Haoran (Felix) Xu

Haoran (Felix) Xu

NLPer

Johns Hopkins University

About Me (徐浩然)

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), co-advised by Philipp Koehn and Kenton Murray. My most recent research focuses on Machine Translation, Large Language Models, and Cross-lingual Learning.

I also had good fortune to intern at Microsoft Research, Meta (Facebook) AI Research and Amazon Alexa AI.

Interests

  • Machine Translation
  • Cross-Lingual Learning
  • Multilinguality
  • Large Language Model

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Present

    Johns Hopkins University

  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2020

    Johns Hopkins University

  • B.E. in Information Engineering, 2018

    East China University of Science and Technology

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist Intern

Microsoft Research

May 2023 – Present Bellevue
Investigated multilingual machine translation for Large Language Models: ALMA Models!
 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist Intern

Meta (Facebook) AI Research

May 2022 – Dec 2022 Menlo Park
Studied self-supervised learning method and mixture of experts (MoE) for multilingual machine translation under the No Language Left Behind (NLLB) group
 
 
 
 
 

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon Alexa AI

May 2021 – Aug 2021 Seattle
Worked on novel style transfer algorithms that transfer the text style while keeps the main semantics

Publications