Mayesha Maliha Proma

Tokyo International University

Bachelor of Science with a concentration in Data Science and AI. Full-tuition scholarship.

• Recipient of TIU’s 100% tuition-reduction scholarship for the undergraduate degree (2022–2026).
• Also received the Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship for privately-financed international students (JASSO), April 2022.
• Studied digital business, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and product development.
• Research assistant under Professor Parag Kulkarni (November 2023 — March 2026).
• Teaching assistant / student assistant for Foundations of Python and IT Project Management (August 2024 — July 2025).
• Founded the TIU Data Science and Analytics community and the Bangladesh Student Association.

HarvardX / edX

Completed the nine-course Data Science Professional Certificate (credential issued November 2025).

• Statistics, R, and machine learning coursework later used in research design and product decisions.

Viqarunnisa Noon School and College

Science background before undergraduate study in Japan. This period also included early student leadership and education-community work.

Professor Parag Kulkarni’s Research Lab

Undergraduate research assistant in natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, knowledge graphs, and applied artificial intelligence.

• Conducted undergraduate research under Professor Parag Kulkarni in natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, knowledge graphs, and applied artificial intelligence.
• Participated in weekly research meetings, research planning, idea development, study design, and academic writing.
• Contributed to research on extractive and abstractive summarization, sentiment analysis, trend analysis, knowledge graphs, and NLP for low-resource languages.
• Co-authored published research on graph-based text summarization for human resource management tasks.
• Co-authored research on augmenting patent summarization with large language models and knowledge graphs, evaluated using automatic metrics and human assessment.
• Developed independent research experience by initiating and leading an automated essay-scoring project during the final year of the degree.

• Graph-based summarization for HRM (NLPIR 2024) →
• Patent summarization with a knowledge graph (LKM@IJCAI 2024) →
• Automated essay-scoring manuscripts →

Human-AI interaction and real-world evaluation

• Continues independent research on how people use AI-enabled tools in real products.
• Asks whether recommendations, explanations, personalization, and human support change decisions, trust, and task completion.
• Does not treat product observation as a completed formal human-subjects study unless ethics procedures are later documented.

Tokyo International University

Supported undergraduate information-technology courses.

• Supported undergraduate courses in Foundations of Python, IT Project Management, and related information-technology coursework.
• Assisted classes of up to 150 students from more than 120 countries.
• Helped students with programming exercises, presentations, attendance, class activities, and course-related questions.
• Adapted explanations to different levels of technical knowledge, communication styles, and learning needs.
• Supported students in understanding Python fundamentals, project-management concepts, and practical technology applications.

Maple Inc.

• Teaches English full-time to Japanese professionals and Japanese children.
• Plans, delivers, and revises monthly lessons based on learner progress and classroom observation.
• Uses games, activities, and adaptive instruction to support different ages, attention spans, proficiency levels, and learning styles.
• Adjusts teaching methods based on student engagement and observed learning needs.

The Abroad Company

Co-founded The Abroad Company and leads products that support students through study-abroad and international applications. The co-founder role is dated October 2025. AbroadMates itself began earlier, in 2022.

• Leads product strategy, user experience, research direction, and early-stage operations.
• Launched AbroadMates, a study-abroad mentorship platform for paid 1:1 conversations.
• Leads ApplicationMate, an AI-supported application-planning platform for deadlines, essays, and scholarships.
• Leads an 11-person distributed team across Japan, the United States, Canada, Bangladesh, and Italy.

Guidable Inc.

• Designed internal surveys, collected data, and used R for analysis.
• Researched sources, drafted and edited articles, and published to WordPress with SEO settings.

TIU Data Science and Analytics Club

• Founded a student community for data science, analytics, and AI; later the department’s student association.
• Built a level-based curriculum with faculty; more than 70 students completed the pathway.

Bangladesh Student Association of TIU

• Founded the association because no Bangladeshi student community existed on campus.
• Helped incoming students and organized cultural festivals for four years.

Women Opportunities

Founded a community that shared educational, professional, scholarship, and leadership opportunities with women. The work is currently paused. She may return to it later.

Superwoman: A She Learning Platform

The e-learning initiative she started so women could learn practical business skills.

English Olympiad

Dhaka divisional coordinator, April 2017 — September 2022. Head of Sponsorship, November 2018 — January 2022.

National Curriculum and Textbook Board, Bangladesh

Developed assignments for Bangladesh’s online education and evaluation during COVID-19.

Worldwide Organization for Charity

Volunteered, then helped plan programs including an unfinished coding initiative for children.

Tokyo International University

Full-tuition undergraduate scholarship covering the Digital Business and Innovation degree.

Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)

Honors scholarship for privately-financed international students.

English Olympiad

Leadership award from the English Olympiad.