Resume
Academic Achievements
- Please check Google Scholar for an up-to-date list of publications.
Research Experience
- During Ph.D., worked at AWS AI Labs, Meta AI Research, and Grammarly Research. Prior to NYU, developed Information Retrieval systems at the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore.
Education
- Ph.D. in Data Science from New York University, supervised by Sam Bowman and Kyunghyun Cho; B.S. in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Background
- An applied scientist, currently working on building safeguards for foundational models at Amazon Bedrock in AWS AI Labs. Research interests include applying transfer/multi-task learning methods to Natural Language Understanding (NLU) problems.
Miscellany
- Originally from Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Queer non-binary. Can be referred to as “Phu” (the 'h' sound is silent in both first and last name). Fun fact: does not have a family name.