MSc-Research | Faruk Ahmad About
Research Hub

My MSc research workspace

This page is for showcasing my MSc research project on Native Language Identification (NLI) Task. You can find more by clicking each tab or vising my research blog at: https://research.faruk.me.

Proposal

Proposal Link: MSc Research Proposal

Research Focus
  • Topic: Native Language Identification (NLI)
  • Angle: LLMs, fairness, robustness, confound control
  • Datasets: Dataset link will be available soon...
Research Questions
  1. RQ1 — coming soon
  2. RQ2 — coming soon
  3. RQ3 — coming soon
NB: Research proposal might shift angle based on latest update on literatures and work scope. Will update this page while any changes are available.
Planning

Research timeline expands to 16 weeks as per University regulation. Starting from Jan, 2026 ~ Apr, 2026. I splitted these weeks into 6 sprints as bellow -

Milestones
  • MSRF-1# — 2 Weeks
  • MSRF-2# — 2 Weeks
  • MSRF-3# — 3 Weeks
  • MSRF-4# — 3 Weeks
  • MSRF-5# — 2 Weeks
  • MSRF-6# — 3 Weeks
Workstreams
  • Setup & Data Pipeline
  • Baseline & Zero Shot Models
  • Debiased & Hybrid models
  • Openset Recognition
  • Evaluation & Synthesis
  • Dissertation writing & Review
Literatures

Curated literature archive for NLI research-

Literature Archive

Open the archive page here:

Open literature archive

The literature archive lists past research works chronologically based on publishing year & technology shifts.

Reading Checklist
  • Classic ML baselines (SVM, char n-grams)
  • Syntactic transfer features
  • Topic bias / confounds
  • Neural & transformer era
  • LLMs: zero-shot, robustness, ethics
Publications

All publications related to my MSc research will be listed here-

Drafts
  • Review paper — (link)
  • Methodology write-up — (link)
  • Results & discussion — (link)
Submissions
  • Target venue — (status)
  • Backup venue — (status)
  • Presentation materials — (status)
Notes

Quick scratchpad for ideas, citations to add, experiment reminders, etc.