Bio
I am a postdoctoral applied scientist at CSIRO’s Data61, the national scientific research institute of Australia. I work with Dr. Cecile Paris, Dr. Sarvnaz Karimi, and Dr. Diego Molla-Aliod in the Language Technology Team. I acquired PhD in Natural Language Processing 🎓 from the University of Melbourne, supervised by A/Prof. Nicholas Geard, Prof. Karin Verspoor, Prof. Justin Zobel, and Dr. Benjamin Goudey.
My research focuses on applying NLP and large language models (LLMs) techniques for addressing real-world challenges. Since 2020, I have developed automated methods for extracting key information from electronic medical records (EMRs) and hospital discharge notes, thereby supporting more efficient clinical research and improving outpatient care 📄. I have also designed an automated quality assessment framework for biological databases, enhancing the reliability of stored knowledge for genomic research. At the algorithmic level, I have proposed a novel approach that integrates knowledge graph diffusion with distributional semantics, enabling more precise natural language understanding in domains requiring nuanced, context-sensitive interpretation. 🔍.
In my current role at CSIRO, I lead efforts to enhance the explainability of LLMs, with a focus on their use as safeguards 🛡️ in predicting suicide ideation on social media. I also lead a team conducting comprehensive evaluations of LLMs across a range of affective computing tasks, including cross-lingual and cross-cultural emotion detection, as well as temporal sentiment regression. In addition, I supervise researchers from industry and major government organizations across multiple countries, supporting projects that require close collaboration across national, institutional, and disciplinary boundaries.
Currently, I am engaged in an exploratory scientific research project aimed at assisting clinical psychologists in identifying novel emotion regulation patterns from large-scale social media data, and in developing effective strategies to support resilience and improve mental health outcomes ❤️.
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Experiences 🤓
- Postdoctoral Applied Scientist at CSIRO’s Data61, Sydney, 2023 - present
- Ph.D. in Computing (NLProc), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2020 - 2023
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2017 - 2019
Service and Leadership ☸️
- Reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (ARR), the Web Conference (WWW).
- Supervisor of internship project at CSIRO.
- Data science lead of annual participation of semantic evaluation shared task Details
- Editor of our research team’s social web page.
Miscellaneous
- Member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
- Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Where to CatchMe ☕
upcoming
- TBC
past
- Presented at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Mumbai India, 20-25 December 2025
- Attended the 23rd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, Sydney, 26th -28th November 2025
- Presented at the 2024 ISMB conference
- Presented the National Institute of Health (NIH/NLM/NCBI), USA, 2023
- Presented at the 14th Annual Biocuration Conference, Session 2, 2021
- Melbourne NLP Group
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