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Technical Sharing Session on Green Computing
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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.

Date and time
LocationInfocomm Media Development Authority[br/]Level 4 Communal Cafe[br/]10 Pasir Panjang Road[br/]Mapletree Business City
Link to register Register here

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

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Technical sharing session

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
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Alham Fikri Aji

Assistant Professor, MBZUAI

Holy Lovenia
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Holy Lovenia

Senior Research Engineer, AI Singapore

Daniel Dahlmeier
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Daniel Dahlmeier

Chief Data Scientist, SAP

Lye Jia Jun
SPEAKER

Lye Jia Jun

Student Researcher

Alex Chien
SPEAKER

Alex Chien

Student Researcher

Zhao Wu Wong
SPEAKER

Zhao Wu Wong

Student Researcher

Tien Cheng Oh
SPEAKER

Tien Cheng Oh

Student Researcher

Speakers

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Alham Fikri Aji

Alham Fikri Aji

Assistant Professor, MBZUAI

SPEAKER

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

Holy Lovenia

Senior Research Engineer, AI Singapore

SPEAKER

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.