HUANG Zhiyong
Associate Professor (Practice Track)Academic Director, NUS MSc AI & Innovation
- Ph.D. (Computer Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1997)
- M.Eng. (Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1988)
- B.Eng. (Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1986)
Zhiyong is an Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science and Academic Director of the MSc (Artificial Intelligence & Innovation). He is also a Senior Principal Investigator at the NUS Chongqing Research Institute. He previously served as Director (C-TReND), Assistant Dean (Industry Relations) and Deputy Director (NUS BAC). He had been working as a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR since 2007, where he held various roles, including Senior Manager, Strategic Capability Development and Industry Development; Co-Principal Investigator, SERC Industrial Robotics Programme; Department Head, Computer Graphics and Interface; and Programme Manager of the SERC Human Factor Engineering initiative. Zhiyong is a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE, and a Pioneer Member of ACM SIGGRAPH.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Human Computer/Robot Interface
Computer Graphics and Multimedia
RESEARCH PROJECTS
RESEARCH GROUPS
TEACHING INNOVATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Ren X., Jiang P., Li K., Huang Z., Du X., Jiang J., Xing Z., Sun J., and Zhuo Y. Terry, HackWorld: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents on Exploiting Web Application Vulnerabilities, ICLR 2026.
- Ma M., Liu R., Lin Y., Huang Z., and Dong J. S., TrainRef: Curating Data with Label Distribution and Minimal Reference for Accurate Prediction and Reliable Confidence, ICLR 2026.
- Ang Y., Wang Q., Huang Q., Bao Y., Xi X., Tung A. K. H., Chen J., and Huang Z., CTBench: Cryptocurrency Time Series Generation Benchmark, ICLR 2026.
- Cao X., Lin B., Wang B., Huang Z., Tan Robby T., 3D-OTT: Texture Transfer for 3D Objects from a Single Reference Image, NeurIPS 2025.
- Li K., Meng Z., Lin H., Luo Z., Tian Y., Ma J., Huang Z., Chua T.S., ScreenSpot-Pro: GUI Grounding for Professional High-Resolution Computer Use, ACMMM 2025 (Oral).
- Zhai Y., Zeng Y., Huang Z., Qin Z., Jin X., Cao D., Multi-Prompts Learning with Cross-Model Alignment for Attribute-based Person Re-Identification, AAAI 2024.
- Gao H., Cai S, Dinh TTA, Huang Z., Ooi BC, CtxPipe: Context-aware Data Preparation Pipeline Construction for Machine Learning , Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2 (6), 1-27, 2024.
- Ai, X and Huang Z., Zero-shot Cross-lingual Alignment for Embedding Initialization. ACL 2024 Findings.
- Ang Y., Huang Q., Bao Y., Tung A. K. H., Huang Z., TSGBench: Time Series Generation Benchmark, VLDB 2024 Best Paper Award Nomination.
- Teoh X., Lin Y., Liu R., Huang Z., Dong J. S., PhishDecloaker: Detecting CAPTCHA-cloaked Phishing Websites via Hybrid Vision-based Interactive Models, USENIX Security 2024.
- Liu R., Lin Y., Teoh X., Liu G., Huang Z., Dong J. S., Less Defined Knowledge and More True Alarms: Reference-based Phishing Detection without a Pre-defined Reference List, USENIX Security 2024.
- Gao H., Yue C., Dinh A., Huang Z., Ooi B.C., Enabling Secure and Efficient Data Analytics Pipeline Evolution with Trusted Execution Environment. VLDB 2023.
- Ang Y., Huang Q., Tung A. K. H., Huang Z., A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Enabling Early Anomaly Detection with Correlation Analysis, ICDE 2023.
- Wang M., Chen J., Zhang X., Huang Z., Rahardja S., Multi-modal speech enhancement with bone-conducted speech in time domain, Applied Acoustics, Volume 200, November 2022, 109058.
- Chen J., Wang M., Zhang X.L., Huang Z., and Rahardja S., End-to-end multi-modal speech recognition with air and bone conducted speech, ICASSP 2022.
AWARDS & HONOURS
FINALIST of World Technology Summit & Awards (Entertainment), 2010.
Bronze, National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1992.
Tsinghua 12.9 Distinguished Young Teacher Award, 1989.
COURSES TAUGHT
CS3242
3D Modeling and Animation
NN3880
ATAP/SIP Coordinator