Mohan KANKANHALLI

Professor Mohan Kankanhalli, Director of NUS AI Institute, currently holds the distinguished position of Provost’s Chair Professor of Computer Science. He is also the Deputy Executive Chairman of AI Singapore, which is Singapore's national AI program. He was formerly the Dean of NUS School of Computing during 2016-2022. Before becoming the Dean, he was the NUS Vice Provost (Graduate Education) during 2014-2016 and Associate Provost (Graduate Education) during 2011-2013. Earlier, he was the Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs & Graduate Studies at the NUS School of Computing during 2008-2010 and Vice-Dean for Research during 2001-2007.

Prof Kankanhalli’s research interests are in Multimodal Computing, Computer Vision and Trustworthy AI. He has made many contributions in the areas image and video understanding, visual saliency as well as in content authentication and privacy. He is on the editorial boards of several journals including ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Springer Multimedia Systems, IEEE Multimedia, and Springer Journal on Big Data.

Prof. Kankanhalli is a member of World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence.