Organizers

Dani is a staff research scientist at DeepMind. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.

Adhiguna Kuncoro is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind and a PhD student in computer science at the University of Oxford, working on machine learning and natural language processing. His work has been awarded a Best Paper Award at ACL 2018, an Outstanding Paper Award at EACL 2017, and a Best Paper Nomination at ACL 2019. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Oxford, and Institut Teknologi Bandung. He is from Jakarta, Indonesia, and enjoys spending time with family and scuba diving.

Wittawat Jitkrittum is a postdoctoral researcher working with Bernhard Schoelkopf at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He completed his PhD study at Gatsby Unit, University College London. He has broad research interests covering kernel methods for comparing distributions, and deep generative models. His work on fast goodness-of-fit test has received a best paper award at NeurIPS 2017. Wittawat grew up in Bangkok, Thailand.

Thang Luong is currently a senior research scientist at Google Brain. He’s interested in using deep learning to solve language problems, specifically machine translation, question answering, and dialogue systems. He obtained his PhD from Stanford University, during which he pioneered the development of neural machine translation (NMT) at both Google and Stanford. He has given a tutorial on NMT at ACL’16, served as an area chair for machine translation at ACL’17, and created NMT’17 (the first workshop on neural machine translation).

Febria is a Machine Learning Program Coordinator that currently onsite at Google Indonesia. She is interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Education, Technology, Communities, and Startups.

NV is a Research Engineer at DeepMind in Mountain View, California. Her applied research interests include off-policy batch reinforcement learning, graph neural networks, systems for machine learning, and machine learning for systems. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she first learned to code and also to skate, both of which now take up most of her time. NV was born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Dr. Hung H. Bui is the Director of VinAI Research, VinGroup, Vietnam. His technical expertise and interests include probabilistic graphical models, deep generative models, Bayesian inference and machine learning, especially models for sequential and relational data with applications in human activity/intent recognition, video understanding and natural language processing. These interests center around the challenging problem of how to make the machine better understand the humans - a problem that plays a central part in intelligent assistive technologies, personal assistance and dialogue management. Before joining VinAI, he was at Google DeepMind, Adobe Research and Nuance Natural Language Understanding Lab, and also spent almost 10 years at the AI Center, SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) where he led the multi-institution research team in developing probabilistic inference technologies for understanding the user activities during the CALO project (at the time, the largest AI project in history, also known as the project that spun off Siri). Going further back in time, he was an assistant professor at Curtin University, Australia (2000 - 2003), Ph.D. graduate in computer science (Curtin, 1998).

Phong is currently visiting researcher in Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, directed by A.M. Turing Award Winner, professor Yoshua Bengio. At Mila, he is working with Prof. Yoshua Bengio and Prof. Aaron Courville in couple projects in disentanglement, anomaly detection, and reinforcement learning. He has 7 years working as industrial AI researcher for Hitachi, based in Tokyo, Japan. His topics were applying machine learning for human activity recognition, automatic control for industrial plants, robotics, etc. He is also consulting organizations in Vietnam to develop AI strategy and grow AI talents. Phong graduated his Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013.

Van is currently a staff at VinAI Research and a teaching assistant at Foreign Trade University. She graduated with honors from Foreign Trade University, where she got the First Prize in Vietnam National Student's Research Award and Prospective Prize for outstanding student with academic research achievements at KOVA Prize. Van was born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Linh is currently Program Lead in AI Lab at FPT-Software, the largest IT service provider in Vietnam. She is in charge of running all AI-related events for FPT-Software and assist Chief AI Officer in many decision making. She graduated two Master degrees in France