24 Aug 2018 · Santa Fe, NM, USA
Research Fast and Slow
COLING 2018
Talks · 18
Invited Talks
Talk Archive
I list the invited talks for past conferences, workshops and other events I have had the privilege to lecture.
27 Jan 2026 · Singapore
New Frontiers in Information Retrieval
AAAI 2026 Workshop on New Frontiers in Information Retrieval
26 Jan 2026 · Singapore
AI for Scientific Research
AAAI 2026 Workshop on AI for Scientific Research
16 Sep 2025 · Dagstuhl, Germany
Research Fast and Slow, Dagstuhl 25831 (10m version)
Schloss Dagstuhl
26 Jul 2025 · Linz, Austria
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Getting more out of LLM Prompting
ITU:Summer School on NLP
8 Jan 2025 · Singapore
AI in Education and Research
NUS Transforming University Libraries Leadership & Innovation Programme (NUS TULLIP)
n.d. · Singapore
Pre-mortem: UnF.A.I.R - the Death of Open Research (Singapore Open Research Conference Keynote)
Singapore Open Research Conference 2024
n.d. · Singapore
Why Share Data? Conversation on a Professor's Data Sharing Journey & Research Data Management
Researcher Unbound Series, NUS Libraries
17 Oct 2022 · Gyeongju, South Korea
Scholarly Document Processing Research in the Age of AI
Scholarly Document Processing Workshop at COLING 2022
16 Mar 2017 · Singapore, Singapore
Technology vs Learner Engagement: Always a Tradeoff
innovLogue
16 Aug 2015 · Taoyuan, Taiwan
Instructors, Learners and Machines: Learning instructor intervention from MOOC forums
2nd Greater China MOOC Symposium
30 Jul 2015 · Beijing, China
Keywords, phrases, clauses and sentences: Topicality, indicativeness and informativeness at scales
Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase Extraction Workshop
24 Jul 2015 · Beijing, China
Improving Web 2.0 Recommendation Leveraging User Comments via Latent Model Regularization
Microsoft Research Asia
27 May 2015 · Linköping, Sweden
Improving Web 2.0 Recommendation Leveraging User Comments via Latent Model Regularization
Linköping, Sweden
9 Feb 2015 · Jeju Island, South Korea
Serving the Readers of Scholarly Documents: A Grand Challenge for the Introspective Digital Library
International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2015)
10 Feb 2015 · Seoul, South Korea
Serving the Readers of Scholarly Documents: A Grand Challenge for the Introspective Digital Library
Mining Big Text (MBT '15) Workshop, Yonsei University
11 Dec 2014 · Singapore
the small data of scholarly documents
Web Science and Data Analytics Summer School
11 Sep 2014 · Penang, Malaysia
Opportunities for Multimedia Analysis in Scholarly Digital Libraries
Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM '14), Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2014
Staff
Current Research Students and Staff
Student and Staff Listing
WING.NUS is most authoritative for lists of my current and past research students. Here's a snapshot from 2025. WING's website also lists all 100+ alumni, inclusive of over 40+ postgraduate alumni.Doctoral Students
2025 · PhD
Yuxi Xie
Doctoral Student
Multi-Step Reasoning and Text Generation, Vision-Language Understanding and Reasoning, Self-Improvement for Large Foundation Models
2025 · PhD
Minzhi Li (Ella)
A*STAR Doctoral Student
Socially Aware NLP Systems, Human-Centric and Data-Centric NLP
2025 · PhD
Xuan Long Do
A*STAR Doctoral Student
Efficient (Self-)Adaptation, Alignment, Multi-agent System
2025 · PhD
Esther Gan
Doctoral Student
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reasoning, Prompting / Prompt Engineering
2025 · PhD
Sahajpreet Singh
CTIC Doctoral Student
Trustworthy and Safe Internet, Misleading Content and Propaganda
Master Students
Undergraduate Students
2025 · UG
Haomeng Lu
UROP Student
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Audio Information Retrieval
Grants · 29
Research Grants and Awards
Grant Archive
I have proposed, managed and collaborated on a number of research grants in Singapore. I am fortunate to work with a great team of scholars both in NUS, in Singapore and abroad to pioneer WING.NUS's research.2023 - 2028 · Grant
Digital Information Resilience: Restoring Trust and Nudging Behaviours in Digitalisation
Co-PI · MOE Tier 3, Singapore
SGD 23M
2026 - 2028 · Grant
Evaluating and Building Socially Intelligent Foundation Models
PI · MDDI AI Visiting Professorship
SGD 3.6M
2025 - 2026 · Grant
Automating Community Note Generation for Social Media Misinformation Governance
PI · MOE (Tier 1), Singapore
SGD 100K
2024 - 2026 · Grant
CheckUp: Grounding Social Media on Healthcare with Science
PI · SoC Seed Funding, Singapore
SGD 100K
2024 - 2026 · Grant
Unveiling Country Trade: Insights from 19th century Batavia Kong Koan Records via OCR and NLP Analysis
Collaborator · CSSH Seed Fund, Singapore
SGD 80K
2024 - 2025 · Grant
Towards Controllable Generation for Scientific Document Summarization
PI · MOE (Tier 1), Singapore
SGD 241K
2023 - 2025 · Grant
AI Centre for Education Technologies
Co-PI · AI Singapore, Singapore
SGD 4.5M
2023 - 2025 · Grant
SingaKids Pic2Speak: Multilingual AI Tutor - Uplifting Singapore's Bilingual Edge
Co-PI · NRF AI in Education Grand Challenge, Singapore
SGD 3.5M
2021 - 2024 · Grant
AI-Lyricist: A Music-Informed Automatic Lyrics Generation System for Language Learning
Co-PI · MOE (Tier 2), Singapore
SGD 698K
2021 - 2023 · Grant
Scholarly Document Information Extraction
PI · MOE (Tier 1), Singapore
SGD 217K
2018 - 2019 · Grant
Course Suggestion for Career Planning: Evaluating Strategies to Support Lifelong Learning. A Pilot on Using Analytics to Recommend SkillsFuture Credit Courses
Co-PI · WDARF, Singapore
SGD 161K
2016 - 2019 · Grant
NExT++: Towards Web Intelligence and User Empowerment
Co-PI · NRF, Singapore
SGD 500K
2015 - 2018 · Grant
Investigating Instructor Intervention in MOOC Forums
PI · NUS LIFT grant
SGD 167K
2016 - 2016 · Award
Research and development of a shared task and corpus on scientific document summarization
PI · Microsoft Research
SGD 27K
2010 - 2015 · Grant
NExT Search Center
Co-PI · NRF MDA grant
SGD 6.1M
2015 - 2015 · Award
Research and development in NLP using GPU technologies - GTX Titan X
NVidia Corporation
USD 800
2008 - 2014 · Grant
Co-training NLP systems and Language Learners
PI · CSIDM phases I and II
SGD 234.5K
2010 - 2013 · Grant
Mapping the Technological and cultural landscape of scientific development in Asia
Co-PI · Global Asia Institute
SGD 225K
2010 - 2012 · Grant
Data Mining for Supporting Critical Reviews in Evidence Based Nursing
PI · MOE (Tier 1), Singapore
SGD 98K
2011 - 2011 · Gift
Digital libraries and coordination of the Elsevier SGCodeJam24 and Code for Science
Elsevier
USD 2K
2007 - 2010 · Grant
Interactive Media Search
Co-PI · NRF MDA grant
SGD 1.9M
2006 - 2008 · Grant
Document Information Mining for Digital Libraries
Co-PI · HP Labs
SGD 23K
2007 - 2007 · Grant
Executable cognitive user models for e-learning usability studies
Co-PI · A*STAR HFE pilot grant
SGD 24K
2006 - 2007 · Grant
Mathematical Equation Indexing, Search and Retrieval
PI · MOE (Tier 1), Singapore
SGD 39K
2006 - 2007 · Grant
Natural Language Query Analysis for Web Queries
PI · MOE (Tier 1), Singapore
SGD 41K
2003 - 2006 · Grant
Corpus-Based Query Expansion in Online Public Access Catalogs
PI · MOE (Tier 1), Singapore
SGD 31K
2003 - 2006 · Grant
Towards multi document indicative summarization via automated metadata extraction
PI · MOE (Tier 1), Singapore
SGD 23K
2004 - 2004 · Award
Interdisciplinary Technology Equipment Grant
PI · NUS
SGD 60K
n.d. · Grant
面向课程的大规模在线教育资源组织与持续优化的 理论与方法
Collaborator · NSF, China
RMB 450K
Open Source Software
Software
Software Archive
As I run the WING.NUS research group, I don't do so much software development myself, but you can find some small projects on my own GitHub account, knmnyn @ GitHub. Most of what I've done professionally for natural language processing during my Ph.D. years is available from the Columbia NLP group's home page. This includes the verber, centrifuser and segmenter packages.WING.NUS @ GitHub
Open-source group software hub
Automated grading script
Perl script to automatically tabulate homework grades and mail students their results
Tex to PowerPoint script
Reads LaTeX macros and converts them into an indented textual format for PowerPoint outlines
LaTeX / TeX word counting
Perl script that counts words and can update document section counts
Template Perl script
Template Perl script for bootstrapping new Perl scripts
Template Ruby script
Template Ruby script for bootstrapping new Ruby scripts
Hypertext help
Mirrored LaTeX hypertext help site