Postdoctoral Fellows

2022 Dr.Zhuang Li (Monash University)
Topic: Socio-Cultural NLP, Semantic Parsing, LLMs
2021 Dr. TongTong Wu (Monash University)
Topic: LLMs, Continual Learning
2021 Dr. Devin Hua (Monash University)
Topic: Agents, Few-Shot and In-Context Learning, LLMs


PhD Students

2024 Pinaki Das (IITB-Monash)
Topic: Machine Translation
2024 Viet Thanh Pham (Monash University)
Topic: Safety and Alignment of LLMs
2024 Akide Liu (Monash University)
Topic: Efficient LLMs, Multimodal Foundation Models
2023 Linhao Luo (Monash University)
Topic: Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, Reasoning
2023 Minghan Wang (Monash University)
Topic: Speech-text Foundation Models
2023 Hao Yang (Monash University)
Topic: Safety and Alignjment of Foundation Models
2023 Tien Manh Luong (Monash University)
Topic: Speech-text Foundation Models
2023 Farshad Noravesh (Monash University)
Topic: Biomedical Text Processing
2021 Shilin Qu (Monash University)
Topic: Knowledge Graphs, LLMs
2021 Lin Chuang (Monash University)
Topic: Multimodal Learning
2021 Jinming Zhao (Monash University)
Topic: Speech Translation
2021 Haolan Zhan (Monash University)
Topic: Dialogue Systems
2020 Tao Feng (Monash University)
Topic: Dialogue Systems
2020 Minghao Wu (Monash University)
Topic: Machine Translation


Alumni

2020 - 2024 Xiaoyu Guo (PhD, Monash University)
Topic: Question Asnwering, Reasoning, LLMs
Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
2020 - 2024 Fatemeh Shiri (RF,Monash University)
Topic: Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, Multimodal Foundation Models
Senior Applied Scientist, OpenStream AI
2020 - 2024 Farhad Moghimifar (RF,Monash University)
Topic: Agents, RAG, Multimodal Foundation Models
Senior Applied Scientist, Oracle Labs
2020 - 2023 Samitha Herath (RF,Monash University)
Topic: Learning with Less Labels
Senior Machine Learning Specialist, Additive Assurance
2021 - 2022 Christian Simon (RF,Monash University)
Topic: Learning with Less Labels
Research Scientist, Sony
2019 - 2023 Trang Vu (PhD,Monash University)
Topic: Learning in Low-Resource Conditions
Lecturer, Monash University
2019 - 2023 Islam Nassar (PhD,Monash University)
Topic: Vision-Language Models and Learning in Low-Resource Conditions
Principal Applied Scientist, Oracle Labs
2019 - 2023 Zhuang Li (PhD,Monash University)
Topic: Semantic Parsing
Research Fellow, Monash University
2021 - 2023 Sameen Maruf (RF,Monash University)
Topic: Explainable AI
Senior AI Scientist, Oracle Labs
2018 - 2022 Snow Situ (PhD,Monash University)
Topic: Explainable AI
Senior AI Scientist, Oracle Labs
2018 - 2022 Xuanli He (PhD,Monash University)
Topic: Context-aware Natural Language Understanding and Generation
Research Fellow, UCL
2017 - 2021 Najam Zaidi (PhD,Monash University)
Topic: Studies on Text Generation in Neural Sequence Models
Senior AI Scientist, Oracle Labs
2017 - 2021 Narjes Askarian (PhD,Monash University)
Topic: Low Data Visual Question Answering
NLP Scientist, SEEK
2020 - 2021 Dr. Miao Zhang (Research Fellow,Monash University)
Assistant Prof, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
2018 - 2021 Dr. Philip Arthur (Research Fellow,Monash University)
Principal Applied Scientist, Oracle Labs
2016 - 2021 Diptesh Kanojia (IITB-Monash)
Lecturer at University of Surrey (UK)
2018 - 2021 Fahimeh Saleh (Monash University)
Topic: Machine Translation
Senior Applied Scientist, Oracle Labs
2015 - 2020 Poorya ZareMoodi (PhD, Monash University)
Topic: Neural Machine Translation for Bilingually Low-Resource Scenarios
Senior Manager, Oracle Labs
2019 - 2020 Jinming Zhao (MSc,Monash University)
Topic: Unsupervised Multi-Document Summarisation
2019 - 2020 Kay Wong (Honours, Monash University)
Topic: Context-Dependent Neural Machine Translation
2015 - 2019 Sameen Maruf (Monash University)
Thesis: Document-wide Neural Machine Translation
Research Associate at Monash University
2015 - 2019 Ming Liu (Monash University)
Thesis: Weak Supervision and Active Learning for Natural Language Processing
Lecturer, Deakin University
2017 - 2019 Dr. Daniel Beck (Pstdoctoral Fellow, Melbourne/Monash University)
Senior Lecturer, RMIT
2015 - 2018 Quan Tran (Monash University)
Thesis: Sequence Modelling with Recurrent Neural Networks
Research Scientist, Adobe Research (USA)
2015 - 2018 Cong Duy Vu Hoang (Melbourne University)
Thesis: On the Use of Prior and External Knowledge in Neural Sequence Models
Principal Applied , Oracle Labs
2014 - 2018 Bo Chen (Monash University)
Thesis Topic: Learning Similarity Measures
Research Associate at The University of Adelaide
2013 - 2018 Mohammad Shamsur Rahman (PhD, Monash University)
Thesis: Analysing Tumour Heterogeneity With Advanced Statistical Models
2017 - 2018 Omar Al Zeidi (MSc ,Monash University)
Thesis: Deep Neural Networks for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
2017 - 2018 Islam Nassar (MSc, Monash University)
Thesis: Automatic Text Simplification of Medical Reports
2017 - 2018 Faik Aydin (Msc, Monash University)
Thesis: Medical Multi-Model Classifiers Under Low Data Strain
2017 - 2018 Paulo Antunes Ventura Filho (Monash University)
Thesis: Benchmarking Domain Adaptation from weak feedback techniques in Machine Translation
2017 - 2018 Trang Vu (Msc, Monash University)
Topic: Automatic Post-Editing of Machine Translation: A Neural Programmer-Interpreter Approach
2017 - 2018 Chenyang Wang (Honours, Monash University)
Topic: Deep Learning for Reading Comprehension
2013 - 2017 Ehsan Shareghi (Monash University)
Topic: Scalable Non-Markovian Sequential Modelling for Natural Language Processing
Research Associate at University of Cambridge
2013 - 2017 Sunil Aryal (Monash University)
Topic: A data-dependent dissimilarity measure: An effective alternative to distance measures
Lecturer at the Federation University
2017 - 2017 Dr. Hadi Akbarzadeh (PostDoctoral Fellow)
Topic: Time Series Analysis, Sequence Mining, Helth Records
Senior Data Scientist in Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research (ISCRR)
2016 - 2017 Dr. Christoph Bergmeir (Monash University)
Topic: Time Series Analysis, Sequence Mining, Helth Records
2016 - 2017 Parya Razmdide (Visiting PhD student)
Topic: Active Learning for Rule-based Machine Translation
2016 - 2017 Benyamin Ahmadniaye (Visiting PhD student)
Topic: Machine Translation for Low-Resource Language-Pairs
2014 - 2015 Zahraa Abdallah (PostDoctoral Fellow)
Topic: Named Entity Recognition, Sentiment Analysis
PostDoctoral Fellow at Monash University
2011 - 2015 Ajay Nagesh (PhD student in IITB-Monash)
Thesis: Exploring Relational Features and Learning under Distant Supervision for Information Extraction Tasks
PostDoctoral Fellow at University of Massachusetts - Amherst
2014 - 2015 Nhat Linh Chu (Honours)
Thesis: Metric Learning for Software Defect Prediction
2014 - 2015 Andisheh Partovi (Honours)
Thesis: Bayesian Changepoint Detection in Textual Data Streams
Research Assistant at Monash
2014 - 2014 Dean J. Rodhouse (Honours)
Thesis: Energy Disaggregation with Aggregate Home Energy Signals
2013 - 2014 Zhaoxiang Cai (Honours)
Thesis: A Statistical Model to Explore ClonalHeterogeneity in Cancer
MSc program at UPenn
2013 - 2014 Milena Mitic (Undergrad)
Software Engineer at Google
2008 - 2013 Baskaran Sankaran (PhD Student in Simon Fraser University)
Thesis: Improvements in Hierarchical Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation
IBM Watson Research Center
2010 - 2012 Marzieh Razavi (MSc Student in Simon Fraser University)
Thesis: Ensembles of diverse clustering-based discriminative dependency parsers
PhD student at EPFL
2012 Balamurali A.R. (PhD student in IITB-Monash), Visiting Student
Samsung Research Lab/em>
2012 Max Craigie (Honours)


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