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Technical Sharing Session on LLM Safeguarding
IMDA’s Technical Sharing Session is a regular platform where esteemed researchers are invited to present on the latest emerging tech topics.
About IMDA’s Technical Sharing Session
IMDA’s Technical Sharing Session is a regular platform where esteemed researchers are invited to present on the latest emerging tech topics, and attendees can expect to:
- Gain invaluable insights from esteemed experts on how to contribute to safeguarding of LLMs
- Network with like-minded technical experts
- Uncover opportunities for collaboration and innovation
Key takeaways
Date and time
15 Jul 2024, 2:30pm - 5:00pm
Summary
From this session, you would have the opportunity to unpack the following:
- Multilingual and multimodal data hub and benchmarking for Southeast Asian languages
- Culturally-diverse multilingual visual question answering benchmarks
Featured guests
Alham Fikri Aji
Assistant Professor, MBZUAI
Holy Lovenia
Senior Research Engineer, AI Singapore
Daniel Dahlmeier
Chief Data Scientist, SAP
Lye Jia Jun
Student Researcher
Alex Chien
Student Researcher
Zhao Wu Wong
Student Researcher
Tien Cheng Oh
Student Researcher
Holy Lovenia
Senior Research Engineer, AI Singapore
Daniel Dahlmeier
Chief Data Scientist, SAP
Lye Jia Jun
Student Researcher
Alex Chien
Student Researcher
Zhao Wu Wong
Student Researcher
Tien Cheng Oh
Student Researcher
Speakers
Alham Fikri Aji
Assistant Professor, MBZUAI
Alham Fikri Aji is an Assistant Professor at MBZUAI, holding a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation. His doctoral research, supervised by Dr. Kenneth Heafield and Dr. Rico Sennrich, focused on enhancing the training and inference speed of machine translation.
Dr. Aji's current research centers around multilingual, low-resource, and low-compute Natural Language Processing (NLP). His recent work has been in developing diverse multilingual large language models. and multilingual NLP resources, particularly for underrepresented languages, with a specific emphasis on Indonesian. He has worked at Amazon, Google, and Apple in the past.
Holy Lovenia
Senior Research Engineer, AI Singapore
Holy Lovenia is a Senior Research Engineer at AI Singapore, specialising in multilingualism in Southeast Asian languages and regions. She actively engages in NLP research for Indonesian indigenous languages through IndoNLP, contributing to projects such as NusaCrowd and NusaWrites.
Holy obtained her MPhil degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2023, focusing on vision-language and conversational NLP. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia in 2019, and worked on various NLP, speech synthesis, and paralinguistics projects with Prosa.ai in Indonesia.