"Reimagining AI for Online Trust & Safety: Multimodal Approaches to Safer and More Inclusive Digital Communication", presented in University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, April 2025
"The Future of AI in Online Safety", presented in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, as part of Online Safety Forum'24, December 2024 [Slides]
"Online Trust and Safety Series: Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems for Content Moderation", presented in Singapore Data Science Consortium, Singapore, November 2024 [Slides]
"Online Trust & Safety Series: Countering Online Hate Speech with AI", presented in the following events/institutions [Slides]:
Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX), Singapore, October 2024
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea, September 2024
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, September 2024
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, September, 2024
"Online Trust & Safety Series: AI and the Ethics of Information Regulation for Public Service", presented in IPOS International, Transforming Public Service with the Power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Singapore, September 2024. [Slides]:
"Navigating the New Frontier: Ethical Challenges in the Age of Generative AI", presented in National Library Board, My Digital Life Series, Virtual, May 2024. [Slides]
"Guardians of the Digital Space: AI’s Role in Combatting Online Hate", presented in the following events/institutions [Slides]:
Gender, Technology, and Digital Cultures in the Middle East Conference, Qatar Doha, February 2024
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar, February 2024
A*Star CATOS, Singapore, December 2023
IJCAI-AiOfAi 2023 (Invited Keynote), China Macau, August 2023
"Hateful Content Moderation with AI - Challenges & Opportunities in Singapore and Southeast Asia", presented at TSPA APAC Summit, Singapore, October 2023 [Slides]
"Hateful Content Moderation with AI", presented in the following events/institutions [Slides]:
Singapore Data Science Consortium - Industry Demo Day, Singapore, July 2023
DSO National Laboratories - World of Science (AI), Singapore, May 2023
Dalhousie University, Virutal, March 2023
East China Normal University, Virtual, November 2022
"Combatting Weaponization of the Internet with AI", WAIC - World Artificial Intelligence Conference x Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH), Virtual, September 2022 [Slides]
"Multimodal Hateful Meme Detection", Google Jigsaw, Virtual, April 2022 [Slides]
"Perils and Promises of Automated Hate Speech Detection", presented in the following events/institutions:
Software AI Lab, Vietnam, Februrary 2022
KDD Singapore Chapter, Singapore, January 2022
Toulouse University, France, November 2021
IIIT (Delhi)-LCS2, India, July 2021
"Disentangling Hate in Online Memes", DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, October 2021
"Online Misbehaviors and Disinformation Mining", DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, June 2021
"Analyzing and Modeling Users In Multiple Social Platforms", [Slides] presented in the following events/ institutions:
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, December 2019
Vietnam National University (VNU), Vietnam Hanoi, July 2019
Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC), Singapore, May 2019
Southeast University, China Nanjing, May 2019
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China Chengdu, May 2019
"Discovering Hidden Topical Hubs and Authorities in Online Social Networks", Ministry of Home Affairs Research Community-of-Practice (CoP) forum, Singapore, February 2019 [Slides]
“Smart Cities for Smart Citizens”, Singapore Polytechnic, Young Analytic Programme, Singapore, September 2018. [Slides]
“Resiliency Measures for Singapore Train Transportation Network”, Land Transport Authority (LTA), Singapore, June 2016.
“Measuring Centralities for Transportation Networks Beyond Structures”, DSO National Laboratories & Prime Minister's Office Singapore (PMO), Singapore, May 2016.
“Sentiment Diffusion and Friendship Maintenance in Online Social Networks”, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore May 2015.
Interview with Mediacorp Channel News Asia (CNA) Singapore's Tonight, "New guidelines launched to boost resilience of cloud services and data centres", February 2025
Interview with Rappler, "Southeast Asia voters grapple with explosion of AI images", December 2024
Interview with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Understanding the Information Environment: Insights from the Majority World", December 2024
Interview with The Straits Times, "What can you do if you are the target of deepfake nudes?", December 2024
Interview with Mediacorp Channel News Asia (CNA), "Singapore proposes law to ban deepfakes during elections", September 2024
Interview with Channel 8 news (in Mandarin), "Government amends bill to safeguard online advertising integrity during elections", September 2024
Interview with The Straits Times, "Bill to combat deepfakes during election timely despite challenges: Analysts”, September 2024
Interview with Mediacorp Channel News Asia (CNA), "AI talent, knowledge to be boosted with new initiatives", March 2024
Interview with Mediacorp Channel 5 News Tonight, "Singapore launches AI Verify Foundation", June 2023
Interview with Mediacorp Channel 8 焦点 (in Mandarin), "Will TikTok be banned in US?", March 2023.
Interview with South China Morning Post (SCMP), "TikTok bans: will Asia follow West’s lead as US turns the screws on China-linked app?", March 2023
Interview with Channel News Asia (CNA), "TikTok can be used on Singapore government-issued devices only on a 'need-to' basis", March 2023
Interview with Straits Times, "S’pore couple holds metaverse wedding as more consumers, businesses enter Web 3.0", September 2022
Interview with Input Magazine, "Have researchers cracked the code to TikTok virality?", January 2022
Live radio interview with CBC The Morning Edition, "Analysing Online Xenophobic Behaviours against Asian Communities during Covid-19 Pandemic", August 2021.
Diversity & Inclusion Chair, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025
Website Chair, Conference of the Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), 2025
Proceeding Chair, The Web Conference (WWW), 2024
Reviewer Mentoring Chair, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
Social Media and Publicity Co-Chair, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2021
PhD Forum and Poster Track Co-Chair, Interactional Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2021
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022 - Present
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) [Area Chair], 2021 - Present
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2021 - Present
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2021 - Present
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2019 - Present
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2019, 2023
ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2019 - Present
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) [Area Chair], 2023
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2023
Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), 2023
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2020 - 2021
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2021 - Present
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2020 - Present
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) [Area Chair], 2025 - Present
International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA). 2022
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICJNLP), 2020 - 2023
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2020 - Present
Interactional Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2019 - Present
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2019
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions of Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2024 - Present
Associate Editor, Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 2020 - 2022
Area Chair, ACL Rolling Review (ARR), 2024 - Present
Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Reviewer, ACM Communications (CACM)
Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC)
Reviewer, IEEE Access
Reviewer, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Reviewer, Natural Language Engineering
Reviewer, Neurocomputing
Reviewer, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI)
Reviewer, Scientific Reports - Nature
Member, Ministry of Education AI Advisor Network, 2024 - Present
Chapter Treasurer, KDD Singapore Chapter, 2024 - Present
Member, AI Singapore Scientific Committee, 2023 - Present
Expert Member, International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), 2023 - Present
Judge of Computer Science & Mathematics, National STEM Talent Search (NSTS), 2023
Challenge Advisor, AI Singapore Prize Challenge, 2023 - 2024
Member, Singapore AI Standards Technical Review Committee, 2021 - Present
Chapter Publicity Chair, KDD Singapore Chapter, 2021 - 2024
External Examiner, SIM Global Education, Data Analytics Courses, 2021 - 2024