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News and Updates
Two papers accepted for publication in IEEE Percom 2026. Titled "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Risks: Inferring Privacy Risks from Home Interior Images via Object-Level Sensitivity Analysis" and "Fed-CASQ: Enhancing Class-Wise Accuracy in Pervasive Federated Learning with Class-Aware Scaling and Quantization". Congrats Lindrit, Emon and Anuradha!
Paper titled "SteerCam: Multi-Camera Edge Perception via Dynamic Joint Steering & Collaboration", accepted for publication in IEEE INFOCOM 2026. Congrats Dhanuja!
Paper titled "SaccadeX: Directed Acyclic Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning of Continuous Ocular Dynamics from Sparse Neuromorphic Streams", accepted for publication in IEEE/CVF WACV 2026. Congrats Nuwan!
Paper titled "RA-MOSAIC: Resource Adaptive Edge AI Optimization over Spatially Multiplexed Video Streams", published in ACM ToMM in Sep 2025. Congrats Ila!
Paper titled "CollabCam: Collaborative Inference and Mixed-Resolution Imaging for Energy-Efficient Pervasive Vision", published in ACM TIOT in Jul 2025. Congrats Amit!
Paper titled "MIMIC: AI and AR-enhanced Multi-Modal, Immersive, Relative Instruction Comprehension", published in ACM IMWUT in Mar 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", published in IEEE/CVF WACV 2025. Congrats Dulanga!
Hiring Opportunities/ Announcements
Hiring Opportunities/ Announcements
I'm looking for researchers as follows:
(NEW) 3 new Ph.D. student positions, to start in Aug 2026 on the topics of "multi-modal AI, embodied AI, low-power neuromorphic computing and edge AI optimization" are available as part of efforts around 3 large research programs/projects: (i) the M3S NRF CREATE program, led by MIT; (ii) a new Embodied AI CREATE program, jointly with CNRS; and (iii) a new CRP grant jointly with SUTD and NUS faculty. See here for the detailed PhD descriptions.
Please see open M3S researcher positions available at: M3S Career Opportunities.
About Me
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 and Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) 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
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
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
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
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