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Research Experience
During Ph.D., worked at AWS AI Labs, Meta AI Research, and Grammarly Research. Prior to NYU, developed Information Retrieval systems at the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore.
Education
Ph.D. in Data Science from New York University, supervised by Sam Bowman and Kyunghyun Cho; B.S. in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Background
An applied scientist, currently working on building safeguards for foundational models at Amazon Bedrock in AWS AI Labs. Research interests include applying transfer/multi-task learning methods to Natural Language Understanding (NLU) problems.
Miscellany
Originally from Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Queer non-binary. Can be referred to as “Phu” (the 'h' sound is silent in both first and last name). Fun fact: does not have a family name.