Angela Yao

Angela Yao

Dean's Chair Associate Professor
School of Computing · National University of Singapore
ayao@comp.nus.edu.sg
COM3 02-26

I work on human-centric vision and video understanding, with a focus on building contextual AI systems to perceive, reason about, and assist with human activities in real-world and embodied settings. I previously led a group in Visual Computing at the University of Bonn and co-founded a startup on smart parking. I completed my PhD at ETH Zurich and studied Engineering Science at the University of Toronto.

Outside of work, I am rediscovering the joys of piano with Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and sampling my way through Singapore's excellent hawker scene.

Recent Highlights

Upcoming
I'll be giving keynotes at ACML 2026 in Melbourne (Dec) and MMM 2027 in Siem Reap (Jan). Come say hello!
Sep 2026
We will be presenting 6 papers at NeurIPS in December 2026. See you in Sydney!
Egocentric streaming AI
  • Don't Pause! — models must respond proactively as events unfold, not when the video is paused.
  • SmartRes — high resolution only where objects are; up to 67% fewer visual tokens.
3D and 4D reconstruction and generation
  • UniCon3R — human-scene contact keeps reconstructed bodies from floating or sinking.
  • ONE-SHOT — human motion, scene, and camera decoupled for minute-long video generation.
  • GGQR — feed-forward 4D Gaussian splatting.
  • AffineGS — spatially varying depth rectification for accurate 3DGS meshes.

Group

Postdocs
Huixin Sun
Masters / FYP
Aryan Jain
PhD Students
Ramanathan Rajaraman
Hangyu Qin
Research Visitors
Uday Agarwal
Tianran Ouyang
Jiahao Zhang
Boshu Jia
Chuhan Meng
Sachish Singla
Alumni
Postdocs
PhD Students
Masters & Visitors
Join the group

Prospective PhD students should apply through the NUS SoC PhD programme. For postdoc and visitors, see details here.

Invited Talks & Keynotes

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Selected Publications

video understanding3D/4D modelingother
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