Regular biography
Mohan KANKANHALLI is the Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He serves as Director of the NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII) and Deputy Executive Chairman (Talent) of AI Singapore. His research interests include Multimodal Computing, Computer Vision, and Trustworthy AI. Prof. Kankanhalli has contributed to areas such as image and video understanding, visual saliency, and trustworthy AI. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia magazine and a member of the editorial boards of Springer Multimedia Systems and Springer Journal on Big Data. He has also been a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and ACM’s Global Technology Policy Council.
Scholar-generated biography
Mohan Kankanhalli is a Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, specializing in Multimedia, Computer Vision, and Trustworthy AI. His research explores advanced techniques for multimedia analysis, including multimodal fusion, explainable AI, and robust machine learning. He investigates challenges such as hallucination in large language models, adversarial learning, and unlearning in deep networks. His work also addresses human-computer interaction, gesture recognition, and secure routing in mobile networks. Kankanhalli's contributions span content-based image retrieval, visual saliency, and multi-task learning for human action recognition. His research emphasizes the development of reliable, interpretable, and secure AI systems for real-world applications.