Wei Tsang Ooi

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore

Co-Director, IPAL, a Franco-Singaporean Joint Research Lab

Co-Director, Razer-NUS Joint AI Research Lab


Current Advisees

Longan Wang

Longan obtained his Bachelor of Englineering in AI from Sichuan University in 2025, and joined NUS as a PhD student in the same year. His current research focuses on Gaussian splatting.

Chia Qian Tan

Chia Qian graduated from NUS with a Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science) in 2023. Her current reserach focuses on Gaussian splatting.

Dongyue Lu

Dongyue completed his Bachelor in Vehicle Engineering at Tongji University and Master's in Robotics, Cognition, and Intelligence TU Munich.

Yannis Montreuil

Yannis is an A*STAR Scholar. He obtained his Master of Science, Industrial and Operations Research from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métie (ENSAM). He is currently looking into human-in-the-loop machine learning.

Yannis is a DesCartes PhD student, working together with Lai Xing Ng, I2R, and Axel Carlier, INP Toulouse and IRIT.

Lingdong Kong

Lingdong received his Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University in 2022 and his Bachelor of Engineering in Intelligent Science and Technology from the South China University of Technology in 2019. His interests lie in robust and scalable computer vision algorithms using deep learning, with particular focuses on 3D perception, domain adaptation, and visual representation learning.

Lingdong is a DesCartes PhD student, working together with Lai Xing Ng, I2R, and Benoit Cottereau, CerCo.

Peisen Xu

Peisen receives his Master of Arts (Research) from Nanyang Technological University in 2022 and his Bachelor of Engineering (Information Engineering and MEdia) in 2020. He is currently a researcher at CNRS@CREATE and a part-time Ph.D. student. His interests include graphics, virtual reality, video game and graphic art.

Peisen is a DesCartes Researcher, working together with Christophe Jouffrais, IRIT and IPAL, and Jérémie Garcia, ENAC.

Yuang Shi

Yuang graduated from Sichuan University, China, in 2021 with a Bachelor of Engineering and the National UNiversity of Singapore, in 2022, with a Master of Computer. He is working on networked multimedia systems, particularly, on 3D media streaming.

Opening Available

I am always looking for motivated Ph.D. students to collaborate with in the area of interactive multimedia systems and networking.

Graduated Ph.D. Students


Thesis information and first jobs after graduation.

Zhou Chen

Heads-up Conversational Authoring: A Perception-Interaction-Cognition Framework for Mobile Content Creation, Ph.D. 2026. (Co-advisor: Shengdong Zhao)

Fan Xiaofeng

Enhancing Sample Efficiency and Privacy in Real-World Decision-Making: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Approach, Ph.D. 2025. (Co-advisor: Cheston Tan, I2R)

1st Employment: Scientist (A*STAR)

Samuel Rhys Cox

Creating More Effective Text-Based Computer-Delivered Health Messaging, Ph.D., 2023. (Co-advisor: Brian Lim)

1st Employment: Postdoc (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Shan Zhang

Towards Attention-aware Concept Map based Review in Video Learning, Ph.D.,2023, (Co-advisor: Shengdong Zhao)

1st Employment: UX Researcher, AutoDesk

Praveen Kumar Yadav

A Queueing Theory Approach to Adaptive Video Streaming, Ph.D., 2020.

1st Employment: Co-Founder and CEO, Atlastream

Hui Wang

Adaptive Wireless Networking for Video Streaming, Ph.D., 2015 (Co-advisor: Mun Choon Chan).

1st Employment: Google, USA.

Sreetama Basu

Automated Analysis of Neuronal Morphology: Detection, Modeling and Reconstruction, Ph.D., 2015 (Co-advisor: Daniel Racoceanu).

1st Employment: Postdoc at ENS, France.

Minhui Zhu

Sprite Tree: An Efficient Image-Based Representation for Networked Virtual Environments, Ph.D., 2015

1st Employment: Visa, Singapore.

Shanghong Zhao

3D Mesh Preview Streaming, Ph.D., 2014.

1st Employment: Garena, Singapore.

Zhenwei Zhao

Supporting Non-Linear and Non-Continuous Media Access in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Systems, Ph.D., 2013.

1st Employment: TAPI Data Solutions (CTO and Co-Founder), Singapore.

Manoranjan Mohanty

Secret Sharing Approach for Securing Cloud-Based Image Processing, Ph. D., 2013.

1st Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, SICS, Sweden.

Pavel Korshunov

Video Quality for Video Analysis, Ph. D., 2011.

1st Employment: Postdoc at EPFL, Switzerland

Balaji Raman

Application-Specific Workload Shaping in Resource-Constrained Media Players, Ph .D., 2010. (co-advisor: Samarjit Chakraborty).

1st Employment: Postdoc at Ecole Polytecnique, France

Wei Cheng

Streaming of High-Resolution Progressive Meshes over the Internet, Ph. D., 2010.

1st Employment: Postdoc, NUS.

Satish Verma

Techniques for Improving Predictability and Message Efficiency of Gossip Protocols, Ph. D., 2010.

1st Employment: Samsung, Korea.

Lin Ma

Techniques and Protocols for Distributed Media Streaming, Ph. D. 2008.

1st Employment: Macquarie Bank, Singapore.

Yanhong Liu

System-level Modeling and Analysis of Multimedia-SoC Platforms, Ph. D. 2007. (co-advisor: Samarjit Chakraborty).

1st Employment: Postdoc, NUS

Other Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

Wu Jiyan

2022 - 2025

Adversarial Attack on AI Models

Mukesh Saini

2011 - 2013

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ravindra Guntur

2010 - 2012

Zoomable Video

Researchers/Visiting Students

Arthur Fournier

Master's student, Ecole Polytechnique, 2026

Event-based Vision

Yuan-Chun Sun

PhD student, Tsinghua University, 2025

Adversarial Attack on AI Model

Hanqian Han

Master's student, Tsinghua University, 2025

Event-based Vision

Pan Meng

PhD student, Sun Yat Seng University, 2025

Adversarial Attack on AI Model

Ao Liang

PhD student, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2025

Event-based Vision

I-Chun Huang

Master's student, Tsinghua University, 2024

Image Watermarking

Travis Seng

PhD student, University of Toulouse, 2024

Slide Analytics

Master's Students

Nguyan Trong Truong Thanh

Rules-Aware Tracectory Prediction, MComp, 2025

Yang Aodi

Adversarial Attack via Neural Compression, MComp, 2025

Yang Chenggang

LineGS : 3D Line Segment Representation on 3D Gaussian Splatting, MComp, 2024

Lee Young Ho

Event-based Vision, MComp, 2024

Rachel Tay

Object Recognition for Drone-Based Assistive Systems, MComp, 2023

Yuang Shi

Joint Human Activity Transition Detection and Recognition on Wearable and Mobile Devices, MComp, 2022

Ye Qiyuan

Improving Indoor Scene Recognition using 3D Context, MSc, 2022

Zhenwei Tan

Edge AI for Video Surveillance, MComp, 2021

1st Employment: ByteDance, China.

Jun Wei Chan

Explaining Deep Neural Network Classifier using alike Prototypes, MComp, 2020

Ghifari Rahadian

Improving Medication Adherence through Wearable Sensing and Distributed Machine Learning, MComp, 2020

Cong Pang

Supporting Arbitrary Zoom in Zoomable Video, MSc, 2013.

1st Employment: ViSenze, Singapore.

Feipeng Liu

Zoomable Video Playback on Mobile Devices by Selective Decoding, MComp, 2012.

1st Employment: Software Engineer, Google

Chanaka Aruna Munasinge

Texture Caching in Networked Virtual Environments, MSc, 2012.

Yan Luo

HTTP Live Streaming for Zoomable Video, MSc, 2012.

1st Employment: Microsoft.

Jinyu Xu

Multipath Routing over Wireless Mesh Networks, MSc, 2012.

1st Employment: Industrial Bank, China.

Dan Liu

MComp, 2011.

Sameer Samath

An Analytical Model for the Effects of Seek and Pause in Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand Systems, MComp, 2010.

1st Employment: Research Assistant, NUS.

Pham Viet Thang

Quality-Driven Sensor Selection in Target Tracking, MSc 2005, (co-advisor: Jit Biswas).

1st Employment: Sun Microsystem, Vietnam.

Qingrui Li

Parallel Processing of Streaming Media on Heterogeneous Hosts using Work Stealing, MSc 2004.

1st Employment: ST Microelectronics, Singapore.

Yuan Li

Distributed Construction of Resource-Efficient Overlay Tree by Approximating MST, MSc 2004.

1st Employment: IBM, China.

Wang Na

Design and Implementation of RTP Stream Classification Methods, MSc 2004.

1st Employment: Motorola, China.

Undergraduate Students