Iffat MaabML Expert Tokyo, Japan iffatmaab09@gmail.com | Project Researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics focusing on automated fact-checking, misinformation detection, and evaluation with LLMs (GPT-4, Llama, Qwen, Falcon, Vicuna, Flan-T5). Publications published at NAACL 2024, EACL 2023, AACL/IJCNLP 2023, ANLP 2024, JSAI 2024, IEEE venues. Research interests include retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge representation, cross-domain fact-checking, low-resource NLP, and multimedia deepfakes. | Work ExperienceKawai EnterpriseJune 2025 - PresentJune 2025 - Present (Dekleptocracy) ML expert Government Policies, Real-world price changes, Dashboard monitoring, Political decisions, Household effects, LLMs National Institute of Informatics (NII)April 2024 - PresentApril 2024 - Present Project Researcher LLMs, RAG, deepfakes, fact-checking; models incl. Llama, Qwen, T5, Falcon, Vicuna, GPT-3.5/4; student supervision. Digimarl Company LimitedApril 2021 - PresentApril 2021 - Present ML/Digital Marketing Intern Data-driven ad solutions; data science articles; GA/Yahoo/LINE. ICPC Asia West TopiNovember 2017 - PresentNovember 2017 - Present Associate Director Grants; event ops; training/mentoring; team retention; ops management. Department of Technology Management for Innovation, The University of TokyoJanuary 2024 - March 2024January 2024 - March 2024 Project Assistant Circular Economy modeling; environmental/economic analysis of subscription models. IMS, Universität StuttgartAugust 2023 - October 2023August 2023 - October 2023 Researcher Evaluated LLMs for misinformation/bias in political news; NAACL 2024 paper. Toshiba CorporationSeptember 2022 - March 2023September 2022 - March 2023 AI/ML Engineer Intern Visual Question Answering; NLP+CV tooling; research collaboration. Crystal Method CompanyMarch 2021 - August 2021March 2021 - August 2021 AI/ML Engineer Intern AI modules for industrial solutions; improved codebase, tools, processes. GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and TechnologyJuly 2016 - October 2020July 2016 - October 2020 Lecturer Teaching; HPC facility management; FYP supervision; admin. Higher Education Commission (HEC)October 2016 - December 2016October 2016 - December 2016 Master Trainer (Faculty Development) National in-service faculty development; training and goal setting. Trojans CompanyJune 2015 - July 2016June 2015 - July 2016 Quality Control Engineer QC processes; IT integration; ops improvements. GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and TechnologyAugust 2014 - June 2016August 2014 - June 2016 Graduate Assistant Labs, assignments, IT/admin support; curriculum assistance. EducationThe University of TokyoApril 2021 - March 2024April 2021 - March 2024 PhD, Technology Management for Innovation Degree in The University of TokyoApril 2021 - March 2024April 2021 - March 2024 Diploma, WINGS Co-Designing Future Society (CFS) Degree in Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI)August 2014 - June 2016August 2014 - June 2016 MS, Computer Systems Engineering (Highest Distinction) Degree in University of Engineering and Technology (UET) TaxilaNovember 2010 - July 2014November 2010 - July 2014 BS, Computer Engineering (Highest Distinction) Degree in SkillsAI/ML Academic Writing Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) Misinformation & Disinformation Detection Natural Language Processing (NLP) Peer-reviewed Research Political Bias Detection Publications Python Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Text generation | ||