Hou Chan
Research Scientist at DAMO Academy
Singapore
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Top SchoolHou Chan is a research scientist at Alibaba DAMO Academy's Language Technology Lab with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and applied AI. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has been a visiting PhD researcher at Northeastern University, and served as a visiting postdoc at UIUC and a lecturer at the University of Macau. His work focuses on language and science AI, combining deep academic rigor with practical lab-driven development that targets real-world language technologies. Based in Singapore, he brings international research collaboration experience across Hong Kong, the U.S., and Macau, and maintains a public portfolio of his work at kenchan0226.github.io. An understated strength is his track record of moving between teaching, postdoctoral research, and industry research roles, which helps him translate complex ideas into teachable and deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting PhD Student, Computer Science, Visiting PhD Student, Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
flamingo6
sentence6
rewriting6
summarization5
acl4
nlp4
computer-vision4
deep-learning3
natural-language-processing3
otter3
pytorch3
text-summarization2
language-model2
stock2
benchmark2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kenchan0226/control-sum-cmdp
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
kenchan0226/dual_view_review_sum
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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