Nura Tamton | Web IR NLP Group @ NUS

REPA: Reproducibility Evaluation via an Autonomous Pipeline Architecture

Tue, 07 Jul 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!

WING's CS6101 Retrieval Augmented Generation comes to a successful close at 27th STePS

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

WING ran an experimental section of our CS6101 Exploration of Computer Science Research, as a trial course on Retrieval Augmented Generation.

RAG is now a common gateway experience for the general public as well as students to experience Information Retrieval, a core research area of WING.

The CS6101 course website has publicly-available lecture slides, video lecture recordings and scribe notes for the class’s topics.

These include sections on LLM generation, Retreival, Ranking, RAG Models, Iterative Retrieval and Advanced RAG topics (inclusive of graph, multimodal RAG) and source credibility estimation.

Check out the LinkedIn posts by class participants Vangmay Sachin, Jonathan Chen and Sahej Agrawal.

You can also visit the other WING Events, including past public iterations of WING’s CS6101 sections.

Image enhanced and regenerated via Google’s Nano Banana

Assessing the AI Scientist

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Our collaboration with Joeran Beel and Moritz Baumgart of ISG Siegen originated from Joeran’s sabbatical visit with WING in Oct 2024. Moritz, a talented undergraduate student at University of Siegen, joined us as a research assistant, working remotely which coordinated with his advisor here in NUS.

Over the course of Joeran’s visit, we were able to install and test the AI Scientist system advertised as an automated robo scientist by Sakana.AI. We find positive use cases, but also weaknesses that need much handholding from us.

Haomeng, Rui Feng and Nura join our team as students working towards assessing the growing variety of LLM based research agents going into 2025.