Dr Joey Zhou

Joey Tianyi Zhou is the Deputy Director at A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (A*STAR CFAR). He is also holding a joint appointment with the Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (CATOS) as Principal Scientist and an Adjunct Faculty at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Before working at A*STAR CFAR, he was a Senior Research Engineer with SONY US Research Center in San Jose, USA. Dr Zhou received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore). His current interests mainly focus on improving the efficiency and robustness of AI. In these areas, he has published more than 100 papers and received the Best Student Paper Nomination at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV’16), Best Paper Award at IEEE SmartCity 2022, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) workshops, and Best Poster Award and runner-up prize at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV19) on HANDS workshop and its competition, respectively.

Dr Zhou regularly organises workshops/tutorials at top-tier international conferences like CVPR, IJCAI, ICDCS, etc. He is serving on an Editorial Board for many leading journals like AIJ, IEEE Transactions, etc., and Area Chairs in top machine learning conferences like ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, IJCAI, and Associate Programme Chair in IJCAI 2025, etc. He is listed in the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2023 by Stanford University.

Contact: joey_zhou@cfar.a-star.edu.sg