A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (A*STAR CFAR)

About A*STAR CFAR

Advancing Frontier AI for a Better Future.

Established in 2022, the A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (A*STAR CFAR) advances use-inspired fundamental AI research that drives scientific discovery and real-world impact. Through interdisciplinary collaboration across A*STAR, academia and industry, A*STAR CFAR develops next-generation AI technologies across four strategic research themes.

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Our Research

What We Do

Agentic Super Intelligence (ASI)

Enable autonomous AI agents that learn, reason, collaborate, and continually improve to amplify human expertise.

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AI for Transdisciplinary Science (AI4TranS)

Accelerate scientific discovery through AI that models, understands, and predicts complex phenomena across disciplines.

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Ethical and Trustworthy AI (ETAI)

Advance safe, transparent AI that reasons in context, acts responsibly, and earns trust through real-world impact.

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Optimisation in AI (OAI)

Strengthen the foundations of AI and optimisation to power adaptive, reliable, and data-driven decision-making.

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Announcements & Updates

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Paper Acceptance at ICDM 2026

Held from 12 to 15 November in Shenyang, China, the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) is a premier international conference for data mining, bringing together experts from academia and industry to advance the latest developments in data mining related areas, such as big data, deep learning, pattern recognition, statistical and machine learning, databases, data warehousing, data visualisation, knowledge-based systems, high-performance computing, and large models.

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12 Papers Accepted at EMNLP 2026

Held from 24 – 29 October 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, EMNLP 2026 brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present advances in language technologies and data-driven approaches to language understanding and generation.

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Professor Ivor Tsang Appointed Associate Editor-in-Chief of TPAMI

Congratulations to Professor Ivor Tsang, Director of A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (A*STAR CFAR), on his appointment as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the Machine Learning Track of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), effective April 2026.

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A*STAR Career Development Fund (CDF) Day 2026 – Poster Award Winner

Through its Career Development Fund (CDF), A*STAR nurtures the next generation of scientific leaders by supporting promising early-career researchers in bold, interdisciplinary work. The annual A*STAR CDF Day celebrates these achievements by bringing together researchers to exchange ideas, foster collaborations, and showcase innovative research through poster presentations.

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