Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants

🌟 2024: Unlocking Emergent Modularity in Large Language Models received NAACL Outstanding Paper Award (11 receiving various awards out of 2434 submissions)
2022: Running ahead of evolution — AI-based simulation for predicting future high-risk SARS-CoV-2 variants received ACM Gordon Bell COVID Finalist
🌟 2021: Beyond Fully-Connected Layers with Quaternions: Parameterization of Hypercomplex Multiplications with $1/n$ Parameters received ICLR Conference Outstanding Paper Award (8 out of 2997 submissions)
2021: Microsoft Research Montreal & Mila Research Grant (as PI), CAD 65,000, Canada
2020: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Energy Management Competition, 1st Place
2019.Dec: Google’s Natural Question Answering, RikiNet, 1st Place, 1st Superhuman Performance
2019: Microsoft AI for Earth Grant (as PI), USD 8,000, USA
2017-2018: IVADO Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canada
2016: Amazon AWS for Research (as PI), USD 8,000, USA
2015: Microsoft Azure Research Award (as PI), USD 20,000, USA
2012-2016: NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering Ph.D. Scholarship (50% more stipend than ordinary scholarships), Singapore
2012: Master’s Degree with Distinction, University of Otago, New Zealand
2011: Ministry of Science + Innovation Scholarship, NZD 20,000, New Zealand

Work Experience

Research Scientist (PI)

Shanghai AI Lab

Aug 2024 – Present Shanghai, China

Working on System-2 deep learning and large language model

Visiting Scholar (PI)

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 Hong Kong, China

Working on deep learning and large language model

Researcher (PI)

Feb 2022 – Aug 2023 Beijing, China

Working on deep learning and large language model

Postdoc

Jan 2021 – Feb 2022 Montreal, Canada

Supervised by Yoshua Bengio

IVADO Postdoc

Sep 2017 – Dec 2020 Montreal, Canada

Supervised by Chris Pal

Ph.D. in Computer Science

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Aug 2012 – Jul 2017 Singapore

Supervised by Tat-Seng Chua

M.Sc. in Computer Science (Distinction)

University of Otago

Jul 2011 – Jul 2012 Dunedin, New Zealand