June 2025: Sony Outstanding Engineer Award; June 2025: One paper accepted by ICCV'25; May 2025: One paper accepted by ICML'25; February 2025: Two papers accepted by CVPR'25; August 2024: Best Paper Award at FL@FM-IJCAI'24; July 2024: One paper accepted by ECCV'24; April 2024: One paper accepted by ICML'24 and one by ICS'24; January 2024: One paper accepted by CVPR'24 and one by ICLR'24; December 2023: One paper accepted by AAAI'24; September 2023: One paper accepted by NeurIPS'23; July 2023: Two papers accepted by ICCV'23, one on federated multiple-task learning and another on federate continual learning; July 2023: Best Industry Paper Award at FL4Data-Mining’ KDD23; February 2022: One paper accepted by ICLR'22; January 2022: One paper published by IEEE Internet of Things Journal; July 2021: One paper accepted by ICCV'21 and one by ACMMM'21.
Research Experience
Before joining Sony AI, he was an algorithm researcher at SenseTime. Prior to that, he gained several years of experience in software engineering, focusing on building large-scale distributed systems.
Education
Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (2019-2022), advised by Prof. Yonggang Wen; BSc(Hons) in Information System from National University of Singapore (2013-2016).
Background
A senior research scientist at Sony AI, focusing on multimodal foundation model and federated learning. As one of the technical leads, he collaborates with a global team to drive key projects forward and works with business units, including Sony Semiconductor Solutions, to translate AI research into products.
Miscellany
Interests include multimodal foundation model, vision foundation model, federated learning, machine learning system, and efficient on-device ML.