Alif Al Hasan is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University, specializing in Software Engineering and Large Language Modesl (LLMs). He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Jahangirnagar University, building expertise in algorithm design, competitive programming, and large-scale data analysis.

Alif has published in top-tier conferences and journals and was awarded the NST Fellowship for his Master’s research. He is passionate about research, innovation, and problem-solving, contributing actively to both academic advancements and the programming community through research and mentorship.

• 📅 November 2025
  • 📄 Conference Paper Accepted: Our paper “Learning Programming in Informal Spaces: Using Emotion as a Lens to Understand Novice Struggles on r/learnprogramming” was accepted to ICSE SEET 2026.
• 📅 October 2025
  • 🏅 Received a Government Scholarship for outstanding academic performance during my B.Sc. studies at Jahangirnagar University.
• 📅 August 2025
  • 🎓 Began my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University, supervised by Prof. Sumon Biswas.
• 📅 March 2025
  • 📝 Workshop Paper Accepted: Our work on LLMs for Bug Report-Based Input Generation was accepted for presentation at LLanMER 2025.
  • 📄 Journal Article Accepted: Our paper on Next POI Recommendation was accepted for publication in Array (SCI Q1, IF 4.5).
• 📅 February 2025
  • 🏅 Awarded the prestigious National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Bangladesh, in recognition of research excellence.