Ongoing Projects

• Principal Investigator (SMU), TrustFUL: Trustworthy Federated Ubiquitous Learning. Supported by the National Research Foundation, Singapore under its AI Singapore Programme (AISG Award No: AISG2-RP-2020-019), Apr 2021 - Mar 2025.

• Principal Investigator, ADL Monitoring and Wellness Analysis for Ageing in Place (AMWA). Supported by SMU-A*STAR Joint Lab on Social and Human-Centered Computing, May 2022 - Apr 2024.

• Principal Investigator, Sensors In-home for Elder Wellbeing (SINEW). In collaboration with Sengkang General Hospital and National University of Singapore, Nov 2019 - Nov 2024.

Past/Completed Projects

• Principal Investigator, K-EMERGE: Knowledge Extraction, Modelling and Explainable Reasoning for General Expertise- Work Package 2. Funded by RIE2020 Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) Programmatic Grant, Feb 2020 - July 2023.

• Principal Investigator, Scalable and Explainable Intelligent Computer Generated Forces (iCGF). Funded by DSO National Laboratories, Feb 2021 - Jan 2023.

• Principal Investigator, Cognitive Information Systems. Funded by MOE AcRF Tier-1, Apr 2020 - Mar 2022.

• Principal Investigator, Semantic Associative Memory Model for Identifying Experts. Funded by MOE AcRF Tier-1 (Grant No. RG130/18), 2019-2020.

• Principal Investigator, Artificial Intelligence Programme for University Educators in Asia. Funded by Temasek Foundation International, 2019-2022.

• Principal Investigator, AI@NTU. Funded by NTU/COE Tech Primer Grant, 2019-2020.

• Principal Investigator, Joint Situation Awareness and Collaborative Learning. Funded by STE-NTU Corp Lab, 2016-2019.

• Principal Investigator, Boosting Learning and Memory for Cognitive Agility. Funded by DSO National Laboratories, 2016-2019.

• Principal Investigator, Aging in Place. Funded by Joint NTU-UBC Research Center of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY), 2012-2017.

• Principal Investigator, Towards Design and Implementation of Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems. Funded by MOE AcRF Tier-1, 2015-2017.

• Principal Investigator, Computational Models for Human Multi-Memory Systems and Learning. Funded by DSO National Laboratories, 2011-2015.

• Principal Investigator, Agent-Augmented Co-Space: Growing Cognitive Autonomous Agents for Context-Aware Personalized Experience in Co-Space. Funded by Singapore National Research Foundation-Interactive Digital Media (NRF/MDA-IDM) R&D Programme, 2008-2012.

• Principal Investigator, A Co-Evolution Theory for Episodic and Semantic Memory. Funded by DSO National Laboratories, 2009-2011.

• Principal Investigator, Towards Integrated Neural Architectures for Memory Representation and Cognitive Information Processing. Funded by DSO National Laboratories, 2007-2009.

• Principal Investigator, Cognitive Information Systems for Situation Awareness Modelling, Context-Aware Presentation and Knowledge Discovery. Funded by ST Dynamics and Intelligent Systems Centre's Programme on Intelligent Sensor Networks, 2005-2009.

• Principal Investigator, Intelligent Technologies for Multimedia Information Fusion and Analysis. Funded by ASTAR I2R-SCE Joint Lab on Intelligent Media (with co-PI: Lim Joo Hwee (I2R), Angela Goh, Clement Chia, Miao Chunyan, Chng Eng Siong), 2005-2008.

• Principal Investigator, Smart-Places: UWB-Enabled Context-Aware Service Environment. Funded by ASTAR SERC Thematic Pilot Programme on UWB and Pervasive Computing, 2004-2005

Completed Projects (Co-Principal Investigator)

• Co-Principal Investigator, Next Generation Annotation Techniques for Consumer Photos and Videos. Funded by Singapore National Research Foundation-Interactive Digital Media (NRF/MDA-IDM) R&D Programme (With PI: Xu Dong), 2008-2012.

• Co-Principal Investigator, Intelligent Agent-Augmented Multi-User Virtual Environments: Research into Designs for Learning Environments of the Future. Funded by Singapore National Research Foundation-Interactive Digital Media (NRF/MOE-IDM) R&D Programme (With PI: Miao Chun Yan), 2008-2012.

• Co-Principal Investigator, Constrained Flocking Animation & Modeling Research. Funded by MDA-GAMBIT R&D Programme (With PI: A/Prof Ong Yew Soon), 2010-2011.