PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Anh Tuan Luu

Also known as Luu Anh Tuan

Anh Tuan Luu is an AI researcher at Nanyang Technological University whose work spans natural language processing, neural-network design and large language models. He earned an MSc in computer science from the National University of Singapore in 2011 and a PhD in computer science from NTU in 2017. At A*STAR and MIT CSAIL, he held research scientist and postdoctoral roles. His published work includes long-document question generation, a hypercomplex neural-layer paper that won an ICLR 2021 Outstanding Paper Award, and research on language-model backdoor attacks. NTU promoted him to Associate Professor with tenure in September 2025; he is an Associate Professor there as of October 2026.

Works
242
Citations
4,132
h-index
23

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2011–2017

    Degrees at NUS and NTU

    He earns an MSc in computer science from the National University of Singapore in 2011 and a PhD in computer science from Nanyang Technological University in 2017.

  2. 2016–2018

    Research scientist at A*STAR

    From 2016 to 2018, he is a research scientist at A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore.

  3. 2018–2020

    MIT postdoc and question generation

    From 2018 to 2020, he is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT CSAIL in the Natural Language Processing group under Regina Barzilay. In 2020, he coauthors Capturing Greater Context for Question Generation with Darsh Shah and Barzilay; its multi-stage attention model connects target answers with context across long documents and outperforms earlier methods on SQuAD, MS MARCO and NewsQA.

  4. 2020–2025

    Conference area chairs

    His conference service includes Senior Area Chair for EMNLP in 2020 and Area Chair roles for ACL from 2021 to 2025, ICLR from 2022 to 2025, NeurIPS and NAACL from 2023 to 2025, and ICML in 2025.

  5. 2021

    A hypercomplex ICLR paper

    In 2021, he coauthors Beyond Fully-Connected Layers with Quaternions, which lets models learn hypercomplex multiplication rules for arbitrary dimensions with 1/n as many learnable parameters as a fully connected layer. The paper wins an ICLR Outstanding Paper Award.

  6. August 2025

    Backdoor attacks on language models

    In August 2025, he leads a clean-label backdoor attack that uses normal-looking text prompts to induce language models to give wrong answers and is harder to detect. The paper appears in Expert Systems with Applications in 2025.

  7. September 2025

    Promotion with tenure

    In September 2025, NTU promotes him to Associate Professor with tenure at its College of Computing and Data Science.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate professor at NTU

    As of October 2026, he is an Associate Professor at NTU's College of Computing and Data Science, where his research covers large language models, graph neural networks and trustworthy AI.

Career

  1. Since 2012Nanyang Technological UniversityAssociate Professor
  2. 2018–2020MIT CSAILPostdoctoral Fellow
  3. 2016–2018Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchResearch Scientist
  4. 2016–2021Science and Engineering Research Council

Education

  1. 2017Nanyang Technological UniversityPhD
  2. 2011National University of SingaporeMSc

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Anh Tuan Luu. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Nanyang Technological University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Nanyang Technological University. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Anh Tuan Luu - A*STAR Research research.a-star.edu.sg. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Anh Tuan's home page tuanluu.github.io. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Capturing Greater Context for Question Generation | Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ojs.aaai.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Our People | Meet the Generative AI Experts at GrAIL | College of Computing and Data Science | NTU Singapore ntu.edu.sg. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. The paper co-authored by Shuai Zhang wins the ICLR 2021 outstanding paper award – Institute for Computing Platforms - Systems Group | ETH Zurich systems.ethz.ch. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Beyond Fully-Connected Layers with Quaternions: Parameterization of Hypercomplex Multiplications with $1/n$ Parameters arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Sneakier way to induce AI models into giving wrong answers | Research | NTU Singapore ntu.edu.sg. Checked 20 October 2026.