NUS Computing Co-Organised SINFRA’26, Bringing Trustworthy AI and Human-Drone Research to the Table

Photo courtesy of IPAL, taken on the second day of SINFRA'26 at A*STAR.

NUS School of Computing (SoC) co-organised this year's edition of SINFRA, the annual Singapore-France workshop on Computer Science and AI, bringing together more than 80 researchers from across the two countries' AI, robotics, and human-computer interaction communities.

Held over three days at NUS and A*STAR, the workshop is run each year by the International Research Laboratory IPAL, a joint venture between CNRS, NUS, A*STAR and a growing roster of French universities. The NUS Co-Director of IPAL, Associate Professor Ooi Wei Tsang welcomed participants, opening a programme that spanned 26 scientific presentations and more than 20 posters.

Among them were five oral presentations from SoC’s researchers, spanning trustworthy computing and human-drone interaction.

Professor Abhik Roychoudhury presented on trustworthy automatic programming, and Professor Xiaokui Xiao on data protection through differential privacy, both areas where SoC has built a sustained research track record in making AI systems safer and more accountable. 

PhD candidates Peisen Xu and Yize Wei, alongside Peter Cleveland, a Research Fellow at the Augmented Human Lab, represented SoC’s growing body of work on human-drone interaction – spanning AR interfaces for drone piloting, assistive drones for blind and low-vision users, and the embodied experience of drone control. 

This year's SINFRA also marked a milestone for the wider IPAL partnership, formally welcoming the University of Grenoble Alpes back into the fold after an online address by its president, Yassine Lakhnech – the latest step in a collaboration between CNRS, A*STAR, NUS and French partner universities now in its 28th year.