About me

Hi, I am currently an AI research engineer at the Institute of Infocomm Research, Agency of Science, Technology and Research working with Dr Cheston Tan. I am currently based in Singapore. My research interest is in the areas of Embodied AI, Robot Learning, Computational Cognitive Science, and Computer Vision.

Previously, I earned my B.Eng (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) with honors (Highest Distinction) from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and work with Professor Wen Bihan on my final year thesis. I was previously an A*STAR undergraduate scholar. I have also worked with Dr Ayanna Howard during my exchange at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

I am currently a recipient of the National Science (PhD) scholarship and will be starting my PhD at the University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science Engineering under the advisory of Professor Dieter Fox.

Latest News

2022

• [Publication] 1 paper accepted at the CVPR 2022 Embodied AI Workshop
• [Publication] 1 paper accepted at the IJCAI-ECAI 2022 Survey Track (18% Acceptance Rate)
• [Conference Service] I am an invited reviewer for NeurIPS 2022
• [Talks] Invited Guest Speaker for AI Research Student Conference (ARSC) 2022
• [News] I will be joining the University of Washington, Allen School of Computer Science Engineering and under the advisory of Professor Dieter Fox!
• [News] I have received PhD offers from UC Berkeley, CMU, UCLA, UW, and Johns Hopkins
• [Conference Service] I am an invited reviewer for ECCV 2022
• [Conference Service] I am an invited reviewer for IEEE T-CSVT Journal
• [Publication] Invited Commentary article for the National Research Foundation Magazine
• [Talks] Invited Speaker for Brown Bag Session on Embodied AI to A*STAR
• [Publication] 1 paper accepted for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (Journal) 

2021

• [Non-Academic Achievement] Awarded the Nanyang Award for Teamwork (The highest honor given to a student club)
• [Conference Service] I am an invited reviewer for CVPR 2022
• [Publication] 1 paper accepted for Neurips 2021 PRIBRW (Spotlight Paper)
• [News] Interviewed and featured in Straits Times and Channel 8 News
• [Publication] 1 paper accepted for ICCV21 SEAI Workshop (Spotlight Paper)
• [Academic Achievement] Awarded Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Award (Gold Medal)
• [Academic Achievement] Awarded NTU Class of 1985 Book Prize
• [Academic Achievement] Awarded NTU EEE Excellence Award
• [Research] Won 3rd Prize at NTU Final Year Project Challenge
• [Academic Achievement] Awarded the National Science Scholarship (PhD) Overseas by A*STAR
• [Talk] Invited Opening Speaker for AI Research Undergraduate Conference 2021
• [Talk] Invited Guest Speaker for the NTU EEE Research Apprenticeship Program

2020

• [Competition] Won the Superlative Award, SIA App Challenge 2020
• [Publication] 1 paper accepted for IEEE ICIP 2020
• [Research] Awarded the Best Poster Award at AI Summer School 2020, AI Singapore
• [Academic Achievement] Completed my undergraduate exchange program at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• [Research] Completed the undergraduate research ECE 2699 under Dr Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
• [Competition] Won the “Most Innovative 5G/IoT/Sensors Design Award at MAKEMIT Hackathon, MIT
• [Talk] Invited Guest Speaker at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Alumni Sharing
• [Voluntary Service] Invited Judge for the MLDAxSGInnovate AI Hackathon

2019

• [Competition] Won the 1st Runner up for Singapore-India Hackathon 2019, Chennai India
• [Academic Achievement] Dean’s List for Academic Year 2018/19
• [Research] Awarded the Excellent Research Presentation Award, 6th ASPIRE Undergraduate Research Conference at KAIST Korea.
• [Academic Achievement] Awarded the NTU Silicon Valley Technological Study Trip Award

My research interest in one glance