Yatao Bian is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and a recipient of the National Research Foundation Fellowship, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zurich, and was an Associate Fellow of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems from 2015 to 2020. His research aims to expand the frontiers of AI for scientific intelligence, developing transformative AI technologies to address some of the most critical challenges in scientific discovery. His research interests include modern energy/entropy based learning, reasoning-empowered scientific foundation models, LLM and agents for science and the safety issues therein. He is actively looking for highly motivated students, for more information, please visit his homepage at https://yataobian.com/. He was named a Microsoft Research Asia StarTrack Scholar in 2026. He won the National Championship in AMD China Accelerated Computing Contest when he was a student. He has authored or coauthored several papers on machine learning top conferences/journals such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR and T-PAMI. He is the area chair of ICML, NeurIPS and ICLR. He was a reviewer/PC for conferences, such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, STOC and journals like JMLR, T-PAMI and Nature Machine Intelligence.