Overview
NUS RIDGE Lab is led by Associate Professor (Practice) Zhiyong Huang in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He is also Academic Director of the NUS MSc (Artificial Intelligence & Innovation) programme and a Senior Principal Investigator at the NUS Chongqing Research Institute and the NUS Guangzhou Research Translation and Innovation Institute.
The lab's work spans computer vision and graphics, natural language processing and large language models, and data privacy, security, and analytics, with applications in software engineering, medical imaging, music, robotics, and industrial AI. We collaborate broadly across NUS and with research institutes internationally.
A/Prof Huang received his Ph.D. from EPFL, Switzerland, and his B.Eng. and M.Eng. from Tsinghua University. He was previously a Senior Scientist at A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research.
Research areas
- Computer Vision & Graphics
- Low-level vision, 3D reconstruction, generative imaging, and medical image computing.
- Natural Language Processing & Large Language Models
- Instruction tuning, code editing with LLMs, low-resource multilingual NLP, and language models for software engineering.
- Trustworthy Data: Privacy, Security & Analytics
- Secure and efficient machine-learning lifecycles with trusted hardware, video authentication, and time-series analytics.
- Applied & Industrial AI
- Generative AI for music, decision-making and planning, millimeter-wave radar SLAM, and digital-twin industrial diagnostics.
Recent news
- Jun 2026 New lab website launched. Browse our people, research areas, and publications.
- Ongoing We are recruiting. Prospective PhD, MSc, and visiting students interested in vision, LLMs, and trustworthy AI are encouraged to get in touch.