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About

I am Michael, a faculty member at Department of Computer Science of National University of Singapore. I spent four wonderful years at Carnegie Mellon University learning from Eduard Hovy and my friends despite that Pittsburgh is covered by snow half of the year. I did my undergrad at Shanghai Jiao Tong University ACM Class.
I had fun using a few TPUs and GPUs for two years under the guidance and generous support of Quoc Le and Thang Luong at Google DeepMind (previously Google Brain).

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Research

Research Directions: I lead the John AI Lab. We explore intuition that comes to us in the broad field of Large Language Models, including resource-efficient AI, Vision Language Models and more exploratory topics.
NUS Students: I enjoy working with students who want to make a contribution in AI research. Feel free to reach out if you are a PhD student or Master student at my university and are interested in working with us. We have openings.
Prospective Students: Please apply to the PhD program at my school. The admission is decided by a committee. You can indicate that you want to work with me during application.

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Some publications

*: equal contribution, †: equal advising.

For an up-to-date and complete list, please check my Google Scholar.

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Review service

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

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Misc.

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