Group Members

Prof. Dorien Herremans

Associate professor

Dorien Herremans is an Associate Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design, where she is also Director of Game Lab. Dorien had a joint-appointment at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR from 2017-2020 and worked as a certified instructor for the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. Before being at SUTD, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Economics on the topic of Computer Generation and Classification of Music through Operations Research Methods, and graduated as a business engineer in management information systems at the University of Antwerp in 2005. After that, she worked as a Drupal consultant and was an IT lecturer at the Les Roches University in Bluche, Switzerland. She also worked as a mandaatassistent at the University of Antwerp, in the domain of operations management, supply chain management and operations research. Dr. Herremans’ research interests focus on AI for novel applications such as Audio and FinTech.

Dr. Abhinaba Roy

Abhinaba Roy received his Ph.D. In Computer Vision in 2019 from the University of Genoa. During this period, he worked at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. Prior to this, he did Erasmus Mundus masters in Color in Informatics and Media Technology (CIMET) in 2015. He holds a BEng from Jadavpur University in Kolkata (2013). He has held positions in both industry and academia, enabling streamlined pipelines, optimizing and deploying models, resulting in improvement in efficiency for real-world AI solutions. His research interests lie broadly in machine learning in multimodal settings, especially in learning in constrained situations, with fewer available data.

Dr. Jaeyong Kang

Jaeyong Kang is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea, in 2017, on the topic of User Interest Modeling in Social Media for Personalized Services. After that, he worked as a Research Scientist at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH), South Korea, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Korea National University of Transportation (KNUT), South Korea, working on several projects including medical image segmentation/classification, fruit freshness classification, face mask detection, anomaly detection, knowledge distillation, etc. Also, he worked as a lounge pianist and composed his own works for solo piano, some of which are available on iTunes and Spotify etc. He is currently working on music generation for video based on a dataset of music videos.

Geeta Puri

Geeta is a PhD student at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and is mentored by Assistant Professor Dorien Herremans. Geeta has more than two decades of professional experience across diverse technological domains such as Telco, IoT, and EdTech. Prior to joining SUTD as a full time PhD graduate student, Geeta served as a Business Developer and General Manager at an EdTech firm in Singapore. She also founded two innovative startups in technology. Collaborating closely with engineering teams, Geeta spearheaded platform and app development initiatives while actively shaping go-to-market strategies, and brings invaluable insights and experiences from her entrepreneurship journey to the PhD program. Geeta’s research focus lies in the dynamic realm of artificial intelligence, particularly its applications in education. She envisions boundless potential in leveraging AI to empower both students and educators with tailored learning tools and methodologies. Presently, she is engaged in a research endeavour at GameLab @SUTD aimed at optimising student engagement with learning apps to enhance learning outcomes.

Tongyu Lu

Tongyu Lu is a Ph.D student at Singapore University of Technology and Design. His current Ph.D research topic mainly covers text-to-audio generative models, audio codecs (encoder-decoders), symbolic music processing and generation, and music information retrieval tasks like automatic music transcription. He is also an amateur composer mainly producing jazz and chamber music

Sithumi Wickramasinghe

I’m a PhD student at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) since September 2024. I received my Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Industrial Statistics from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Before joining as a PhD student at SUTD, I worked as a Machine Learning engineer in Sri Lanka. My research interest lies in the field of Machine learning, Optimizations and Fintech.

Jan Melechovsky

Jan is a PhD student in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), under the supervision of Assistant Professor Dorien Herremans. He received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electronics and Communications programme with focus on Multimedia and Signal Processing from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Jan’s research interest is in speech processing, specifically in dysarthric and accented speech.

Kyra Wang

Kyra is a PhD student in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), under the supervision of Assistant Professor Dorien Herremans. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (Artificial Intelligence Specialization Track) from SUTD. Kyra’s research interests focus around affective computing, neurotechnology and human-computer interaction. She believes that there is an ethical need to challenge the idea that the human condition is fundamentally unalterable, and that through the liberation and empowerment of marginalized groups using technology, we can create not only a more equal world, but a more equitable one.

Perry Lam Wee Hian

Perry is a PhD student at SUTD who returned after graduating with a BSc in 2015. He is interested in psychology and linguistics, but still being funded to do AI and machine learning. This is why he is researching ways to reduce model training for speech synthesis and prosody variation, which lets him pretend to be a (non-qualified) linguist in the process.

Anuradha Chopra

Anuradha Chopra is a Master’s student at SUTD who is concurrently, a Senior Engineer (Autonomy) at Lionsbot International. She is in charge of Perception Team and Human Robot Interface Team at Lionsbot. Her interests include music, computer science and especially their intersection. Her project at SUTD is a music feature extractor and captioning system that can be used for easily building up a dataset.

Joel Ong

Master student

Rémi Claessen

Master student

Maialen Larrazabal Ortego

Master student

Sergio Barquero Pierantoni

Master student

Evert Stolte

Master student

Gijsbert Verdoes

In the Allan Lab 2015 - 2018, now Project manager at the FMD
Role: Fine mechanical engineer associated with the FMD working in our group

Irene Battisti

In the Allan Lab Jan 2015 to June 2019, now R&D scientist at Nearfield Instruments
Role: PhD student

Doohee Cho

In the Allan Lab May 2017 to June 2019, now assistant professor at Yonsei University
Role: Postdoc

Maarten Leeuwenhoek

In the Allan Lab December 2015 to February 2020, now design engineer at ASML
Role: PhD Student, shared with the Groeblacher lab at TU Delft under a NanoFront grant.

Freek Groenewoud

In the Allan Lab 2018 - 2020
Role: Fine mechanical engineer (also associated with the FMD)

Visitors

Nikolaos Iliopoulos, Spring 2016

Vitaly Fedoseev, all of 2016

Alexander Vanstone, Spring 2016

Ramakrishna Aluru, Summer 2018

Changwei Zou, Spring 2018

Kemal Demir, Summer 2019

Vincent Stalman, 2019

Master students

Maarten Leeuwenhoek, Spring 2015

Koen M Bastiaans, Spring 2015

Farshaad Hoeseni, Fall 2015

Oliver Ostojic, Spring 2016

Tjerk Benschop, Spring 2016

Bert Visscher, Fall 2017

Ahmad Jamalzada, Fall 2017

Corne Koks, Fall 2018

Damian Bouwmeester, Summer 2019

Rosanne Wijgman, Fall 2019

Amber Mozes, Fall 2020

Bachelor Students

Vishnu Saj, Spring 2017

Arjo Andringa, Spring 2016

Joey Braspenning, Spring 2017

Tjerk Benschop, Summer 2017

Daniëlle van Klink, Spring 2016

Margot Leemker, Spring 2017

Sietske Lensen, Spring 2017

Jasper van Egeraat, Spring 2018

Ringo Groenewegen, Spring 2018

Amber Vervloet, Spring 2019