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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, especially in core LLM research.
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. If you are thinking about working with us, please feel free to apply to our PhD program.
Due to the sheer number of emails, I won't be able to reply to inquiries about openings in our lab. We do have openings for 2025 Fall, 2026 Spring and 2026 Fall. It would be great if you could get a warm introduction from one of my collaborators or one of my students. Thank you!

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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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Lyrics of the moment

Life is sad
Life is a bust
All ya can do is do what you must
You do what you must do and you do it well
I’ll do it for you, honey baby
Can’t you tell?

- Buckets of Rain by Bob Dylan

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Misc.

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