Research

Research Interests

(external grants as main PI)

Meta Audiobox Research Grant, Meta, Grant Value: S$70K
Prevent Hallucination in LLMs, Dec 2023 - Dec 2026, DSO, Grant Value: S$800K
AI Governance Grant, Jan 2024 - Dec 2026, AI Singapore, Grant Value: S$500K
Commonsense-aware Natural Language Processing, Ministry of Education (MoE) Tier-2, Aug 2021 - Aug 2024, Grant Value: S$736K
K-EMERGE: Knowledge Extraction, Modelling, and Explainable Reasoning for General Expertise, AME research grant, Feb. 2020 - Feb. 2023, Grant Value: S$910K
Geopolitical Question Answering, DSO research grant, Feb. 2020 - Feb. 2022, Grant Value: S$800K
Hate speech detection, Feb 2020 - Sept 2021, Grant Value: S$85K
Alibaba Gift Funding through IPP Program, Jan 2021 - Dec 2025, Grant Value: S$100K
Multimodal personalized affective dialogue systems, NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Research Grant, Sept. 2018 - Sept. 2020, Grant Value: S$200K

(as co-PI)

NMLP Research Grant, AI Singapore, Apr 2025 - Mar 2028, Grant Value: S$4.9M
OpenAI Superalignment Grant, OpenAI, Grant Value: S$200K
Intent Inference, DSO research grant, Feb 2020 - Feb 2022, Grant Value: S$148K. Total Grant Value: S$800K. Lead PI: Prof. Kwan Hui Lim (SUTD). Other CO-PIs: Prof. Roy Lee (SUTD). Both Kwan Hui and Roy are great people. If you are reading this and want to do a PhD in CS, NLP, AI, Complex Networks etc. they are the finest people to work with. Do email them :)
Estate-IQ: An Advanced AI System for Enabling Smart HDB Estate Services, HDB, July 2021 - June 2024, Grant Value: S$4.9M.
SUTD AI Program: Discovery by AI, SUTD, June 2020 - June 2023, Grant Value: S$150K

President’s Young Scientist Award, Singapore (2023)
MIT Technology Review 35 under 35 Asia Pacific (2023)
IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award (2024)
NAACL Social Impact Award (2024)
SCALE-LLM Best Paper Award (2024)
IEEE IS 10 to Watch in AI (2022)
Aminer’s AI2000 one of the most influential researchers 2023 (honorable mention)
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018 (early career research award), NTU, Singapore (600 applicants, 12 total fellowships)
IEEE CIM Outstanding Paper Award 2021
Emerald Citations of Excellence (tinyurl.com/2017citationsofexcellence)

Senior Area chair / Area Chair at multiple CL conferences: NAACL, EMNLP, EMNLP, ACL
Associate Editor, Cognitive Computation
Associate Editor, Neurocomputing
Associate Editor, Information Fusion
SPC, IJCAI 2023
Workshop chair, AACL 2022
Publicity chair, ACL 2022
Area chair, ARR (2021-)
Area chair at NeuRIPS 2021
Publicity chair at *SEM 2019
Co-guest editor, Affect Recognition in Multimodal Language, Cognitive Computation, 2020
Co-guest editor of special issue of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine on Computational Intelligence for Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis (CIACSA)
Co-guest editor for the (Springer) Cognitive Computation journal (Impact Factor: 3.44) Special Issue on “Multimodal natural language processing for Cybersecurity applications”, 2018-19
Co-chair of Advancing Artificial Intelligence Understanding of Human Multimodal Language workshop in conjunction with ACL 2018
Co-chair of MR2AMC workshop in conjunction with ICMR 2018
Organized SENTIRE workshop in conjunction with ICDM 2017

Keynote talk on Utterance Level Dialogue Understanding, ICON 2020, India
Keynote talk on Utterance Level Dialogue Understanding, MICAI 2020, Mexico
Keynote talk, on Emotion Recognition in Conversation: Research Challenges, Negative Results, and Benchmarks, SocialNLP, IJCAI 2019, Macau
Invited talk, on the Role of Context in Natural Language Processing, University of Michigan, USA
Invited talk, on Emotion Recognition in Conversation: Research Challenges, Negative Results, and Benchmarks, NUS, Singapore
Invited talk, on the Evolving Sentiment Analysis, NTU, Singapore
Keynote Speaker, on Multimodal sentiment analysis, CICLing 2018, Hanoi, Vietnam
Invited Speaker, on Aspect extraction from product reviews, Deep Learning Finance Summit 2018, Singapore

News coverage by mlreview.com, for our work - www.nlpoverview.com
News coverage by Kdnuggets, for our paper titled ”Recent Trends in Deep Learning Based NLP”. https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/09/deep-learning-nlp-overview-recent-trends.html
News coverage by Kdnuggets, for our paper titled ”A Deeper Look into Sarcastic Tweets Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks” – https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/06/detecting-sarcasm-deep-convolutional-neural-networks.html
News coverage by Datanami, for our paper titled ”Deep Learning-Based Document Modeling for Personality Detection from Text” – https://www.datanami.com/2017/09/21/deep-learning-reveals-new-insights-people/

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Thesis: Novel symbolic and machine-learning approaches for text-based and multimodal sentiment analysis, Feb 2014 - June 2017, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science and Engineering, Aug 2009 - Dec 2013, Jadavpur University, India

Adjunct Faculty, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIITD), India, Aug 2018 - Aug 2020

One of the most productive authors in sentiment analysis research from 2000 to 2015 (tinyurl.com/kwmboyy)
One of the most prolific and impactful authors in sentiment analysis from 2003 to 2016 (tinyurl.com/y8yj7974)
Google Scholar profile (https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=oS6gRc4AAAAJ&hl=en)