About
I work where language, operations and data meet. I have run a bank's front office, delivered national-scale events, and validated the language data that Bangla language models are trained on. I also build small tools — mostly for Windows and the browser — to take the tedious parts out of my own work.
Bangla (native) · English (fluent)
Experience
2025 — Present
Research Assistant · Research and Technology Transfer Cell (RTTC), Pabna University of Science and Technology
Pabna
UGC-funded research project.
- Data enumerator and data entry operator on the UGC-funded study “Assessing Riverbank
Erosion-Induced Livelihood Vulnerability using LVI, GIS, and DSAS: Evidence from Begumganj
Union, Ulipur, Kurigram” (RTTC, FY 2025-26, Phase II); participation certified.
- Supported questionnaire development and ran field pre-testing of the survey instrument.
- Carried out household survey enumeration and structured data entry with quality checks
feeding the LVI, GIS and DSAS analysis.
- Reviewing the project manuscript for language, structure and terminological consistency
ahead of submission, applying linguistics training directly to the research output.
Jan 2025 — Sep 2025
Transaction Service Officer · IFIC Bank PLC
Pabna Branch (induction at Head Office, Dhaka)
- Processed high-volume daily counter transactions — cash deposits, withdrawals, pay orders
and inward remittance — with accurate day-end reconciliation.
- Managed end-to-end account opening with KYC/e-KYC verification and customer due diligence
in line with Bangladesh Bank AML/CFT guidelines.
- Executed clearing and fund-transfer operations through BACH, BEFTN and RTGS.
- Handled FDR/DPS opening and encashment, debit card issuance, and cheque book requisition
and delivery.
- Resolved customer queries and complaints at the front desk while supporting the branch’s
deposit mobilisation targets.
- Cross-trained across every front-office service desk, acting as backup across functions and
keeping service running during peak load and staff absences.
2023 — 2024
Linguistic Data Validator · Giga Tech Limited
Dhaka
Promoted from Annotator. EBLICT Project, ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh.
- Validated 289,000+ Bangla data items across 8 sub-projects — parts of speech,
shallow and deep parsing, paraphrasing and the Bd Lexicon — on the Bangladesh
National Corpus platform, rejecting around 2,200 items on quality grounds.
- Annotated 12,200+ items at 92% overall accuracy across 6 sub-projects, and 98%
on Treebank, before the promotion to Validator.
- Quality-controlled peer annotations against the project’s linguistic guidelines,
and served as a mentor and trainer in the annotator training programme.
- Co-authored the BPoSGold dataset paper, and contributed validation work to the
team’s BanLemma lemmatizer research.
- Fixed long-standing UI/UX problems on the project website with custom scripts,
outside the scope of the role — which drew a managerial commendation and a
front-end internship offer.
2022 — 2023
Operations Associate / Consultant · Tesseract Esports LLP
Hyderabad, India (projects delivered in Bangladesh)
- Coordinated national and multinational esports events in Bangladesh, including projects
with Grameenphone and Tencent, with a combined project value of approximately
BDT 50,000,000.
- Managed league operations for 1,000+ registered teams (5,000–7,000 players), inside a
60+ member league operations team and a 90+ official crew.
- Handled client relations and coordination across organisers, sponsors and broadcast
partners.
2023
Project Manager · Infinity Incorporation BD
Mirpur, Dhaka
- Directed the Grameenphone Community Cup end to end on a BDT 600,000 budget, as sole
director and coordinator of the operations and broadcasting teams.
- Delivered further event projects on time-critical schedules, resolving critical issues
under pressure.
Education
2022
Master of Arts (MA) in Linguistics
University of Dhaka · CGPA 3.30 / 4.00
2021
Bachelor of Arts (BA Honours) in Linguistics
University of Dhaka · CGPA 3.34 / 4.00
Skills
Banking operations
- Cash, clearing and account services
- KYC / e-KYC and AML-CFT compliance
- Clearing systems — BACH, BEFTN, RTGS
- Day-end reconciliation and reporting
Project and event delivery
- Project and event management
- Budget planning and execution
- Client and stakeholder management
- Team leadership
Language data and research
- Linguistic annotation and validation (PoS, parsing)
- Corpus development and QA
- Research documentation and report writing
- Training, mentoring and onboarding
Tools
- Advanced Excel and Google Sheets
- AI-assisted workflows — Claude, Claude Code, Gemini
- HTML (working), CSS and JavaScript (basic)
- Community management
Research
2025
BPoSGold: A Large Bangla Gold Standard Multi-Domain Parts of Speech (PoS) Dataset and its Evaluation
Co-author · Submitted to KDD 2025 Datasets & Benchmarks and NeurIPS 2026 (ED track)
Manuscript targeted for resubmission.
2025
Riverbank erosion livelihood-vulnerability study (LVI/GIS/DSAS)
Survey instrument pre-testing, field enumeration, data entry and manuscript review · UGC-funded, Research and Technology Transfer Cell (RTTC), Pabna University of Science and Technology, FY 2025-26
Publications
2021
The Daily Observer
An opinion editorial on cryptocurrency regulation, argued from two competing policy perspectives.
Training
Mar 2025
Prevention of Money Laundering & Combating Financing of Terrorism
IFIC Bank Training Institute · With particular focus on TBML and CBML; placed 4th bank-wide in the assessment test.
Jan 2025
Induction Program for Transaction Service Officer
IFIC Bank Training Institute, Dhaka · Placed 2nd in the batch on the final assessment.
Awards
2023
Government Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE), Ministry of Education, Bangladesh.
2014
35th National Science & Technology Week and Science Fair
Regional champion; national-level participant.
2013
Pepsodent–Prothom Alo National School Debate Championship
Leader of the runner-up team, Rangpur Division.
2013
National Creative Talent Hunt
Champion at Upazila and Zila level (Mathematics and Computer); divisional-level participant.
Volunteer
2020 — 2024
Budgeting, Planning & Coordination · Iccheghuri Foundation
- Single-handedly executed a BDT 500,000 flood-relief budget during the COVID period —
planning, procurement and field distribution.
- Contributed to budgeting, project planning and coordination across programmes totalling
roughly BDT 4,000,000–5,000,000 during tenure.
References available on request.
https://mehedimaruf.com · [email protected]