Wei-Rui Chen


PhD Student

Department of Linguistics

Faculty of Arts

Research Themes:  Evolving Language in an Information Economy, Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism

Wei-Rui Chen is a PhD student at the Department of Linguistics at University of British Columbia with his research focusing on natural language processing. His ultimate goal is having computer to learn, understand and produce languages by incorporating both computational and linguistic methods. He is a member of UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab. Before joining UBC, he was a machine learning engineer at Trend Micro, developing anomaly detection systems deployed worldwide.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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