Shafiq Joty

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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Research Director, Salesforce AI Research Palo Alto, USA [Sep'22 - ]

Associate Professor (tenured, on leave since Aug 2022), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore [Mar'22 - ]

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]

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Multi-lingual NLP (Machine Translation, Cross-lingual tasks)

Multi-modal NLP (NLP+Code, NLP+Vision)

Robust/adversarial NLP

Deep Learning

Probabilistic Graphical Models

Reinforcement Learning

3 Sep 23Gave 4 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)
15 Jul 23 Tasnim Mohiuddin became 1st runner up for the SCSE best PhD thesis award 2022
DO XUAN LONG (undergrad) has been awarded SPMS Outstanding Undergraduate Award 2023
30 Jun 23Released XGen-7B LLM that supports 8K sequence length (Code, Blog).
Good at both text and code, and specially on long sequence tasks.
16 Jul 23Xuan Phi, Lin Xiang, Saiful Bari, Han-Cheol Moon, and Linlin Liu defended their PhD theses successfully!
20 Feb 23I am a PC co-chair for SIGDIAL-2023, an SAC for EMNLP-23, AC for ICLR-23, NeurIPS-23 and ACL-23
14 Feb 23I am a part of ICLR-23 and NAACL-22 best paper selection committees.
1 Sep 22I am now full time at Salesforce AI Research and on long-term leave from NTU.
20 Jul 22Gave a keynote at NLPIR