Jey Lau
Associate Professor
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJey Lau is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne with 13 years of experience spanning academic research and industry R&D in AI, NLP, deep learning, generation, and misinformation. He progressed from software developer roles into research positions at National Institute of Informatics, King’s College London and IBM before returning to Melbourne academia, bringing practical production experience to his scholarly work. His PhD in Engineering Science underpins a research agenda that blends statistical and neural approaches to language, with a particular interest in the interplay between generative models and misinformation. Based in Melbourne, he is known for translating rigorous theoretical insights into applied systems and for mentoring the next generation of NLP researchers.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, Chinese, Malay, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (57)
transformers10
pytorch10
gensim10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
language-model10
word2vec10
python10
corpus10
word-embeddings10
machine-learning10
fasttext10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jhlau/doc2vec
Jun 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
jhlau/topic_interpretability
May 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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