Jan Buys (Preferred)
Jan Buys
Assistant Professor, 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
Career & Education 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
low-resource language models
2021 – Present
African language models
2021 – Present
language model decoding
2017 – Present
deep generative models
, deep learning
2016 – Present
language model architectures
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
structured prediction
, latent variable models
2016 – 2021
tree transducers
, grammatical error correction
2012 – 2013
finite-state transducers
, music generation
2011 – 2012
Publications
Co-Authors
- Aaron Daniels
- Abhisek Chakrabarty
- Anri Lombard
- Antoine Bosselut
- Ari Holtzman
- Asli Celikyilmaz
- Berta Franzluebbers
- Brink van der Merwe
- David Golub
- Donald Dunagan
- Edan Toledo
- Emily M. Bender
- Francois Meyer
- Gerard de Melo
- Gregory Furman
- Haiyue Song
- Hendrik Droste
- Hideki Tanaka
- Jan A. Botha
- Jared Shapiro
- Jaron Cohen
- Jeff Da
- John T. Hale
- Jonathan Phillip Shock
- Jonathan Shock