Jan Buys

University of Cape Town

Names

Jan Buys (Preferred)

Emails

****@cs.ox.ac.uk
,
****@cs.washington.edu
,
****@gmail.com
,
****@cs.uct.ac.za

Education & Career History

Assistant Professor
University of Cape Town (uct.ac.za)
2019Present
 
Postdoc
University of Washington (washington.edu)
20172019
 
PhD student
University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)
20132017
 
MS student
University of Stellenbosch (sun.ac.za)
20122013
 
Undergrad student
University of Stellenbosch (sun.ac.za)
20082011
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker
Gerard de Melo
****@demelo.org
2023Present
 
Postdoc Advisor
Yejin Choi
****@cs.washington.edu
20172019
 
PhD Advisor
Phil Blunsom
****@cs.ox.ac.uk
20132018
 

Expertise

generative models, structured prediction, latent variable models, deep learning
2016Present
 
semantic parsing, RNNs, sequence to sequence, attention-based models
2015Present
 
cross-lingual learning, low-resource NLP, morphological tagging
2015Present
 
language models, text generation
2015Present
 
dependency parsing, neural networks
2013Present
 
tree transducers, grammatical error correction
20122013
 
finite-state transducers, music generation
20112012