Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants
- π 2024: Unlocking Emergent Modularity in Large Language Models received NAACL Outstanding Paper Award (6 out of 2434 submissions)
- 2022: Running ahead of evolution β AI-based simulation for predicting future high-risk SARS-CoV-2 variants received ACM Gordon Bell COVID Finalist
- π 2021: Beyond Fully-Connected Layers with Quaternions: Parameterization of Hypercomplex Multiplications with $1/n$ Parameters received ICLR Conference Outstanding Paper Award (8 out of 2997 submissions)
- 2021: Microsoft Research Montreal & Mila Research Grant (as PI), CAD 65,000, Canada
- 2020: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Energy Management Competition, 1st Place
- 2019.Dec: Google’s Natural Question Answering, RikiNet, 1st Place, 1st Superhuman Performance
- 2019: Microsoft AI for Earth Grant (as PI), USD 8,000, USA
- 2017-2018: IVADO Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canada
- 2016: Amazon AWS for Research (as PI), USD 8,000, USA
- 2015: Microsoft Azure Research Award (as PI), USD 20,000, USA
- 2012-2016: NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering Ph.D. Scholarship (50% more stipend than ordinary scholarships), Singapore
- 2012: Master’s Degree with Distinction, University of Otago, New Zealand
- 2011: Ministry of Science + Innovation Scholarship, NZD 20,000, New Zealand