About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Design and Artificial Intelligence programme and Information Systems Technology and Design pillar at SUTD. I lead the Context-Aware Interaction Lab.

My research is organised around Society-Centred AI — designing and studying AI systems that people can understand, question, and act with, in the sensitive, high-stakes settings where the cost of getting it wrong is borne by people, not systems. I use computer vision, audio processing, and natural language processing to build these systems, and I evaluate them with the same rigour I bring to designing them: claims about what an AI system does for people have to be measured, not asserted.

Much of my current work sits close to health, care, and relationships. I build and study AI agents that help people put difficult decisions into words in advance care planning, and multimodal models aligned with clinical experts on parent–child interaction — two lines of work that each received a CHI 2026 Honourable Mention Award. I also work on context-aware systems for mental health and peer support, on TalkSketch (multimodal generative AI for sketch-based ideation), and on making AI systems robust to the multilingual, code-mixed reality of online communication in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

I’m always on the look out for motivated students — if you have passion in the above areas, do drop me an email.