About Me
Hi! My friends either call me Yuriel or Ryan, and I recently graduated with a BEng (Honours with Highest Distinction) in Computer Science from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). I’m also an incoming MEng (Research) student this Fall, again with SUTD, supported by the AI Singapore Accelerated Masters Program.
Currently, most of my time is invested in research centered on Multimodal Collaborative AI: the ways in which multimodal models could collaborate with humans (and non-humans) to work towards shared goals. Outside of research, I volunteer at Singapore Youth AI as a subcommittee member to connect youths to potential opportunities and learn more about AI.
Updates!
| Date | News |
|---|---|
| 2025-08-22 | One paper accepted to EMNLP (Findings) 2025! Link to the paper soon! |
| 2025-08-16 | Awarded the DSO-AISG Incentive Program to support fundamental research on Multimodal LLMs! |
| 2025-07-01 | Achieved 1st Runner Up in the National AI Student Challenge (TikTok) for short-form video understanding with Large Multimodal Models. [Github] |
| 2025-06-15 | Placed on the Honours List 2024, awarded to students who achieve outstanding term results. ~top 10% of the cohort |
| 2024-09-01 | Awarded the AI Singapore Accelerated Masters Scholarship for fundamental AI research talent in Singapore. 1 of 4 recipients (2024) |
| 2024-03-15 | Received the KKH Global Exchange Award (Spring 2024) for academic excellence and active co-curricular participation to support my exchange studies at Aalto University. |
| 2023-05-01 | Honoured with the Jyoti and Aditya Mathur Student Achievement Award (Student Organisation Award) for my contributions as Safety Executive Committee in the Freshmen Orientation Committee 2022. |