SUN Qianru

Qianru Sun is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU), and a Lee Kong Chian Fellow. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and semantic segmentation, with a particular emphasis on few-shot learning, meta-learning, and domain adaptation in remote-sensing imagery.

Recent publications highlight her work on visual chain-of-thought reasoning, 3D scene understanding via 2D models, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large models. Her research also extends to weakly-supervised semantic segmentation and cross-modal video retrieval.

Scientific Awards:

• Lee Kong Chian Fellow (2021–2023, 2025–2027)
• Outstanding Service Award by MMAsia (2020)
• Outstanding Reviewer at NeurIPS'21 and ICLR'21

Students:

• PhD students: Luo Zilin, Tian Zichen, Ying Jiahao
• Master’s students: Bao Chunhui, LOH Yi Lin, MA Li