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Ph.D. Student · NLP & Large Language Models

Building language models people can trust.

I research evidence-grounded, controllable, and rigorously evaluated language systems for high-stakes health and crisis communication.

Anirban Saha Anik
University of North TexasDenton, Texas

01 / About

I work at the intersection of language technology and human needs.

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas, advised by Dr. Lingzi Hong, and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Human-Centered Computing Lab.

My work spans retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, multi-agent systems, controllable generation, and LLM evaluation, with a focus on health misinformation and crisis response.

  • Trustworthy LLMs
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Human-Centered AI
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • LLM Evaluation

Research portfolio

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01COLM 2025

Multi-Agent RAG for Health Misinformation

A coordinated system of specialized agents that retrieves, synthesizes, generates, and refines evidence-based counterspeech.

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02Findings of EMNLP 2025

Literacy-Controlled Counterspeech

A RAG and reinforcement-learning framework that adapts health-misinformation corrections to a reader's health-literacy level.

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03Under review

Spatiotemporal Crisis Communication

A diagnostic benchmark for testing whether crisis-response systems use evidence from the right place and time.

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Selected work

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2026

2025

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Ask or Answer accepted at EMNLP 2026

Our decision framework studies when a health-misinformation intervention should ask for clarification and when it should answer directly.

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Three systems at CLEF CheckThat! 2026

SciClaimSeekers, SourceMinds, and VeriFind addressed scientific-source retrieval, citation auditing, and numerical claim verification; VeriFind placed second in Task 2.

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Started my Ph.D. at the University of North Texas

I began the Computer Science and Engineering program, focusing on trustworthy language systems for health and crisis communication.

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Completed my M.S. in Data Science

I graduated from the University of North Texas with a 4.00/4.00 GPA.

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