About
Biography
I am an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the founder and director of the DeCLaRe Lab.
Appointments
Nanyang Technological University
Associate Professor with tenure, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, since August 2025. Courtesy appointment in the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) since October 2026.
DeCLaRe Lab
Founder and Director. Deep Cognition and Language Research; established at SUTD in 2019 and based at NTU since 2025.
Walled AI
Co-founder.
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Associate Professor with tenure, 2025. Provost’s Chair Assistant Professor, 2024–25. Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the AI Mega Centre, 2019–24.
A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing
Joint appointment with SUTD.
NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Research on multimodal and personalized affective dialogue systems.
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, and A*AI, A*STAR.
Education
PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Stirling, United Kingdom. Thesis on symbolic and machine-learning approaches to text-based and multimodal sentiment analysis, supervised by Amir Hussain.
BE in Computer Science and Engineering
Jadavpur University, India.
Honours and awards
President’s Young Scientist Award
Singapore.
IEEE Intelligent Systems AI’s 10 to Watch
MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35
Asia Pacific.
Highly Cited Researcher
Clarivate, Web of Science.
IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award
NAACL Social Impact Award
For work on the capabilities and limitations of large language models for cultural commonsense.
Best Paper Award, SCALE-LLM Workshop at EACL
For InstructEval, on the holistic evaluation of instruction-tuned language models.
ACM ICMI Outstanding Paper Award
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship
Nanyang Technological University.
Research support
Current projects, as principal investigator unless noted.
Embodied AI for Human-Robot Collaborative Task Execution
CNRS@CREATE and the National Research Foundation.
Toward Generalist Vision Language Action Models
KLASS.
LLM with Linear Transformers
AI Singapore. Co-principal investigator.
Trustworthy and Responsible LLMs for Singapore Governance
AI Singapore.
Detecting, Measuring and Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs
DSO National Laboratories.