Roster updated July 2026
Members of DeCLaRe Lab in 2021
Members of DeCLaRe in 2021

Faculty

1 member

Principal Investigator

Soujanya Poria

Nanyang Technological University

Multimodal AI, reasoning, affective computing, trustworthy AI

Research Scientists

3 members

Research Scientist

Suorong Yang

Data-centric AI, AI for Science, trustworthy AI, reasoning models

PhD Students

12 members

PhD Student

Keith Kwok

AI safety and alignment; sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and parasocial attachment

PhD Student

Hung Chia-Yu

Multimodal generation, vision-language-action models, world models

PhD Student

Liu Renhang

Generative models, world modelling for robotics

PhD Student

Varun Gumma

LLMs, reinforcement learning, efficiency, reasoning and modelling

PhD Student

Vernon Toh

Reasoning and prompt augmentation

PhD Student

Ruiwen Zhou

LLM reasoning and AI agents

Co-supervised with Min-Yen Kan at NUS

PhD Student

Tej Deep Pala

LLM reasoning, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems

PhD Student

Maojia Song

Adaptive intelligence, foundation agents, multimodal interaction, embodied AI

Research Assistants

1 member

Visiting Students

1 member

Alumni

19 members

Alumnus

Yingting Li

China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

Alumnus

Xiaocui Yang

Assistant Professor at Northeastern University

Former PhD Student

Hui Chen

Research Fellow at NUS