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:
Low Resource Event Detection (US, pending)
Reinforced Learning Approach to Generate Data (US, pending)
SubEvent Relation Extraction (US, pending)
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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