Jan Buys (Preferred)
Jan Buys
University of Cape Town
- Joined November 2016
Names
Emails
****@cs.ox.ac.uk (Confirmed)
, ****@cs.washington.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@cs.uct.ac.za (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Education & Career History
Assistant Professor
University of Cape Town (uct.ac.za)
2019 – Present
Postdoc
University of Washington (washington.edu)
2017 – 2019
PhD student
University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)
2013 – 2017
MS student
University of Stellenbosch (sun.ac.za)
2012 – 2013
Undergrad student
University of Stellenbosch (sun.ac.za)
2008 – 2011
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
multilingual language models
2021 – Present
machine translation, multilingual models
2021 – Present
language model decoding
2017 – Present
deep generative models, deep learning
2016 – Present
language model architectures
2016 – Present
structured prediction, latent variable models
2016 – Present
morphology, subword segmentation
2016 – Present
language models, text generation
2015 – Present
semantic parsing, sequence models
2015 – Present
cross-lingual models, low-resource languages
2015 – Present
dependency parsing, neural networks
2013 – Present
tree transducers, grammatical error correction
2012 – 2013
finite-state transducers, music generation
2011 – 2012