PhD @ NUS

Isaac Ning Lee

李宁

School of Computing · National University of Singapore

Simanggang, Sarawak, Malaysia · Singapore

I am currently a PhD student at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, supervised by Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli. I completed my Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, where I was supervised by A/Prof. Mehrtash Harandi, Dr. Trung Le, and Dr. Leila Mahmoodi. I was also a visiting research student at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, supervised by A/Prof. Yansong Tang.

My research interests lie in machine learning, especially continual learning, test-time adaptation, and model interpretability. I am originally from Simanggang, a small riverside town in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, and I am passionate about nature, history, and culture.

Portrait of Isaac Ning Lee
Continual Learning, Test-Time Adaptation, State-Space Models.
研究

Research & Publications

Exemplar-Free Continual Learning for State Space Models

CVPR 2026 Highlight Compute Transparency Champion Award
Isaac Ning Lee, Leila Mahmoodi, Trung Le, Mehrtash Harandi

Proposes Inf-SSM, a geometry-aware regularization method for exemplar-free continual learning in state-space models. The method constrains the long-term evolution of SSM states through the extended observability subspace, reducing catastrophic forgetting while improving performance across sequential tasks.

Self-supervised Learning for Acoustic Few-Shot Classification

ICASSP 2025 Oral
Jingyong Liang, Bernd Meyer, Isaac Ning Lee, Thanh-Toan Do

Studies self-supervised pre-training for acoustic few-shot classification, where labelled audio data are scarce. The work combines CNN-based feature extractor with SSM, and utilizes contrastive learning to improve acoustic representations for few-shot classification settings.

学历

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

National University of Singapore · School of Computing
Supervisor: Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli
2026 – Present

B.Eng. Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering (Hons)

Monash University · Melbourne, Australia
University Medal WAM 93.05 GPA 4.0
2021 – 2024
经历

Research Experience

PhD Student

National University of Singapore · School of Computing
Present

Commenced doctoral research at the NUS School of Computing under the supervision of Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli, focusing on machine learning, continual learning, and test-time adaptation.

Visiting Research Student

Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School · Tsinghua University
2025

Worked as a visiting student in A/Prof. Yansong Tang's group on audio-visual segmentation research.

Affiliate Researcher

Monash University · Melbourne, Australia
2025 – Present

Worked on continual learning and test-time adaptation research with A/Prof. Mehrtash Harandi, Dr. Trung Le, Dr. Jing Wu, and Dr. Leila Mahmoodi.

教学

Teaching

Teaching Assistant · CS4248 Introduction to Large Language Models

National University of Singapore · School of Computing
AY2026/27 Sem 1

Teaching assistant for CS4248, under Prof. Hwee Tou Ng.

散文

Writing

Klassen River
故乡

Simanggang, Sarawak

Simanggang is a small town about a three-hour drive from Kuching, known for the Batang Lupar River and its spectacular tidal bore — locally called Benak — regarded as one of the world’s most remarkable tidal bore phenomena.

The town preserves colonial-era forts, shophouses, and heritage buildings, while the surrounding rainforest is home to saltwater crocodiles, orangutans, racket-tailed drongos, greater argus pheasants, fireflies, and more.

联系

Contact