Jun Wang

PhD Student

University of Melbourne

Biography

I am a PhD student in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne. I am supervised by Prof. Trevor Cohn, Prof. Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein and Dr. Chang Xu. Prior to my PhD, I completed my Master’s at University of Melbourne. While my research focus is adversarial machine learning, neural machine translation and fairness & bias.

Currently, I am doing an internship at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Accel in California, United States, supervised by Jean Maillard.

Interests

Natural Language Processing
Neural Machine Translation
Fairness & Bias
Adversarial Attack & Defense

Education

PhD, 2020
University of Melbourne
MSc in Computer Science, 2018
University of Melbourne
BSc in Electracial Engineering, 2013
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Recent Publications

Measuring and Mitigating Name Biases in Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2022

Jun Wang, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, Trevor Cohn

Mitigating Data Poisoning in Text Classification with Differential Privacy

EMNLP 2021 Findings

Chang Xu, Jun Wang, Francisco Guzmán, Benjamin Rubinstein, Trevor Cohn

Putting words into the system's mouth: A targeted attack on neural machine translation using monolingual data poisoning

ACL 2021 Findings

Jun Wang, Chang Xu, Francisco Guzman, Ahmed El-Kishky, Yuqing Tang, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, Trevor Cohn

A Targeted Attack on Black-Box Neural Machine Translation with Parallel Data Poisoning

WWW 2021

Chang Xu, Jun Wang, Yuqing Tang, Francisco Guzman, Benjamin IP Rubinstein, Trevor Cohn

As Easy as 1, 2, 3: Behavioural Testing of NMT Systems for Numerical Translation

ACL 2021 Findings

Jun Wang, Chang Xu, Francisco Guzmán, Ahmed El-Kishky, Benjamin IP Rubinstein, Trevor Cohn

Experience

PhD

University of Melbourne

Jul 2020 – Present Melbourne, VIC, AU

Supervised by Prof. Trevor Cohn, Prof. Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein and Dr. Chang Xu

Teaching Assisstant

University of Melbourne

Jul 2019 – Present Melbourne, VIC, AU

Responsibilities include:

Tutoring COMP90051, COMP90042, BUSA90501
Head tutor of COMP90051(2022-s2)

Research Assistant

University of Melbourne

Mar 2019 – Jul 2019 Melbourne, VIC, AU

Responsibilities include:

Research on poisoning attack on neural machine translation systems.
Supervised by Prof. Trevor Cohn and Prof. Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein.

Research Intern

The Australian National University

Nov 2018 – Feb 2019 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Responsibilities include:

Forced alignment for minor language Kuwaru.
Supervied by Prof. Alan Rumsey

MSc in Computer Science

University of Melbourne

Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 Melbourne, VIC, AU

MSc in Data Science

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Feb 2018 – Jul 2018 Melbourne, VIC, AU

BSc in Engineering

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Feb 2012 – Jul 2017 Melbourne, VIC, AU

Major in Electrical Engineering