Dr Jan Moolman Buys

Dr Jan Buys is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. He completed his Doctorate at the University of Oxford and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. His research area is Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning, with a particular focus on text generation and low-resource NLP. His research has developed methods to incorporate linguistic structure into language models and algorithms for generating text from language models. Dr Buys’ current research focuses on developing better language models for low-resource South African languages.