We are always excited to consider talented applicants interested in joining the lab! We welcome inquiries from all potential Undergraduate Students, Master and Ph.D. Students, Postdocs., Research Engineer, and Research Scientist positions.

Below is information on how to apply to each position in the lab.

FULL-TIME PH.D. STUDENTS (open to non-Chinese only due to the nationality cap limit)

Have fixed deadlines annually, plan early. Admission to phd programs is PI-based at our school. If you are interested in applying for a PhD position with our lab, please email me directly to arrange a separate interview. Simply submitting an application through the central PhD student pool will not be considered, as I do not review those submissions.

The application for PhD programs starting from August AY26/27 is now open:

[application portal]

There are multiple Ph.D. scholarships available in the lab. Students will obtain Ph.D. degree from College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

Students must be willing to work on multi-disciplinary research projects at the intersection of computational neuroscience and AI. This includes designing human behavioral experiments and collecting human responses, alongside developing computational models of cognitive functions (visual attention, eye movements, visual perception, memory, context reasoning, and multi-agent decision making). Check out our publication site for representative works. Email me your CV and research statement if you are interested.

Basic language tests to pass the admission criteria: TOEFL (above 100); IELTS (above 6.5); GRE (Q+V=319, AW-=3.5);

*TOEFL and IETLS are compulsory for non-native English speakers

Requirements for PhD positions in neuroAI:

Language (proficient in English reading/writing; all one-to-one meetings/group meetings are conducted in English)
(preferred; not compulsory) Have at least 1 publication (1st, 2nd, or 3rd authors) in ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, TPAMI, IJCV, IJCAI, WACV, ECCV, EMNLP
satisfy criteria listed in NTU PhD application website: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/admissions/graduate/radmissionguide#Content_C047_Col00
self-filtering criteria (if you know at least 9 words/phrases out of the lists here, you are qualified; otherwise, do NOT email me to apply for this position): Multi-agent Reinforcement learning, deep reinforcement learning, Convolution Neural Nets, Hebbian learning, vision transformer, continual learning, scene graphs, reward, inverse reinforcement learning, backpropogation, shape bias, knowledge distillation, self-supervised learning, augmented memory, variational auto-encoder, associative memory, foveation, Blender, cause-effect, neuro-symbolic, recurrent neural networks, LSTM, Mturk, Prolific, Python, Matlab, Pytorch, Tensorflow, NVIDIA, cross-entropy, maximum likelihood, metric learning, representation learning, open-set, long-tailed, object detection, object classification, mixup, style transfer, data augmentation, curriculum learning, generalization, out-of-distribution, domain shifts, random forest, decision tree, Monte Carlo tree search, hard and soft attention, meta-learning, depth estimation, video tracking, predictive coding, eye fixations, saccades, eyetracker, Unity3D, Blender, rendering, foraging, memory, stroop test, Hebbian, virtual reality, eye movements, hippocampus, pre-frontal cortex, intuitive physics, theory of mind, Prolific, Mturk, visual search, foveation, Garbor filters, retinal ganglion cells, receptive field, on-center-off-surround receptive field, Gestalt psychology, visual illusion, synapse, Long-term potentiation, plasticity, HMAX, Matlab, Python, predictive coding

I am also happy to advise PhD students from NTU with the following scholarships (non-exclusive list):

A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (AGS)

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE AWARD (SINGA)

A*STAR COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP (ACIS)

AISG PhD Fellowship (AISG)

Google PhD Fellowship

Meta Research PhD Fellowship
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

Nvidia Graduate Fellowship

Samsung PhD Fellowship- discontinued for now

Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Scholarship - requires a university invitation, universities can apply to aiml_scholars@apple.com

Alexa Graduate Fellowship - discontinued for now

IBM PhD Fellowship

Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship

Industry fundings:

Alibaba Talent Programme

Salesforce

GlobalFoundaries

Scholarships funded by grants:

Open to non-Chinese only due to nationality cap limit, 3-year service commitment in Singapore after graduation*

*You may choose to buy off your 3-year service commitment by paying off your PhD tuition (approximately 70000 SGD); please contact MOE for enquiries regarding tuition grants (More information regarding MOE tuition grant)

Department scholarships:

Open to non-Chinese only due to nationality cap limit, monthly stipend before QE exam and after QE exam can be found here:

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/admissions/graduate/financialmatters/scholarships/rss#Content_C006_Col00

No 3-year service commitment is required in this case.

PART-TIME PH.D. STUDENTS

We do have full-time research engineer jobs to support your salary (monthly: 6000 sgd due to funding limit) if you are willing to take part-time phd positions in our lab. The part-time phd students are not bound by the nationality cap limit. In other words, if you are a Chinese citizen, you are eligible for this phd scheme. In NTU, the part-time phd is exactly the same as the full-time phd student in terms of graduation requirements and timelines. There is no difference except for the funding source. One is supported by the Ministry of Education, while the part-time phd gets the stipend from PI's own grant money. All phd students (regardless of whether it is part-time or full-time) will receive the same degree paper. You will be treated as a full time phd student to work on research projects, just like other full-time phd students. In this case, you are not obliged to work in Singapore after graduation. The caveat is that you have to pay non-subsidized tuition fee every year:

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/admissions/graduate/financialmatters/pgtuitionfees#Content_C002_Col01

EXCHANGE PH.D. STUDENTS

Our lab welcomes self-funded exchange PhD students (such as CSC scholars from China).

Our lab might be able to fund exceptional PhD students from overseas universities for exchange programs (minimum duration: 12 months). If you are interested, please email me your CV and research statement. Also indicate your top three choices of research areas you want to work on, the duration of the internship, and the starting date.

In the past, several outstanding CSC scholars from China have worked in our lab and successfully published first-authored papers at top-tier AI conferences. Two representative examples are listed below. Please ensure that your PhD advisor has agreed to your participation in projects in our lab before you arrive.

Bo Wang (PhD student, Harbin Institute of Technology) published his work on hybrid visual foraging at CVPR 2025.
Zhengquan Zhang (PhD student, Fudan University) published his work on active view sampling for 3D vision at ICLR 2026.

Excellent CSC scholars may be invited back to work as postdocs in our lab.

Scholarship opportunities for exchange students:

CSC SCHOLARSHIP (only open to Chinese nationals)

A*STAR RESEARCH ATTACHMENT PROGRAMME (ARAP, for PhD students from overseas universities who would like to do an exchange program)

POSTDOCS / RESEARCH SCIENTISTS

Multiple job openings available

There are multiple job openings available in the lab. Postdocs and research scientists with experiences in cognitive science and psychology, especially visual attention, eye movements, visual perception, memory, multi-agent decision making, and reasoning are most welcome. Computer vision and reinforcement learning researchers who are curious and enthusiastic about basic science in biological vision and cognition are also welcome.

Researchers must be willing to work on multi-disciplinary research projects at the intersection of computational neuroscience and AI. This includes designing human behavioral experiments and collecting human responses, alongside developing computational models of cognitive functions. Check out our publication site for representative works. Email me your CV if you are interested.

Requirements for postdoc positions in computer vision or machine learning:

Language (proficient in English reading/writing; all one-to-one meetings/group meetings are conducted in English)
Have at least 3 publications (1st authors) in ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, TPAMI, IJCV, IJCAI, ECCV, EMNLP
self-filtering criteria (if you know at least 9 words/phrases out of the lists here, you are qualified; otherwise, do NOT apply for this position): Multi-agent Reinforcement learning, deep reinforcement learning, Convolution Neural Nets, Hebbian learning, vision transformer, continual learning, scene graphs, reward, inverse reinforcement learning, backpropagation, shape bias, knowledge distillation, self-supervised learning, augmented memory, variational auto-encoder, associative memory, foveation, Blender, cause-effect, neuro-symbolic, recurrent neural networks, LSTM, Mturk, Prolific, Python, Matlab, Pytorch, Tensorflow, NVIDIA, cross-entropy, maximum likelihood, metric learning, representation learning, open-set, long-tailed, object detection, object classification, mixup, style transfer, data augmentation, curriculum learning, generalization, out-of-distribution, domain shifts, random forest, decision tree, Monte Carlo tree search, hard and soft attention, meta-learning, depth estimation, video tracking, predictive coding, eye fixations, saccades, eyetracker, Unity3D, Blender, rendering, foraging, memory, stroop test, Hebbian, virtual reality, eye movements, hippocampus, pre-frontal cortex, intuitive physics, theory of mind, Prolific, Mturk, visual search, foveation, Garbor filters, grid cells, cognitive maps, retinal ganglion cells, hippocampal replay, receptive field, on-center-off-surround receptive field, Gestalt psychology, visual illusion, synapse, Long-term potentiation, plasticity, HMAX, Matlab, Python, predictive coding
Willing to work in the lab for at least 2 years

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

opening all year round

Our lab welcomes NTU undergraduates to work with us on their Final Year Projects or URECA projects. For students from other institutes, we no longer provide funding support for internships. If you are interested, email me your CV and research statement.

Other funded internship opportunities:

CFAR INTERNSHIP AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE (CIARE)

A*STAR RESEARCH INTERNSHIP AWARD (ARIA)

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL PRE-GRADUATE AWARD (SIPGA)

NTU Global Connect Fellowship (for overseas colleague students to work in NTU for 2 months with paid stipends during summer, note that the admission decision is made at the university level, send me an email to discuss research topics AFTER you are admitted to the program)

MASTER STUDENTS

opening all year round

Our lab welcomes master students from NTU to work in our lab. For students from other institutes, our lab no longer provides funding support for internship students. If you are still interested in joining our lab, email me your CV and research statement.

Other scholarship opportunities: