Sinno Jialin Pan

Dr. Sinno Jialin Pan is a Provost's Chair Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2011. Prior to joining NTU, he was a scientist and Lab Head of text analytics with the Data Analytics Department at Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. He joined NTU as a Nanyang Assistant Professor (university named assistant professor) in 2014. He was named to the list of "AI 10 to Watch" by the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine in 2018. His research interests include transfer learning and its real-world applications.

My current research interests include: 1) General methods of integrating logical reasoning into deep learning models and their applications to NLP and other potential application domains, 2) Transfer learning for model compression, 3) Distributed (multi-task) learning.

Education

• Ph.D. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2006 — 2010)
• Visiting Scholar California Institute of Technology (2009 — 2009)
• Visiting Scholar Carnegie Mellon University (2008 — 2009)
• M.S. Sun Yat-Sen University (2003 — 2005)
• B.S. Sun Yat-Sen University (1999 — 2003)

Companies

• Provost's Chair Associate Professor Nanyang Technological University (2019)
• Associate Professor Nanyang Technological University (2019)
• Cluster Deputy Director, Data Science and AI Centre Nanyang Technological University (2018 — 2019)
• Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University (2014 — 2019)
• Consultant of Data Analytics Department Institute for Infocomm Research (2015 — 2015)
• Deputy Co-Director, I2R-NEC Joint Labs Institute for Infocomm Research (2014 — 2014)
• Scientist II, Data Analytics Department Institute for Infocomm Research (2013 — 2014)
• Lab Head of Text Analytics, Data Analytics Department Institute for Infocomm Research (2013 — 2014)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science National University of Singapore (2013 — 2014)

Honors and Awards

• 2020 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in AAAI/IJCAI, recognized by AMiner.org
  --- the top 10 most cited scholars from the top venues (AAAI/IJCAI) of the field of AI over the past 10 years (2009 – 2019)
• Provost's Chair in Computer Science and Engineering (2019-2024), a named faculty chair professorship recognized by NTU Singapore
• Distinguished Senior PC Member, conferred by IJCAI-ECAI 2018
• Named to AI's 10 to Watch by the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine in 2018
• 2018 AMiner Top 10 Most Influential Scholar Award in Artificial Intelligence, recognized by AMiner.org
  --- the top 10 most cited scholars from the top venues (AAAI/IJCAI) of the field of AI over the past 10 years (2007 – 2017)
• Nanyang Assistant Professorship (NAP) (Class of 2014), awarded by NTU Singapore

Books (1)

• Transfer Learning.
  Qiang Yang, Yu Zhang, Wenyuan Dai and Sinno Jialin Pan.
  Cambridge University Press. March 2020.