Scholar
Jan Christian Blaise Cruz
Google Scholar ID: iBuxBEUAAAAJ
MBZUAI, McGill University, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
Citations & Impact
Citations
572
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
20
Co-authors
10
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published several papers such as SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages (EMNLP 2024); Multilingual Large Language Models Are Not (Yet) Code-Switchers (EMNLP 2023); Improving Large-scale Language Models and Resources for Filipino (LREC 2022). Also involved in projects like FilBench, MoMentS, and SEA-VL.
Research Experience
- Lead Research Engineer at Samsung Research in the Philippines, working on low-resource machine translation and dialogue generation. Also affiliated with the University of the Philippines, De La Salle University, and Senti AI.
Education
- PhD student at MBZUAI, supervised by Dr. Alham Fikri Aji and Prof. Thamar Solorio.
Background
- Research interests include multilinguality and low-resource languages. Particularly interested in understanding the behavior of models under low-resource multilingual domains. Research areas cover code switching, resources & evaluation, and applications in low-resource settings.
Miscellany
- Personal website includes a blog and photography portfolio.
