Brian Formento

Brian Formento

Machine learning Scientist

Hi! I'm Brian Formento, A PhD candidate in the school of computer science at the National University of Singapore, doing research in the exciting field of deep learning! I'm a recipient of the SINGA scholarship and under the supervision of Professor See-Kiong Ng, Dr. Chen Zhenghua, and Dr. Chuan Sheng Foo. Before Singapore, I graduated with a MEng in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton. I was originally born in Turin Italy and moved to England at a young age, where I lived across the country, predominantly Reading, Bath, Portsmouth and Birmingham. I'm passionate about deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and web development.

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Publications

Brian Formento,Wenjie Feng, Chuan Sheng Foo, Luu Anh Tuan, See-Kiong Ng, SemRoDe: Macro Adversarial Training to Learn Representations That are Robust to Word-Level Attacks, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL Main Track), Mexico City, 2024

Brian Formento, Chuan Sheng Foo, Luu Anh Tuan, See-Kiong Ng, Using Punctuation as an Adversarial Attack on Deep Learning Based NLP Systems: An Empirical Study, European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL Findings), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2023

Brian Formento, See-Kiong Ng, Chuan Sheng Foo, Special symbol attacks on NLP, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Shenzen, China, 2021, (Oral)

Papers

EyeCam:

A tool to help medical practitioners with chronic kidney disease diagnosis using retinal fundus photography

EyeCam:

A tool to help medical practitioners with chronic kidney disease diagnosis using retinal fundus photography