(Barid) Xi Ai

About Me

I am currently a Postdoc at WING @ NUS, supervised by Prof. Min-Yen Kan and Prof. Zhiyong Huang. I obtained my PhD at Chongqing University, my MSc at the University of Edinburgh, and my BSc at Northumbria University. Before pursuing my PhD, I worked for 6 years at WISEST AI, a start-up sponsored by State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). My lab encountered challenges with a chatbot project (before the advent of GPT) around 2019, which prompted me to return to university for further training. I found a PhD program in my hometown.

When I'm not working, I'm often palying basketball. I co-coached the college basketball team in my PhD time.

Research Interests

• Multilingual, Cross-lingual, and Code-mixed NLP
• Language/Sequence Modeling
• Machine Translation
• ML for NLP

Milestone

• [Nov. 2023] Join WING@NUS
• [Oct. 2023] Finish PhD at Chongqing University
• [Aug. 2018] End my start-up journey
• [Nov. 2013] Finish MSc at the University of Edinburgh
• [Jul. 2012] Finish BSc at Northumbira University

Recent Work

Services

Workshop Organizer

• The Seventh Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching

Reviewer

• *CL conference, AAAI, ICLR, COLING, TASLP, Knowledge-Based Systems, TAFFC
• Outstanding Reviewer ACL 2023