I am an ARC Future Fellow, Scientia Associate Professor and Associate Head of School (Research) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW Sydney. I graduated with a BEng in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Sydney in 2013.
I received the highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2015, and was an ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of Sydney before joining UNSW as a Lecturer in 2018. I also received a Dean’s Research Award from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney in 2017. In 2019, I was awarded the prestigious ARC Future Fellowship, which provides support for excellent mid-career researchers to undertake high quality research in areas of national and international benefit. In 2020, I was awarded a Scientia Fellowship from UNSW, which supports career development of outstanding researchers. In 2021, I received two grant awards from Google and the Faculty of Engineering Research Excellence Award. In 2022, I received a large NHMRC Ideas Grant on computational brain imaging led by my collaborator at Macquarie University. In 2023, I received a Women in AI award for AI in Innovation in the Asia-pacific region. I also received an ARC Linkage Project Grant on rip current detection in collaboration with Surf Life Saving Australia, and an Award for Inclusion Research from Google. In 2024, I am one of the chief investigators receiving a large ARC grant to establish the Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Human-Robot Teaming. In 2025, I received an ARC Discovery Project grant on contextualised commonsense reasoning with neuro-symbolic AI. I have been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier since 2022.
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