NUS
academicThe National University of Singapore (est. 1905) is anchored in this index by ShowLab, Mike Zheng Shou's group and NUS's highest-output frontier-multimodal lab: the Show-o / Show-o2 native unified multimodal models (ICLR 2025 / NeurIPS 2025, with ByteDance), the ShowUI GUI-agent family (CVPR 2025, with Microsoft; extended by ShowUI-π at CVPR 2026), the LiveCC streaming video LLM, and the Paper2Video / Code2Video agentic video-generation frameworks.
Tat-Seng Chua's NExT++ lab drives the multimodal-generalist agenda — NExT-GPT (the 2023 any-to-any multimodal LLM) and General-Level & General-Bench (ICML 2025 Oral) — while Bryan Hooi's group spans LLM calibration and safety (ConfTuner, NeurIPS 2025), agent continual learning (Just-In-Time RL, ICML 2026 Spotlight), MLR-Bench, and the UniGraph/UniGraph2 graph foundation models.
Attribution boundaries: SEA-LION belongs to AI Singapore, a national programme hosted at NUS rather than an NUS faculty lab (placement tracked separately); Yang You's Colossal-AI and Open-Sora ship under his company HPC-AI Tech, not NUS; and Sea AI Lab is Sea Ltd, unrelated to the university despite the name.
People
- Mike Zheng Shou Google Scholar — Associate Professor; Director, ShowLab (Show-o, ShowUI, LiveCC) (formerly Research Scientist, Facebook AI)
- Yang You Google Scholar — Presidential Young Professor; distributed/large-batch training (LAMB); founder/CEO, HPC-AI Tech (Colossal-AI ships there, not NUS)
- Tat-Seng Chua Google Scholar — KITHCT Chair Professor; NExT++ lab (NExT-GPT, General-Bench, Vitron)
- Bryan Hooi Google Scholar — Assistant Professor, School of Computing & IDS; LLM safety/reasoning and graph foundation models (formerly PhD, CMU)
- Min-Yen Kan Google Scholar — Associate Professor; WING lab (NLP evaluation, scholarly-document processing)