MA Yunshan
Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, National University of Singapore, 2022
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsMA Yunshan is an emerging leader in multimodal machine learning, recommendation systems, and generative AI, with impactful contributions to contrastive learning, explainable AI, and real-world applications in fashion, finance, and security.
Demonstrates methodological innovation in contrastive and generative learning, integrating multimodal data and large language models for interpretable, robust recommendation and forecasting systems; bridges theory and practice across domains such as fashion, finance, and cybersecurity; recognized for collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and real-world deployment.
Focused research areas include Advancing multimodal learning and generative models for recommendation, event forecasting, and explainable AI; developing robust, interpretable systems for bundle recommendation, fashion outfit generation, financial prediction, and rumor verification; leveraging large language models for knowledge discovery and editing.
Demonstrates methodological innovation in contrastive and generative learning, integrating multimodal data and large language models for interpretable, robust recommendation and forecasting systems; bridges theory and practice across domains such as fashion, finance, and cybersecurity; recognized for collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and real-world deployment.
Focused research areas include Advancing multimodal learning and generative models for recommendation, event forecasting, and explainable AI; developing robust, interpretable systems for bundle recommendation, fashion outfit generation, financial prediction, and rumor verification; leveraging large language models for knowledge discovery and editing.
Areas of Expertise
Multimodal machine learningcontrastive learningrecommender systemsgenerative AIexplainable AIgraph neural networkstemporal event forecastingknowledge editing for language modelsfashion analyticsfinancial predictionsecurity and attack graph construction.
Past Awarded Grant
- General Multimodal Event Forecasting via Large Foundation Models, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 , PI (Project Level): MA Yunshan, 2025, S$120,000
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- JCX Yang, H Ma, Y MaProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 40 (48), 41730 …, 2026
- J Su, Z Nan, Y Ma, X Xia, XH Feng, W Liu, X Chen, X Zheng, C ChenProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 40 (18), 15752 …, 2026
- R Salganik, T Tu, FY Chen, X Liu, K Lu, E Luvisia, Z Duan, ...arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17769, 2026
- B Wu, L Chen, Y Fu, Y Ma, M Xu, TS ChuaIEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026
- Y Zhang, X Zhao, Y Ma, H Ma, Y Guan, G Yang, Y Lu, X WangKnowledge-Based Systems, 115483, 2026
- T Tu, X Liu, Y Ma, J Qi, TS ChuaInternational Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 89-103, 2026
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Qualification
- PhD, National University of Singapore, 2022