Blaise Cruz

Hi! 👋 I’m a researcher at Samsung Research Philippines where I specialize in NLP problems constrained under low-resource settings.

My research interests revolve around creative approaches to solve NLP tasks with very little data. Topics I have worked on range from NLI to fake news detection, all done within the scope of low-resource languages.

Given that my native tongue – Filipino – is a low-resource language, I spend time to develop and open-source datasets and models to boost research in this area. Do check out my Resources tab if you’re interested in pretrained models and benchmark datasets for my language! My Filipino transformer models are also available on 🤗 HuggingFace under my username jcblaise.

Aside from my work at Samsung, I’m also affiliated with the DLSU Center for Language Technologies (CELT) where I serve as a consultant for dialogue generation research projects. Prior to CELT, I also spent time with Senti AI and DLSU COMET working on conversational agents and machine learning.

If you’re interested in collaborating or if you want to chat about low-resource languages, feel free to get in touch! You may reach me through my email me (at) blaisecruz (dot) com.