Teaching & Service
Courses
- 50.040 Natural Language Processing2026 Fall2025 Fall
- 51.511 Multimodal Generative AI2026 Spring
- 50.043 Database Systems2025 Summer
Earlier teaching (at CUHK)
- Guest lecture, Neural models for text — SEEM5680 Text Mining Models and Applications
- TA, ECLT5810 E-Commerce Data Mining Techniques (MSc; 2018–19 Spring, 2020–21 Spring)
- TA, SEEM3440 Operations Research II (UG; 2020 Fall)
- TA, SEEM3460 / ESTR3504 Computer Processing System Concepts (UG; 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21 Fall)
Talks
- Mar 2026 — invited talk, "What Happens When AI Agents Interact with Each Other?" at LorongAI
- Jan 2026 — invited panel, "LLM Localization: Challenges and Opportunities" at IAAI 2026
- Jan 2026 — invited talk, AAAI 2026 New Faculty Highlight Programme
- Nov 2025 — invited panel at SEA-LION Summit @ AIMX 2025
- Oct 2025 — invited talk, "Culturally Intelligent AI" at China-Singapore InnovateConnect 2025
Past talks
- Nov 2024 — invited keynote on LLM evaluation at SSNLP 2024
- Oct 2024 — invited talk and panel at Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) 2024
- July 2024 — invited keynote at Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2024
- Apr 2024 — invited talk on SeaLLMs at Singapore Computer Society (SCS)
- Apr 2024 — invited talk at the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore
- Sep 2023 — invited talk on M3Exam at the multilingual & multimodal LLM session of MLNLP 2023
- Aug 2023 — half-day tutorial, "Sentiment Analysis in the Era of LLMs" at IJCAI 2023 [slides]
- Mar 2023 — invited talk, "A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis" at the Singapore Symposium on Sentiment Analysis (S3A)
Service
Organizing Committee
- Organizer, The First Workshop on Pluralistic Value Alignment of LLMs (PlurVA-LLM)
- Registration Chair, AACL 2026
- General Chair, SSNLP 2026
Area Chair
- 2027 — AAAI
- 2026 — ACL, ICML, COLM, ICLR, NLPCC, NeurIPS
- 2025 — EMNLP, NeurIPS, ACL, COLM, ICLR, NAACL
- 2024 — EMNLP
Journal Reviewer
- Computational Linguistics (CL)
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP)
- ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
- Neurocomputing