PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Anthony Tung

Also known as 邓锦浩, Anthony K. H. Tung, Anthony Kum Hoe Tung, Tung Anthony

Anthony Tung is a computer scientist at NUS whose AI research spans diverse news retrieval and safety. He earned honours degrees in information systems and computer science at NUS in 1997 and 1998, completed a computer-science PhD at Simon Fraser University in 2001, and worked on GEODEM with Jiawei Han. At NUS, he advanced from assistant professor in 2001 to associate professor in 2008 and professor in 2020, served as deputy director of SeSaMe from 2012 to 2018, and received DASFAA’s 10-Year Best Paper Award in 2015. His lab built DiversiNews to broaden political news exposure, and he coauthored NEWSCOPE in 2025; in July 2026, he coauthored The 2026 Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities and, in September 2026, urged labs to pace capability releases to accredited independent evaluation. Since 2024, he is the AI Lead for urban sustainability at the NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute and director of the Google–NUS Joint Research & Innovation Center.

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Timeline

  1. 1996–2001

    Degrees and GEODEM research

    At NUS, he earns an honours B.Sc. in information systems and computer science in 1997 and an M.Sc. in the same field in 1998. In 2001, he completes a computer-science PhD at Simon Fraser University. From 1999 to 2000, he works as a research assistant on the GEODEM project under Jiawei Han, designing the foundations of geospatial decision-making with the World Wide Web.

  2. 2001–2019

    NUS faculty appointments

    In 2001, he joins NUS’s Department of Computer Science as an assistant professor. In 2008, he becomes an associate professor there and serves through 2019.

  3. 2012–2018

    Deputy director of SeSaMe

    From 2012 to 2018, he serves as deputy director of SeSaMe, NUS’s Sensor-enhanced Social Media programme.

  4. 2015

    DASFAA 10-Year Best Paper Award

    In 2015, he receives the DASFAA 10-Year Best Paper Award for “Mining Contrast Patterns in Microarray Data.”

  5. 2025

    DiversiNews and news exposure

    In February 2025, he and his lab members build DiversiNews after two years of development, creating a feed of political stories from many media outlets and viewpoints.

  6. 2025

    NEWSCOPE diverse retrieval

    In November 2025, he coauthors NEWSCOPE, a two-stage framework that uses sentence-level clustering and diversity-aware re-ranking to surface complementary information.

  7. 2026

    Global AI safety priorities

    In July 2026, he coauthors The 2026 Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities, which presents high-priority technical AI safety research problems. In September 2026, he recommends that AI labs release capabilities only as quickly as accredited independent evaluators can assess them.

  8. Since 2020

    Professor and AI institute leader

    In 2020, he becomes professor of computer science at NUS. Since 2024, he serves as AI Lead for urban sustainability at the NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute and director of the Google–NUS Joint Research & Innovation Center.

Career

  1. Since 2024Google–National University of Singapore Joint Research & Innovation CenterDirector
  2. Since 2001National University of SingaporeAssistant Professor, Associate Professor

Education

  1. 2001Simon Fraser UniversityPhD
  2. 1998National University of SingaporeHonours B.Sc.; M.Sc.

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Anthony Tung. 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. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes National University of Singapore. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  3. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes National University of Singapore. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes National University of Singapore. 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.

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  1. Anthony TUNG Kum Hoe - NUS Computing comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Resume of Anthony K comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Anthony K. H. Tung — Professor, NUS School of Computing comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. DiversiNews Helps Increase News Exposure and Broaden People’s Minds - NUS Computing comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Uncovering the Bigger Picture: Comprehensive Event Understanding Via Diverse News Retrieval - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. The 2026 Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. [The Business Times] As AI firms call for accountability and limits, an opportunity beckons for Singapore - NUS Computing comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.