Short Biography

  • 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]

  • 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
  • Probabilistic Graphical Models
  • Reinforcement Learning

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