Shafiq Rayhan Joty

Short Biography

• Research Director, Salesforce AI Research, [Sep'22 - ]
• Associate Professor (tenured, on leave since Aug 2022), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore [Mar'22 - ]
• Senior Research Manager (part time), Salesforce AI Research, Singapore [Feb'19 - Aug'22]
• Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore [Jul'17 - Feb'22]
• Research Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Doha [Jan'14 - Jul'17]
• PhD in Computer Science, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver [Sep'08 - Feb'14]

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

• NLP tools (Syntax, Semantics and Discourse)
• Multi-lingual NLP (Machine Translation, Cross-lingual tasks)
• NLP Applications (QA, Summarization, Dialogue)
• Multi-modal NLP (Image/Video Captioning)
• Robust/adversarial NLP
• NLP for Programming

Machine Learning

• Deep Learning
• Probabilistic Graphical Models
• Reinforcement Learning