Biography

I am an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) and the Director of the MSc in Advanced Computer Science Programme at University of Sheffield. My research broadly lies in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, with a special focus on applying Multimodal Large Language Models for many real-world problems, including Misinformation Detection, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, and AI for Science. Earlier, I served as the Technical Chair of DSAA-25 conference. I was awarded the Singapore Data Science Consortium PhD Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021 for research excellence (only 6 PhD recipients across all Singapore universities in 2021). I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at The Pennsylvania State University and Yale University. I received PhD degree at Singapore Management University. I received BEng and BEcon degrees at Sichuan University.

[Call for Participation] I am looking for highly motivated PhD students with scholarship, visiting students, and interns (see details here). Welcome to send me your CV if you are interested in doing research together.