Funding record verified July 2026

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.

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