Hi, Victor here.
I'm an expert in Applied Machine Learning and HCI.
I am currently a Principal Research Software Engineer at the Human-AI eXperiences (HAX) team, Microsoft Research where I focus on Generative AI. My research interests are at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computational social science, and applied machine learning. My research has been published at conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and CHI and has received multiple best paper awards. My work has also been featured in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, CIO . I am an IEEE Senior member, a Google Certified Professional ( Data Engineer, Cloud Architect ) and currently a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning.
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I hold a PhD in Information Systems from City University of Hong Kong (recipient of the HKPFS scholar award by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council). My dissertation studied developer contribution behaviour in software crowdsourcing contests - factors influencing participation, the impact of incentives on participation behaviour and the problem solving process within crowdsourcing contests. Prior to City University, I studied at the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where I earned a Masters degree in Information Networking. I previously worked as a Principal Research Engineer at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs, Research Staff Member at IBM Research, Technical Lead for MIT Global Startup Labs, Researcher at the Innovation Management Lab, Athens Information Technology Athens Greece, and founder/lead developer for a small startup focused on West African markets.
In my free time, I enjoy music (some self taught guitar, piano), sports (participated in the Hong Kong Marathon thrice) and exploring art (some drawing, 3d modelling, african mask art).
All content on this site are my ideas and do not reflect opinions of my employer.
RECENT POSTS ..
- January 03, 2025
AI Agents 2024 Rewind - A Year of Building and Learning A reflection on key trends in AI Multi-Agent Systems from 2024 and predictions for 2025. - December 31, 2024
2024 Year in Review All about multi-agent systems research and OSS contributions. - October 10, 2024
10 things I have loved about Microsoft (3 years in!) Today marks my exact 3 year anniversary at Microsoft. Here are 10 things I love about working here. - July 19, 2024
News - I am writing a book on Multi-Agent Systems with Manning Publications I am writing a book on Multi-Agent Systems with Manning Publications, the book is now available for pre-order. - June 09, 2024
I Broke My Wrist: My Journey Through Distal Radius Fracture Recovery I Fell and Broke My Wrist: My Journey Through Distal Radius Fracture Recovery - December 31, 2023
2023 Year in Review AI made the year very busy. Got some stuff done. - August 19, 2023
Landing that Graduate Research Internship Position (CS, HCI) Notes on preparing for an internship in computer science for graduate students. - July 26, 2023
Implementing an Authenticated Backend API for your Firebase Hosting App with Cloud Functions. How to implement a backend api with authentication for your app deployed on firebase hosting using the firebase functions python sdk.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2024
Embedded Attributes for Modifying Behaviors of Generative AI Systems
Saleema Amin Amershi,Adam Fourney,Victor Chukwuma Dibia,Gagan BansalMagentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks
Adam Fourney,Gagan Bansal,Hussein Mozannar,Cheng Tan,Eduardo Salinas,Erkang (Eric) Zhu,Friederike Niedtner,Grace Proebsting,Griffin Bassman,Jack Gerrits,Jacob Alber,Peter Chang,Ricky Loynd,Robert West,Victor Dibia,Ahmed Awadallah,Ece Kamar,Rafah Hosn,Saleema Amershi
RECENT PROJECTS
RECENT TALKS
- October 2024
CfD Conversations SeriesHybrid (In-person & Virtual).
What Can GenAI Really Do for Data Visualization? - December 2023
Ai.dev / Cassandra SummitSan Jose, McEnery Convention Center.
AutoGen: NextGen AI Applications via Multi Agent Conversations - June 2021
Fast Forward LiveOnline.
Deep Learning for Automatic Offline Signature Verification
RECENT NEWS/UPDATES
- November 2024PAPERNew paper released - Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks!
- October 2024TALKI delivered a keynote presentation at IEEEVis 2024 Conference - NLViz workshop on 'What Can Generative AI Do for Data Visualization? Opportunities and Production Challenges from the Field'
- October 2024PAPERNew paper accepted at EMNLP 2024 Conference - AutoGen Studio: A No-Code Developer Tool for Building and Debugging Multi-Agent Systems
- May 2023PAPERNew paper accepted at ACL 2023 Conference - LIDA: A Tool for Automatic Generation of Grammar-Agnostic Visualizations and Infographics using Large Language Models
- May 2023PAPERNew paper accepted at ACL 2023 Conference - Aligning Offline Metrics And Human Judgments Of Value Of AI-Pair Programmers.
- March 2023updateReleased new Kaggle Notebook on Multimodal Recommendation with Tensorflow 2.0
- March 2022awardMy work on Signver (a library for automatic signature verification) is awarded 'Best Computer Vision Application' in the AWS Deep Learning Challenge
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