| Feb 12 2026 | Our paper “Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted into AMIYA’26 🎉. |
| Feb 10 2026 | Our paper “Pro-QuEST: Prompt-chaining Quiz Engine for testing Specialized Technical Product Knowledge” has been accepted into EACL’26 (Demo) 🎉. |
| Feb 04 2026 | I received the Staff Research Award from IDS, NUS 🎉. |
| Feb 01 2026 | I may attend ICLR’26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after ICSE’26. |
| Jan 26 2026 | I may attend ICSE’26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| Jan 26 2026 | Our paper “Beyond Prompt-Induced Lies: Investigating LLM Deception on Benign Prompts” has been accepted into ICLR’26 (Oral) 🎉. |
| Jan 09 2026 | I will attend AAAI’26 in Singapore. |
| Jan 06 2026 | I received a research grant from Thinking Machines Lab. |
| Jan 02 2026 | I will attend the Singapore Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SSNLP’26). |
| Jan 01 2026 | I received a research grant from Planet Labs. |
| Nov 21 2025 | I was nominated as a Full Member at Sigma Xi. |
| Oct 12 2025 | I will attend NeurIPS’25 in Mexico City, Mexico. |
| Oct 10 2025 | I will attend EMNLP’25 in Suzhou, China. |
| Sep 25 2025 | Our paper “On Assigning Product and Software Codes to Customer Service Requests with Large Language Models” has been accepted into EMNLP’25 🎉. |
| Sep 20 2025 | Our paper “SWE-Perf: Can Language Models Optimize Code Performance on Real-World Repositories?” has been accepted into DL4C@NeurIPS’25. |
| Sep 18 2025 | Our paper “EffiBench-X: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Measuring Efficiency of LLM-Generated Code” has been accepted into NeurIPS’25 🎉. |
| Sep 18 2025 | Our paper “GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs via Reinforced Reasoning” has been accepted into NeurIPS’25 🎉. |
| Sep 18 2025 | Our paper “Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization” has been accepted into NeurIPS’25 🎉. |
| Sep 01 2025 | I was nominated as an ICLR’26 Reviewer. |
| Aug 21 2025 | I was nominated as an AISTATS’26 Reviewer. |
| Aug 01 2025 | I was nominated as an AISI’26 Program Committee. |
| Jul 24 2025 | I will attend NUS AI Research Day on 25 July. |
| Jul 20 2025 | I was nominated as an AAAI’26 Program Committee. |
| Jul 09 2025 | Our paper “GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs via Reinforced Reasoning” has been accepted into R2-FM @ ICML’25. |
| Jul 05 2025 | I was nominated as a NeurIPS’25 Ethics Reviewer. |
| Jun 20 2025 | Our paper “Measuring the Influence of Incorrect Code on Test Generation” has been accepted into ICSE’26 🎉. |
| Jun 14 2025 | Our paper “Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization” has been accepted into PRAL @ ICML’25. |
| Jun 09 2025 | Our paper “Collective Bias Mitigation via Model Routing and Collaboration” has been accepted into CFAgentic @ ICML’25. |
| Jun 05 2025 | I was nominated as a CIKM’25 senior PC member. |
| Jun 02 2025 | I plan to attend ACL’25 (July 27 - August 3) in Vienna, Austria. |
| May 23 2025 | Our paper “CodeArena: A Collective Evaluation Platform for LLM Code Generation” has been accepted into ACL’25 (Demo) 🎉. |
| May 01 2025 | Our paper “AntiLeak-Bench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge” has been accepted into ACL’25 (Main) 🎉. |
| May 01 2025 | Our paper “Position: Current Model Licensing Practices are Dragging Us into a Quagmire of Legal Noncompliance” has been accepted into ICML’25 (Oral) 🎉. |
| Apr 25 2025 | I attended ICLR’25 at Expo, Singapore. |
| Apr 20 2025 | I’ve launched an Information Exchange Platform between NTU and NUS to share upcoming events and opportunities. |
| Feb 01 2025 | I was nominated as a NeurIPS’25 reviewer. |
| Jan 11 2025 | I developed a multiple language remote runtime Monolith. Please feel free to have a try 😀. |
| Jan 06 2025 | Our paper “Unraveling Online Mental Health Through the Lens of Early Maladaptive Schemas: An AI-Enabled Study of Online Mental Health Communities” has been accepted into Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). |
| Dec 09 2024 | Our paper “Towards Verifiable Text Generation with Generative Agent” has been accepted into AAAI’25 🎉 |
| Dec 01 2024 | I was nominated as an ICML’25 reviewer. |
| Nov 30 2024 | Our paper “Curriculum Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning” has been accepted into SAC’25. |
| Nov 29 2024 | I completed the 10KM run at SCSM with a time of 58:58 🏃! |
| Nov 21 2024 | I passed the PhD Qualification Examination (QE) at NTU 🎉. |
| Nov 21 2024 | We released the Venus code generation dataset. |
| Oct 26 2024 | Our team, Black Mesa participated in the Singapore AI CTF and achieved an 23rd place out of more than 500 teams! 🎉 |
| Oct 01 2024 | I was nominated as an AISTATS’25 reviewer. |
| Sep 26 2024 | Our paper “Mercury: A Code Efficiency Benchmark for Code Large Language Models” has been accepted to NeurIPS’24 Track Datasets and Benchmarks 🎉 |
| Sep 12 2024 | Our paper “Counseling Responses for Mental Health Forum Questions with Early Maladaptive Schema Prediction” has been accepted to EACI’24 🎉 |
| Aug 28 2024 | I was nominated as an ICLR’25 reviewer. |
| Jun 17 2024 | We completed our new paper ‘Committee: Mitigating LLM Bias through Multi-agent Proposal and Vote’. |
| May 21 2024 | I was nominated as a NeurIPS’24 reviewer. |
| May 13 2024 | I attended The WebConf’24 in Sentosa, Singapore. |
| Feb 22 2024 | I gave an oral presentation on AAAI’24. |
| Feb 20 2024 | I attended AAAI’24 in Vancouver, Canada. |
| Feb 15 2024 | We finished our new paper ‘Mercury: An Efficiency Benchmark for LLM Code Synthesis’. |
| Dec 19 2023 | Our paper ‘Chain-of-Thought Improves Text Generation with Cititations’ has been accepted to AAAI’24 🎉 |
| Dec 15 2023 | Our paper ‘From Static to Dynamic: Knowledge Metabolism for Large Language Models’ has been accepted to AAAI’24 🎉 |
| Dec 06 2023 | I attended EMNLP’24 at Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore. |
| Feb 07 2023 | I attended AAAI23 in Washington, DC. |
| Feb 05 2023 | Our paper “Identifying Checkworthy CURE Claims on Twitter” has been accepted to the TheWebConf2023 (WWW) 🎉 |
| Dec 16 2022 | Our paper “Constituency-informed and Constituency-constrained Extractive Question Answering with Heterogeneous Graph Transformer” has been accepted to TLDKS 2023 🎉 |
| Dec 04 2022 | Our team “Risk prediction modelling for central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI)” won the First Runner-Up in “SG Healthcare Al Datathon & EXPO 2022” 🎉 |
| Oct 25 2022 | Our paper “Generating Reflective Questions for Engaging Gallery Visitors in ArtMuse” has been accepted to the AAAI’23 Demonstrations Program 🎉 |
| Oct 14 2022 | I gave a talk on the “The 2nd International Research Workshop in Computer Science and Information Systems” (Oct 14-16) in Phuket, Thailand, co-organized by PSU and NUS. |
| Sep 07 2022 | I was invited to present Our Work at University of Bologna, Italy. |
| Jul 29 2022 | Our paper “NUS-IDS at CheckThat!2022: Identifying Check-worthiness of Tweets using CheckthaT5” has been accepted to CEUR-WS’22 🎉 |
| Jul 28 2022 | I was invited to present our work on SDSC Data Science for Industry & Demo Day. |
| May 27 2022 | I was invited to serve on a PC member of CLEF’22. |