About

Viet Lai is a researcher at Adobe Research. Before that he worked at Kensho Technologies, the AI Research Hub of S&P Global. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Oregon and his master degree in Computer Science in Computer Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He was advised by Prof. Thien Huu Nguyen and Prof. Minh Le Nguyen, respectively.

He was selected as the Adobe Research Award winner in 2022. The other awards he received includes Best paper Runner-up Award (MRL@EMNLP 2022) and Outstanding demo paper award (EACL 2021) for his work in multilingual understanding. He was an organizer of the AAAI Workshops on Scientific Document Understanding and Video Transcript Understanding. He has served as the program committee for ACL Rolling Review, ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP conferences and the Neural Computing and Transactions on Information Systems journals.

He studies effective and efficient methods for advancing AI in the era of multi-modality foundational models. Specifically, he is interested in the following topics:

  • Factuality: Effective measuring of factual accuracy in AI-generated contents
  • Multilinguality: Develop methods for low-resource languages
  • Vision-Language Alignment: Effective and efficient model architectures for vision-language tasks

Contact me

Email

daclai at adobe dot com

Office

345 Park St, San Jose, CA

Other

Recent News

  • Sep, 2024 - One paper to appear at EMNLP 2024 on multilingual factuality.
  • Jul, 2024 - I joined Adobe Research in San Jose, CA
  • May, 2024 - Two papers to appear at ACL 2024
  • Sep, 2023 - I joined Kensho Technologies, the AI hub of S&P Global in Cambridge, MA

Mentees

I have been grateful to work with the following mentees:
  • Kim Trong Vu (Undergrad, KAIST)

Publications

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019 and before

Patents

Low Resource Event Detection (US, pending)

Reinforced Learning Approach to Generate Data (US, pending)

SubEvent Relation Extraction (US, pending)

Awards

Best paper Runner-up Award, MRL@EMNLP, 2022

Erwin & Gertrude Juilfs Scholarship, CIS, UOregon, 2022

Adobe Research Fellowship, 2022

Outstanding demo paper award, EACL 2021

Best Graduate Teaching Assitant, CIS, UOregon, 2021

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