Faculty

Tay, Wee Peng

Professor of Signal and Information Processing

wptay@ntu.edu.sg

Dr Tay received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, and the MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2002. After an industry stint, he joined the PhD program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 and received the PhD degree in 2008. Subsequently, he worked in quantitative investment banking before joining NTU in 2010. His main research interests are in information processing, graph signal processing, decision making, and robust machine learning.    CV

Post-doctoral Research Fellows

Geng, Tianyu

tianyu.geng@ntu.edu.sg

Dr. Geng received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic science and technology from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. He was a joint-supervised Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, from Dec. 2018 to Dec. 2019. He is currently a Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include image processing, sparse representation, and deep learning.

Zhang, Yawei

yawei.zhang@ntu.edu.sg

Dr. Zhang received his B.Eng. degree in Automatic Control from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, in 2014; and the Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019. From Dec. 2019 to Jun. 2023, he was a Senior Research Engineer in Huawei Technologies, Shanghai. He is currently a Research Fellow at the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include localization in wireless sensor network, SLAM, distributed control, distributed optimization and games.

Ph.D. Candidates

Lu, Yiqi

YIQI001@e.ntu.edu.sg

Yiqi received the B.Eng. degree with Honor in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Sichuan University, China in 2016, and the M.Sc. degree with Merit in Control System from Imperial College London, the United Kingdom in 2017. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include control systems, optimization and machine learning.

Jian, Xingchao

xingchao001@e.ntu.edu.sg

Xingchao received his Bachelor of Science degree from Nankai University in 2020. Since August 2020, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include statistical machine learning, statistical signal processing, network detection and artificial intelligence.

Zhao, Kai

Kai.zhao@ntu.edu.sg

Zhao Kai received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2017, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from NUS in 2019. After graduation, he worked as a testing engineer in Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen. Since January 2021, he is a Ph.D. candidate and research associate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include statistical signal processing and machine learning.

Wang, Sijie

WANG1679@e.ntu.edu.sg

Sijie received his B.Eng. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2020, and M.Sc. degree from NTU, Singapore in 2021. Since August 2021, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His research interests include computer vision and vehicle localization.

Zhang, Purui

purui001@e.ntu.edu.sg

Co-supervised with Wen Bihan.

Purui received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics & Applied Mathematics from Fudan University in 2022. Since August 2022, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include computer vision, deep learning and graph theory.

Li, Disheng

disheng001@e.ntu.edu.sg

Co-supervised with Sirajudeen s/o Gulam Razul.

Disheng received the B.Eng. degree from Harbin Engineering University, China in 2021, and the M.Sc. degree from the University of Sheffield, UK in 2022. Since January 2023, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include graph signal processing, neural networks, array signal processing and urban localization.

Liang, Wenfei

wenfei001@e.ntu.edu.sg

Wenfei received her B.Eng. degree in Communication Engineering from Shanghai University, China in 2020, and M.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2022. Since January 2023, she is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU. Her research interest include deep learning and signal processing.

Zhao, Yanan

yanan002@e.ntu.edu.sg

Yanan received the B.E. degree in communication engineering and the M.E. degree in information and communication engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, in 2018 and 2020, respectively. After graduation, she was a remote research assistant at Penn State University, USA, supervised by Prof. Vishal Monga (collaborating with Prof. Yonina C Eldar). Since January 2023, she is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include signal processing, interpretable machine learning and applications.

Yahya F. R. Alkhatib

ya0001ib@e.ntu.edu.sg

Yahya received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey in 2024. Since August 2024, he is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are in statistical and graph signal processing, machine learning, computer vision, and information theory.

Alumni

Former Ph.D. Students

  1. Luo Wuqiong, "Identifying infection sources in a network," 2014. Data Science Director, American Express.
  2. Tang Jianhua, "Elastic service scaling optimization in cloud-based communication systems," 2015. Associate Professor at South China University of Technology, 广东省高层次人才计划.
  3. Muhammad Sibtain Hamayun, "Exploiting statistical side information to optimize secondary spectrum access," 2015. Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft.
  4. Zhang Yi, "Learning methods for temporal-spatial opportunistic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks," 2015. Senior Manager at Procter & Gamble.
  5. Sun Meng, "Privacy-preserving decentralized detection in sensor networks," 2018. Staff Data Scientist at Tencent Games.
  6. Wang Yuan, "Cooperative inference and learning for Internet-of-Things with limited resources," 2018. AI Research Scientist at Institute of High Performance Computing.
  7. Jack Ho, "Learning models in social networks," 2018. I2R, A*STAR.
  8. Yang Jielong, "On truth-finding in multi-agent networks," 2019. Associate Professor, School of Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangnan University, 中国科协青年托举人才.
  9. Tang Wenchang "Identifying misinformation and their sources in social networks," 2019. Expert Algorithm Engineer at Shopee.
  10. Kang Qiyu, "Sequential crowdsourcing and recommendation strategies," 2019. Associate Professor at University of Science and Technology of China, 国家级青年人才.
  11. Lau Tze Siong, "Operationally constrained quickest change detection with multiple post-change distributions," 2019. Programme Director at DSO National Laboratories.
  12. Wang Chongxiao, "Inference privacy preservation in linear and computational systems," 2021. Research Scientist at A*STAR.
  13. Amber Lee See Hian, "Towards effective graph representations by leveraging geometric concepts," 2024. Senior Algorithm Engineer at Shopee.
  14. Vivek Mohan, "Hybrid Sensing-Processing Architectures for Edge-based Neuromorphic – Vision and Brain Machine Interface," 2024, co-supervised with Arindam Basu, Researcher at Imperial Global Singapore.

Former M.Eng. Students

  1. Cheng Chi, "Exploring the use of signals-of-opportunity for practical localization," 2015. Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs.

Former Research Staffs

(excluding ex-students)



  1. Dr. An Xiangdong (2023 - 2024), Southeast University.
  2. Dr. Lu Jun (2020 - 2024), Research Fellow at NTU.
  3. Dr. She Rui (2020 - 2024), Associate Professor at Beihang University, 国家级青年人才.
  4. Dr. Ji Feng (2015 - 2024), TL@NTU.
  5. Dr. Xu Yi (2020 - 2023), industry.
  6. Dr. Ran Xiaohong (2021 - 2023), industry.
  7. Dr. Zhang Wei (2020 - 2023), Assistant Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, 深圳市海外高层次人才.
  8. Dr. Jin Chengming (2019 - 2022), Senior Staff Engineer at Huawei International Pte. Ltd.
  9. Dr. Song Yang (2016-2022), Senior Data Scientist at C3 AI.
  10. Dr. Wang Chengcheng (2016-2022), AI Scientist at Aicadium.
  11. Dr. Ian Bajaj (2017-2021), Senior Engineer at Huawei International Pte Ltd.
  12. Dr. Lin Pengfeng (2020-2021), Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  13. Dr. Giacomo Kahn (2019-2020), Associate Professor at Lumière University Lyon 2.
  14. Dr. Zhang Qiang (2019-2020), industry.
  15. Dr. Aye Su Yee (2017-2019), Research Fellow at National University of Singapore.
  16. Dr. Yan Yongsheng (2016-2019), Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, 国家级青年人才.
  17. Dr. Ramtin Rabiee (2016-2018), Technology Planning Engineer at Huawei Sweden.
  18. Dr. Wang Junshan (2017-2018), Senior Principal Data Scientist at Land Transport Authority Singapore.
  19. Dr. Pratibha (2016-2018), Senior Scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR.
  20. Dr. Ma Lijia (2016-2017), Associate Professor at Shenzhen University, 深圳市孔雀人才计划.
  21. Dr. Md. Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto (2015-2017), Research Investigator at Healthcare Systems R&A Inc.
  22. Dr. Zhong Xionghu (2015-2017), Professor at Hunan University, 湖南省“百人计划”.
  23. Dr. Saurabh Aggarwal (2016-2017), Senior Scientist at A*Star.
  24. Dr. He Xin (2015-2017), Associate Professor at Shantou University.
  25. Dr. Zahra Madadi (2014-2017), Signal Processing Engineer at Microflown AVISA.
  26. Dr. Liu Xinghua (2015-2016), Professor at Xi'an University of Technology, 陕西省高层次人才计划.
  27. Dr. Pinar Oguz-Ekim (2015-2016), Associate Professor at Izmir University of Economics.
  28. Dr. Ali Khalid (2015-2016), Assistant Professor at American University in Dubai.
  29. Dr. Francois Quitin (2013-2015), Associate Professor at Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
  30. Vivek Govindaraj (2014-2015), Senior Silicon Design Engineer at AMD.
  31. Dr. Hu Wuhua (2013-2015), Technical Lead at Shenzhen SF Technology Co. Ltd..
  32. Dr. Leng Mei (2011-2014), VP, Senior Data Scientist at DBS Bank.
  33. Dr. Xu Wenjie (2012-2013), Principal Data Scientist at Grab.
  34. Dr. Nijsure Yogesh (2011-2012), Director, Radar and EW Applications at D-TA Systems.
  35. Dr. Wen Fuxi (2011-2012), Associate Professor, Tsinghua University.

Current/Former Research Attachments

  1. Zhu Pengsen, Harbin Engineering University
  2. Cui Wenjun, Beijing Jiaotong University
  3. He Jiacheng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  4. Tang Xuening, Southeast University
  5. Liu Xinyu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  6. Yuan Yue, Harbin Institute of Technology
  7. Mo Shentong, Tianjin University
  8. Julien Sluys, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
  9. Gabriel Garcia, Chalmers University of Technology
  10. Suchakra Sah, IIT Delhi
  11. Karthik Sharma, IIT Bombay
  12. Sadaf Monajemi, Amirkabir University of Technology
  13. Sun Peng, Shangdong University
  14. Abdolreza Mohammadi, Yazd University
  15. Soh De Wen, Yale University