Taki Hasan Rafi

Me at Amsterdam, Netherlands
Me at Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ph.D. Candidate

Data Intelligence Lab
Department of Computer Science
Hanyang University
takihr@hanyang.ac.kr
Room 709, R&D Building-I, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Bio

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at Hanyang University (HYU), where I am working at the Data Intelligence Lab with Prof. Dong-Kyu Chae. Before joining HYU, I received my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh in 2021. My Ph.D. is supported by Brain Korea 21 (NRF)! I occasionally collaborate with researchers from Oracle, USA.

My research focuses on data-efficient and robust learning, particularly in scenarios where models must generalize to unseen or shifting environments with limited access to target domain data. I develop methods for test-time adaptation, robust data selection, and dynamic model adjustment to enhance performance in real-world settings. Additionally, I explore the safety and reliability of AI systems, including LLMs and VLMs, by building evaluation benchmarks, addressing cultural and linguistic biases, and improving robustness in low-resource languages. Ultimately, my goal is to create adaptive, trustworthy AI systems that perform reliably across diverse data distributions and user contexts.

Recent News

Two papers get accepted at ACL 2025! including one Main and one Findings.

Successfully passed the Ph.D. Candidacy Exam!

Received a PhD research Intersnship offer from Infosys for 6 months residency. But declined the offer due to visa issue.

Invited as a Reviewer at ACM MM 2025!

Invited as a Reviewer at ACL 2025 (Industry Track)!

Invited as a Reviewer at ACL ARR (February Cycle)!

One paper gets accepted at NAACL 2025!

Three papers get accepted at DASFAA 2025!

One paper gets accepted at WWW 2025!

Selected Recent Papers

[NAACL 2025]
SweEval: Do LLMs Really Swear? A Safety Benchmark for Testing Limits for Enterprise Use
Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Amit Agarwal, Arion Das, Bhargava Kumar, Srikant Panda, Priyaranjan Pattnayak, Taki Hasan Rafi, Tejaswini Kumar, Dong-Kyu Chae
Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Industry Track), 2025

[DASFAA 2025]
Instance-Aware Test-Time Adaptation for Domain Generalization
Taki Hasan Rafi, Serbeter Karlo, Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Patel, Bhargava Kumar, and Dong-Kyu Chae
30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2025
(Acceptance rate ≈ 32%)

[ACCV 2024]
GReFEL: Geometry-Aware Reliable Facial Expression Learning under Bias and Imbalanced Data Distribution
Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Taki Hasan Rafi*, Serbeter Karlo, Raima Islam, and Dong-Kyu Chae (*=Equal contributions)
17th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2024
(Acceptance rate ≈ 32%)