Contributed to multiple open-source projects including LLM360, Texar, Forte, and Stave; published numerous papers on topics such as event semantics modeling, anaphora resolution, and script modeling; organized CASL workshops.
Research Experience
Formerly Head of Engineering at Petuum Inc.; currently the Director of the IFM SV Lab, leading the development of LLM360, K2, and Jais; leads the LLM training team at MBZUAI.
Education
PhD in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Professors Teruko Mitamura and Eduard Hovy; Bachelor's degree in Computing from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, supervised by Professor Qin Lu.
Background
Research interests include Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. Currently, he is the Director of the Institute of Foundation Models Silicon Valley Lab, leading the development of projects such as LLM360, K2, and Jais.
Miscellany
Interested in combining machine learning techniques with linguistic insights to solve problems; passionate about developing high-quality NLP toolkits.