Oral Defence 2025

Oral Defense 2023
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JAN
07
Towards Effective Time-Travelling Visualization System for Machine Learning Models Surveillance
Ms. Yang Xianglin
Tue 07 Jan 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Dong Jin Song, Professor, School of Computing

JAN
08
Enhancing Sample Efficiency and Privacy in Real-World Decision-Making: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Approach
Mr. Fan Xiaofeng
Wed 08 Jan 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ooi Wei Tsang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JAN
13
Learning Probabilistic and Causal Models with(out) Imperfect Advice
Mr. Choo Xianjun Davin
Mon 13 Jan 2025, 09:00am - 10:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Seth Lewis Gilbert, Professor, School of Computing
Characterization and Implications for Federated Learning Systems
Mr. Hu Sixu
Mon 13 Jan 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr He Bingsheng, Professor, School of Computing

JAN
20
Enhancing Sample Efficiency and Privacy in Real-World Decision-Making: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Approach
Mr. Fan Xiaofeng
Mon 20 Jan 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ooi Wei Tsang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JAN
21
Issues of Trust in Computing and Online Communities
Mr. Jiang Mingliang
Tue 21 Jan 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Y.C. Tay, Emeritus Professor, School of Computing
Dr Zhai Yingda, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

JAN
22
Investigating Microphone Privacy under Remote Eavesdropping Attacks
Ms. Soundarya Ramesh
Wed 22 Jan 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Chan Mun Choon, Professor, School of Computing
Security Impacts of Secondary Sensor Data in Ubiquitous LIDARs
Mr. Sriram Sami
Wed 22 Jan 2025, 01:00pm - 02:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Chan Mun Choon, Professor, School of Computing

FEB
12
Data Protection in Federated Learning
Ms. Chang Hongyan
Wed 12 Feb 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Reza Shokri, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing
Towards Long-Range Interactions and Heterophily Modeling in Message Passing Graph Neural Networks
Ms. Dong Yanfei
Wed 12 Feb 2025, 11:30am - 01:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Wee Sun, Professor, School of Computing

FEB
17
Learning User Dynamics for Effective and Efficient Fraud Detection
Mr. Xiao Fei
Mon 17 Feb 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Ooi Beng Chin, Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Computing

MAR
03
Enhancing Conversational Agents: Source-Aware Generation and Conversational Partner Understanding
Ms. Xu Lin
Mon 03 Mar 2025, 03:30pm - 05:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ng See Kiong, Professor, School of Computing

MAR
14
Model Adaptation for Edge AI
Mr. Shivam Aggarwal
Fri 14 Mar 2025, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Tulika Mitra, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

MAR
17
Data Efficient 3D Indoor Scene Understanding
Ms. Xu Yating
Mon 17 Mar 2025, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Gim Hee, Associate Professor, School of Computing

MAR
19
Coding Techniques and Information-Theoretic Limits for Multi-Hop Relaying Problems
Mr. Ling Yan Hao
Wed 19 Mar 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Jonathan Scarlett, Associate Professor, School of Computing

MAR
24
Deep Generative Models for Human Robot Interaction
Mr. Chen Kaiqi
Mon 24 Mar 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Harold Soh Soon Hong, Associate Professor, School of Computing

MAR
26
Towards Sharp Performance Bounds for Kernel-Based Bandit Optimization Problems
Ms. Li Zihan
Wed 26 Mar 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Jonathan Scarlett, Associate Professor, School of Computing

MAR
27
Design and Analysis of Network-on-Chip based Hardware Accelerator Architectures for Neural Network Applications
Mr. Mohit Upadhyay
Thu 27 Mar 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Peh Li Shiuan, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

APR
01
The Influence of IT Architectures on Profit Concentration in Digital Platforms
Mr. Lu Ying
Tue 01 Apr 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Tan Cheng Yian Bernard, Tan Sri Runme Shaw Senior Professor, School of Computing
Dr Qiao Dandan, Associate Professor, School of Computing

APR
14
Data-Driven Techniques for Inverse Problems: Priors, Measurements, and Decoding
Mr. Sun Yang
Mon 14 Apr 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Jonathan Scarlett, Associate Professor, School of Computing

APR
15
Fair Data Valuation For Collaborative Machine Learning
Mr. Xu Xinyi
Tue 15 Apr 2025, 01:00pm - 02:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Low Kian Hsiang, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Dr Foo Chuan Sheng, Institute for Infocomm Research

APR
21
Robust Representation Learning from Imperfect Data
Mr. Peng Xiangyu
Mon 21 Apr 2025, 09:30am - 11:00am
Supervised By:
Dr Yang You, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing
Techniques for Enhancing Robustness of Permissionless Distributed Systems
Mr, Hou Ruomu
Mon 21 Apr 2025, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Yu Haifeng, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing
Design space exploration towards energy efficient Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Arrays
Ms. Dassanayake Mudiyanselage Thilini Kaushalya Bandara
Mon 21 Apr 2025, 04:30pm - 06:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Tulika Mitra, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing
Dr Peh Li Shiuan, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

APR
22
Cohort Learning for Effective and Interpretable Healthcare Analytics
Mr. Cai Qingpeng
Tue 22 Apr 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ooi Beng Chin, Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Computing

APR
23
Testing and Learning Polynomials over Reals
Mr. Vipul Arora
Wed 23 Apr 2025, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Divesh Aggarwal, Associate Professor, School of Computing

APR
30
Generalizable Scene Understanding
Mr. Zhao Yuyang
Wed 30 Apr 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Gim Hee, Associate Professor, School of Computing

MAY
02
Robust Representation Learning from Imperfect Data
Mr. Peng Xiangyu
Fri 02 May 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Supervised By:
Dr Yang You, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

MAY
06
Adversarial Robustness in Deep Learning NLP Systems
Mr. Brian Formento
Tue 06 May 2025, 09:00am - 10:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Ng See Kiong, Professor, School of Computing
Sports Analytics Using Data Mining, Probabilistic Reasoning, and Deep Learning
Mr. Liu Zhaoyu
Tue 06 May 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Dong Jin Song, Professor, School of Computing

MAY
09
Enhancing Computational Resource Utilization in Large-Scale Neural Networks
Mr. Zheng Zangwei
Fri 09 May 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Yang You, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

MAY
16
Causal Discovery and Neural Connectivity: Towards Brain-Inspired Modular Decision-Making Models
Mr. Evangelos Sigalas
Fri 16 May 2025, 09:30am - 11:00am
Supervised By:
Dr Leong Tze Yun, Professor, School of Computing
A/P Camilo David Libedinsky, Department of Psychology

MAY
19
Tackling the Curse of Dimensionality with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Mr. Hu Zheyuan
Mon 19 May 2025, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Kenji Kawaguchi, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

MAY
23
Human-Machine Collaboration: Performance and Responsibility Attribution
Ms. Huang Xin
Fri 23 May 2025, 01:30pm - 03:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Heng Cheng Suang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

MAY
26
Learning and Unlearning via Noisy Gradient Descent
Mr. Rishav Chourasia
Mon 26 May 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Xiaokui Xiao, Professor, School of Computing

MAY
28
Towards Practical Distribution Testing
Mr. Yash Pralhad Pote
Wed 28 May 2025, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Umang Mathur, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

MAY
29
Towards Latency Guarantee For Distributed Stream Processing
Mr. She Zhaochen
Thu 29 May 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ma Tianbai, Richard, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JUN
02
Human-Machine Collaboration: Performance and Responsibility Attribution
Ms. Huang Xin
Mon 02 Jun 2025, 03:30pm - 05:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Heng Cheng Suang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JUN
09
Scalable Solutions for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
Mr. Liu Xu
Mon 09 Jun 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Roger Zimmermann, Professor, School of Computing

JUN
10
Efficient and Effective Edge-wise Graph Representation Learning and Applications
Mr. Wang Hewen
Tue 10 Jun 2025, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Xiaokui Xiao, Professor, School of Computing

JUN
11
Document-Level Relation Extraction and Temporal Reasoning with Large Language Models
Mr. Tan Qingyu
Wed 11 Jun 2025, 09:00am - 10:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Ng Hwee Tou, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

JUN
19
: Learning from Imperfect Visual Data
Mr. Xiong Haipeng
Thu 19 Jun 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Angela Yao, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

JUN
30
Network Effects in Action: Essays on the Dynamics of Platform Ecosystem
Ms. Liu Zhongyi
Mon 30 Jun 2025, 04:30pm - 06:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Qiao Dandan, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JUL
02
Towards Adversarially Robust Representations: Evaluation, Pre-Training, and Fine-Tuning
Mr. Xu Xilie
Wed 02 Jul 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Kankanhalli Mohan, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing
Image and video restoration
Mr. Ji Bo
Wed 02 Jul 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Angela Yao, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

JUL
03
Program Repair Using Datalog-Based Static Analysis
Ms. Liu Yu
Thu 03 Jul 2025, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Abhik Roychoudhury, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing
Reactive System Fuzzing
Ms. Meng Ruijie
Thu 03 Jul 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Abhik Roychoudhury, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

JUL
08
Towards Resolving the Scarce Data Challenge in Time Series Analytics
Mr. Ang Yihao
Tue 08 Jul 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Huang Zhiyong, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Dr Tung Kum Hoe Anthony, Professor, School of Computing

JUL
21
Property-Aware Human Mobility Learning for Citywide Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
Ms. Wang Chengxin
Mon 21 Jul 2025, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Tan Soon Huat Gary, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Towards Efficient Large-Scale Bi-level Optimization, Algorithms and Applications
Mr. Shen Qianli
Mon 21 Jul 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Kenji Kawaguchi, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

JUL
23
Breaking Memory Walls: Efficient Memory Management for the Post-Moore's Era
Mr. Gao Bin
Wed 23 Jul 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Weng-Fai Wong, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Temporal Modeling for Procedural Video Understanding
Mr. Pang Zhanzhong
Wed 23 Jul 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Angela Yao, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

JUL
29
Temporal Action Segmentation in Complex Activities Videos
Ms. Dipika Singhania
Tue 29 Jul 2025, 05:00pm - 06:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Angela Yao, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

AUG
04
Improving Super-Resolution Methods for Real-World Requirements
Ms. Zhang Yuehan
Mon 04 Aug 2025, 09:30am - 11:00am
Supervised By:
Dr Angela Yao, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

AUG
05
On Scaling Knowledge Compilation Applications
Mr. Yang Suwei
Tue 05 Aug 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Wee Sun, Professor, School of Computing
A/P Meel Kuldeep S., University of Toronto

AUG
14
Data Synthesis with Differential Privacy
Mr. Cai Kuntai
Thu 14 Aug 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Xiaokui Xiao, Professor, School of Computing

AUG
27
Simplifying 3D Learning: Integrating Prior Knowledge and Decomposing Complexity
Mr. Chen Jinnan
Wed 27 Aug 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Gim Hee, Associate Professor, School of Computing

AUG
29
Advancing Domain Adaptive Pose Estimation For Evolving Challenges
Ms. Lin Qiuxia
Fri 29 Aug 2025, 04:30pm - 06:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Angela Yao, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

SEP
05
Enhancing News Retrieval with Diversity and Interpretability
Mr. Sun Yiqun
Fri 05 Sep 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Tung Kum Hoe Anthony, Professor, School of Computing
Towards a Post- Taylorism Theory of Crowdsourcing
Mr. Zhou Junjie
Fri 05 Sep 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Jungpil Hahn, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing
Towards Reliable AI under Distribution Shifts: A Data-centric Perspective
Mr. Qiao Rui
Fri 05 Sep 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Low Kian Hsiang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

SEP
16
Trustworthy Machine Learning: Mitigating Overconfidence and Hallucinations
Ms. Deng Ailin
Tue 16 Sep 2025, 01:00pm - 02:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Bryan Hooi Kuen-Yew, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

SEP
22
Deterministic Pruning of Program Analysis Tree with Abstraction Learning
Mr. Yu Xiao Liang
Mon 22 Sep 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Yap Hock Chuan, Roland, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Dr Joxan Jaffar, Emeritus Professor, School of Computing

SEP
23
Large-Scale Neural 3D Scene Reconstruction, Rendering, and Beyond
Mr. Chen Yu
Tue 23 Sep 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Gim Hee, Associate Professor, School of Computing

OCT
02
Investigation into the Duality of Context Prompts and Large Language Model Weights
Mr. Brian Chen
Thu 02 Oct 2025, 01:00pm - 02:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Kenji Kawaguchi, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing
Dr Lee Hwee Kuan, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computing

OCT
09
On the Decoding of Human Pose
Mr. Gu Kerui
Thu 09 Oct 2025, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Angela Yao, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

OCT
13
Advancing HTTP Adaptive Streaming for 2D and Immersive Media Delivery
Ms. Lim Mei Ling May
Mon 13 Oct 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Roger Zimmermann, Professor, School of Computing

OCT
27
Evidence-based Claim Verification with Commonsense Knowledge and Temporal Information
Mr. Anab Maulana Barik
Mon 27 Oct 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Mong Li Janice, Professor, School of Computing
Dr Hsu Wynne, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

OCT
28
Development of a wearable EEG system for everyday use: overcoming motion artifacts, electrode positioning, and on-device...
Mr. Goh Teck Lun
Tue 28 Oct 2025, 09:00am - 10:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Peh Li Shiuan, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing
Computational and Statistical Guarantees for Algorithms on High-Dimensional Data
Ms. Wang Yuhao
Tue 28 Oct 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Divesh Aggarwal, Associate Professor, School of Computing

NOV
04
Building a Clinically Translatable Cancer Treatment Recommendation System: Learning in Data-Scarce Settings
Ms. Aishwarya Jayagopal
Tue 04 Nov 2025, 01:30pm - 03:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Suranga Nanayakkara, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Trustworthy Machine Learning: Abstention, Detection and Safe Generation
Mr. Alvin Heng Jun Ren
Tue 04 Nov 2025, 03:30pm - 05:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Harold Soh Soon Hong, Associate Professor, School of Computing

NOV
07
On the Detection and Mitigation of Prediction Bias And Other Failures in Language Models
Ms. Lin Ruixi
Fri 07 Nov 2025, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Yang You, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

NOV
10
Efficient Algorithms for Geometric Optimization and Symmetric Cone Programming
Mr. Zheng Jiaqi
Mon 10 Nov 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Tan Tiow Seng, Associate Professor, School of Computing

NOV
13
Algorithmic Improvements for Differentially Private Learning
Mr. Wei Jianxin
Thu 13 Nov 2025, 09:30am - 11:00am
Supervised By:
Dr Xiaokui Xiao, Professor, School of Computing
Hardware-Software Co-Design for Accelerating Graph Processing and GNNs: From Edge to Cloud
Ms. Wu Dan
Thu 13 Nov 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Tulika Mitra, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

NOV
14
Two Essays On The Use Of Information Technology In Natural Disaster Responses
Ms. Puspa Indahati Sandhyaduhita
Fri 14 Nov 2025, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Tan Chuan Hoo, Professor, School of Computing
Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Energy-Efficient Neural Network Acceleration
Mr. Yu Miao
Fri 14 Nov 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Trevor E. Carlson, Associate Professor, School of Computing

NOV
18
Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning
Mr. Ma Haozhe
Tue 18 Nov 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Leong Tze Yun, Professor, School of Computing

NOV
20
Efficient Data Curation And Utilization For Deep Learning
Mr. Qin Ziheng
Thu 20 Nov 2025, 09:00am - 10:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Yang You, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing
Efficient Subgraph Mining And Discovery On Massive Graphs
Mr. Chen Yuhang
Thu 20 Nov 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr He Bingsheng, Professor, School of Computing

NOV
21
Style-specific harmonization and accompaniment
Ms. Lew Yin Hui, Stephanie
Fri 21 Nov 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Leow Wee Kheng, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Dr Kathleen Rose Agres, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music

NOV
25
Representing and Understanding Programs for Semantic-based Analysis
Mr. Liu Jiahao
Tue 25 Nov 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Liang Zhenkai, Associate Professor, School of Computing

NOV
27
Co-Designing Systems for Microsecond-Scale Consistent Tail Latency in Datacenters
Mr. Choi Inho
Thu 27 Nov 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Jialin Li, Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor, School of Computing

DEC
02
Automated and Secure System for Machine Learning Lifecycles
Mr. Gao Haotian
Tue 02 Dec 2025, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Huang Zhiyong, Associate Professor, School of Computing

DEC
10
Machine Unlearning in Graphs, Recommendations, and Language Models
Mr. Yash Sinha
Wed 10 Dec 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Kankanhalli Mohan, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

DEC
15
Efficient Data Curation And Utilization For Deep Learning
Mr. Qin Ziheng
Mon 15 Dec 2025, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Yang You, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

DEC
16
Enhancing Neural Networks for TSP and VRP: Algorithmic Bias, Hierarchical Structures, and Foundation Models for...
Mr. Goh Yong Liang
Tue 16 Dec 2025, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Wee Sun, Professor, School of Computing

DEC
19
Structured Multimodal Intelligence: Scene Graphs for Vision-Language Understanding, Generation, and Unification
Ms. Wu Shengqiong
Fri 19 Dec 2025, 03:30pm - 05:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Chua Tat Seng, Professor, School of Computing