Hello!
I am currently a third-year PhD Candidate in Natural Language Processing at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, in NTU-NLP group. I am advised by Dr. Shafiq Joty and Dr. Aixin Sun. Through my SINGA scholarship, I am also attached at ASTAR-I2R Human Language and Technology (HLT) Lab, where I am supervised by Dr. Nancy Chen. As of Spring 2023 I am doing an internship at Huawei Noah Ark Lab in Singapore.

My PhD focus is on abstractive text summarization. Specifically, I am interested in how to build better summarization systems by going beyond the standard framework of MLE with token-level cross-entropy loss and teacher forcing. For instance, I have explored in depth how to learn summarization at the entire summary level (see my papers SummaReranker, SummaFusion, and SummScore). I am also interested in controllable summarization, unsupervised summarization and few-shot summarization.

I am extremely passionate about machine learning, convinced that we are going through an AI revolution, and have been in this area since 2016. Before PhD, I obtained a MSc in Applied Computing (MScAC) from University of Toronto Department of Computer Science and a MEng from Ecole Centrale Paris (a leading French Engineering School now known as CentraleSupelec and part of the newly formed Paris Saclay University). I also worked full-time as Machine Learning Research Scientist at Layer 6 AI, TD Bank’s AI lab in Toronto, where my research was featured in Nature and I interned at Thales and ASTAR-I2R Visual Computing Lab in Singapore. In my spare time, I like participating in machine learning competitions like those hosted by Kaggle.

Research Community Service:
Reviewer (journals): IEEE/ACM TASLP (2021-)
Reviewer (conferences): SIGDIAL 2023, CoNLL 2023, AACL 2023