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About

I am Michael, a faculty at School of Computing, National University of Singapore. I spent four wonderful years for Master and PhD at Carnegie Mellon University learning from Eduard Hovy and friends. I got my undergrad degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University ACM Class.
I enjoyed working with Quoc Le and Thang Luong at Google DeepMind (previously Google Brain) for 2 years, in the golden days of Google.
My name in Chinese is 谢其哲.

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Research & Hiring

Research Directions: Please see the Direction section of our lab page. Generally, we seek interesting questions and solutions in the field of AI.
NUS PhD Students: Feel free to reach out to me or my students.
Prospective Students: We prefer working with students who will stay with us for at least 3 years. Please feel free to apply to our PhD program.

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Old first-author papers

*: equal contribution

For a full list of papers that I advise or participate in: Check Google Scholar or my lab page.

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Review service

• Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, JMLR, etc.
• Area Chair: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML.

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Misc.

• Interview of Geoff Hinton: Nice advice on how to do great research