Md Rizwan Parvez

Md Rizwan Parvez

Scientist @ QCRI

Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Software Engineering

About Me

I am a Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute. I have completeded my Ph.D. from CS@UCLA and was advised by Prof. Kai-Wei Chang. My research centers on language and code. The overarching goal is to enable seamless human–machine interaction by dissolving the boundaries between natural language, computational logic, and dynamic environments. I am interested in the following five threads.

Bridging Natural and Programming Languages: We have developed pioneering works on code generation and competitive problem solving, such as RedCoder, xCodeEval, MapCoder, and CodeSim. Currently, we are focusing more on code reasoning and software engineering (SWE) tasks.

Learning from Open Knowledge and Auxiliary Supervision: We published several impactful papers on retrieval augmented generation (RAG), including ERA, DelucionQA, Filco, Open-RAG, TechniqueRAG, and Chain-of-Evidences that can adaptively determine when to use external retrieval, how to filter retrieval noises and leverage them.

Connecting Language with Visual and Spatial Reasoning: We built systems that augments language with multi-modal learning signals. For visual reasoning, we co-developed ChartQAPro, ChartInstruct, DataNarrative, DashboardQA, and VideoLights. For geosptial reasoning we developed MapEval, MapAgent, SpatiaLab, and TimeSpot.

Agents for Real-world Environments: We design AI agents that can operate and reason in real-world environments including Xolver for SWE, WebOperator for Web, MapAgent for tool calling, and other ongoing works.

NLP for Social Good: We are expanding in Science, Healthcare, Security, Quantam, and other socially beneficial AI.

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Selected Achievements

Open-RAG in MarkTechPost Coverage!! 2024
UCLA Graduate Fellowships 2017, 2018
ACL and EMNLP Student Travel Grant 2018, 2021
Best Demo Award: Bangladesh Inter-University System Design and Development 2015
Best Demo Award: Workshop on Mobile Computing and Human Computer Interaction 2014

Selected Recent Papers

  1. X-teaming: Multi-turn jailbreaks and defenses with adaptive multi-agents

    Salman Rahman, Liwei Jiang, James Shiffer, Genglin Liu, Sheriff Issaka, Md Rizwan Parvez, Hamid Palangi, Kai-Wei Chang, Yejin Choi, and Saadia Gabriel, in COLM, 2025.
    BibTeX Details
    @inproceedings{salman20254xteaming,
      title = {X-teaming: Multi-turn jailbreaks and defenses with adaptive multi-agents},
      author = {Rahman, Salman and Jiang, Liwei and Shiffer, James and Liu, Genglin and Issaka, Sheriff and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Palangi, Hamid and Chang, Kai-Wei and Choi, Yejin and Gabriel, Saadia},
      booktitle = {COLM},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
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  2. ChartQAPro: A More Diverse and Challenging Benchmark for Chart Question Answering

    Ahmed Masry, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Mahir Ahmed, Aayush Bajaj, Firoz Kabir, Aaryaman Kartha, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Shadikur Rahman, Mehrad Shahmohammadi, Megh Thakkar, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, and Shafiq Joty, in ACL-Findings, 2025.
    BibTeX Details
    @inproceedings{masry20254chartqapro,
      title = {ChartQAPro: A More Diverse and Challenging Benchmark for Chart Question Answering},
      author = {Masry, Ahmed and Islam, Mohammed Saidul and Ahmed, Mahir and Bajaj, Aayush and Kabir, Firoz and Kartha, Aaryaman and Laskar, Md Tahmid Rahman and Rahman, Mizanur and Rahman, Shadikur and Shahmohammadi, Mehrad and Thakkar, Megh and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Hoque, Enamul and Joty, Shafiq},
      booktitle = {ACL-Findings},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
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  3. MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models

    Mahir Labib Dihan, Md Tanvir Hassan, Md Tanvir Parvez, Md Hasebul Hasan, Md Almash Alam, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in ICML (Spotlight), 2025.
    BibTeX Details
    @inproceedings{dihan2025mapeval,
      title = {MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models},
      author = {Dihan, Mahir Labib and Hassan, Md Tanvir and Parvez, Md Tanvir and Hasan, Md Hasebul and Alam, Md Almash and Cheema, Muhammad Aamir and Ali, Mohammed Eunus and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
      booktitle = {ICML (Spotlight)},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
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  4. OPEN-RAG: Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Open-Source Large Language Models

    Shayekh Bin Islam, Md Asib Rahman, K. SM Tozammel Hossain, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in EMNLP-Findings, 2024.
    BibTeX Details
    @inproceedings{shayekh2024openrag,
      title = {OPEN-RAG: Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Open-Source Large Language Models},
      author = {Islam, Shayekh Bin and Rahman, Md Asib and Hossain, KSM Tozammel and Hoque, Enamul and Joty, Shafiq and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
      booktitle = {EMNLP-Findings},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
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  5. MapCoder: Multi-Agent Code Generation for Competitive Problem Solving

    Md Ashraful Islam, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Md Rizwan Parvez, ACL, 2024.
    BibTeX Details
    @article{islam2024mapcoder,
      title = {MapCoder: Multi-Agent Code Generation for Competitive Problem Solving},
      author = {Islam, Md Ashraful and Ali, Mohammed Eunus and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
      journal = {ACL},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
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  6. Retrieval Augmented Code Generation and Summarization

    Md Rizwan Parvez, Wasi Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, and Kai-Wei Chang, in EMNLP-Findings, 2021.
    BibTeX Details
    @inproceedings{parvez2021retrieval,
      title = {Retrieval Augmented Code Generation and Summarization},
      author = {Parvez, Md Rizwan and Ahmad, Wasi and Chakraborty, Saikat and Ray, Baishakhi and Chang, Kai-Wei},
      booktitle = {EMNLP-Findings},
      year = {2021}
    }
    
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Experience

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Scientist

QCRI

2023 - Present

Research Scientist

Bosch Research

2022 - 2023

PhD Summer Research Internships

Google Research, Kirkland, WA 2021

Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Seattle, WA 2020

Salesforce Research, Palo Alto, CA 2019

Microsoft AI & Research, Redmond, WA 2018

Teaching Experience

CSM146: Introduction to Machine Learning
UCLA Teaching Fellow (Fall 2020, Winter 2020, Fall 2029, Fall 2018)
CS269: Natural Language Processing
UCLA Teaching Assistant (Fall 2017)

Service

Senior Area Chair
ACL 2026, EACL 2026, EMNLP 2025
Area Chair
ACL 2025