SG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Works on multimodal foundation models, conversational search and recommendation, and trust and safety of AI; co-directs the NExT search centre.
2026 ADVersa: Abductive Driving Accident Video Understanding TPAMI 2026 AlphaSteer: Learning Refusal Steering with Principled Null-Space Constraint ICLR 215 T1319 papersGroup size not listed · 37 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Builds data systems and infrastructure for large language models and agentic AI, federated learning and graph analytics on GPUs, TPUs and FPGAs.
2026 'They've Stolen My GPL-Licensed Model!': Toward Standardized and Transparent Model Licensing WWW 2026 ABFlow: Alert Bursting Flow Query in Streaming Temporal Flow Networks SIGMOD 110 T1134 papers7 members12 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Angela Yao Dean's Chair Associate Professor Studies visual perception of people, including video understanding of human actions and 3D pose and shape estimation of the body and hands.
2026 Adaptive Latent Trajectory Anchoring for Action Segmentation Dataset Condensation ECCV 2026 AffineGS: Unlocking Accurate Geometry in 3DGS via Spatially Varying Affine Rectification NeurIPS 79 T192 papers12 members14 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Works on probabilistic and data-efficient machine learning, including Bayesian optimisation, Gaussian processes and federated and collaborative learning.
2026 ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment ICLR 2026 Adalina: Adaptive Linear Approximation for the Shapley Value and Beyond ICML 79 T189 papers28 members40 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Works on machine learning for graphs, anomaly detection, spatiotemporal data and reliability of vision-language models.
2026 AliMark: Enhancing Robustness of Sentence-Level Watermarking Against Text Paraphrasing ICML 2026 Conversation for Non-verifiable Learning: Self-Evolving Large Language Models through Meta-Evaluation ICML 76 T1101 papers10 membersSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Yang You NUS Presidential Young Professor Leads the HPC-AI Lab on scaling deep neural network training on distributed systems, including the LAMB optimiser.
2026 ASCIIEval: Benchmarking Models' Visual Perception in Text Strings via ASCII Art ICLR 2026 DyDiT++: Diffusion Transformers With Timestep and Spatial Dynamics for Efficient Visual Generation TPAMI 64 T185 papers15 members29 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Robby Tan Associate Professor Leads the Vision and AI Lab on computer vision in adverse outdoor conditions, human-centric analysis, fake image detection and agentic multimodal foundation…
2026 Actor as Its Own Critic: Unifying Region Understanding and Localization via CycleGRPO ECCV 2026 Aggregating Diverse Cue Experts for AI-Generated Image Detection AAAI 39 T146 papers9 members44 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Works on multimodal computing, image and video understanding, visual saliency and trustworthy AI; directs the NUS AI Institute.
2026 Aggregating Diverse Cue Experts for AI-Generated Image Detection AAAI 2026 MimiCAT: Mimic with Correspondence-Aware Cascade-Transformer for Category-Free 3D Pose Transfer CVPR 38 T188 papers8 members61 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Works on multimedia and spatio-temporal data management, streaming media architectures and applications of machine learning to mobile and immersive media.
2026 OSCBench: Benchmarking Object State Change in Text-to-Video Generation ACL 2026 Out-of-Distribution-Resistant Evaluations for Explanations of Graph Neural Networks TPAMI 37 T197 papersGroup size not listed SG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Kenji Kawaguchi NUS Presidential Young Professor Leads the Deep Learning Lab on deep learning theory and practice and large language models.
2024 Accelerating Greedy Coordinate Gradient and General Prompt Optimization via Probe Sampling NeurIPS 2024 Deep Regression Representation Learning with Topology ICML 36 T139 papers15 membersSG NUSDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Dec 15
Leads the MARMoT Lab on distributed deep reinforcement learning for decentralized multi-robot cooperation and high-DoF articulated robots.
2026 A Tilt-Rotor with a Gripper for Stable Contact-Based Tasks via Environmental Anchoring IROS 2026 APEX: Action Priors Enable Efficient Exploration for Robust Motion Tracking on Legged Robots IROS 34 T159 papers13 members49 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Develops machine learning for scientific discovery, including AI for drug discovery and models of molecules and proteins.
2026 A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models under Data Scarcity: Challenges and Solutions ACL 2026 CrystalDiT: Simple Diffusion Transformers for Crystal Generation AAAI 34 T139 papers3 members24 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Designs conversational AI agents for mental well-being and behaviour change, working in HCI, CSCW and human-centred AI.
2026 Affective and Goal-Oriented Factors of Relationship Formation in the Digital Therapeutic Alliance: A Longitudinal Study of Mental Health Chatbots CHI 2026 AI Personalization Paradox: Reading Highlights for Personalized AI-Assisted Writing Increases Engagement but Undermines Autonomy and Ownership CHI 32 T151 papers12 members21 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Ye Wang Associate Professor Leads the Sound and Music Computing Lab on music and audio computing, mobile and wearable health, and audio processing.
2026 Bridging Piano Transcription and Rendering via Disentangled Score Content and Style ICLR 2026 CoMelSinger: Discrete Token-Based Zero-Shot Singing Synthesis with Structured Melody Control and Guidance TASLP 27 T137 papers6 members14 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Directs the CLeAR group on machine learning and decision-making for trustworthy collaborative robots, from human trust modelling to tactile e-skins.
2026 Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies ICLR 2026 Conflict-Aware Additive Guidance for Flow Models under Compositional Rewards ICML 26 T131 papers10 members24 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Wynne Hsu Provost's Chair Professor Works on data analytics and machine learning, including AI in healthcare, retinal image analysis and social media analytics.
2026 Dr.V : A Hierarchical Perception-Temporal-Cognition Framework to Diagnose Video Hallucination by Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal Grounding IJCV 2026 LogicReward: Incentivizing LLM Reasoning via Step-Wise Logical Supervision ICLR 26 T143 papers8 members32 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Works on data management and analytics, including algorithms for large graphs, data privacy and data mining.
2026 SaGD: A Node-Level Differentially Private Graph Learning Framework with Sensitivity-Aware Gradient Descent WWW 2026 Unifying Diversity and Fairness in Re-ranking via Economic Growth Theory WWW 25 T156 papers13 members18 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Works on surgical AI and medical image analysis, including surgical video understanding.
2026 3DMedAgent: Unified Perception-to-Understanding for 3D Medical Analysis ICML 2026 From Articulated Kinematics to Routed Visual Control for Action-Conditioned Surgical Video Generation NeurIPS 24 T132 papers19 members3 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Works on machine learning, planning under uncertainty and approximate inference, including learning to decompose reasoning for LLMs.
2026 EUBRL: Epistemic Uncertainty Directed Bayesian Reinforcement Learning ICLR 2026 GEM: A Gym for Generalist LLMs ICLR 20 T124 papers8 members20 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Works on large language models and deep learning, building on earlier semi-supervised learning work (Noisy Student, UDA).
2026 GEM: A Gym for Generalist LLMs ICLR 2026 LongRLVR: Long-Context Reinforcement Learning Requires Verifiable Context Rewards ICLR 17 T121 papersGroup size not listed