Jey Han Lau

Jey Han Lau

Associate Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems
The University of Melbourne

My field of research is in Natural Language Processing (NLP) — a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence — and the goal of NLP is to develop computational models to understand human languages. There are a host of NLP applications that are commonly used in our everyday lives: machine translation (e.g. Google Translate) and chatbot (e.g. OpenAI GPT-5) are two examples. My research is characterised by a diverse flavour of applications — such as understanding the nature of grammar knowledge, analysing the conversation dynamics of online misinformation, classifying legal text and generating poetry and stories — but they are ultimately connected by my interest in language modelling. Some of my work has a broader community interest beyond academia; e.g. my research on text generation and legal NLP has been covered by science and mainstream news media outlets such as New Scientist, Sydney Morning Herald, and Australian Financial Review.

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Prospective Students

  • If your query is related PhD supervision, it would help to: (1) have a look over my publications to identify areas of overlapping interests; and (2) send a thoughtful research proposal to suggest potential projects. As a student I don’t expect that you have a perfect understanding of the gaps in the field and can identify research questions that fit the scope of a PhD, but the proposal would serve to kickstart a discussion about potential project ideas.
  • If your query is about internship, please note that I do not take interns (and so any queries of this nature would not receive a response).

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