Scholar
Philippe Laban
Google Scholar ID: fR5t200AAAAJ
Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,011
H-index
23
i10-index
31
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers including 'Writing Quality Reward Models', 'SummaC', and others, presented at various international conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, CHI, etc.
Research Experience
- Currently a Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, based in New York.
Education
- Completed Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2021 from UC Berkeley, advised by Marti Hearst and John Canny.
Background
- Research interests: Natural Language Processing (about 70%) and Human-Computer Interaction (about 30%). Passionate about the future of reading and writing interfaces, believing NLP technology will revolutionize how we consume (read) and create (write) information. Specific tasks include summarization, simplification, and LLM evaluation/benchmarking.
Miscellany
- Personal interests include discussing with researchers, providing technical opinions to journalists, offering technical expertise to startups, and meeting like-minded people working on NLP/HCI in NYC.
Co-authors