Dr Yin Haiyan

Dr Yin Haiyan is a senior research scientist and early career principal investigator at A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (A*STAR CFAR). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and has worked as a research scientist at Baidu Research USA and Sea AI Lab.

Her research spans agentic AI, reinforcement learning, meta-learning, and trustworthy decision-making, with a focus on building intelligent systems that generalise across tasks, adapt rapidly to new environments, and exhibit self-directed reasoning and planning. Her work on continual, resource-efficient, and trustworthy reinforcement learning has been supported by competitive research grants, and her publications appear in leading AI conferences including NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, and AAMAS.

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