David Hsu Xu and Lee Wee Sun
Provost’s Chair Professor and Professor, School of Computing
David Hsu is Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the director of Smart Systems Institute, and also the founding director of NUS Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (NUSAiL). He received BSc in computer science & mathematics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and PhD in computer science from Stanford University, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow with interests in robotics, AI, and computational biology; his works currently are about robot planning and learning under uncertainty and human-robot collaboration and won multiple international awards, including, recently, Test of Time Award at Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS), 2021.
Lee Wee Sun is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. He obtained his B.Eng from the University of Queensland in 1992 and his Ph.D from the Australian National University in 1996. He has been a research fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy, a fellow of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and a visiting scientist at MIT. His research interests include machine learning, planning under uncertainty, and approximate inference; his works have won multiple awards and competitions, including the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2022 and the Test of Time Award at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021.