I’m a Data Science PhD student at New York University and a member of ML² Group at CILVR. I’m fortunate to be advised by Sam Bowman and Kyunghyun Cho. My research interest lies in deep learning and natural language understanding.

Prior to NYU, I developed Information Retrieval systems at Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore. Before that, I earned my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University.

In the summer of 2018, I intern at Grammarly with Joel Tetreault.

My research is generously supported by AdeptMind.

Publications

• Grammar Induction with Neural Language Models: An Unusual Replication.
  Phu Mon Htut, Kyunghyun Cho, Samuel R. Bowman.
  To appear in Proceedings of the EMNLP. 2018.
  Extended abstract to be presented at Blackbox-NLP workshop. 2018.

• Training a Ranking Function for Open-Domain Question Answering.
  Phu Mon Htut, Samuel R. Bowman, Kyunghyun Cho.
  Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop. 2018.

Teaching

• DS-GA 1011: Natural Language Processing with Representation Learning (Fall-2018)

Miscellaneous

• You can refer to me as she/her or they/them.

• You can call me “Phu” (h sound is silent). Fun fact: I don’t have a family name.