SUN Qianru
Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Computer Science; Lee Kong Chian Fellow
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, Peking University, 2016
Teaching Topics
- Data Management
Research Advisor/Co-Research Advisor to
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsSUN Qianru is a leading researcher in computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, recognized for her pioneering work in few-shot learning, domain adaptation, and multimodal AI systems.
SUN Qianru’s research bridges methodological innovation in meta-learning, continual learning, and multimodal AI with practical impact in robust, adaptive, and explainable AI systems; her work is widely published in top-tier venues and supported by significant competitive grants, reflecting both theoretical depth and real-world relevance.
Focused research areas include Few-shot and class-incremental learning, domain adaptation, weakly- and self-supervised semantic segmentation, causal inference in vision and language, multimodal and foundation models, video understanding, and robust AI for real-world applications.
SUN Qianru’s research bridges methodological innovation in meta-learning, continual learning, and multimodal AI with practical impact in robust, adaptive, and explainable AI systems; her work is widely published in top-tier venues and supported by significant competitive grants, reflecting both theoretical depth and real-world relevance.
Focused research areas include Few-shot and class-incremental learning, domain adaptation, weakly- and self-supervised semantic segmentation, causal inference in vision and language, multimodal and foundation models, video understanding, and robust AI for real-world applications.
Areas of Expertise
Computer VisionMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence
Past Awarded Grant
- Weakly-supervised Semantic Segmentation and Its Applications in SAR Images, DSO National Laboratories (DSO), PI (Project Level): SUN Qianru, 2022, S$343,999.5
- Task-Specific Data Augmentation in Class-Incremental Learning Systems, Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR) Programme, Alibaba DAMO Academy (Hangzhou) Technology, PI (Project Level): SUN Qianru, 2021, S$119,302
- Fast-Adapted Neural Networks for Advanced AI Systems, AME Individual Research Grants/Young Individual Research Grants, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), PI (Project Level): SUN Qianru, 2020, S$265,584
- Automated Deep Neural Network Initiation by Meta-Learning, Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR) Programme, Alibaba Cloud (Singapore), PI (Project Level): SUN Qianru, 2019, S$121,572
- imSAM: An Interactive Medical Segment Anything Model, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1, PI (Project Level): SUN Qianru, 2025, S$150,000
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- B Zhu, K Zhao, J Cui, Q Sun, Y Zhou, X Yang, H ZhangarXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00205, 2026
- K Zhao, J Shi, B Zhu, J Zhou, X Shen, Y Zhou, Q Sun, H ZhangarXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08131, 2025
- J Ying, M Lin, Q Sun, Y CaoarXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23933, 2025
- Z Luo, Z Tian, Y Liu, Q SunNeurocomputing, 131519, 2025
- L Zhao, Z Tian, P Zou, R Hong, Q SunIEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025
- Y Cao, S Hong, X Li, J Ying, Y Ma, H Liang, Y Liu, Z Yao, X Wang, ...arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18838, 2025
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Qualification
- PhD, Peking University, 2016
Teaching Topics
- Data Management