Faculty in Data Science at CCDS work across a range of research groups that focus on transforming data into knowledge and intelligent action. These groups span the full data lifecycle, from foundational methods to real-world applications across industry, healthcare, and digital systems.
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This group focuses on designing systems and methods for managing and analysing large-scale and complex data, including spatio-temporal, graph, and multimodal data, with applications in areas such as smart systems and digital platforms.
Group Leads
Cheng LONG is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From 2016 to 2018, he was a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He received his PhD degre ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Information Sciences and Systems
Melanie Herschel's academic background is in Computer Science, more specifically in data management. Before joining the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University in 2024, she was a Professor for Data Engineering at the ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Information Sciences and Systems
Members
Gao Cong is currently a Professor with College of Computing & Data Science in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and a co-director for Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Enterprises@NTU (SCALE@NTU). Before joining NTU, he ...
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Head, Division of Data Science, College of Computing & Data Science
Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Courtesy Appointment, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (Courtesy Appointment)
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Computer Science and Engineering | Smart Cities | Sociology
Dr. Sun Aixin is an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair (Academic) at the College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has been a faculty member of CCDS since 2005 and was the Assistant Cha ...
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Associate Dean (UG Education), College of Computing & Data Science
Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Computational Intelligence | Information Sciences and Systems
Sourav S Bhowmick is a computer scientist and an educator. He leads the Data Management Research Group at NTU (DANTE). He is also the Research Group Lead of Data Management & Analytics Group in College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS). He w ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Art, Design and Media | Biomedical Sciences & Life Sciences | Computer Science and Engineering | Sociology
Dr. Chloe Gu is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University. She is a seasoned educator and data-product strategist with 20 years of experience spanning academia and industry. Her professional jour ...
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Senior Lecturer, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence
Prior to joining NTU, Dr Josephine Chong has previously worked at the Northumbria University (England) and Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand). While working at these universities, she teaches a range of Business Information Systems modul ...
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Lecturer, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Information Sciences and Systems
Xijie Gao is an Assistant Professor in Economics and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Before joining NTU, Xijie worked as an Economist at Luohan Academy, an open research institute founded by Alibaba Group, and also as a visiti ...
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Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences
Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Economics
Yonggang Wen is a Professor and President’s Chair of Data Science in College of Computing & Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is serving as the Vice Provost (Graduate Education) and Dean of Graduate College at ...
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Vice Provost (Graduate Education) and Dean, Graduate College
President’s Chair in Data Science
Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Director for NTU Center in Computational Technologies for Finance (CCTF), Graduate College
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Information Sciences and Systems | Optimising Water and Energy Systems
Assoc Prof Hui Siu Cheung is currently in the Division of Information Systems, College of Computing & Data Science since 1990. He received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1983 and D. Phil in 1987 from the University of Sussex, UK. He worked in ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Computer Science and Engineering | Info-Communication Technology | Interactive Digital Media | Internet & Communications | Mathematics
Siqiang Luo is an assistant professor at the College of Computing & Data Science, Nanyang Technological University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Fudan University, in 2010 and 2013 respectively. He received a Ph.D ...
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Nanyang Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Qichen Wang is currently an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. Before joining NTU in Sept. 2025, He was a postdoc at EPFL between Sept. 2024 and Aug. 2025. He was also a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Co ...
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Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Information Sciences and Systems | Parallel and Distributed Computing
This group focuses on ensuring data security, privacy, and trust in digital systems, with research spanning cybersecurity, privacy-preserving analytics, digital forensics, and secure data processing.
Group Lead
Dr. Liu Yang is a full professor in Nanyang Technological University, Executive Director of Cyber Security Research Centre @ NTU, and Executive Director of CyberSG R&D Programme Office (CRPO). In 2019, he received the University Leadership Forum ...
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Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
President’s Chair in Computer Science and Engineering
Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (Courtesy Appointment)
Executive Director, Cyber Research Programme Office (CRPO)
Executive Director, Cyber Security Research Centre @ NTU (CYSREN)
Keywords: Computer Science and Engineering | Cyber Security and Forensics
Members
Dr. XiaoFeng Wang is a President’s Chair Professor and Associate Vice President for Cybersecurity at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Since January 1, 2026, he has also served as Head of the Computing Division in the College of Computing and D ...
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Associate Vice President (Cybersecurity)
President's Chair Professor
Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Head, Division of Computing, College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS)
Keywords: Computational Intelligence | Cyber Security and Forensics
Dr. W. K. NG works in machine learning, privacy-preserving techniques, query-permissible encrypted databases, enterprise blockchain systems, data security, and blockchain security. His work is motivated by the need to harness the power of data for th ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Computer Science and Engineering | Cyber Security and Forensics | Info-Communication Technology | Interactive Digital Media | Internet & Communications | Security Studies & Policy Issues
Yi Li is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and an Associate Director of the NTU Centre in Computational Technologies for Finance (CCTF). He received his BComp degree in Compute ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Computer Science and Engineering
1. Asst professor in NUS Math dept for 6 years;
2. 17 years as scientist/senior scientist at CSIT doing infocomm security research-studied strength and security of crypto protocols & algorithms.
Education Background:
• PhD MIT 1994, Math
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Senior Lecturer, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Computer Science and Engineering | Mathematics
Dr. Tianwei Zhang received his Bachelor’s degree in physics at Peking University, in 2011, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 2017. He worked at Amazon as a software engineer from 2017 to 2019. He joined Nanyang ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Provost’s Chair in Computing
Deputy Director, Cyber Security Research Centre @ NTU (CYSREN)
Keywords: Computer Science and Engineering
DONG Wei is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Before joining NTU, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon Univer ...
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Nanyang Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Cyber Security and Forensics | Information Sciences and Systems
Dr. Adams Wai-Kin Kong received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the director of Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence prog ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Biomedical Informatics and Data Science | Computational Intelligence | Computer Vision and Sensing
Professor Lam is the Associate Vice President (Strategy and Partnerships) and Professor in the College of Computing & Data Science at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Professor Lam Kwok Yan is a renowned Cyber Security resea ...
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Associate Vice President (Strategy & Partnerships)
Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Director, Ant Group-NTU Joint Lab (ANTGRP)
Director, Mastercard-NTU Joint Lab (MCA@NTU)
Executive Director, Digital Trust Centre
Keywords: Computer Science and Engineering | Cyber Security and Forensics | Info-Communication Technology | Security Studies & Policy Issues | Smart Cities
This group applies data science and AI methods to healthcare and biomedical domains, including computational medicine, genomics, medical imaging, and healthcare data systems.
Group Lead
Dr. Tan received the M.A and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. His research interests are Generative AI, wireless networking, health informatics, machine learning systems and distributed optimization. Some of his rese ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Information Sciences and Systems
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Jagath Rajapakse is Professor of College of Computing & Data Science at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has BSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Moratuwa (UM), Sri Lanka, and MS ...
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Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical Informatics and Data Science | Computational Intelligence | Healthy Brain Ageing | Information Sciences and Systems | Mental Health | Neuroscience
Dr. Kwoh Chee Keong is currently in the College of Computing & Data Science since 1993. He received his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering (1st Class) and Master in Industrial System Engineering from the National University of Singapore i ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Biomedical Sciences & Life Sciences | Computer Science and Engineering | Interface of Biology & Engineering (Engineering in Biology) | Mathematics | Systems and Engineering Management
Dr. Fan Xiuyi is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and the School of Computer Science and Engineering (joint appointment). He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Utah in the United States and his PhD ...
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Assistant Professor of Digital Health, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence
Dr Alvin Chan’s research interests centre around making AI technologies safe and beneficial for humanity. These encompass topics such as deep learning for medical applications, adversarial learning and generative modelling. Awarded the MOE START (Si ...
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Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence
Vidya Sudarshan is a Lecturer at College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS) in Nanyang Technological University (NTU). She received her PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and has more than 15+ years of research and teachin ...
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Lecturer, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence
This group focuses on the theoretical and statistical foundations of data science, developing methods in statistical modelling, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification for reliable and robust data-driven systems.
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Daniel PAULIN is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS) and the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his PhD degree from the National Univer ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Associate Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Information Sciences and Systems | Mathematics
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I am a Nanyang Assistant Professor at NTU, jointly appointed at College of Computing and Data Science and School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. My research is focused on Bayesian computation, sampling methods, and their interaction with gener ...
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Nanyang Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Siu Lun Chau is an Assistant Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his DPhil in Statistics in 2023 and his MMath in Mathematics and Statistics in 2018, both from the Uni ...
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Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Applied Mathematics and Statistics | Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Information Sciences and Systems | Mathematics
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Nanyang Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence
Atsushi Nitanda is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He also holds a joint appointment as a Principal Scientist at the Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFA ...
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Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Keywords: Computational Intelligence | Information Sciences and Systems | Mathematics
This group focuses on interdisciplinary applications of data science, bridging computational methods with domain-specific contexts across areas such as business, social sciences, and other applied fields.
Cong is the NTU President’s Chair Professor of Finance, Computing and Data Science, and an Associate Dean of Nanyang Business School. He is also a Finance Editor at the Management Science, a faculty scientist at IC3, the chief scientist at HoloBit, a ...
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Associate Dean (Global Engagement & Convergence Initiatives), NBS
President’s Chair Professor
Professor, College of Business (Nanyang Business School)
Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Professor, School of Social Sciences (Courtesy Appointment)
Director, Global Institute of Finance, Technology and Society (GIFTS)
Keywords: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Business and Management | Economics | Entrepreneurship and Innovation