PhD Students (7)

• Haosen SHI (Aug. 2023 - present); B.E. (CS, Nankai Univ., China)
• Ruiqi SHI (Aug. 2023 - present); B.E. (AI, SJTU, China)
• Yunlun LI (Aug. 2023 - present); B.S. (Stats & CS, Rutgers Univ., US)
• Zeyu XING (Aug. 2024 - present); B.E. (ACM Class, SJTU, China)
• Yuhang XIE (Aug. 2024 - present); B.E. (CS, HIT SZ, China)
• Lingshi MENG (Aug. 2025 - present; transition to PhD from MPhil (Aug. 2024 - Jul. 2025)); B.S. (Math, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR)
• Yifan SHI (Jan. 2026 - present); M.S. (Big Data Engineering, THU SZ, China)

Postdoctoral Fellows / Research Associates (2)

• Tiexin QIN (Sept. 2026 - present); PhD (CityU, Hong Kong SAR)
• Bo XUE (Oct. 2026 - present); PhD (CityU, Hong Kong SAR)

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Graduated PhD Students (12)

1. Zhanfeng MO (Ph.D. 2025, NTU)
Thesis Title: Parameter-efficient Inference and Training for Deep Neural Networks
Now: [Industry] Machine Learning Engineer @ TikTok, Singapore
2. Quanyu LONG (Ph.D. 2025, NTU)
Thesis Title: Advancing Unsupervised Domain Adaptation and Context-augmented Learning for Scalable AI Systems
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow @ NTU, Singapore
3. Yue DENG (Ph.D. 2025, NTU)
Thesis Title: Advancing Sentiment understanding and Safety in NLP Systems
Now: [Industry] Research Scientist @ MiroMind, Singapore
4. Tianze LUO (Ph.D. 2024, NTU)
Thesis Title: Improving Representation Learning on Graph-Structural Data for Classification, Generation, and Recommendation
Now: [Industry] Machine Learning Engineer @ TikTok, Singapore
5. Danni PENG (Ph.D. 2023, NTU)
Thesis Title: Learning to Generalize to New Domains/Tasks with Less Data
Now: [Industry] Senior Researcher (Principal Engineer) @ Huawei Singapore Research Centre, Singapore
6. Jianda CHEN (Ph.D. 2022, NTU)
Thesis Title: Advanced Topics in Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Applications
Now: [Industry] Senior Algorithm Engineer @ Ant International, Singapore
7. Shangyu CHEN (Ph.D. 2021, NTU)
Thesis Title: Deep Neural Network Compression: from Sufficient to Scarce Data
Now: [Industry] Engineer @ Meta, Singapore
8. Long-Kai HUANG (Ph.D. 2020, NTU)
Thesis Title: Advanced Topics in Learning to Hash for Large-scale Retrieval
Now: [University] Assistant Professor @ Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Hong Kong
9. Hangwei QIAN (Ph.D. 2020, NTU)
Thesis Title: Sensor-Based Activity Recognition via Learning from Distributions
Now: [Institute] Scientist @ A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Singapore
10. Haiyan YIN (Ph.D. 2020, NTU)
Thesis Title: Improving Deep Reinforcement Learning with Advanced Exploration and Transfer Learning Techniques
Now: [Institute] Scientist @ A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Singapore
11. Jianjun ZHAO (Ph.D. 2019, NTU)
Thesis Title: New Data-Driven Approaches to Improve Probabilistic Model Structure Learning
12. Wenya WANG (Ph.D. 2018, NTU)
Thesis Title: Deep Interactive Learning for Fine-grained Opinion Mining: Single-domain, Cross-domain & Cross-lingual
Now: [University] Assistant Professor @ Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Graduated Mphil Students (2)

1. Xinyi HUANG (M.Eng. 2023, NTU)
Thesis Title: Time Series Domain Adaptation via Contrastive Adversarial Domain Disentangled Network

2. Yu CHEN (M.Eng. 2021, NTU)
Thesis Title: Neural Architectures For Faster Deep Learning-based Collaborative Filtering

Research Fellows / Postdocs / Research Associates (8)

1. Weisen JIANG (Nov. 2024 - Jul. 2026, CUHK)
Now: [University] Professor @ South China University of Technology (SCUT), China
2. Huiwei LIN (Jun. 2024 - Jun. 2026, CUHK)
Now: Postdoc @ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong
3. Wenya WANG (Aug. 2018 - Jan. 2022, NTU)
Now: [University] Assistant Professor @ Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
4. Qiang ZHOU (Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2020, NTU)
Now: [University] Associate Professor @ Southeast University (SEU), China
5. Joey Tianyi ZHOU (Nov. - Dec. 2015, NTU)
Now: [Institute] Principal Scientist @ A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Singapore.
6. Wenmian YANG (Dec. 2021 - Dec. 2022, under the A*STAR-NTU Joint Programme, NTU)
Now: [University] Associate Professor @ Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China
7. Yuanrui YANG (Nov. 2021 - Oct. 2022, under the Continental-NTU Corp. Lab, NTU)
8. Zhengkun YI (Aug. 2017 - Jul. 2018, under the Rolls-Royce-NTU Corp. Lab, NTU)
Now: [Institute] Professor/Researcher @ Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Research Assistants (20)

1. Yu-Ming TANG (Mar. - May 2026, CUHK)
2. Yaolong YU (Nov. 2023 - Aug. 2025, CUHK)
3. Haosen SHI (Mar. - Dec. 2022, NTU)
4. Ziyan WANG (Jul. - Dec. 2022, NTU)
5. Yeqi BAI (Jan. - Jun. 2022, NTU)
6. Yu CHEN (Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2021, NTU)
7. Qiping YANG (Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2020, NTU)
8. Yue DENG (Aug. 2019 - Jul. 2020, NTU)
9. Xiang LI (Aug. 2019 - Jun. 2020, NTU)
10. Tianze LUO (Feb. - Dec. 2019, NTU)
11. Zichen CHEN (Feb. - Dec. 2019, NTU)
12. Jie ZHANG (Jul. 2017 - May 2018, NTU)
13. Qing CAI (Dec. 2017 - Jul. 2018, NTU)
14. Jianda CHEN (Apr. - Jul. 2017, NTU)
15. Sulin LIU (Jul. 2015 - Aug. 2017, NTU)
16. Yaodong YU (Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2017, NTU)
17. Yunxiang LIU (Sept. 2015 - Jul. 2017, NTU)
18. Jingliang LI (Jul. 2016 - Jul. 2017, NTU)
19. Long-Kai HUANG (Sept. - Dec. 2015, NTU)
20. Joey Tianyi ZHOU (Apr. - Oct. 2015, NTU)

Interns (5)

1. Rui LIU (UG Intern from UESTC: Sept. 2017 - Feb. 2018, NTU)
2. Zexi HUANG (UG Intern from UESTC: Sept. 2017 - Feb. 2018, NTU)
3. Xin DONG (UG Intern from UESTC: Aug. 2016 - May 2017, NTU)
4. Jie LEI (UG Intern from UESTC: Oct. 2016 - Apr. 2017, NTU)
5. Xiukun HUANG (UG Intern from UESTC: Jul. 2016 - Apr. 2017, NTU)

Visiting Students (4)

1. Yuan YAO (PG Intern from HIT @ Shenzhen: Oct. 2019 - Jul. 2020, NTU)
2. Disheng DONG (PG Intern from ZJU: Nov. 2018 - Nov. 2019, NTU)
3. Fengmao LV (PG Intern from UESTC: Dec. 2017 - Dec. 2018, NTU)
4. Siyu JIANG (PG Intern from SCUT: Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2018, NTU)

Undergraduate Students (2)

1. Shizhuo ZHANG (MATH: Fall 2019 - Summer 2021, NTU)
2. Meixi WU (MAEC: Fall 2018 - Summer 2020, NTU)