Chua Tat SengView profile
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Professor Chua Tat Seng is a distinguished academic at the National University of Singapore's School of Computing, serving as KITHCT Chair Professor and Director of the NUS-Tsinghua Extreme Search Center (NExT). He also holds Distinguished Visiting Professorships at Tsinghua and Zhejiang Universities in China. PhD in Computer Science (University of Leeds, 1983) Founding Dean of School of Computing (1998-2000) Co-founded ViSenze and 6Estates technology startups His research focuses on unstructured multimodal data analytics, with particular emphasis on multimedia information retrieval, social media analytics, recommendation systems, and trustworthy AI. He has pioneered work in computational wellness and fintech applications, establishing the Lab for Media Search and leading NExT++ research initiatives. Over 300 publications in leading venues (CVPR, SIGIR, WWW, AAAI) Recipient of ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award (2015) Supervised 37 PhD students since 2004 Editorial leadership in ACM Transactions and IEEE Multimedia Recent work explores multimodal LLMs, knowledge editing techniques (AlphaEdit), and 3D generation frameworks, reflecting his commitment to advancing web intelligence and user empowerment.