Prof Ivor W Tsang is Director of A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR) since Jan 2022. He is also an Adjunct Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Previously, he was a Professor of Artificial Intelligence, at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and Research Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), the largest AI institute in Australia, which is the key player to drive the University of Technology Sydney to rank 10th globally and 1st in Australia for AI research, in the latest AI Research Index. Prof Tsang is working at the forefront of big data analytics and Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on transfer learning, deep generative models, learning with weakly supervision, big data analytics for data with extremely high dimensions in features, samples and labels. His work is recognised internationally for its outstanding contributions to those fields.
In 2013, Prof Tsang received his ARC Future Fellowship for his outstanding research on big data analytics and large-scale machine learning. In 2019, his Journal of Machine Learning Research paper titled "Towards ultrahigh dimensional feature selection for big data" received the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians Best Paper Award. In 2020, he was recognised as the AI 2000 AAAI/IJCAI Most Influential Scholar in Australia for his outstanding contributions to the field, between 2009 and 2019. His research on transfer learning was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 2010 and the 2014 IEEE TMM Prize Paper Award. In addition, he received the IEEE TNN Outstanding 2004 Paper Award in 2007 for his innovative work on solving the inverse problem of non-linear representations. Recently, Prof Tsang was conferred the IEEE Fellow for his outstanding contributions to large-scale machine learning and transfer learning.
Besides these, Prof Tsang serves as the Editorial Board for the Journal of Machine Learning Research, Machine Learning, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. He serves as a Senior Area Chair/Area Chair for NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI and IJCAI, and the steering committee of ACML.
Contact: ivor_tsang@cfar.a-star.edu.sg