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2014-01-24: My Presentation at the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) @ One-North 2014 Singapore Challenge
2014-07-25: Presenting our Technologies to the Minister for Health Mr Gan Kim Yong at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
2014-10-23: [State Visit] Showcasing Our Research to President Tony Tan Keng Yam (陈庆炎) during his First State Visit to the UK
2014-10-27: Exhibiting Our Research to Mr Steve Leonard, Deputy Chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Singapore during Smart Nation 2014
2015-01-17: Showcasing our Technologies in a Community Outreach Event Attended by Minister for Communications and Information Dr Yaacob bin Ibrahim
2015-01-23: My Presentation at the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) @ One-North 2015 Singapore Challenge to President Tony Tan Keng Yam (陈庆炎)
2015-01-27: My Presentation at the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), Austin Tx, USA
2015-03-06: Research Commercialization Award Presentation Ceremony at NTUitive, NTU, Singapore
2015-03-09: Our Research in Wellness Game Platforms has been Featured by Channel 8 News in Singapore
2015-03-15: Our Research in Aging-in-Place Technologies has been Featured by Channel 8 News in Singapore
2015-07-02: Gave an Invited Talk in the Joint Tsinghua-NTU Workshop on Crowd Science Innovations (CSI)
2015-07-03: [State Visit] President Tony Tan (陈庆炎) of Singapore and President Xi Jinping (习近平) of China Witnessed the Signing of Two MOUs between LILY (NTU), NELET (Tsinghua) and SKLIIP (Fudan)
2015-07-27: Received the【Best Application Video Award】from IJCAI-15 Video Competition
2015-08-08: Showcased our Record Setting SG50 Wish App to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (李显龙) of Singapore on SG50 National Day Eve
2015-08-15: Received Our Singapore Book of Records Certificate from Minister for Communications and Information Dr Yaacob Ibrahim
2015-08-30: Launched Our Table Tennis Wellness Game Kiosk in the Woodlands Community Club
2015-09-04: Gave a Guest Lecture at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2015-12-08: Received the【Best Demo Award】from WI-IAT 2015
2016-01-22: Our Research Proposal made it to the GYSS@one-north 2016 Singapore Challenge Final Round
2016-02-14: Chaired the Session on "Search: Optimization I" in AAAI-16
2016-02-15: Presented the Challenge Problem Paper in IAAI-16
2016-02-15: Received the【Best Video - People's Choice Award】from AAAI 2016
2016-02-16: Received the AAAI-16【Best Student Poster Award】from AAAI President Prof Thomas G. Dietterich
2016-03-01: Started Serving as a Founding Member of the 1st Executive Council of the Association for Crowd Science and Engineering (ACE)
2016-03-05: Singapore Citizenship Ceremony
2016-03-17: Invited Talk and Research Discussion at the University of Melbourne with Scientists led by Pro Vice Chancellor Prof Gregor Kennedy
2016-04-18: Invited Talk at the NTU-PKU JRI Workshop on Learning @ Scale (GOH Prof Gao Song, Provost and Vice President, Peking University)
2016-05-06: The Launch Ceremony of ARISE and CePHaS (GOH Minister for Health Mr Gan Kim Yong)
2016-05-30: At the JCI TOYP 2016 Award Ceremony with Senior Minister of State Ms Sim Ann
2016-06-04: Showcased our Wellness Games to Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong (吴作栋) and Member of Parliament Mr Seah Kian Peng
2016-06-25: Showcased Research Prototypes to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (李显龙) and Minister for Social and Family Development Tan Chuan-Jin
2016-06-26: Received Certificate of Appreciation from Member of Parliament Mr Lim Biow Chuan
2016-06-29: Co-Chaired the Symposium on Interactive Games for Active Ageing - the 9th World Congress on Active Ageing (WCAA'16)
2016-07-12: Gave an Invited Talk and Served as a Panel Member @ IPS-CFE Conference on the Future Economy of Singapore - GOH Minister for Industry and Trade (Industry) Mr S. Iswaran
2016-07-15: Awarded the Certificate of Excellence by Nam Hwa Opera Ltd, Receiving the Award from MP Baey Yam Keng, Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)
2016-07-19: Received the【Best Paper Award】from SCSM 2016 at Toronto, ON, Canada
2016-07-29: Received the【Best Paper Award】and the【Best Poster Award】from ICCSE 2016 at Vancouver, BC, Canada
2016-08-20: Autograph from【Joseph Isaac Schooling】- Singapore's First Olympic Gold Medalist
2016-08-25: Linked up our Research Centre with Airbnb
2016-09-01: Our Paper on AI-Powered Hierarchical Crowdsourcing Networks accepted by【Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group】
2016-12-06: Our Data Descriptor paper accepted by【Scientific Data, Nature Publishing Group】
2017-01-07: Received the Outstanding GRC Project Award from PAYM, GOH Minister for Education (Schools) Mr Ng Chee Meng
2017-01-27: Honoured to Receive【Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Autograph】on Chinese New Year Eve
2017-02-13: Invited to a networking dinner with the Swedish Health & Elderly Care Delegation hosted by the Ambassador of Sweden His Excellency Hakan Jevrell
2017-02-23: Gave an invited talk at the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City Joint Research Institute, Guangzhou, China
2017-03-17: Gave an Invited Talk at the inaugural Innovating Care Conference, Singapore
2017-06-11: Participated in the Ministerial Dialogue Session with Minister Grace Fu Hai Yien
2017-06-14: Gave an Invited Talk at the 2nd PKU-NTU Workshop on AI+, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
2017-07-03: Industry Visit to the Dareway Software Co. Ltd. in China
2017-07-12: Received the Best Student Paper Award from the International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT) (GOH Minister for Manpower Mr Lim Swee Say)
2017-09-14: Our paper on Stochastic Optimization for Efficient Division of Work in Algorithmic Crowdsourcing accepted by【Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group】
2017-10-19: Received the Certificate of Excellence Award by Nam Hwa Opera Limited from GOH Parliamentary Secretary MP Baey Yam Keng
2017-10-31: Our paper on how AI can enhance MOOC learning accepted by【npj Science of Learning, Nature Publishing Group】
2017-11-12: Set a New Record for the Largest Mobile Phone Skills Workshop for Senior Citizens in the Singapore Book of Records
2018-01-25: Gave an Invited Talk at Alibaba, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2018-02-06: Received the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Award, AAAI, USA
2018-02-28: Gave an Invited Talk at the Digital Economy Seminar, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Singapore
2018-02-28: Gave an Invited Talk at the Launch Ceremony of the Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute
2018-03-28: Served as a Panel Member in the OpenGov Breakfast Insight: AI - The Game Changer for Government
2018-07-08: Showcased Research Prototypes to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
2018-07-09: Gave an Invited Talk @ ASPIRE League Workshop
2018-07-19: Ethical AI talk at IJCAI'18, IJCAI'18 Video Competition Awards & Announcing IJCAI'19
2018-07-28 to 2018-07-31: Served as the Program Co-Chair of IEEE ICA 2018
2019-01-30: Presented Our Paper in AAAI-19, Honolulu, HI, USA
2019-02-15: Received Community Leadership Award from Senior Parliamentary Secretary MP Amrin Amin
2019-02-22: Served as a Panel Member for the Workshop on Translating AI Technology into Healthcare Solutions, Singapore
2019-03-12: Received the AI Singapore Health AI Grand Challenge Research Grant
2019-03-24: Gave an Invited Talk in the 14th CCF Technology Frontier on Federated Machine Learning, Shenzhen, China
2019-06-17: Gave an Invited Talk at the Google Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics, Seattle, USA
2019-07-09: Conducted a Course on AI for Good and Federated Learning for the NTU China Program
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Yu, Han (于涵)
Nanyang Assistant Professor (NAP)
N4-02c-109
School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
50 Nanyang Avenue
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Dr Yu, Han is a Nanyang Assistant Professor (NAP) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) from 2017 to 2018. Between 2015 and 2018, he held the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Post-Doctoral Fellowship (LKY PDF) at the Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY). Before joining NTU, he worked as an Embedded Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) Pte Ltd, Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, NTU in 2014. During his PhD study, he held the prestigious Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) PhD Scholarship. His research focuses on online convex optimization, ethical AI, federated machine learning and their applications in complex collaborative systems such as crowdsourcing. He has published 120 research papers in book chapters, leading international conferences and journals including AAAI, IJCAI, ASE, ACM MM, AAMAS, ACM/IEEE Transactions, Proceedings of the IEEE, as well as Nature Research journals – npj Science of Learning, Scientific Data and Scientific Reports. His research work has been recognized with 11 awards and 9 award nominations from conferences and journals. In both 2014 and 2015, he was selected to be one of the Top 10 Global Young Scientists under 35 during the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS).