Courses

NTU · 2026–27

IE4422 Multimodal Large Language Models: Theory and Applications

Co-instructor; lectures and project assessment.

NTU · 2025–26

IE4791 Database Systems

Co-instructor; second-half lectures and tutorials.

NTU · 2025–26

IE2108 Data Structures and Algorithms in Python

Tutorial instructor.

NTU · 2025–27

CC0007 Science and Technology for Humanity

Tutorial instructor.

SUTD · 2021–24

50.045 Information Retrieval

Developed the course in 2021; revised it in 2023 to include large language models.

SUTD · 2019–24

Computational Data Science

Undergraduate course.

SUTD · 2020–24

Capstone supervision

Supervised student research and engineering projects.

Doctoral students

I am the main supervisor unless noted. More about the group is on the DeCLaRe Lab site.

Jingdi LeiLanguage models and post-training
Keith KwokAI safety and alignment · with Renwen Zhang
Hung Chia-YuMultimodal generation, vision-language-action and world models
Nithish SelvarajMulti-agent systems
Liu RenhangGenerative models and world modelling for robotics
Varun GummaReinforcement learning, efficiency and reasoning
Vernon TohReasoning and prompt augmentation
Richmond SinReasoning
Peilin FengMultimodal understanding and agents
Tej Deep PalaReasoning, reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems
Maojia SongFoundation agents and embodied AI · SUTD, with Dorien Herremans
Ruiwen ZhouReasoning and AI agents · NUS, co-supervised with Min-Yen Kan

PhD graduates

2025

Rishabh Bhardwaj

Now a Research Scientist at DeCLaRe Lab.

2025

Wei Han

Now at Huawei.

2025

Pengfei Hong

Now at Tonghuashun.

2025

Chia Yew Ken

Supervised with Lidong Bing. Now at Balyasny Asset Management.

2024

Deepanway Ghosal

Now at Google DeepMind.

2023

Hui Chen

Now a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore.

2021

Devamanyu Hazarika

National University of Singapore, co-advised with Roger Zimmermann. Now at Meta.

Research staff

Suorong YangResearch Scientist · data-centric AI, AI for science and reasoning
Rishabh BhardwajResearch Scientist · AI safety
Navonil MajumderResearch Scientist · multimodal learning, dialogue and generative AI

I also supervise MSc dissertations and final-year projects at NTU, on memory for agents, multi-agent systems, agent safety, efficient reasoning and vision-language-action models.