Basura Fernando
Scholar

Basura Fernando

Google Scholar ID: GyvseMkAAAAJ
Scientist at A*STAR Singapore, Assistant Professor at NTU
Visual ReasoningAction PredictionAction RecognitionTransfer LearningEmbodied AI
Citations & Impact
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Citations
8,368
 
H-index
32
 
i10-index
61
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
124
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Recipient of NRF Fellowship (Award#: NRF-NRFF14-2022-0001), 2022–2027
  • A*STAR CRF Award recipient, 2021–2026
  • Led multiple AI Singapore projects, including:
  • — 'The “Other Me”: Human-Centered AI Assistance In Situ' (2021–2025)
  • — 'Learning To Anticipate Human Actions' (2019–2022)
  • Participated in RIE2020 AME project on auto OCR for aerospace components (2020–2022)
  • Multiple papers accepted at top venues in 2025, including NeurIPS, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, IEEE TMM, IJCV
Background
  • Principal Scientist and NRF Fellow at Institute of High-Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore
  • Principal Investigator at Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR)
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor at College of Computing and Data Science, NTU
  • Previously Honorary Lecturer and Research Fellow at Australian National University (ANU), affiliated with Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV)
  • Research interests: Visual Reasoning, Action Prediction, Action Recognition, Transfer Learning, Embodied AI