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Jan Buys

Senior Lecturer
Computer Science Building Room 304.2
Department of Computer Science
University of Cape Town
South Africa
jbuys -at- cs.uct.ac.za

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I am a Senior Lecturer (≈ Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. My research area is Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. My current research focusses on text generation, linguistic structure prediction, and low-resource language processing.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, working with Yejin Choi. I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford, supervised by Phil Blunsom. Before that I obtained a Masters degree and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

Recent Reviewing (2023/2024): TACL, ACL ARR, SACAIR, LREC-COLING, ICLR (AC), NeurIPS (AC), EMNLP (AC).

UCT Teaching (2024): CSC2001F Data Structures; CSC4025Z Artificial Intelligence; CSC5035Z Natural Language Processing.

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