Jiaying Wu | Web IR NLP Group @ NUS

Beyond the Crowd: LLM-Augmented Community Notes for Governing Health Misinformation

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What's Left Unsaid? Detecting and Correcting Misleading Omissions in Multimodal News Previews

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

CIVIC-AI: Stanford's SALT Lab and WING.NUS Collaborate on Social Intelligence and the Future of AI and Work

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The inaugural CIVIC-AI workshop (13–14 July 2026) kicks off a major collaboration between Stanford’s SALT Lab and WING.NUS, bringing together researchers, policymakers, and funding agencies to examine the Social Intelligence of Foundation Models and the Future of AI and Work.

The CIVIC-AI Workshop is an upcoming two-day event in Singapore that will explore the profound societal impacts of AI adoption. The workshop is generously funded by the Ministry of Digital Development and Information of the Republic of Singapore under its AI Visiting Professorship grant, and is also supported by the Ministry of Manpower.

The event centers on three core questions:

Cross-cultural Dimensions: How do cultural context, economic development, and policy environments shape AI adoption and the lived experience of automation across different societies?
Future of Work & Automation: Which professions and tasks are being automated away versus augmented, and who bears the costs of displacement?
Human Advantage: What constitutes irreducible human value when a large fraction of knowledge work can be automated, and how do we measure and support it?

The first day (13 July) focuses on the theme of Social Intelligence, featuring invited talks by researchers such as Yohan Jo, Nancy F. Chen, and Lizi Liao, alongside lightning talks and a panel discussion. The highlight of the day will be a keynote by Diyi Yang from Stanford’s SALT Lab on “Optimizing Human-AI Collaboration,” which will introduce General User Models (GUMs) and Next Action Prediction (NAP) to foster proactive and meaningful human-AI interaction.

The second day (14 July) will center on the Future of Work With AI Agents in Singapore, featuring presentations by Diyi Yang and Min-Yen Kan, followed by extensive discussion sessions to finalize directions and next steps for the collaboration.

Registration for the workshop closes on 6 July 2026. For more details and to register, visit the CIVIC-AI workshop website.

The workshop is made possible by the Singapore Global AI Visiting Professorship (AIVP), an initiative by the Ministry of Digital Development and Information to strengthen Singapore’s AI research capabilities by attracting world-class expertise. Min-Yen Kan (WING.NUS) and Diyi Yang (SALT Lab, Stanford University) are among six NUS Computing faculty teams awarded AIVP grants, for their project “Evaluating and Building Socially Intelligent Foundation Models” — the research collaboration that underpins CIVIC-AI.

FlowSteer: Prompt-Only Workflow Steering Exposes Planning-Time Vulnerabilities in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Quantitative Computational Validation of Nanoscale Interactions between Drug Molecules and Diabetic Wound-Related Proteins for Drug Discovery

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

WING 2026 Spring Outing at Clarke Quay

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

WING members were excited to have a spring outing at Clarke Quay on January 23, 2026. For this outing, we scheduled it at the beginning of the semester to help new members better cohere with the group.

We enjoyed both the beautiful river view and the pizza! We were happy to see the return of our alumni, especially Hengchang, Victor, and Taha, as well as our collaborator, Yunshan. We especially thank Hengchang (a WING PhD alumnus) for his generous donation of the pizza (and other items on the bill as well)!

Below is a gallery of the outing, photo credit to Yajing, Glenda, and Yisong!

The Facade of Truth: Uncovering and Mitigating LLM Susceptibility to Deceptive Evidence

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Jiaying represents iGyro project at NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Jiaying helped to represent WING’s interest in the iGyro information resilience project at the NUS Computing networking session recently at NeurIPS 2025.

Jiaying writes: Grateful for the opportunity to represent the NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community (CTIC) at the first NUS Computing Network Session and Reception during #NeurIPS2025! It was wonderful engaging with brilliant attendees from around the world and sharing CTIC’s research highlights on digital resilience, alongside our amazing NUS Computing faculty and researchers. Kudos to the organizers for putting together such a meaningful and energizing event! 🥳

Bryan Low (the organiser of the NeurIPS 2025 networking session for our School of Computing) also notes the unique “3C"s attributes of our school:

(1) We provide environment & resources to champion bold initiatives & tackle grand challenges. As a result, we can go beyond publications to produce research breakthroughs, societal impact & thought leadership.

(2) We nurture, mentor & cultivate the young generation to be future leaders who will decide the society of the future.

(3) We embrace the kampung spirit that is uniquely Singapore. Imagine a melting pot of diverse global talents coming together to form a community/kampung that is collegial, collaborative, and caring.

Project Check Up's 1 year update

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our Crazy Ideas project, CheckUp: Grounding Social Media on Healthcare with Science, has made strong progress in advancing the dissemination of reliable health information on social media.

We introduced HashView, a benchmark dataset for predicting hashtag popularity, and developed BuzzProphet, a reasoning-augmented framework that combines insights from large language models with lightweight regressors. This research has been accepted at CIKM 2025, highlighting the novelty and relevance of our approach. The project has also contributed to capacity building by supporting one Research Assistant and mentoring two students, including one MComp graduate and one ongoing undergraduate FYP student.

Building on CheckUp’s early findings, we have secured a S$ 100K Ministry of Education Tier 1 grant entitled “Automating Community Note Generation for Social Media Misinformation Governance”. The groundwork laid by CheckUp demonstrated how LLMs can enhance the clarity and contextual relevance of social media content, directly informing the design of this new initiative. While CheckUp focuses on proactive communication of credible information, the Tier 1 project addresses the post-exposure stage of misinformation by developing real-time, AI-driven Community Notes as corrective tools. Together, these efforts form a complementary strategy for reducing the societal harms of health misinformation.

Summarizing Scientific Content with Social Media Language

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

As social media dominates public information consumption, effectively communicating scientific knowledge through these platforms is crucial. Despite advances in document summarization, complex scientific jargon remains a barrier for general audiences, limiting access to important scientific information. This project develops methodologies to simplify scientific content while preserving accuracy, translating it into language that engages social media users. Our goal is to increase accessibility of scientific knowledge and enhance its influence on informed societal decision-making.

iGyro Symposium on Mis-, Dis-, and Mal-information (iGYRO SMDM 2025)

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reasoning and Planning for Large Language Models

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Demonstration of Multilingual QA Check to NUS President Tan Eng Chye

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

NUS President Tan Eng Chye visited the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, and took part in hands-on demonstrations by members of the iGryo research team. WING-NUS demonstrated our Multilingual QA Check system, which performs Retrieval Augmented Generation and has multilingual capabilities to check claims in local Southeast Asian languages as well as in code-switched (mixed) sentences."

Celebrating the Success of SSNLP 2024!

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Singapore Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SSNLP 2024) was a success, gathering 288 participants from around the world to celebrate the latest in NLP research and innovation.

SSNLP 2024 featured a record-breaking turnout of 288 participants, 7 keynote speakers, and 55 inspiring presentations that highlighted the latest advancements in NLP. Dr. Jiaying Wu, a research fellow from our WING group and this year’s General Chair, led the event’s organization, coordinating efforts across co-organizers, sponsors, industry partners, and volunteers to ensure its success.

For highlights, speaker details, and more from SSNLP 2024, visit the website here. We look forward to continuing the journey at SSNLP 2025!

SSNLP '24

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Jiaying presents recent research on LLMs for Social Simulation

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Dr. Jiaying Wu presented the recent research on using LLMs for social simulations at the iGyro meeting.

Dr. Jiaying Wu recently delivered a 30-minute tutorial at the iGyro meeting for NUS Center for Trusted Internet and Communities (CTIC), offering an insightful overview of the latest research on using Large Language Models (LLMs) for social simulations, including applications in predicting elections and their connections to social sciences.

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