Skip to main content - Aug 2026 Cultural Moment Benchmark accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Main Conference); now on arXiv with a live project page.
- May 2026 Submitted a paper on video cultural reasoning to EMNLP 2026.
- Mar 2026 Invited talk at the CCDS Graduate Students’ Club on Developing Research Skills: From Process to Paper.
- Jan 2026 Served as a Registration Chair for SSNLP 2026.
- Dec 2025 Created a meetup community, Turquoise Dot, for Turkish/Turkic researchers and tech professionals in Singapore.
- Dec 2025 Invited talk at ResearchTrend.AI on Seeing Culture.
- Aug 2025 Seeing Culture accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main Conference).
- Mar 2025 Volunteered at Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2025 as a judge.
- Mar 2025 Joined Singapore Management University as a Research Scientist.
- Dec 2024 Defended my PhD thesis at NTU.
- May 2024 Volunteered at the ACM Web Conference.
- Oct 2023 Visited the MaVi Research Group at the University of Bristol for three months, working with Dr Michael Wray on video corpus moment retrieval.
- May 2023 Presented a poster at Singapore Vision Day, NUS.
- Jul 2022 Attended the CIFAR DLRL Summer School.
- Jun 2022 Took joint 3rd place in the EPIC-Kitchens Multi-Instance Retrieval Challenge at CVPR.
- Jun 2022 Reached the final of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at NTU, representing CCDS.
- Jan 2022 Passed my PhD Qualification Exam.
- Dec 2021 Volunteered at NeurIPS.
- Jul 2021 Attended the PAISS AI Summer School and presented a poster.
- Jan 2020 Started my PhD at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), NTU.
- Aug 2018 Defended my MSc thesis at Uludağ University.
- Jun 2018 Received a student travel award from the European Neural Network Society to attend ICANN.
