shafiq

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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Short Biography

  • Research Director, Salesforce AI Research, [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]

    • Research Interests

    Natural Language Processing

  • NLP tools (Syntax, Semantics and Discourse)
  • Multi-lingual NLP (Machine Translation, Cross-lingual tasks)
  • NLP Applications (QA, Summarization, Dialogue)
  • Multi-modal NLP (Image/Video Captioning)
  • Robust/adversarial NLP
  • NLP for Programming

    • Machine Learning

  • Deep Learning
  • Probabilistic Graphical Models
  • Reinforcement Learning

    • News

    • 1 Dec 23Service note: I prefer to submit my papers to (and review for) venues that are open-access (OA). I usually will not review for non-OA venues.
    • 20 Feb 23I am a PC co-chair for SIGDIAL-2023, an 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 Oct 22We are giving a tutorial on NLP for Visualization at the IEEE Visualization 2022 Conference.
    • 1 Sep 22I am now full time at Salesforce AI Research and on long-term leave from NTU.
    • 20 Aug 22I have been awarded Tier-2 MOE grant for "Language Model Adaptation for Low-Resource Languages and Dialects". Thanks MOE!
    • 20 Jul 22I will give a keynote at NLPIR
    • 3 Jun 22 Prathyusha Jwalapuram has been awarded A*STAR International Fellowship (AIF) (for post-doc). Congratulations!