Haoran (Felix) Xu

Haoran (Felix) Xu

Senior Researcher

Microsoft GenAI

About Me (徐浩然)

I am a Senior Researcher at Microsoft GenAI. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2024, co-advised by Philipp Koehn and Kenton Murray. My most recent research focuses on foundational training of large language models, machine translation, and multilinguality. Please find up-to-date list of all my publications on my Google Scholar profile.

I also had good fortune to intern at Microsoft Research, Meta (Facebook) AI Research and Amazon Alexa AI.

Interests

  • Large Language Model
  • Machine Translation
  • Multilinguality

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2024

    Johns Hopkins University

  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2020

    Johns Hopkins University

  • B.E. in Information Engineering, 2018

    East China University of Science and Technology

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Researcher

Microsoft GenAI

Oct 2024 – Present Redmond
Phi pre-training and post-training
 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist Intern

Microsoft Research

May 2023 – Aug 2024 Redmond
Investigated multilingual machine translation for Large Language Models: ALMA Models!
 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist Intern

Meta (Facebook) AI Research

May 2022 – Dec 2022 Menlo Park
Studied self-supervised learning method and mixture of experts (MoE) for multilingual machine translation under the No Language Left Behind (NLLB) group
 
 
 
 
 

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon Alexa AI

May 2021 – Aug 2021 Seattle
Worked on novel style transfer algorithms that transfer the text style while keeps the main semantics

Publications