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.

PH.D. STUDENTS

Have fixed deadlines annually, plan early.

The application for PhD programs starting from August AY24/25 will be open soon:

There are multiple Ph.D. scholarships available in the lab. Students will obtain Ph.D. degree from School of Computer Science and Engineering, 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 computer vision or machine learning:

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 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

Requirements for PhD positions in neuroscience and cognitive science:

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 (co-authors) in Nature/Science and their subjournals, PNAS, Journal of Vision, PLOS computational biology, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vision Research, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Visual Cognition, Current Biology, Vision, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychological Review, Cognition, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Proceedings of the xx Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, PLoS ONE
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 apply for this position):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

Industry fundings:

Alibaba Talent Programme

Salesforce

GlobalFoundaries

Scholarships funded by grants:

Open to all nationalities, 3-year service commitment in Singapore after graduation*, monthly stipend of 2000 SGD before QE exam and 2500 SGD after QE exam.

*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 all nationalities, monthly stipend of 2000 SGD before QE exam and 2500 SGD after QE exam, no 3-year service commitment

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.

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

Requirements for postdoc positions in neuroscience and cognitive science:

Language (proficient in English reading/writing; all one-to-one meetings/group meetings are conducted in English)
Have at least 2 publications (co-authors or 1st author) in Nature/Science and their subjournals, PNAS, Journal of Vision, PLOS computational biology, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vision Research, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Visual Cognition, Current Biology, Vision, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychological Review, Cognition, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Proceedings of the xx Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, PLoS ONE
Willing to work in the lab for at least 2 years
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):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

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

opening all year round

Our lab welcomes NTU undergraduates to work with us on their Final Year 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)

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: