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 Higlights

Aug 2026
Excited to give a keynote at KCCV this year. See you in Busan!
Jun 2026
I'm co-organizing four workshops at CVPR 2026: Skilled Activity Understanding, Assessment & Feedback Generation, Vision for Intelligent Task Assistants, Vision-based Assistants in the Real-World and Video Large Language Models. Join us in Denver!
May 2026
We just concluded the second Singapore Vision Day! A big round of thanks to all our speakers, especially those who traveled to Singapore from overseas.
Jan 2026
I have returned to Singapore after my sabbatical at Meta Reality Labs in Zurich. I'm back with new energy, new collaborators, and excitement to push forwards on egocentric and assistive AI!

Group

Postdocs
Huixin Sun
Zhanzhong Pang
Masters / FYP
Aryan Jain
PhD Students
Xinyao Liao
Ramanathan Rajaraman
Hangyu Qin
Research Visitors
Uday Agarwal
Jingqiao Xiu
Alumni
Postdocs
PhD Students
Masters & Visitors
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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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