DeCLaRe Lab · NTU Singapore

Funding & Partners

Funders and partners

Public and research funders
  • CNRS@CREATE / NRF
  • AI Singapore
  • DSO National Laboratories
  • Ministry of Education
  • A*STAR
  • KLASS
  • Housing & Development Board
Industry
  • Google DeepMind
  • Google
  • OpenAI
  • Meta
  • Microsoft
  • Oracle
  • Alibaba
  • Adobe

For research partnerships, email soujanya.poria@ntu.edu.sg.

Active projects

CNRS@CREATE / NRF · 2026–2029

Embodied Foundational Models

Total grant S$10M; DeCLaRe award S$3.33M. The project studies generalist vision-language-action models for embodied AI.

KLASS · 2026–2028

Toward Generalist Vision Language Action Models

S$1.5M for research on action grounding, robot evaluation, and generalist vision-language-action models.

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

LLM with Linear Transformers

S$4.99M project on language models built with linear attention.

Principal Investigator · AI Singapore · Jan 2024–Dec 2026

Trustworthy and Responsible LLMs for Singapore Governance

S$500K project on trustworthy language models for Singapore governance.

Principal Investigator · DSO · Dec 2023–Dec 2026

Detecting, Measuring and Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs

S$600K to detect, measure, and mitigate hallucinations in language models.

Google DeepMind · 2026

Google DeepMind GCP Grant

S$100K in cloud compute for language, multimodal, and agent research.

Completed projects

Principal Investigator · MoE GAP · Jun 2024–Dec 2025

Walled AI

S$245.7K project on responsible AI systems with clear operating boundaries.

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

CSK-NLP: Leveraging Commonsense Knowledge for NLP

S$736.812K project on commonsense knowledge and reasoning for language models.

Principal Investigator · A*STAR · Feb 2020–Feb 2023

K-EMERGE

S$910K project on knowledge extraction, modelling, and explainable reasoning.

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

Intent Inference

S$800K project on intent inference in language and interaction.

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

ESTATE-IQ

S$4.44064M project on AI systems for HDB estate services.

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

AI for Hate Speech Detection on Social Media

S$100K project on hate-speech detection in social media.

Co-Principal Investigator · Feb 2020–Jan 2023

THRUST 2: Discovery by AI

S$260.252K project on AI-assisted discovery.

Principal Investigator · Adobe Research · May 2018–May 2020

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Dialogues

S$10K per quarter for multimodal emotion recognition in conversation.

Completed corporate and in-kind support

Principal Investigator · Alibaba · Completed Dec 2024

Alibaba Research Support

S$100K in research funding.

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 in research funding.

Principal Investigator · Meta · Completed May–Jun 2025

Meta Research and In-Kind Support

S$67K in research funding and S$56K in-kind.

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