Associate Professor Bryan Low is Associate Vice President (Artificial Intelligence) in the Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology) at NUS, where he will contribute to research strategies for AI and Smart Nation, the recruiting of academics, engineers and students in AI, and the establishment of the AI Academy. 

Assoc Prof Low is a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science in NUS, and also holds concurrent appointments as Director (AI Research) of AI Singapore and Deputy Director at the NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute. His research interests include data-centric AI, agents in machine learning, automated AI/machine learning, and AI for the Sciences. His expertise in the field of AI is borne out by roles in various international bodies, including Distinguished Lecturer with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Robotics and Automation Society (2019 – 2022), and Fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (2016 – 2018).

Assoc Prof Low has also served in numerous capacities at premier AI and machine learning conferences, including as senior area chair, area chair, and senior programme committee member. Some of the awards Assoc Prof Low has received include the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2016, the Singapore Computer Society Prize for Best MSc Thesis in NUS’ School of Computing in 2003, and the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in NUS’ School of Computing in 2017. Most recently, Assoc Prof Low received the Best Paper Award at the ICML 2024 Workshop on AI for Science.

An NUS alumnus, Assoc Prof Low graduated with a BSc (Computer Science) in 2001, and a Master of Science in the same discipline a year later. He later received an NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship to obtain a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009.