Professor Wray Buntine is Australia’s foremost scholar for the statistical analysis of text and related structured content and their predictive modelling. His global reputation was built over several decades of state of the art machine learning, generative AI and large language model research.
Professor Buntine has authored 18 book chapters, 48 journal articles, and 81 refereed conference papers. His work includes several software products and two patents, with over 13,000 citations and a Google Scholar h-index of 51, reflecting his significant impact on the fields of data science and machine learning.
Professor Buntine is currently Director of the Computer Science Program at VinUniversity. He is set to serve as the General Chair for the 2024 Asian Conference on Machine Learning in Hanoi. He co-edits the ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning and serves on editorial boards for several other journals. He has worked on projects for the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, NASA Ames Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, and Google. His active involvement in the academic community includes senior program committee roles at top conferences like IJCAI, UAI, AAAI, EMNLP, ICLR, ACML, and NeurIPS. Previously, he was the founding director of the Master of Data Science program at Monash University, where he also directed the Machine Learning Group.
With respect to large language models, he has published with Dr. Ehsan Shareghi of Monash University on use of LLMs in contexts requiring uncertainty or the resort to external knowledge resources. At VinUniversity he works with Dr. Le Duy Dung on recommender systems and has published with Dr. Nguyen Quoc Dat of VinAI, co-developer of PhoGPT, and students on the application of LLMs for a variety of applications including healthcare. He also co-developed the MTP multimedia dataset published at ACL 2024 and is a member of Meta’s Open Innovation AI Research Community, where he works with a small community of scientists furthering educational applications of Generative AI and Llama in particular.
Dr Buntine's Google Scholar profile is here.
