of Computing and Cognition in Tackling Climate Change, NAE Perspectives, 2023
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S. Kelty, R. A. Baten, A. M. Proma, E. Hoque, J. Bollen, and G. Ghoshal, The Innovation Trade-off: how Following Superstars Shapes Academic Novelty, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025 [Journal Impact factor: 3.7]
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M. S. Islam, A. M. Proma, C. Wohn, K. Berger, S. Uong, V. Kumar, K. S. Korfmacher, E. Hoque, SEER: Sustainable E-commerce with Environmental-impact Rating, Cleaner Environmental Systems, Volume 8, 2023.
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A. Proma, N. Pate, J. Druckman, G. Ghoshal, E. Hoque, Personalizing LLM Responses to Combat Political Misinformation, 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2025 [Read]
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A. Proma, Understanding the Rigidity of Beliefs in Temporal Social Networks, 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 2023
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A. Proma, M. S. Islam, S. Ciko, R. A. Baten, E. Hoque. NADBenchmarks – a compilation of Benchmark Datasets for Machine Learning Tasks related to Natural Disasters, The Role of AI in Responding to Climate Change, AAAI Fall Symposium Series, November 2022 [Check Website]
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M. S. Islam, A. Proma, Y. Zhou, S. N. Akter, C. Wohn, E. Hoque, KnowUREnvironment: An Automated Knowledge Graph for Climate Change and Environmental Issues, The Role of AI in Responding to Climate Change, AAAI Fall Symposium Series, November 2022
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A. Proma*, N. Pate*, G. Ghoshal, J. Druckman, E. Hoque, Personalized Large Language Models Can Increase the Belief Accuracy of Social Networks, arXiv., 2025
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A. Proma*, N. Pate*, J. Druckman, G. Ghoshal, H. He, E. Hoque, An Empirical Analysis of LLMs for Countering Misinformation arXiv., 2025
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S. Duwal, M. N. Shopnil, A. Tyagi, A. Proma, Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Misinformation Detection with Attention-Based GNNs, arXiv., 2025
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A. Proma, N. Pate, R. A. Baten, S. Chen, J. Druckman, G. Ghoshal, E. Hoque, Exploring the Role of Randomization on Belief Rigidity in Online Social Networks arXiv., 2024
News
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[Jul, 2025] I will be in Sweden for IC2S2!
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[Jul, 2025] I will be giving a virtual research talk at Trento University, Trento!
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[Jul, 2025] I will be visiting PoliMi, Milan!
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[Jul, 2025] I will be giving a research talk at LMU, Munich!
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[Jun, 2025] I will be giving a research talk at ISIR, Sorbonne University, Paris!
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[May, 2025] I will joining as a visiting academic researcher at University of Zurich, Switzerland for the summer!
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[Apr, 2025] Two of our posters got accepted to IC2S2!
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[Mar, 2025] Our paper "Personalizing LLM Responses to Combat Political Misinformation" got accepted to ACM UMAP!
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[Apr, 2024] Selected for Summer Institute in Computational Social Science-Rochester (SICSS-Rochester), 2024
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[May, 2023] The CS department highlights our work on the role of technology for climate change! [Read]
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[Feb, 2023] Our lab's efforts on mentoring undergrad researchers gets featured by the University's News Center! [Read]
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[2023] Selected for CRAWP Grad Cohort
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[2022] Selected for CRAWP Grad Cohort
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[2022] Our breast cancer application gets highlighted by national Bangladeshi press [New Age, Dhaka Tribune]
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[2019] Highest Distinction Award, BRAC University
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[2018] Received grant from ICT division of Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Bangladesh to lead a project on early detection and risk assessment of breast cancer
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[2014] Country highest in Mathematics in International Advanced Levels (IAL)
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[2013] World highest in Mathematics-B in International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE)
Work Experience
Research Assistant, CMED Health (Breast Cancer Research Division)
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Developed a questionnaire-based breast cancer risk assessment and early detection algorithm through comprehensive literature review and expert interviews with medical professionals
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Conducted feasibility analysis to develop web-platform functionalities for breast cancer awareness website [Check website]
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Designed an intelligent system for the field-level operations team to predict loan eligibility using ensemble learning
Teaching Experience
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Rochester
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CSC 460: Technology and Climate Change
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CSC 212/412: Human Computer Interaction
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CSC 200H: Undergraduate Problem Seminar (Focused on Database Systems Research)
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CSC 261: Database Systems
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Instructional Lecturer, BRAC University
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CSE 101: Introduction to computing
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CSE 220: Data Structures
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CSE 221: Algorithms
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CSE 341: Microprocessors
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CSE 420: Compilers
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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, BRAC University
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CSE161: Programming Language I (Basic Programming in Java)
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CSE 220: Data Structures
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CSE 260: Digital Logic Design
Services
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Reviewer for ACL 2025, ICLR 2025, CHI 2025, ACII 2023, ACIIW 2023
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Committee Member for Ph.D Admissions Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester (Admission cycles of 2022)