News
26 Sep 2024
Our work on leveraging a *single* diffusion model for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection was accepted to NeurIPS 2024. This work is a step towards trustworthy ML models that know what data they aren't trained with.
20 Sept 2024
Check out our lab's first EMNLP paper on using LLMs for knowledge graph construction. We are looking to make LLMs better use external trustworthy knowledge sources and this is a step towards that direction.
27 Aug 2024
Gave a talk at the Microsoft Research Asia ACE Series! Thank you to the Microsoft Accelerator Team!
14 May 2024
All four of our submissions (3 papers, 1 demo) were accepted to R:SS'24!
6 May 2024
Awarded the University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2023). As a third time winner, I'm now on the Honor Roll!
27 Mar 2024
Excited to be giving a Keynote at ICRA'24! I'll be speaking about our lab's work on generative models for robotics.
22 Sep 2023
Both our submitted papers were accepted to Neurips 2023. Check out our spotlight paper on making deep generative models forget.
30 Aug 2023
CLeAR has three papers at IROS 2023. Come join us at IROS!
1 Jun 2023
Honored to be selected for an Early Career Spotlight talk at RSS 2023!
25 Apr 2023
Our work on a family of stable and effective continuous-discrete state-space models was accepted to ICML'23.
20 Apr 2023
Gave a invited talk at the Intuitive Summer School in Malta on Tactile Learning and State-Space Models.
13 Mar 2023
Heading to HRI'23! Will be speaking at the Workshop on Advancing HRI Research and Benchmarking Through Open-Source Ecosystems and HRI Pioneers 2023.
19 Jan 2023
Our work on Safety Constrained Policy Transfer will be presented at ICRA'23.
9 Sept 2022
Our paper on Applying Probabilistic Programming for Affective Computation was selected for the Best of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2021 Paper Collection! Joint work with Desmond Ong, Jamil Zaki, and Noah Goodman.
26 Apr 2022
Honored to have been awarded the University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2022)!
4 May 2022
I'll be giving a talk on Human Models for Trust and Communication at the Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS), University of Plymouth, UK.
20 Apr 2022
Our work on SCALES for Fair Decision-Making was just accepted to AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES)! Congrats to Sreejith and Jianxin!
13 Apr 2022
Our work on MIRROR for Assistive Human-Robot Communication was just accepted to RSS! Congrats to Kaiqi and Jeffrey!
8 Feb 2022
Harold is giving an online talk on Trust and Touch for HRI at the QUT Centre for Robotics! Register at https://bit.ly/3oE9wLB!
21 Dec 2021
Our work on Population Games with Q-learning agents was just accepted to AAMAS 2022!
20 Oct 2021
Gave a invited task at USC on Trust, Touch, and Talk for HRI.
30 Sept 2021
Awarded Best Paper at IROS 2021 for our work on Extended Tactile Perception!
29 Sept 2021
Our work on Deep Explicit Duration Switching Models for Time Series was accepted to NeurIPS.
21 Sept 2021
I'll joining the Editorial Board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal as Associate Editor.
19 Aug 2021
I'm serving on the Organizing Committee of ICRA 2022 as Videos Chair.
5 Jul 2021
I'm now an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.
5 Jul 2021
I will giving an invited talk on Event Tactile Perception at Telluride 2021.
4 Jul 2021
I was awarded the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) 2021.
1 Jul 2021
Our work on Extended Tactile Perception via Vibration Sensing by Tas, Shui Song, and Eugene was just accepted to IROS 2021! Joint work with our collaborators Hian Hian and Benjamin Tee.
10 Apr 2021
I was awarded a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for 2019/20! (Third year in a row).
01 Mar 2021
Our work on Embedding Symbolic Temporal Knowledge into Deep Sequential Models by Yaqi was just accepted to ICRA 2021!
01 Mar 2021
Our work on Multi-Modal Mutual Information (MuMMI) Training for Robust Self-Supervised Deep Reinforcement Learning by Kaiqi and Yong Lee was just accepted to ICRA 2021!
15 Jan 2021
Our work on refining generative models by Fatir and Ming Liang was just accepted to ICLR 2021!
14 Jan 2021
Our Late-Breaking Report on a new Theory for Large-Scale HRI will appear at HRI 2021!
25 Sep 2020
Our paper on Efficient Exploration of Reward Functions in Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Bayesian Optimization was just accepted to Neurips 2020！
07 Sep 2020
Our review paper on Trust in Robots has just been published in Current Robotics Reports. Congratulations to Bingcai on the paper!
04 Aug 2020
Congratulations to Tasbolat who has just won a Research Achievement Award!
01 Jul 2020
Congratulations to Eugene Lim who won the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for his work on deep models for collaboration and Juiced!
30 Jun 2020
Our paper Capability, Intent and Trust Calibration in Human Collaboration by Joshua, Jeffrey and Bingcai was just accepted at IROS 2020!
30 Jun 2020
Our paper Spiking Graph Neural Network for Event-based Tactile Object Recognition by Fuqiang, Weicong and Tasbolat was just accepted at IROS 2020!
30 Jun 2020
Our paper Fast Tactile-based Texture Classification Using Spiking Neural Network by Tasbolat in collaboration with Wu Yan at A*STAR was just accepted at IROS 2020!
06 May 2020
Our work on Visual + Tactile Event-Driven Perception was just accepted to RSS 2020!
28 Feb 2020
I was awarded a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for 2018/19!
24 Feb 2020
Our work on deep generative modeling via characteristic functions was just accepted at CVPR 2020 and selected for oral presentation!
12 Jan 2020
Congratulations to Yaqi who has just won a Research Achievement Award!
11 Jan 2020
Two Late Breaking Reports (one on Situational Awareness and Human-Robot Trust and the other on deep learning for cooperative tasks) accepted to HRI 2020 in Cambridge!