Curriculum Vitae

Education

• [2013]  Ph.D., Engineering Science (Computer)
  • The University of Melbourne
  • Supervisors: Tim Baldwin and David Newman
• [2008]  B.E., Software Engineering
  • The University of Melbourne
  • First Class Honours

Appointments

• [2019—present]  Lecturer
  • The University of Melbourne, School of Computing and Information Systems
• [2015—2019]  Research Staff Member
  • IBM Research Australia
• [2013—2015]  Research Associate
  • King’s College London
  • Supervisors: Shalom Lappin and Alexander Clark
• [2013—2013]  Research Fellow
  • The University of Melbourne
  • Supervisors: Timothy Baldwin and David Newman
• [2008—2011]  Software Developer
  • Transtech Consulting Service

Academic Honours/Awards

• [2020]  Outstanding Reviewer for EMNLP 2020
• [2019]  IBM Research Accomplishment Prize

Grants

• [2021] Mirrored Social Media Platform (AUD$50K)
  • Defense Science Institute Collaborative Research Grant
• [2021] Multi-Party Collaborative Project for Three Case Studies of Mass Influencing Organisations (AUD$419K)
  • Department of Defense
• [2020] Development of Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Base Population (AUD$107K)
  • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
• [2020] Document Corpus Analysis (AUD$20K)
  • Defence Science and Technology: AI for Decision Making Initiative
• [2017—2022] Industrial Transformation Training Centre on Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies (AUD$4.1M)
  • Australian Research Council (ARC)
• [2014]  Learning Word Sense Distributions for Wordnets of the World’s Languages (USD$10K)
  • Google Cloud Credits Award
• [2013—2015]  Personalised Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis for Enhanced Information Discovery over Document Streams (AUD$195K)
  • Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project

Patents

• [2020]  Natural language processor for cognitively generating contextual filler designed to keep users engaged
  • Tran, K.N.D., Pervin, S., Li, J.J., Mohania, M.K., Lau, J.H. and Dubyak, W., International Business Machines Corp
  • U.S. Patent Application 16/186,920

Professional Activities

• [2021]  Area Chair for EMNLP 2021
• [2021—present]  ACL Rolling Reviewer
• [2019—2021]  Review Committee for TACL
• [2018]  Handbook Chair for ACL 2018
• [2015]  Co-organiser for Topic Models: Post-Processing and Applications Workshop (TM 2015)
• [2012—present]  Programme Committee for ACL, NAACL, EACL, EMNLP, COLING, IJCNLP, AAAI, CoNLL, *SEM, and ALTA

Media Coverage

• [2020] The Poet AI was published in IEEE Spectrum, a leading science and engineering magazine
• [2020] Interviewed about AI and Creativity on the radio show Passw0rd
• [2018] Our Shakespearean sonnet generator was covered by New Scientist, Times UK, Daily Mail, and others

Publications/Research

• As an early career researcher, I have authored almost 50 peer-reviewed papers, with over 3,900 citations and an h-index of 24 (source = Google Scholar, 15/10/2021).
• Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=MFi65f4AAAAJ&hl=en