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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


Postdocs at NTU

- None at present

Current Graduate Students

  • Mathieu Ravaut [PhD, Jan, 2021 - ] (Co-supervision) [Papers: ACL-22, EMNLP-22, ACL-23] SDSC dissertation fellowship
  • Chen Hailin [PhD, Jan, 2021 - ] (Co-supervisor, Salesforce-NTU) [Papers: EMNLP-22, 2* EMNLP-23]
  • Chengwei Qin [PhD, Jan, 2021 - ] (Co-supervision) [Papers: ICLR-22, ACL-22, ACL-23, 2*EMNLP-23]
  • Esther (Ruochen) Zhao [PhD, Jan, 2021 - ] (Co-supervision) [Papers: 2*ACL-23, EMNLP-23] AI.SG PhD fellowship
  • Li Xingxuan [PhD, Aug, 2021 - ] (Co-supervision) [Papers: 2*ACL-23, EMNLP-23]
  • Bosheng Ding [PhD, Jan, 2020 - ] (Co-supervision) [Papers: EMNLP-20, ACL-21, ACL-22, ACL-23, EMNLP-23]

Graduate Students (Thesis submitted)

  • Wang Weishi [PhD, Aug, 2019 - ] (Co-supervisor, Salesforce-NTU) [Papers: EMNLP-20, EMNLP-21, FSE-23, 2*EMNLP-23]

Undergraduate Students (FYP, URECA)

- None at present

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
  • 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
Undergraduate (FYP)