Scholar
Alex Lamb
Google Scholar ID: BFzFy1YAAAAJ
Tsinghua University, Microsoft Research (NYC), Université de Montréal, Google Brain
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,048
H-index
25
i10-index
34
Publications
20
Co-authors
59
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Former Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR-NYC) under John Langford.
- Interned at Google Brain Tokyo with David Ha during PhD.
- Interned at Preferred Networks with Takeru Miyato.
- Worked at the National Institute of Informatics with Tarin Clanuwat.
- Applied Research Scientist at Amazon (2013–2015), developing demand forecasting algorithms.
Background
- Currently an Assistant Professor at the AI College, Tsinghua University.
- Research lies at the intersection of developing new machine learning algorithms and novel applications.
- Algorithmic interests: (1) making deep networks more modular and richly structured; (2) improving generalization under domain shifts.
- Draws functional inspiration from neuroscience and psychology to enhance real-world task performance.
- Broad application interests; recent work focuses on historical Japanese documents, leading to KuroNet—a public service that helps modern Japanese readers understand classical texts.
- Developed Twitter text classifiers for flu outbreak monitoring during undergraduate studies.
