I’m an applied scientist at AWS AI Labs, currently working on building safeguards for foundational models at Amazon Bedrock.

I earned a Ph.D in Data Science from New York University under the supervision of Sam Bowman and Kyunghyun Cho. My thesis focuses on applying transfer/multi-task learning methods to Natural Language Understanding (NLU) problems, and analyzing and benchmarking these methods to understand why and when they work or fail. During my Ph.D, I also spent time at AWS AI Labs, Meta AI Research, and Grammarly Research.
Prior to NYU, I developed Information Retrieval systems at Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore. Before that, I did my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Publications

Please check my Google Scholar for an up-to-date list.

Miscellaneous

• You can refer to me as she/they. I’m queer non-binary.

• I’m originally from Yangon, Myanmar(Burma) and spent a decade in Singapore before moving to NYC for my PhD.

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