I am a Ph.D. student at NUSNLP lab supervised by Hwee Tou Ng, in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. I work on Natural Language Processing, with the current focus on Writing Assistant, and Large Language Models.
Prior to my Ph.D. study, I received a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) in 2020 from Nanyang Technological University, where I collaborated with Sinno Jialin Pan, Jianfei Cai and Jun Luo. During my bachelor’s study, I also had the opportunity to go on exchange programs at both TUM and UCLA. Additionally, I also did several internships at ByteDance AI Lab, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology Centre (SMART), and Lazada, and collaborated with Yuchen Zhang, Alexander R. Cobb, and Jun Lang.
If you are interested in my CV, please drop an email at caomichael19@gmail.com :)
Publications
Unsupervised Grammatical Error Correction Rivaling Supervised Methods
Hannan Cao, Liping Yuan, Yuchen Zhang, Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of EMNLP, 2023
Mitigating Exposure Bias in Grammatical Error Correction with Data Augmentation and Reweighting
Hannan Cao, Wenmian Yang, Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of EACL, 2023
Grammatical Error Correction: A Survey of the State of the Art
Christopher Bryant, Zheng Yuan, Muhammad Reza Qorib, Hannan Cao, Hwee Tou Ng, Ted Briscoe
Computational Linguistics Journal, 2023
A Unified Explanation for the Morphology and Carbon Storage of Raised Peatlands
Alexander R. Cobb, René Dommain, Kimberly Yeap, Hannan Cao, Nathan C. Dadap, Bodo Bookhagen, Paul H. Glaser, Charles F. Harvey
Nature, 2023
Grammatical Error Correction with Contrastive Learning in Low Error Density Domains
Hannan Cao, Wenmian Yang, Hwee Tou Ng
EMNLP findings, 2021
Educations
Ph.D. in Computer Science
National University of Singapore, 2020.08 - now
- Research Achievement Award
B.Eng. in School of Computer Science of Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, 2016.08 - 2020.06
- Degree with honors (Highest distinction)
- Minor in Mathematics
- CGPA: 4.78/5.0
- Dean’s List (top 5% of the cohort): 2017 - 2018, 2019 - 2020
- NTU President Research Scholar 2017 - 2018, 2018 - 2019
- NTU Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship
💻 Internships
- 2022.07 - 2023.07, ByteDance AI Lab, Singapore.
- 2019.03 - 2019.08, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology Centre, Singapore.
- 2018.05 - 2018.08, Lazada, Singapore.
Invited Talks
- The 2023 Singapore Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SSNLP)
Reviewer/PC member for:
- Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), 2023
- International World Wide Web Conferences (WWW), 2024