Midori [緑] means "Green", a core philosophy behind our research questions and approaches.
Research Updates

Sep 2026: Eight papers (one spotlight) accepted by NeurIPS-26. Congrats to Zhiren, Guowei, Jiaming (x2), Yiyang, Tianxiang; as well as our collaborators from Institute of Science Tokyo.
- - - P.s. I am also recognized as NeurIPS top Area Chair; {Xiongtao, Tianxiang} were recognized as Top Reviewers
Sep 2026: One paper on agent security accepted by NDSS-27. Congrats to Yurong!
Aug 2026: Three papers accepted by EMNLP-26 (Main Conference). Congrats to Yilei, Wang Che, Yebo; also to Haoyu for acceptance to TKDE.
Jul 2026: One paper each accepted by ECCV-26 and ACM MM. Congrats to Fuyao and Wang Che.
May 2026: Eight papers accepted by ICML-26. Congrats to Guowei, Zhiren (x2), Yachun, Xulin, Xiongtao, Wu Tiantong, and Blaise (from our collaboration with Science Tokyo)!
- - - P.s. Apart from a positive result in ICML 2026, we are glad that ten of our members were recognized for excellent review practices in ICML (5 gold, 5 silver): {Xinyu, Wang Xuan, Zhiren, Tianxiang, Wang Che} got gold in particular.

Other Updates

Oct 2026: I will serve as Area Chair for ICML 2027.
Oct 2026: Congrats to {Fuyao, Yilei} for securing internship attachments at Alibaba DAMO safety team; and Zhiren at Microsoft Research Asia.
Oct 2026: I am recognized for service as NeurIPS top Area Chair; {Xiongtao, Tianxiang} were also recognized as Top Reviewers at NeurIPS.
Aug 2026: I will serve as Area Chair for ICLR 2027 and Programme Committee for USENIX Security 2027.
Mar 2026: Our project, AgriTrait, won the NRF's AI-for-Science Catalytic Grant Call (Lead PI)! Check out our video introduction.
Mar 2026: I will serve as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026.
Feb 2026: I joined the editorial board of Communications AI & Computing, a new journal within Nature portfolio.
Jan 2026: I joined Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS) as Associate Editor, and Scientific Reports as Editor.
Jan 2026: We won the MOE Tier 1 grant.
Aug 2025: We won the MOE Tier 2 grant!
Aug 2025: I will serve as Area Chair for ICLR 2026.
May 2025: I won the Inauguration Grant under Ministry of Education (MOE) Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent Scheme (START)!
Feb 2025: We won the Japan-Singapore Joint Call for Proposals on Artificial Intelligence (AI)! Our Japan counterpart/PI is Prof Cao Yang from Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Tech). This is an exciting project that also involves collaborators from University of Tokyo, Universiti Malaya, SUTD, Bosch etc.

As Principal Investigator (PI)

[New] Principal Investigator, NRF AI-for-Science Catalytic Grant Call; ~S$2 million; 2026-2029
Principal Investigator, MOE Tier 1, Developing a Comprehensive Federated Unlearning Framework; ~S$140k; 2026-2029
Principal Investigator, MOE Tier 2, Federated Learning for Foundation Models; ~$700k; 2026-2029
Principal Investigator, Japan-Singapore Joint Call for Proposals on Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and A*Star ~$350k; 2025-2028
Principal Investigator, Collaborative Model-as-a-Service, work package under Alibaba-NTU Global e-Sustainability CorpLab (ANGEL) ~S$1 million; 2024-2027
Principal Investigator, NTU Startup Grant; S$150k; 2023-2026
Principal Investigator, Wallenberg-NTU PPF; S$100k; 2022-2023

As Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Co-PI, MOE Tier 1- Enhancing Cybersecurity of Digitalised Vessel Systems with Graph-Agent Collaborative Framework (with Prof Yan Ran)
Co-PI, DTC Digital Innovation Grant - Employing trusted AI to enable maritime decarbonisation and digitalisation (with Prof Yan Ran)
Co-PI, Environmental Sustainability in AI Development Built on Interdisciplinary Foundations, work package under ANGEL
Co-PI, Social Sustainability in AI Development through Fair, Explainable, and Human-centered AI; work package under ANGEL

Feb 2026: One paper on federated optimization accepted by CVPR-26 [Oral]. Congrats to Tianxiang and Tiantong. The paper was also a CVPR 2026 Award Candidate!
Jan 2026: Two papers accepted by ICLR-26, one on AI Safety and another on efficiency. Congrats to Jiaming, Wangche and Zihao, Siyi, Xinyu!
Jan 2026: Congrats to Zijie for his work's acceptance to EACL (Main, Oral) and Yurong for her collaboration work's acceptance to WWW (with Science Tokyo).
Nov 2025: Two papers accepted by AAAI-26. Congrats to Fuyao, Xinyu, Wang Tiantong, as well as other co-authors from our team. Check out our federated unlearning framework Oblivionis. Also congrats to Yilei, whose paper is accepted by WSDM (oral).
Sept 2025: Two papers accepted by NeurIPS-25. Congrats to Wang Che and Wu Fan, as well as other co-authors from our team.
Apr 2025: One paper on Continual Learning accepted by TNNLS, congrats Zhengyi!
Feb 2025: One paper on federated unlearning accepted by CVPR-25, congrats Zhengyi!
Jan 2025: One paper on federated learning over statistically heterogeneous clients (multi-domains) accepted by ICLR-25, congrats Jingyuan!
Jan 2025: One paper on enhancing security of federated learning in the presence of malicious clients accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), congrats Wenjie!

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