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Shafiq Joty
Senior Research Director
Salesforce AI Research
Office: 181 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301, United States
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Associate Professor (On leave since Aug'22)
NTU Natural Language Processing Group
Office: Block N4, 02c-79
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
NTU
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Short Biography
Senior Research Director,
Salesforce AI Research
Palo Alto, USA [Feb'25 - ]
Associate Professor (tenured, on leave since Aug 2022),
Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
Singapore [Mar'22 - ]
Research Director,
Salesforce AI Research
Palo Alto, USA [Sep'22 - Jan'25]
Senior Research Manager (part time),
Salesforce AI Research, Singapore [Feb'19 - Aug'22]
Assistant Professor,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
Singapore [Jul'17 - Feb'22]
Research Scientist,
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI),
Doha [Jan'14 - Jul'17]
PhD in Computer Science,
University of British Columbia (UBC),
Vancouver [Sep'08 - Feb'14]
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Multi-lingual NLP (Machine Translation, Cross-lingual tasks)
Multi-modal NLP (NLP+Code, NLP+Vision)
Robust/adversarial NLP
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
News
25 Feb 25
Ruochen Zhao
and
Chengwei Qin
have recently graduated and joined Apple (Research Engineer) and HKUST (Asst. Prof), respectively. Congrats!
25 Feb 25
Received a presidential award FY'25 from Salesforce (one of the 0.5% employees!)
20 Feb 25
Released
Process DPO from Pseudo Feedback
,
Fin-DAP
6 Oct 24
Released
SFR-RAG
,
SFR-Judge
,
GemFilter
,
FaithEval
, and
CRM Benchmarks
20 Apr 24
Gave in-person invited talk at
JHU CSLP
. Thanks Kevin Duh, Jason Eisner and Philipp Koehn for inviting me.
3 Sep 23
Gave a tutorial on
LLM+Vis at EMNLP-23
and four keynotes on LLMs: (a)
LLM-AI workshop @KDD-23,
(b)
KAUST Research Conference,
(c)
QCRI LLM Seminar
, and (d)
Taming LLMs workshop @SIGDIAL-23
(slides)
30 Jun 23
Released XGen-7B LLM that supports 8K sequence length (
Code
,
Blog
).
Good at both text and code, and specially on long sequence tasks.
20 Feb 23
I am a PC co-chair for SIGDIAL-2023, an SAC for EMNLP-23, AC for ICLR-23, NeurIPS-23 and ACL-23