Mathieu Ravaut
Hello!
I am a 3rd-year PhD student in computer science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) in Singapore. I work in NTU-NLP lab under the supervision of
Dr. Shafiq Joty.
My research is funded by a SINGA scholarship,
and I am attached to ASTAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) where I am supervised
by Dr. Nancy Chen.
My research interest is currently in natural language processing (NLP), after extensive experience in machine learning for healthcare.
Within NLP, I am doing my PhD in abstractive text summarization.
Specifically, I am interested in several aspects of summarization: second-stage methods which learn summarization at the entire
sequence-level rather than at the token level, unsupervised and few-shot summarization, and controllable summarization.
Prior to NTU, I worked as a Machine Learning Research Scientist at Layer 6 AI, TD Bank's
AI lab in Toronto. At Layer 6, I worked on applied research projects in machine learning for healthcare in collaboration
with ICES, and NLP. My research at Layer 6 has been featured in Nature
and JAMA.
I hold a Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) from the
University of Toronto with a concentration in Data Science.
Before UofT, I studied Engineering (specialized in applied mathematics) at Ecole Centrale Paris,
a French Engineering School which is now known as CentraleSupelec and part of the newly created
Universite Paris-Saclay. During my Engineering studies I interned at
Thales and in ASTAR I2R's Visual Computing Lab in Singapore.
Previously, I studied classe preparatoire (a very French thing)
in mathematics and physics at Lycee Montaigne in Bordeaux.
- I've lived in 10 cities across 7 countries. Singapore is my favorite city so far.
- I mostly wear black t-shirts.
- Like a lot of people, I started machine learning with Andrew Ng's course back in 2016. Since then, I completed more than 10 MOOCs, and I strongly advocate for online education.
- I love NLP since I discovered word2vec in 2017.