Students
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The future depends on some graduate student who is deeply suspicious of everything I have said.
— Geoffrey Hinton
I am now full-time at Salesforce AI Research and on long-term leave from NTU; I will not take any new students
Current Graduate Students
- Fangkai Jiao [PhD, Aug, 2022 - ] (Co-supervision) [Papers: 2*NAACL-24, TPAMI-24]
- Li Xingxuan [PhD, Aug, 2021 - ] (Co-supervision) [Papers: 2*ACL-23, EMNLP-23, ICLR-24]
Thesis Submitted
- Ruochen Zhao [PhD, Jan, 2021 - Jul, 2024] (Co-supervision) [Papers: 2*ACL-23, EMNLP-23, ICLR-24, EACL-24] AISG PhD fellowship
- Chen Hailin [PhD, Jan, 2021 - Jul, 2024] (Co-supervisor, Salesforce-NTU) [Papers: EMNLP-22, 2* EMNLP-23, ICLR-24]
- Chengwei Qin [PhD, Jan, 2021 - ] (Co-supervision) [Papers: ICLR-22, ACL-22, ACL-23, 2*EMNLP-23, NAACL-24, ACL-24, EMNLP-24]
Alumni
PhD
- Nguyen Thanh Tung [Aug, 2017 - Jul, 2021]
- Papers: NAACL-19, 2*ACL-20, NAACL-21, ACL-21, ICML-21
- Thesis: Structured Pointing Networks for Natural Language Understanding
- First Employment: Research Scientist, I2R A-star, Singapore
- Tasnim Mohiuddin [Jan, 2018 - Dec, 2021] 1st runner up for best thesis award 2022
- Papers: ACL-18, EMNLP-19, 2*NAACL-19, EMNLP-20, CL-18, CL-20, EACL-21, 2*ACL-21, EMNLP-22
- Thesis: Neural Machine Translation with Limited Resources
- First Employment: NLP Researcher, Huawei Research Center, Singapore
- Samson Tan [PhD @NUS, Aug, 2019 - Apr, 2022] (Company supervisor, Salesforce-NUS) NUS Dean's Research Excellence Award 2021, Research Achievement Award, 2020
- Papers: ACL-20, EMNLP-20, NAACL-21, ACL-21, ACL-22
- Thesis: Linguistically-Inclusive Natural Language Processing
- First Employment: Applied Scientist, Amazon AWS AI Research & Education, US
- Prathyusha Jwalapuram [PhD, Aug, 2018 - Jul, 2022] A*STAR International Fellowship (AIF) (for post-doc)
- Papers: ACL-19, EMNLP-19, AAAI-20, EMNLP-20, EACL-21, ACL-22
- Thesis: Building Generalizable Models for Discourse Phenomena Evaluation and Machine Translation
- First Employment: Research Scientist, Rakuten, Singapore
- Lin Xiang [PhD, Aug, 2018 - Dec, 2022]
- Papers: ACL-19, EMNLP-19, EACL-21, ICML-21, ACL-22
- Thesis: Natural Language Processing as Autoregressive Generation
- First Employment: Quantitative/NLP Researcher, GIC, Singapore
- M Saiful Bari [PhD, Jan, 2019 - Dec, 2022]
- Papers: ACL-19, AAAI-20, EMNLP-20, 2*ACL-21, EMNLP-21, ICLR-22, 3*ACL-23]
- Thesis: Transfer Learning for Language Model Adaptation
- First Employment: Senior Research Scientist, Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA), KSA
- Han-Cheol Moon [PhD, Jan, 2019 - Dec, 2022]
- Papers: EMNLP-19, KDD-22, ACL-23]
- Thesis: Toward Robust Natural Language Systems
- First Employment: ML engineer, Samsung Research, South Korea
- Linlin Liu [PhD, Jan, 2019 - Dec, 2022] (Co-supervision)
- Papers: EMNLP-19, EMNLP-20, 2*ACL-21, EMNLP-22, ACL-23
- Thesis: Towards Robust Natural Language and Image Processing in Low-Resource Scenarios
- First Employment: Data Scientist, Cubist Systematic Strategies, Singapore
- Wang Weishi [PhD, Aug, 2019 - Dec, 2022] (Co-supervisor, Salesforce-NTU)
- Papers: EMNLP-20, EMNLP-21, FSE-23, 2*EMNLP-23]
- Thesis: Neural Code Generation for Robust Automatic Program Repair
- First Employment: Data Scientist, SAP, Singapore
- Xuan Phi Nguyen [PhD, Aug, 2019 - Mar, 2023]
- Papers: NeurIPS-20, ICLR-20, 2*ACL-20, NAACL-21, ACL-21, ICML-21, ICLR-22, NeurIPS-22, ICASSP-23
- Thesis: Improving Neural Machine Translation: Data Centric Approaches ( SDSC dissertation fellowship 2022, Nominated for for best SCSE thesis award 2023 (under evaluation) )
- First Employment: Ali Star, Alibaba DAMO, Singapore
- Bosheng Ding [PhD, Jan, 2020 - Apr, 2024] (Co-supervier Alibaba-NTU)
- Papers: EMNLP-20, ACL-21, ACL-22, ACL-23, EMNLP-23, NAACL-24, ICLR-24
- Thesis: Advancing Low Resource Information Extraction and Dialogue System Using Data Efficient Methods
- Mathieu Ravaut [PhD, Jan, 2021 - Jul, 2024]
- Papers: ACL-22, EMNLP-22, ACL-23, ACL-24]
- Thesis: Neural Abstractive Summarization: Improvements at the Sequence-Level ( SDSC dissertation fellowship )
- First Employment: Research Scientist, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)
Undergraduate (FYP)
- DO XUAN LONG (URECA & FYP) [Aug, 2021 - Jul, 2023] [Papers: ACL-22 (F), COLING-22, EMNLP-22, ACL-23] Outstanding Undergraduate Award
- TAN JIA QING (URECA) [Aug, 2021 - Jul, 2022] [Papers: ACL-22 (F)]
- Angshuk Dutta (FYP) [Aug, 2021 - May, 2022]
- Timothy Low (FYP) [Aug, 2021 - May, 2022]
- Rixie Tiffany Ko Leong [Jan, 2021 - Dec, 2021] [Papers: ACL-22]
- Han Simeng [FYP and RA, Mar, 2019 - Jul, 2021] [Papers: EMNLP-19, NAACL-21, ICML-21] Best Final Year Thesis Gold Medal
[ Current Position: PhD student in CS @ Yale University, USA] - Shen Youlin [Mar, 2020 - Dec, 2020] [Papers: EMNLP-20]