Workshop on Frontiers of
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Prof. Archan Misra currently serves as the Vice Provost for Research and holds the title of Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computer Science at Singapore Management University (SMU). Over the course of his career, Prof. Misra has received numerous prestigious awards, including 8 Best Paper Awards, and international recognition for his impactful research. At SMU, Archan has provided leadership to multiple large-scale research initiatives, cumulatively worth more than $50M USD.

Prof. Misra is a distinguished systems researcher, renowned for numerous innovative contributions to the field of computer science, engineering and AI, with a particular focus on wearable and mobile sensing, human-centered computing, and interactive AI agents for human-machine collaboration. His current research interests lie in (a) embedded AI, including ultra-low energy execution of AI-based inference on IoT and edge devices, and (b) embodied AI, to support spatially grounded human-machine collaboration. He is currently a Program Co-PI on the Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) inter-disciplinary research program, established by MIT’s SMART research enterprise in Singapore, that seeks to create breakthroughs on the use of AI and machines for collaborative work with humans.

He has developed multiple wireless networking, mobile computing and crowdsourcing technologies and systems, resulting in 30+ patents, that have been adopted by industry and operationally deployed across many domains. Prof. Misra has served as the General Co-Chair for ACM Mobisys 2016 and TPC Chair for IEEE Percom 2025 and IEEE IoTDI 2020. Prof. Misra is a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and chaired the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) from 2005-2007.

Prof. Song-Chun Zhu received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1996, and worked at Brown, Stanford, Ohio State before joining UCLA in 2002 where he became professor of Statistics and Computer Science in 2006, and directed the UCLA Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy (VCLA). In 2020 he returned to China to establish a non-profit research organization --- Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) as the founding director, and he is appointed Chair Professor at Tsinghua and Peking Universities jointly, Dean of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Dean of the School of Intelligence Science and Technology at Peking University.

He has published over 350 papers in computer vision, statistical modeling and learning, cognitive science, natural language & situated dialogue, robot autonomy, and commonsense reasoning. He received a number of honors, including the Helmholtz Test-of-time award in ICCV 2013, the Aggarwal prize from the Int'l Association of Pattern Recognition in 2008, the David Marr Prize in 2003 for image parsing with Z. Tu et al, twice Marr Prize honorary nominations with Y. Wu et al in 1999 for texture modeling and 2007 for object modeling respectively. He received the Sloan Fellowship in 2001, a US NSF Career Award in 2001, and an US ONR Young Investigator Award in 2001. He is a Fellow of IEEE since 2011, and served as the general co-chair for CVPR 2012 and CVPR 2019.