DeCLaRe Lab's funded projects support research across embodied AI, trustworthy language generation, responsible AI, audio generation, and multimodal foundation models. These projects also indicate active directions where students, postdocs, visitors, and collaborators can contribute.

Active Projects

CNRS@CREATE / NRF · 2026-2029

Embodied Foundational Models

Total S$10M; awarded S$3.33M. Research on embodied foundation models, generalist interactive AI, and vision-language-action systems.

KLASS · 2026-2028

Toward Generalist Vision Language Action Models

S$1.5M support for action grounding, embodied evaluation, and scalable VLA model development.

Co-Principal Investigator · AI Singapore · Apr 2025-Mar 2028

LLM with Linear Transformers

S$4.99M support for scalable language models built around efficient linear-transformer architectures.

Principal Investigator · AI Singapore · Jan 2024-Dec 2026

Trustworthy and Responsible LLMs for Singapore Governance

S$500K support for developing trustworthy and responsible large language models for Singapore-specific governance issues.

Principal Investigator · DSO · Dec 2023-Dec 2026

Detecting, Measuring and Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs

S$600K support for grounded, reliable, and trustworthy language model generation.

Google DeepMind · 2026

Google DeepMind GCP Grant

S$100K compute support for large-scale language, multimodal, and agentic AI research.

Completed Projects

Principal Investigator · MoE GAP · Jun 2024-Dec 2025

Walled AI

S$245.7K support for research on responsible, bounded, and deployable AI systems.

Principal Investigator · Ministry of Education · Oct 2021-Oct 2024

CSK-NLP: Leveraging Commonsense Knowledge for NLP

S$736.812K support for commonsense knowledge, language understanding, and reasoning in NLP systems.

Principal Investigator · AME Research Grant · Feb 2020-Feb 2023

K-EMERGE

S$910K support for knowledge extraction, modelling, and explainable reasoning for general expertise.

Principal Investigator · DSO Research Grant · Feb 2020-Feb 2022

Intent Inference

S$800K support for intent inference research in language and interaction settings.

Co-Principal Investigator · Housing Development Board · Jul 2021-Jun 2024

ESTATE-IQ

S$4.44064M support for an advanced AI system enabling smart HDB estate services.

Principal Investigator · DSO Research Grant · Feb 2020-Jan 2021

AI for Hate Speech Detection on Social Media

S$100K support for detecting harmful social media content using AI methods.

Co-Principal Investigator · SGPAI · Feb 2020-Jan 2023

THRUST 2: Discovery by AI

S$260.252K support for AI-assisted discovery research.

Principal Investigator · Adobe-e Research Corporate Funding · May 2018-May 2020

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Dialogues

S$10K per quarter support for multimodal conversational emotion recognition research.

Completed Corporate and In-Kind Support

Principal Investigator · Alibaba · Completed Dec 2024

Alibaba Research Support

S$100K support for AI research.

Principal Investigator · Microsoft · Completed Jun 2024

Microsoft In-Kind Support

S$56K in-kind support.

Principal Investigator · Oracle · Completed May 2024

Oracle In-Kind Support

S$41.3K in-kind support.

Principal Investigator · Google · Completed May 2025

Google In-Kind Support

S$6.805K in-kind support.

Co-lead Principal Investigator · OpenAI · Completed May 2025

OpenAI Research Support

S$238.237K support for AI research.

Principal Investigator · Meta · Completed May-Jun 2025

Meta Research and In-Kind Support

S$67K research support and S$56K in-kind support, consolidated here to avoid duplicate Meta entries.

Opportunities

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Several funded directions are open to motivated students and collaborators interested in embodied AI, multimodal learning, trustworthy generation, AI governance, and efficient model training.

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