Two NUS Computing Faculty Named National Research Foundation Fellows
Assistant Professor Bian Yatao and NUS Presidential Young Professor Zhang Jiaheng have been awarded the National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship (Class of 2026), one of Singapore’s most competitive programmes for early-career researchers.
NRF Fellowship supports outstanding researchers to conduct five years of independent work in Singapore, with the aim of strengthening the country’s scientific and technological capabilities. Fellows are selected for the quality and ambition of their research, and their potential to deliver breakthrough outcomes.
Their projects:
- Bian Yatao – Towards the Era of Reasoning AI for Science: Reasoning-Empowered Foundation Models for Atomic Systems
- Zhang Jiaheng – Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Large-Scale Computation and Applications
The awards reflect the range of research at NUS Computing, spanning AI for scientific discovery and the foundations of secure computation.