Archan Misra
Vice Provost (Research) Professor (Lee Kong Chian Professor)
Singapore Management University School of Computing & Information Systems
Phone: +65 6808 5202 Email: archanm@smu.edu.sg
News and Updates
Paper titled "MIMIC: AI and AR-enhanced Multi-Modal, Immersive, Relative Instruction Comprehension", accepted for publication in ACM IMWUT in Jan 2025. Congrats Dhanuja!
Paper titled "Improving Responsiveness of Fall Detection using Spiking Neural Networks" accepted for publication at COMOREA Workshop (co-organized with Percom) 2025. Congrats Hemanth and Archit!
Paper titled "Pr-Ge-Ne: Efficient Encoding of Pervasive Video Sensing Streams by Pruned Generative Networks", accepted and published at ACM ToMM in Jan 2025. Congrats Jiyan and Kasun!
Paper titled "NeuroViG - Integrating Event Cameras for Resource-Efficient Video Grounding", accepted for publication in IEEE/CVF WACV 2025. Congrats Dulanga!
Paper titled "RA-MOSAIC: Resource Adaptive Edge AI Optimization over Spatially Multiplexed Video Streams", accepted at ACM ToMM in Dec 2024. Congrats Ila!
Paper titled "EyeGraph: Modularity-aware Spatiotemporal Graph Clustering for Continuous Event-based Eye Tracking", accepted and published in NeurIPS, in Dec 2024. Congrats Nuwan!
Paper titled "EyeTrAES: Fine-grained, Low-Latency Eye Tracking via Adaptive Event Slicing", accepted and published in ACM IMWUT, in Nov 2024. Congrats Argha, Nuwan and Ila!
Paper titled "CAS: Fusing DNN Optimization & Adaptive Sensing for Energy-Efficient Multi-Modal Inference", published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) in Nov 2024. Congrats Dulanga!
Paper titled "D2SR: Decentralized Detection, De-Synchronization, and Recovery of LiDAR Interference", presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'24). Congrats Darshana and Hemanth!
Hiring Opportunities/ Announcements
I'm looking for researchers as follows:
(NEW) 1 Ph.D. student, to start in Aug 2025 on the topic of "3D spatial computing, human-AI interaction, and agentic AI", for applications in AI-assisted learning. This is part of the M3S NRF CREATE program, led by MIT. See here for the detailed PhD description.
Please see open M3S researcher positions available at: M3S Career Opportunities.
About Me
I am Vice Provost (Research) and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing & Information Systems at Singapore Management University. My primary research interests are in the areas of:
Human-Robot Collaboration, Embodied AI & Agentic AI
Mobile & Wearable Sensing & Computing (with emphasis on LIDAR & Event Vision Sensors)
Ultra Low-Power AI for IoT (AIoT)
Smart City Services & Mobility Analytics
Prior to joining SMU, I spent over a decade as an industrial researcher, including stints as: a Senior Scientist at Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ (2008-2010), Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (2001-2008) and Research Scientist at Bellcore, Morristown, NJ (2001-2008). I'm a Distinguished Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Current Responsibilities
Vice Provost (Research), SMU, 07/2020-current
Program Co-PI, MIT/SMART "Mens, Manus and Machina" NRF CREATE Program, focused on AI for human-machine collaboration.
Past Responsibilities
Director, Center for Applied Smart-Nation Analytics (CASA), 09/2016-03/2022
Deputy Director, Living Analytics Research Center (LARC), 09/2010-03/2022: https://larc.smu.edu.sg
Associate Dean (Research), SIS, 06/2015-06/2020
Director, LiveLabs Urban Lifestyle Innovation Platform, 04/2012-03/2019: https://livelabs.smu.edu.sg
Education
Ph.D. -- Aug 1994 - May 2000 University of Maryland at College Park
MS -- Aug 1994 - Aug 1996 University of Maryland at College Park
BS -- Aug 1989 - May 1993 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India