Academic Activities
Academic life extends beyond papers. Teaching, mentoring, field-building, invited lectures, and explaining research beyond the lab are all part of how I approach the work.
Keynotes and Invited Talks
Healthcare AI Symposium
An invited master class in Singapore on current questions and methods in healthcare AI.
IndoML
Invited speaker at the Indian Symposium on Machine Learning.
MM4SG at The Web Conference
A keynote in Singapore on multimodal and socially grounded AI.
Understanding, Leveraging, and Improving LLMs
A talk at The Web Conference Companion on the capabilities and limitations of large language models.
Emotion Recognition in Conversations
Microsoft Research India.
Introduction to Deep Learning
AI for Digital Finance, National University of Singapore.
Utterance-level Dialogue Understanding
MICAI, Mexico.
The Role of Context in Natural Language Processing
University of Michigan, United States.
Editorial and Conference Service
Selected roles in journal editing and conference leadership. Dates reflect the academic record supplied in my CV.
Associate editor
Information Fusion, Neurocomputing, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, and Cognitive Computation.
Senior Area Chair
NLP Applications.
Senior Area Chair
Commonsense Reasoning.
Area Chair
Sentiment analysis, multimodality, grounding, speech, vision, and robotics.
Senior Program Committee
Senior program committee service across two major AI conferences.
IEEE and ACL
Senior Member of IEEE and member of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Teaching
Computational Data Science
Instructor for the undergraduate computational data science course.
Information Retrieval
Designed the course from the ground up and revised it in 2023 to incorporate large language models and contemporary industry practice.
Capstone supervision
Guided student teams through applied research and engineering projects.
News and Public Engagement
Working memory for AI agents
An interview and feature on δ-mem and memory beyond longer context windows or additional RAG.
President’s Science and Technology Awards
Coverage of Singapore’s 2023 science and technology award recipients.
Singapore’s AI workforce
Commentary on universities, reskilling, and the growth of Singapore’s AI workforce.
Detecting sarcasm with deep neural networks
Coverage of research on sarcastic tweets and deep convolutional neural networks.
Personality detection from text
Coverage of deep learning approaches to document modeling and personality detection.
Code, models, and demonstrations
Research artifacts are released through GitHub and Hugging Face, with demonstrations and independent explainers across the research community.
Academic Journey
Nanyang Technological University
Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Faculty member, Provost’s Chair Assistant Professor, and Deputy Director of the AI Mega Centre; DeCLaRe Lab was established at SUTD in 2019.
A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing
Joint appointment with SUTD.
NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Research on multimodal and personalized affective dialogue systems.
PhD, University of Stirling
Computer Science and Mathematics; research on symbolic and machine-learning approaches to text-based and multimodal sentiment analysis.
Bachelor of Engineering, Jadavpur University
Computer Science and Engineering.
In 2024, I also co-founded Walled AI, working on practical AI governance.