Yang Deng (邓扬)
Assistant Professor
Lee Kong Chian Fellow
CHAT NLP Group
School of Computing and Information Systems
Singapore Management University
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HIRING I am actively looking for highly motivated PhD students (starting from 2026 Fall). I have several SMU-funded visiting student positions avaiable (standard monthly stipend of 2700 SGD). Self-funded visiting scholars (e.g., CSC Project) and remote collaborations are also welcomed. Feel free to reach out to me as [Openings].
CHAT NLP Group
Conversational, Human-centered, Agentic, Trustworthy
Current Members
- Chi Seng Cheang (PhD Student - 2025Fall)
- Xuan Zhang (Co-supervised PhD Student at NUS - 2025Fall)
- Dingzirui Wang (Visiting Research Student from HIT)
- Houcheng Jiang (Visiting Research Student from USTC)
- Youchao Zhou (CSC Visiting Research Student from BIT)
- Mengfan Li (CSC Visiting Research Student from HUST)
- Suhyun Lee (Visiting Research Student from Hanyang University)
- Xiaoyan Zhao (Visiting Research Student at NExT++ from CUHK)
- Weixiang Zhao (Visiting Research Student at NExT++ from HIT)
Alumni
- Xuan Zhang (Research Intern) Master Student at NUS -> PhD Student at NUS
- Yong Zhao (Research Intern) Master Student at NUS -> PhD Student at NTU
- Wei Tang (Visiting Research Student) PhD Student at USTC -> Tencent
- Hongzhan Lin (Visiting Research Student) PhD Student at HKBU
- Zhiyu Yang (Research Engineer) -> PhD Student at UTD
Openings
Ph.D. Student: Our group is recruiting new PhD students every intake batch. For more details, please refer to the SMU SCIS Ph.D. online application.
Visiting Research Students/Scholars: Our group welcomes self-funded (CSC-funded/School-funded) visiting research students/scholors. Our group also has several SMU-funded visting student positions avaiable (standard monthly stipend of 2700 SGD and at least 1-year visiting duration).
Remote Collaboration: Collaboration duration is at least 6 months for completing one research paper.
Application: Please email your CV and transcripts with a short self-introduction to Dr. DENG (ydeng at smu dot edu dot sg) with the subject "PhD/Visiting/Remote Application - Your Name - Your Institution". Reply on a bi-weekly basis if match.