Tsuhan Chen

Tsuhan Chen is a Distinguished Professor and Deputy President (Research and Technology) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), serving as Chief Scientist of AI Singapore and Co-Chair of the SIA-NUS Digital Aviation Corporate Laboratory. Previously, he served as Dean of the College of Engineering at Nanyang Technological University and held professorships at Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

A globally recognized expert in pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning, Prof. Chen's research centers on media artificial intelligence including computer vision, pattern recognition, multimedia coding/retrieval, and biometric authentication. His work has produced over 300 technical publications and nearly 30 US patents.

His recent publications reveal dominant themes in computer vision and multimedia processing, with significant contributions to image captioning, semantic segmentation, emotion recognition, and medical imaging through advanced techniques like deep learning, tensor regularization, and multimodal fusion.

Scientific Awards:

• Charles Wilts Prize (1993)
• NSF CAREER Award (2000-2003)
• Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award (2006)
• Eta Kappa Nu Award (2007)
• Michael Tien Teaching Award (2014)
• Robert M Janowiak Award (2017)
• Fellow of IEEE
• Fellow of Institute of Engineers, Singapore

Prof. Chen has secured substantial research funding including the NSF CAREER Award and directed the Advanced Multimedia Processing Laboratory at Cornell. He currently leads national AI initiatives through AI Singapore and has championed interdisciplinary research programs aligned with Singapore's RIE2020 strategy.