Hao Fei Senior Research Fellow School of Computing, National University of Singapore 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602

Profile

I am a senior research fellow at National University of Singapore, working with Prof. Mong-Li Lee and Prof. Wynne Hsu at IDS, also with Prof. Tat-Seng Chua at NExT++. Previously, I was an associate researcher at Skywork AI Singapore, working with Prof. Shuicheng Yan (more previously an associate researcher at SEA AI lab). I graduated as Ph.D from Wuhan University.

My research has been published in top-tier ML/NLP/CV/MM venues, e.g., ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, CVPR, AAAI, WWW, SIGIR, IJCAI, EMNLP, ACM-MM, TPAMI, TKDE, TOIS, TNNLS, TASLP. I was awarded the World AI Conference Rising Star in 2023. My papers were selected as Most Influential Papers by Paper Digest, and ESI Highly Influential Papers and 2024 WAIC Outstanding Paper Award. I was also the recipient of the 2023 WAIC Rising Star award, and ranked as Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2024 (Single Year) by Stanford University. I’ve regularly served as (Senior) Area Chair or Senior Program Committee of top-tier conferences. I was the organization committee of WSDM 2022, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2024, ACM MM 2025. I serve as the Associate Editor of some journals, including TALLIP and Neurocomputing. And I am a persistently-invited reviewer for many journals including TPAMI, IJCV, TNNLS, TKDE, TOIS, etc. My Ph.D thesis was awarded the Excellent Doctoral Thesis of Chinese Information Processing Society (CIPS). I won more than ten honors and awards during Ph.D stage.

Research

My research interests lie in the NLP, CV, and the intersection of both (i.e., Multimodal/Vision-Language Learning). My long-term goal is to achieve human-level AI centering around multimodal LLMs & generalists. While previously I worked a lot on the topic of Structural Modeling of Language&Vision, I pay the most recent focus on the unified multimodal generalist towards human-level capacity (Modality, Task, Knowledge) and cognition (Reasoning, Affection), with following key topics and representative works (detailed in research statement):

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I am constantly looking for collaborations on the above topics. Remote manner is also supported. For promising students I will provide sufficient GPUs. Hit me up, if you are a Ph.D/master/bachelor student and interested in what I am doing now. When you are from Chinese universities, there are also potential vacancies for research interns (e.g., self-/CSC-funded joint PhD project). Please describe your research status and attach your resume.