Dr Yang Yinping is Director of the Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (CATOS) and Senior Principal Scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)'s Institute of High Performance Computing. CATOS is Singapore's national centre that hosts Singapore’s Online Trust and Safety (OTS) Research Programme to counter online harms and create a safer online space through high-impact technology research and translations. Concurrently, she also serves as Lead of the Epidemic Preparedness Horizontal Technology Coordinating Office (EP HTCO), which coordinates A*STAR’s efforts to address unmet needs in epidemic preparedness.
Well recognised for her expertise in social technologies and translational research, she has led the development of robust Affective Computing and Social Media Analytics capabilities in A*STAR. The social technologies developed from her research programmes, known as the CrystalFeel™ and Digital Emotions™ portfolio of multidimensional and multimodal emotion analysis engines, have enabled over 20 applications spanning industry, public, health and social sectors, including media, marketing, customer service, health crisis communications, policy ground sensing, law enforcement, information operations, mental well-being monitoring, and the creation of four deep-tech spin-offs. During the COVID-19 crisis, Yinping led the deployment of a first-in-class live social media analytics dashboard that tracks emotional reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak, facilitating public health authorities’ understanding of the pandemic’s multifaceted impact.
Her work has earned national and international awards and recognitions. In 2020, she was named to the inaugural 100 Singapore Women in Tech list, a recognition of female leaders in Singapore’s tech sector, and was among 53 outstanding women featured in GovInsider’s special report. In 2021, the Digital Emotion Analysis project won P&G’s Connect + Develop Open Innovation Solutions Award for Digital Insights. In 2023, she earned the National Awards (COVID-19) - Public Administration Medal (Bronze), which recognised individuals who led and implemented efforts to manage the impact of COVID-19 on Singapore. In 2025, Dr Yang received the National Awards - Public Administration Medal (Bronze) for leading the creation and deployment of novel technological solutions under Singapore’s Online Trust and Safety Research Programme, which complemented policy and public education efforts to protect the public from harmful online content.
Director, Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (CATOS) (March 2023 – Present)
Senior Principal Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR (April 2021 – Present)
Lead, Epidemic Preparedness Horizontal Technology Coordinating Office (EP HTCO), A*STAR (July 2021 – Present)
Data Science Workstream Lead, A*STAR Diversity Working Group (DWG) (May 2021 – Present)
Editorial Board Member, A*STAR Research (Sep 2021 – Present)
Adjunct Investigator, Infectious Diseases Labs (ID Labs), A*STAR (October 2021 – Present)
Advisor, EMO Technologies Pte Ltd (a.k.a., INTNT.AI), Singapore (July 2019 – Present)
Advisor, Negobot Pte Ltd, Singapore (January 2020 – December 2024)
Group Manager, Affective Computing Group, Social and Cognitive Computing Department, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR (April 2014 – June 2023)
Senior Scientist I to II, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR (2016–2021)
Programme Manager, Strategic Social Systems, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR (2012–2014)
Adjunct Faculty, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University (2012–2015)
Scientist I to III, Advanced Computing / Computing Science Department, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR (2007–2014)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, National University of Singapore (2003–2007)
Ph.D. (Information Systems), National University of Singapore, 2008
B.Comp, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2003
2025 – National Awards - Public Administration Medal (Bronze)
2023 – National Awards - COVID-19 Resilience Medal
2023 – National Awards - Public Administration Medal (Bronze) (COVID-19)
2023 – Inaugural A*STAR Fellow
2022 – Ministry of Transport Minister's Innovation Award - Merit (Project Collaborator for Public Transport Council)
2021 – NUS SOC Outstanding Computing Alumni Award 2020
2021 – A*STAR's 30 Most Impactful Innovations & Inventions over 30 Years (Lead PI)
2021 – A*STAR COVID AWARD
2021 – P&G Connect + Develop Open Innovation Solutions Award on Digital Insights 2020 - Digital Emotion Analysis (Lead PI)
2020 – Inaugural 100 Singapore Women in Tech
2018 – IET Innovation Award Finalist (Lead PI)
2018 – SemEval-18 Task 1 Best Paper Award Nominee (Joint First Author)
2015 – SMU BCSI Best Theme Presentation Award on Policy Analytics (Co-Author & Presenter)
2014 – SPHOMC Best Oral Presentation Award (Joint First Author)
2009 – WITS Best Prototype Award (First Author)
2009 – HICSS-42 Best Paper Award (Co-Author)
2007 – NUS SOC Dean’s Graduate Award
2006 – WITS Best Paper Award (Co-Author)
2004 – NUS SOC Dean’s Graduate Award
Affective Computing
Sentiment Analysis
Emotion Recognition
AI for Mental Health
Automated Negotiation
On Going / Awarded
Lead PI, Online Trust and Safety (OTS) Research Programme, S$50M, Grantor/Funding Agency: NRF, Implementation Agency: Ministry of Digital Development and Information, Duration of support: 60 months (01/03/2023–29/02/2028)
Collaborator, Consumers’ Risk Perceptions, Rational, and Implicit Considerations in Alternative Protein Acceptance Behaviours, Singapore Food Story (SFS) R&D Programme Theme 3: Food Safety Science & Innovation Competitive Grant Call (W22W3D0008), S$1,960,200, Funding Agency: NRF, Implementation Agency: A*STAR, Duration of support: 36 months (01/07/2022–30/06/2025)
Collaborator, Understanding Perceptions of Novel Alternative Proteins in Families to Develop an Interactive Educational Platform to Promote Consumption, Singapore Food Story (SFS) R&D Programme Theme 3: Food Safety Science & Innovation Competitive Grant Call (W22W3D0009), S$1,551,960, Duration of support: 36 months (01/07/2022–30/06/2025)
Completed
Co-I, Vaccine communication and messaging: Addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and promoting population acceptance. NMRC COVID-19 Research Fund (MOH-000576; COVID19RF-0009), S$1,184,400 (15/03/2021–14/09/2023)
PI, Exploring Empathy Machine - A General Intelligent Agent Approach for Building Empathy in Next-Generation Multimodal AI Systems, A*STAR Core - Central Funds - Council Strategic Fund – SERC (C210415006), S$780,000 (01/07/2021–30/06/2023)
PI, Domain Customization of Emotion Analysis of Consumer Review Videos for Assessing FMCG Products, A*STAR BMRC Strategic Positioning Fund (SPF) - A*STAR-P&G Collaboration (APG2013/123), S$184,037.87 (01/07/2021–30/09/2022)
Co-I, Media Communication, Online Falsehoods and Population Responses Surrounding the Novel Coronavirus Disease Crisis (COVID-19) in Singapore. NMRC COVID-19 Research Fund (MOH-000404, COVID19RF-005), S$275,400 (01/05/2020–30/04/2021)
PI, Emotion Analysis of Consumer Review Videos for Assessing Haircare Products for China Market, A*STAR BMRC Strategic Positioning Fund (SPF) - A*STAR-P&G Collaboration (APG2013/102), S$52,342.29 (15/04/2020–30/08/2020)
PI, Candidate Assessment System, A*STAR A*ccelerate Gap Fund (ACCL180222), S$651,000 (01/01/2019–01/01/2021)
PI, Content Evaluation & Optimization System, A*STAR A*ccelerate Gap Fund (ETPL/18-GAP051-R20A), S$370,000 (01/02/2019–01/02/2020)
PI, Advanced Social Listening System, A*STAR A*ccelerate Gap Fund (ETPL/18-GAP050-R20A), S$334,000 (01/03/2019–01/03/2020)
Lead PI, An Integrative Approach to Sociocultural-level Emotion Recognition from Multi-Modal Cues (Project Digital Emotions), A*STAR SERC Strategic Fund (A1718G0046), S$2.9M (25/09/2017–24/03/2019)
Co-I, Advanced Social Media Analytics, A*STAR ETPL Gap Fund (IHPC/15-202312), S$623,000 (08/2015–04/2017)
Co-I, Social Technologies + Programme, Research Thrust on Consumer and Social Intelligence, A*STAR Joint Council Office Development Programme (1435i00114), S$7.9M (25/09/2017–24/03/2019)
PI, Architecture and Computational Algorithm for an Agent-Based Intelligent Negotiation Service, A*STAR IHPC Independent Investigatorship Programme, (01/04/2011–31/03/2014)
Other Exploratory Initiatives
Examining factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine adoption through multivariate, time-series and multi-country analysis
From public comments to actionable health policy insights: Extracting useful information from social media responses to public health entities’ posts for infectious disease outbreaks
Forecasting the onset and growth of emerging diseases using genomic and behavioural analytics
Leveraging affective computing to enable population-level mental health measurement
Resonance Social – Advanced Social Listening System with Integrated Emotion Information Extraction, Multisource Social Media Data Collection, and Interactive End User Dashboard Visualization. Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR. Available: https://www.resonancesocial.com (Intro at: https://www.a-star.edu.sg/ihpc/ihpc-tech-hub/features/snde/resonance)
Heartbeat for COVID-19 – Live Global Sentiment and Emotion Trend Dashboard. Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR. Available: https://socialanalyticsplus.net/corona2019
Heartbeat – A System Prototype for Social Media Research and Analytical Visualization. Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR. Available: https://socialanalyticsplus.net/heartbeat
Digital Emotions – Multimodal and Multidimensional Emotion Analysis from Natural Videos. Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR; Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR; Advanced Digital Sciences Centre, University of Illinois. Available: https://socialanalyticsplus.net/digitalemotions
CrystalFeel – Multidimensional Emotional Intensity Analysis from Natural Language. Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR. Available: https://socialanalyticsplus.net/crystalfeel
Crystalace – Sarcasm Detection and Beyond. Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR. Available: https://socialanalyticsplus.net/crystalace
E-negotiations, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR & Hewlett-Packard Labs. https://socialanalyticsplus.net/negotiation
A method and system for sentiment classification and emotion classification, US Patent Application 15/523,201. Publication No. US 2017/0308523
System and method for negotiating a sale, US Patent Application US/12/648,405
Affective computing
Sesagiri Raamkumar, A, and Yang, Y. (2023, Oct-Dec). Empathetic conversational systems: A review of current advances, gaps, and opportunities, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 14, pp. 2722-2739 https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3226693 (Scopus Top 96th Percentile) (Cited by 32)
Bhattacharya, P., Gupta, R.K., and Yang, Y. (2023, April-June). Exploring the contextual factors affecting multimodal emotion recognition in videos. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 14(2), pp. 1547-1557. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3071503 (Scopus Top 96th Percentile) (Cited by 39)
Krishnamurthy, G., Gupta, R.K., and Yang, Y. (2020, December). SocCogCom at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Characterizing and detecting propaganda using sentence-level emotional salience features, In Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2020), pp. 1973-1801, 12-13 December 2020, Barcelona, Spain (collocated with the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - COLING-2020). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.235
Gupta, R.K., and Yang, Y. (2019, October). Predicting and understanding news social popularity with emotional salience features, Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2019 (ACM MM), pp. 139-147, 21 - 25 October 2019, Nice, France. https://doi.org/10.1145/3343031.3351048 (NRF Top 10% AI Conference)
Gupta, R.K., Bhattacharya, P., and Yang, Y. (2019, January). What constitutes happiness? Predicting and characterizing the ingredients of happiness using emotion intensity analysis, In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AffCon 2019), pp. 152-163, 27 Jan 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2328/4_3_paper_22.pdf
Gupta, R.K. and Yang, Y. (2018, June). CrystalFeel at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Understanding and detecting intensity of emotions using affective lexicons, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2018), pp. 256-263, 5-6 Jun, 2018, New Orleans, USA (collocated with the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - NAACL-HLT 2018). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/S18-1038 (Best Paper Award Nominee) (Cited by 38)
Gupta, R.K. and Yang, Y. (2017, August). CrystalNest at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Using sarcasm detection for enhancing sentiment classification and quantification, Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2017), pp. 626–633, 3-4 August 2017, Vancouver, Canada (collocated with the 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/S17-2103
Gupta, R.K., and Yang, Y. (2016). Leveraging multimodal analyses and online knowledge base for video aboutness generation, In: Bebis G. et al. (eds) Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10073. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50832-0_6
Social media analytics (including disease surveillance and ground sensing applications/studies in disease outbreaks)
Othman, N.A., Panchapakesan, C., Loh, S.B., Zhang, M., Gupta, R.K., Martanto, W., Phang, Y.S., Morris, R.J.T., Loke, W.C., Tan, K.B., Subramaniam, M., Yang, Y. (2024, October). Predicting public mental health needs in a crisis using social media indicators: A Singapore big data study. Scientific Reports. 14, 23222. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73978-5 (Scopus Top 92th Percentile)
Loh, S.B., Gupta, R., Vishwanath, A., Ortony, A., and Yang, Y. (2023, March). How people respond to the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: A comparative analysis of emotional expressions from US and India. (arXiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.10560)
[COVID-19 Twitter dataset] Gupta, R., Vishwanath, A., and Yang, Y. (2022, June - latest update; 2020, July - first release). COVID-19 Twitter dataset with latent topics, sentiments and emotions attributes. OpenICPSR COVID-19 Data Repository, Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-06-25. Dataset download: https://doi.org/10.3886/E120321V12 (Dataset Descriptor: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2007.06954) (Cited by 71 | 2,705 Downloads)
Lwin, M.O., Sheldenkar, A., Lu, J., Schulz, P.J., Shin, W., Panchapakesan, C., Gupta, R., and Yang, Y. (2022, February). The evolution of public sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Case comparisons of India, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States, JMIR Infodemiology. 2(1):e31473. https://doi.org/10.2196/31473 (Scopus Top 75th Percentile)
Lwin, M.O., Lu, J., Sheldenkar, A., Schulz, P.J., Shin, W., Gupta, R., and Yang, Y. (2020, May). Global sentiments surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: Analysis of Twitter trends, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.2196/19447 (Scopus Top 95th Percentile) (Cited by 466)
Zhang, E., Yang, Y., Shang, R., Simons, J.J.P., Quek, B., Yin, X., See, W., Oh, O., Nandar, K., Ling, V., Chan, P., Wang, Z., Goh, R., James, L., and Tey, J. (2015, April). Leveraging social networking sites for disease surveillance and public sensing: The case of the 2013 Avian Influenza A(H7N9) outbreak in China, Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal, 6(2), pp. 66-72. https://doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.1.013 (Earlier version presented at the 9th Singapore Public Health and Occupational Medicine Conference, 28-29 Aug 2014, Sheraton Towers, Singapore.) (Best Oral Presentation Award) (Cited by 27)
Xu, Y., Yang, Y., Cheng, Z., and Lim, J. (2014, September). Retaining and attracting users in social networking services: An empirical investigation of cyber migration, Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 23(3), pp. 239–253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2014.03.002 (Scopus Top 98th Percentile) (Cited by 220)
Cheng, Z., Yang, Y., and Lim, J. (2009, January). Cyber migration: An empirical investigation on factors that affect users’ switch intention in social networking sites, In Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conferences on System Sciences (HICSS 2009), Track 7, IEEE Computer Society, Big Island, Hawaii, U.S., Jan 5-8, 2009, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.140 (Best Paper Award) (Cited by 169)
COVID-19 Sentiment Analysis Special Reports [Restricted in circulation]
Public receptivity of COVID-19 vaccines using big social data and emotion analytics, Date of Report: 11 December 2020
Community sensing of public mental wellbeing in Singapore with big social data and emotion analytics, Date of Report: 12 August 2020
Social media analytics for sentiments towards COVID-19 outbreak –Singapore vs world trends, COVID-19 Science Report, Date of Report: 8 March 2020
Foresight
Cheah, L.Y.S., Yang, Y., and Saritas, O. (2019, June). Reinventing product-service systems: The case of Singapore, Foresight. 21(3), pp. 332-361. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-12-2018-0107 (Earlier version presented at the 2015 Workshop on Business, Consumer and Social Insights on Policy Analytics, Singapore, 15 Mar 2015) (Best Theme Presentation Award)
Automated negotiation
Shang, R., Kauffman, R.J., Huang, J., and Yang, Y. (2020, January). Client risk informedness in brokered cloud services: An experimental pricing study, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2019.100893 (Scopus Top 92nd Percentile)
Yang, Y., Falcao, H., Delicado, N., Ortony, A. (2014, March). Reducing mistrust in agent-human negotiations. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 29(2). pp. 36–43. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2013.106
Yang, Y., Singhal, S., and Xu, Y. (2012, December). Alternate strategies for a win-win seeking agent in agent-human negotiations, Journal of Management Information Systems. Winter 2012–13, 29(3), 223–256. https://doi.org/10.2753/MIS0742-1222290307 (Scopus Top 97th Percentile) (Cited by 47)
Noh, H.Y., Ozonat, K., Singhal, S., and Yang, Y. (2011, August). A Multi-Choice Offer Strategy for Bilateral Multi-Issue Negotiations Using Modified DWM Learning, Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Liverpool, U.K., August 3-5, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1145/2378104.2378111
Yang, Y., See, Y.H.M., Ortony, A., J. Tan. (2010, January). Subjective effectiveness in agent-to-human negotiation: A frame x personality account. In P. McBurney, S. Parsons, I. Rahwan, N. Maudet (Eds.): Argumentation in Multi-Agent, Systems: Seventh International Workshop, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 6057, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 134-149. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12805-9_8
Yang, Y., Singhal, S., Santosa, R., Yan, S., Foo, Y.S. (2009, December). Negotiation as a service: An agent-based negotiation engine for online business, In Proceedings of The 19th Annual Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS 2009), Phoenix, United States, December 14-15, 2009, p. 224. (Best Prototype Award)
Yang, Y., Singhal, S., and Xu, Y. (2009, December). Offer with choices and accept with delay: A Win-Win strategy model for agent-based automated negotiation, In Proceedings of The 30th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2009), Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., 15-18 Dec 2009. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2009/180
Lim, J., and Yang, Y.P. (2008, June). Exploring computer-based multilingual negotiation support for English – Chinese dyads: can we negotiate in our native languages? Behaviour & Information Technology, 27:2, 139-151, https://doi.org/10.1080/01449290601111135 (Scopus Top 94th Percentile) (Cited by 33)
Yang, Y., Lim, J., Zhong, Y., Guo, X, and Li, X. (2007, July). Who is taking over control? A psychological perspective in examining effects of agent-based negotiation support technologies. In D. Harris (Ed.): Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, HCII2007, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 4562, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 222-231. Presented at 7th International Conference of Human-Computer Interaction 2007 (HCII 2007), Beijing, China, 22-27 Jul 2007 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-540-73331-7_24.pdf
Lim, J., and Yang, Y.P. (2007, January). Enhancing Negotiators' Performance with Computer Support for Pre-Negotiation Preparation and Negotiation: An Experimental Investigation in an East Asian Context, Journal of Global Information Management, https://doi.org/10.4018/jgim.2007010102
Yang, Y.P., Lim, J., and Chen, Y. (2006, December). Alternate designs on agent-based e-Negotiation systems: Concepts and implementation, In Proceedings of The 16th Annual Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., Dec 9-10, 2006 (Best Paper Award)
Lim, J. and Yang, Y.P. (2004, July). Videoconferencing NSS and conflict level: An experimental study, In Proceedings of The IFIP Technical Committee 8 International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS 2004), Prato, Tuscany, Italy, 1-3 Jul 2004.
Reproducible Companion Chair, ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia, 28 October - 1 November 2024 https://2024.acmmm.org
Vertical Co-Chair, Societal Implications of AI, 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI), Singapore, 25-27 June 2024 https://ieeecai.org/2024
Organizing Co-Chair, Online Trust & Safety Day @ TheWebConf, Singapore, 13 May 2024 https://www2024.thewebconf.org/program/special-days
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Computational Intelligence in Mental Health, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI), CFP: https://cis.ieee.org/images/files/Publications/TETCI/CFP-CIMH.pdf
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI), 2022
Associate Editor, Group Decision and Negotiation, 2018–2020
Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2012–2018
Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Negotiation and e-Commerce, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, May–Jun, 2013
Co-Chair, Invited Track on Electronic Negotiations, 14th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2012)
Co-Chair, A*STAR Day for the Workshop on Analytics for Business, Consumer and Social Insights (BCSI @ A*STAR), Singapore, Aug 6, 2012 & Aug 5, 2013
Reviewer, Journal of Management Information Systems, 2013–Present
Ad-hoc Reviewer, Information Systems Research; Management Information Systems Quarterly; Information and Management; Cloud of Clouds Special Issue, IEEE Transactions on Computers; Cloud Computing Special Issue, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems; Decision Support Systems; Group Decision and Negotiation; International Meeting on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN2012, 2013, 2015); Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS2011, 2012, 2013); International Conference on Social Intelligence and Technology 2013 (SOCIETY2013); 5th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM-2011)
Decoding emotions online for mental health needs, A*STAR Research (7 Aug 2025). In Brief: Published as research highlight. Emotion indicators from Twitter posts are found to help forecast online mental health portal use and hospital visits, suggesting that trends in social media emotions can potentially aid in planning population-wide mental health services. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/highlights/decoding-emotions-online-for-mental-health-needs
Hidden Hazards. A*STAR Research - Cover Story (22 Jul 2025). In Brief: Published as the cover feature of A*STAR Research volume 59, this feature highlights A*STAR R&D projects and strategic collaborations in digital safety, including combating harmful online content and safeguarding data security. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/hidden-hazards
Sensing emotions in a crisis, A*STAR Research - Cover Story (30 Oct 2020). In brief: Algorithms developed by A*STAR researchers have helped to identify public sentiment towards COVID-19 in over 20 million tweets. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/sensing-emotions-in-a-crisis; https://research.a-star.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ARP-Issue-20-Nov-Dec-2020compressed.pdf
Reading between the lines, A*STAR Research - Cover Story (19 Dec 2018). In Brief: Understanding the real meaning of comments left online is difficult for machines, but A*STAR is building clever programs that can spot important subtleties, including intensity and sarcasm. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/reading-between-the-lines; https://research.a-star.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Web_A-STAR_Issue13-1.pdf
Making good use of social media, A*STAR Research (27 May 2015). In Brief: A*STAR researchers are extracting useful information from billions of social media posts to support businesses, governments and healthcare professionals. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/making-good-use-of-social-media
Solving the trust equation, A*STAR Research (17 Mar 2015). In Brief: Socially intelligent computers can turn difficult online negotiations into win−win situations through tactical information disclosure. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/highlights/solving-the-trust-equation
2025
2026 Outlook: What’s next for tech – and the top stories of 2025. The Straits Times. (29 Dec 2025) https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/2026-outlook-whats-next-for-tech-and-the-top-stories-of-2025 (Highlighted CATOS' Provo as a top outlook for 2026)
Meet the Women in GovTech 2025 - Yang Yinping, Director, Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (CATOS); Senior Principal Scientist, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore. GovInsider. (15 Dec 2025) https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/yang-yinping-director-centre-for-advanced-technologies-in-online-safety-catos-and-senior-principal-scientist-at-astar-institute-of-high-performance-computing-singapore
CATOS Launch and Progress recognised as Singapore's Key Achievements in RIE2025. Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2030. National Research Foundation. p. 33. (5 Dec 2025). https://www.nrf.gov.sg/rie2030
Free tool countering deepfake content to launch in Singapore in 2026, The Straits Times. The Big Story. (24 Nov 2025) https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/free-verification-tool-to-counter-deepfake-content-to-launch-in-2026
Talking Point: Deepfakes During Elections. Channel News Asia. CNA Insider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaXV8yl0xOk&list=PLkMf14VQEvTai524iU74UlzpWvb1RRAvl&index=3 (CATOS insights from 39:40 Forget deepfakes – what about cheapfakes?)
2024
CATOS and Collaborative Efforts are recognised in Singapore's Smart Nation 2.0 Report. Smart Nation Singapore. (1 October 2024). https://www.smartnation.gov.sg/about/our-vision/sn2
Singapore launches Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (CATOS). GovInsider. (16 May 2024).
网络安全先进技术中心启用 政府额外拨款3000万元打击假信息. 8world. https://www.8world.com/singapore/singapore-invest-fund-catos-2457011 (16 May 2024)
Got a text that you think is a scam? S’pore’s new centre to fight online harms can help verify it. The Straits Times. (16 May 2024) https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/centre-to-help-singapore-fight-online-harms-launched-gets-50m-funding
Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (CATOS) to Receive S$50 Million in Funding. Ministry for Digital Development and Information. Press Release. (16 May 2024). https://www.mddi.gov.sg/newsroom/catos-to-receive-50-million-in-funding/
New $20m initiative in S’pore to develop tools to detect deepfakes and misinformation. The Straits Times. (11 Jan 2024). https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/new-20m-initiative-in-s-pore-to-develop-tools-to-detect-deepfakes-and-misinformation
Multi-million-dollar initiatives, multi-agency efforts: Govt takes new measures to fight online scams. The Mothership. (11 Jan 2024). https://mothership.sg/2024/01/govt-online-scam-josephine-teo
MCI outlines security standards for mobile apps, plans to combat deepfakes. The Business Times. (10 Jan 2024). https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/economy-policy/mci-outlines-security-standards-mobile-apps-plans-combat-deepfakes
【国会】政府投入2000万元展开五年计划 打击假信息和深伪内容. Lian He Zao Bao. (10 Jan 2024). https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/singapore/story20240110-1461254
4 initiatives launched to combat scams and make the internet safer: Here's what you need to know. Today Online. (10 Jan 2024). https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/guide-app-developers-protect-vulnerable-telco-customers-safe-digital-space-2338221
Online Trust and Safety Research Programme and Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (10 Jan 2024). Ministry for Digital Development and Information. Press Release. https://www.mddi.gov.sg/newsroom/online-trust-and-safety-catos/
2023
Singapore launches Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (CATOS). GovInsider. (16 May 2024).
网络安全先进技术中心启用 政府额外拨款3000万元打击假信息. 8world. https://www.8world.com/singapore/singapore-invest-fund-catos-2457011 (16 May 2024)
2022
A smart way to analyze social media. (August 2022). RIE NEWS. National Research Foundation Singapore, Prime Minister’s Office. (pp. 22-24) https://www.nrf.gov.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-library/nrf-magazine/nrf-magazine-(aug-2022).pdf
Innovation Island: Decoding Emotions on Social Media and Beyond, Produced by: National Geographic and Creative Works. A*STAR TV (15 July 2022). https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=431648978884463
Ministry of Transport, Sentiment Analytics for Public Transport: Quick-sensing of commuter sentiments through data science powered by Resonance Social, an advanced social listening platform developed by A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing, Minister’s Innovation Award – Merit for Public Transport Council (PTC), (16 Mar 2022) https://motawardsceremony.sg/sentiment_analytics_for_public_transport_(SAPT).html
2021
A*STAR@30: 30 Innovations and Inventions Over Three Decades, A*STAR TV (16 Dec 2021). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4qtFFXKykQ
A*STAR, (2021, Aug 13). A*STAR spinoff INTNT.AI trains chatbots to understand humans better, A*STAR Innovate, https://www.a-star.edu.sg/News/a-star-innovate/innovates/innovate/a-star-spinoff-intnt.ai-trains-chatbots
Women in Science: Dr Yang Yinping, IHPC, Faces of A*STAR (19 Mar 2021). https://www.a-star.edu.sg/News/faces-of-a-star/faces/faces/women-in-science-dr-yang-yinping-ihpc
International Day of Women and Girls in Science #CelebratingSGWomen #womeninscience, Minister Lawrence Wong’s Public Facebook Page (11 February 2021). https://www.facebook.com/LawrenceWongST/posts/263062485179238
2020
Meet the Women in GovTech 2020 – 53 inspiring stories on how tech is transforming the public sector, GovInsighter (16 Dec 2020). https://govinsider.asia/digital-gov/meet-the-women-in-govtech-2020
6 scientists in Singapore who have pivoted to Covid-19 related work. The Straits Times (14 Dec 2020). https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/6-scientists-in-singapore-who-have-pivoted-to-covid-19-related-work
How to shift into COVID-19 research: Scientists who aren’t virologists or vaccinologists can still make crucial contributions to the global effort to battle SARS-CoV-2. Nature (20 November 2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03298-x
Sensing emotions in a crisis, A*STAR Research (Cover Story). In brief: Algorithms developed by A*STAR researchers have helped to identify public sentiment towards COVID-19 in over 20 million tweets. (30 Oct 2020). https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/sensing-emotions-in-a-crisis; https://research.a-star.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ARP-Issue-20-Nov-Dec-2020compressed.pdf
Singapore 100 Women in Tech 2020 – Changing Perceptions & Lives, Channel NewsAsia, The Straits Times, Singapore Computer Society (4 September 2020). https://www.scs.org.sg/awards/sg100wit/profile?id=215
On Twitter, fear of the coronavirus pandemic has given way to anger, sadness and hope, study finds, The Straits Times (Singapore), The New Paper (Singapore), South China Morning Post (China), BBC Digital Planet, Medical Xpress, Bioengineer (UK), The National Tribune (Australia), Mirage News (Australia), 7th Space (the Netherlands), Science Codex (US), Scienmag (UK), News Medical Life Sciences (US), 20 minuti (Switzerland) etc. (16-20 July 2020). https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ntu-led-study-shows-global-sentiment-on-social-media-towards-covid-19-has-shifted-from; https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3093303/twitter-fear-coronavirus-pandemic-has-given-way-anger-sadness-and
2018
Reading between the lines, A*STAR Research (Cover Story) (19 Dec 2018). In Brief: Understanding the real meaning of comments left online is difficult for machines, but A*STAR is building clever programs that can spot important subtleties, including intensity and sarcasm. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/reading-between-the-lines; https://research.a-star.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Web_A-STAR_Issue13-1.pdf
SPH and A*Star collaborate in using artificial intelligence to make news headlines more engaging, SPH Media Release, Straits Times, Business Times, Yahoo! Singapore, Mumbrella.Asia etc. (Oct 2018). https://corporate.sph.com.sg/media_releases/3576
Sentiment analysis provides companies with valuable consumer insights, NRF RIE News (Jul 2018)
2017
S’pore govt agencies may use ‘sarcasm detectors’ for social media monitoring, Mothership.sg; 新科研研发 新智能系统能侦测网上讽刺言论, LianHe ZaoBao (24 Aug 2017). https://mothership.sg/2017/08/spore-govt-agencies-may-use-sarcasm-detectors-for-social-media-monitoring; https://www.zaobao.com.sg/znews/singapore/story20170824-789533
Oh Brother, Big Data: Our digital identity is now good business – in more ways than one, The Business Times (15 Apr 2017)
Social media at the frontline of disease surveillance, Asia Research News (6 Apr 2017). https://www.asiaresearchnews.com/html/article.php/aid/10588/cid/2/research/medicine/the_agency_for_science%2C_technology_and_research_%28a%2Astar%29/social_media_at_the_frontline_of_disease_surveillance.html
A*Star working on tools to analyse public sentiments on social media, Today Online (24 Mar 2017). https://www.todayonline.com/business/astar-working-tools-analyse-public-sentiments-social-media
2016
‘Our Digital World’ exhibition showcases power of big data, URA Media Room (28 Jun 2016). https://www.ura.gov.sg/Corporate/Media-Room/Media-Releases/pr16-39
High performance computing boost for smart nation, IDA Tech Scenes and News (12 Apr 2016). https://www.imda.gov.sg/news-and-events/impact-news/2016/04/high-performance-computing-boost-for-smart-nation
2015
Harnessing social media to track potential disease outbreaks, Channel NewsAsia, 加强应对传染病爆发能力 社交媒体可成为丰富信息来源, Channel 8 News, Channel U News (30 Dec 2015)
Making good use of social media, A*STAR Research (27 May 2015). In Brief: A*STAR researchers are extracting useful information from billions of social media posts to support businesses, governments and healthcare professionals. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/features/making-good-use-of-social-media
Solving the trust equation, A*STAR Research (17 Mar 2015). In Brief: Socially intelligent computers can turn difficult online negotiations into win−win situations through tactical information disclosure. https://research.a-star.edu.sg/articles/highlights/solving-the-trust-equation
2013
Can computers negotiate? Win-Win negotiations in a virtual world, Forbes (19 Nov 2013). https://www.forbes.com/sites/insead/2013/11/19/can-computers-negotiate-win-win-negotiations-in-a-virtual-world/?sh=4254db1c1d15
2010
HP opens new S'pore research lab, The Business Times (25 Feb 2010), Lian He Zao Bao (25 Feb 2010), The Straits Times (25 Feb 2010), Bloomberg.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-02-24/hp-labs-opens-singapore-research-hub