Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli

Mohan Kankanhalli is Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is the Founding Director of the NUS AI Institute. He is also the Deputy Executive Chairman (Talent) of AI Singapore, which is Singapore’s National AI R&D Program. He has held senior leadership roles as the Dean of NUS School of Computing and Vice Provost of Graduate Education for NUS. He obtained his BTech from IIT Kharagpur and MS & PhD from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mohan’s research interests are in Multimodal Computing, Computer Vision, and Trustworthy AI. He has made fundamental contributions in the areas of image and video understanding, visual saliency and trustworthy AI. As Director of NUS AI Institute, he leads initiatives on multimodal models and trustworthy machine learning. He is on the editorial boards of Springer Multimedia Systems and Springer Journal on Big Data. Mohan was a member of World Economic Forum's 2023-2024 Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence. He is currently a member of ACM’s Global Technology Policy Council. He is also on the EY Global AI Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of IEEE, SNAS, IAPR and ACM.