Samson Tan
Nationality:
Singapore
Faculty and Department:
School of Computing
Year of Study:
3
Undergraduate University:
National University of Singapore
Why did you choose to do graduate education at NUS? If you received offers from other universities, why did you pick NUS?
1. I was familiar with the faculty since I did my undergraduate degree here and remaining here would allow me to continue participating in USP classes and events
2. Range and quality of graduate classes compared to other local universities
3. I was keen on the Industry PhD Program with Salesforce and NUS
Briefly share about your research or thesis (i.e. dissertation topic for Masters by Coursework students).
My research revolves around helping natural language processing systems understand users regardless of the language variety they speak or their language proficiency.
What impact do you hope to have with your research?
I hope my research will help NLP systems to treat all users fairly regardless of their demographic, which is often closely intertwined with their language.
If you have won any academic prize/competition or been invited to speak at an international conference—share what it is, its significance, and how you worked towards achieving it.
Award: Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award
Presented at Tier 1 NLP Conferences:
1. The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2. The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
3. 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
4. The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
What message would you like to give to students interested in graduate studies in NUS?
Don’t be afraid to challenge conventional wisdom.