Elman Mansimov is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services in New York City. He is currently working on improving natural language understanding for conversational chatbots. Overall, he is working on advances in natural language processing and deep learning that have large customer impact.
Previously, he finished his Ph.D. at New York University where he was supervised by Kyunghyun Cho. His thesis focused on iterative refinement as a general approach for structured prediction with applications to machine translation and molecule generation.
Earlier, he did an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at University of Toronto supervised by Ruslan Salakhutdinov. During that time, he worked on unsupervised learning from videos and developed one of the first text-to-image generative models.
For an up-to-date list of publications, please take a look at his Google Scholar. For an up-to-date CV, please take a look here.
⭐New💫:
- Made an open-source lightweight wrapper of the official ChatGPT API in your terminal.
- Created Chart Fuse with Ryan Kulp that lets you embed interactive charts for any website.
Highlights
Back in 2015, I created one of the first text-to-image AI models.
The story behind it was covered in this Vox video: