Labiba Jahan, Ph.D
Clinical Assistant Professor of Computer Science
| Department |
CSS |
| Office Location |
Caruth Hall 459 |
Labiba Jahan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at SMU Lyle School of Engineering. Before joining SMU, she was an assistant professor at Augustana College, IL. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Science at Florida International University. In 2019, she served as a research intern at the Product Simulation and Modeling Group at Siemens Corporate Technology in Princeton, NJ.
She enjoys working in both roles, as a teacher and researcher. She loves to teach courses related to competitive programming and artificial intelligence (AI). Her research expertise is in the domain of narrative understanding, semantic analysis, and NLP pipeline design. She received several internal grants and fellowships from Augustana College and SMU. She published many of her research works at the top NLP conferences including EMNLP, COLING.
Education
B.S.,Shahjalal University of Science & Technology at BangladeshM.S. & Ph.D. Florida International University at Florida
Research
- Natural Language Processing
- Narrative Understanding
- Machine Learning
Publications
- Motti Kelbessa, Ilyas Jamil, and Labiba Jahan. 2022. Impacts of Low Socio-economic Status on Educational Outcomes: A Narrative Based Analysis . In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI), pages 59–69, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Abdelgaber, Nahed, Labiba Jahan, Joshua Oltmanns, Mehak Gupta, and Jia Zhang. 2025. Interpretable Socioeconomic Profiling: A Deep Dive Beyond Narrative Classification. Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities.
- Nahed Abdelgaber, Labiba Jahan, Arham Vinit Doshi, Rishi Suri, Hamza Reza Pavel, and Jia Zhang. 2025. Bridging the Socioeconomic Gap in Education: A Hybrid AI and Human Annotation Approach . In Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 348–364, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Abdelgaber, Nahed, Labiba Jahan, Nino Castellano, Joshua Oltmanns, Mehak Gupta, Jia Zhang, Akshay Pednekar, Ashish Basavaraju, Ian Velazquez, and Zerui Ma. 2025. AI Assistant for Socioeconomic Empowerment Using Federated Learning. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, pp. 490-501. 2025..
- M. T. H. Khan, Labiba Jahan, Mustafa Ocal. 2026. An Inflection Point in Equity Research: Leveraging AI and Educational Theory to Decode the Socioeconomic Gap in Engineering Education In Proceedings of the ASEE-Gulf Southwest (GSW) Regional Conference, College Station, Texas. 10.18260/1-2—58029
- Swearingen, Jadon, Mustafa Ocal, Md Tarique Hasan Khan, and Labiba Jahan. Computational Modeling of Educational Theory in Low-Socioeconomic Contexts. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities, pp. 264-275. 2026.
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Paper, workshop on NLP for Positive Impact co-located with EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi.
