Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants
- 🌟 2021: ICLR Conference Outstanding Paper Award (8 out of 860 Accepted Papers)
- 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
- 2019.12: 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
Work Experience
研究员 (Researcher, PI)
Working on deep learning and AI for science
Supervised by Yoshua Bengio
Supervised by Chris Pal
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Supervised by Tat-Seng Chua
M.Sc. in Computer Science (Distinction)
University of Otago
Supervised by Brendan McCane & Lubica Benuskova
Academic Services
Senior Role
- IJCAI 2023 Senior Program Committee Member
- NeurIPS 2022 New in ML Workshop, Organizer
- EACL 2022, Area Chair
- AAAI 2022 Senior Program Committee Member
- IJCAI 2021 Volunteer Chair
Conference Reviewer
- ICLR: 2017 - 2023
- NeurIPS: 2018 - 2019, 2021 - 2022
- ICML: 2019, 2023
- ACL: 2020 - 2023
- EMNLP: 2020 - 2022
- CVPR: 2022
- NAACL: 2021
- KDD: 2021
- AAAI: 2020 - 2021
Journal Reviewer
- Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: 2021
- Transactions on Machine Learning Research: 2022 - 2023