- Test of Time Award, Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS), 2021
- IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize, 2022
- Chaired or co-chaired several major international robotics conferences, including WAFR 2004 and 2010, RSS 2015, ICRA 2016, and CoRL 2021
- Served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, International Journal of Robotics Research, and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Research Experience
- Director, Smart Systems Institute, National University of Singapore
- Co-founder, NUS Advanced Robotics Center, 2013
- Founder and Founding Director, NUS AI Laboratory (NUSAIL), 2019
- Held visiting positions at MIT Aeronautics & Astronautics Department, CMU Robotics Institute, and Oxford Robotics Institute
Education
- BSc in Computer Science & Mathematics, The University of British Columbia
- PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University
Background
Research Interests: robotics, AI, and computational structural biology. In recent years, he has been working on robot planning and learning under uncertainty and human-robot collaboration.
Miscellany
Motto: The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward