WING 2026 Spring Outing at Clarke Quay

Jiecheng Jiang, Jiahao Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Yisong Miao, Minzhi Li (Ella), Noah Xinjie Cai, Zhouying Cui, Hengchang Hu, Ibrahim Taha Aksu, Jiaying Wu, Chao Ming Huang, Min-Yen Kan, Nura Tamton, Yiqi Wang, Glenda Chong Rui Ting, Chuang Li, Sahej Agarwal, Yajing Yang, Sahajpreet Singh

Date
23 Jan, 2026
Event
WING Outing
Location
Clarke Quay
Clarke Quay, Singapore,

WING members were excited to have a spring outing at Clarke Quay on January 23, 2026. For this outing, we scheduled it at the beginning of the semester to help new members better cohere with the group.

We enjoyed both the beautiful river view and the pizza! We were happy to see the return of our alumni, especially Hengchang, Victor, and Taha, as well as our collaborator, Yunshan. We especially thank Hengchang (a WING PhD alumnus) for his generous donation of the pizza (and other items on the bill as well)!

Below is a gallery of the outing, photo credit to Yajing, Glenda, and Yisong!

WING 2026 spring outing group at Clarke Quay
WING members enjoying the Clarke Quay river view
WING members sharing pizza during the outing
Group Outing
Jiecheng Jiang
Jiecheng Jiang
Masters Student (Jan ‘26)

Masters Student Jan 2026 Intake

Jiahao Chen
Jiahao Chen
UROP Student (Aug ‘25)

UROP student

Tongyao Zhu
Tongyao Zhu
IPP Doctoral Student (Jan ‘23; SEA)

PhD Candidate January 2023 Intake

Yisong Miao
Yisong Miao
Doctoral Student (Jan ‘21)

PhD Candidate January 2021 Intake

Minzhi Li (Ella)
Minzhi Li (Ella)
A*STAR Doctoral Student (Aug ‘22)

PhD Candidate August 2022 Intake

Noah Xinjie Cai
Noah Xinjie Cai
Master’s Student (Jan ‘26)

Master’s Student Jan 2026 Intake

Zhouying Cui
Zhouying Cui
Research Assistant (Sept ‘25)

Research Assistant

Hengchang Hu
Doctoral Alumnus (Oct ‘24). Thesis: Going beyond ID-based Recommender Systems by Exploiting External Knowledge.

PhD Candidate August 2019 Intake

Ibrahim Taha Aksu
Doctoral Alumnus (‘24). Thesis: Task-Oriented Dialogue Understanding and Evaluation using Minimal Data.

Doctoral Alumni (‘24). Thesis: Task-Oriented Dialogue Understanding and Evaluation using Minimal Data.

Jiaying Wu
Jiaying Wu
Research Fellow (Jul ‘24)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at WING & NUS CTIC

Chao Ming Huang
Chao Ming Huang
FYP Student (Aug'25)

FYP Student

Min-Yen Kan
Min-Yen Kan
Associate Professor

WING lead; interests include Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.

Nura Tamton
Nura Tamton
Master Student (Aug ‘25)

Master Student January 2025 Intake

Yiqi Wang
Yiqi Wang
Masters Student (Jan ‘26)

Masters Student Jan 2026 Intake

Glenda Chong Rui Ting
Glenda Chong Rui Ting
FYP Student (Aug'25)

FYP Student

Chuang Li
ISEP Doctoral Alumnus (Mar ‘25). Thesis: Towards Holistic and Practical Conversational Recommender Systems.

Doctoral Alumnus (Mar ‘25)

Sahej Agarwal
UROP Student (Jan ‘25) Thesis: LitePruner: A Lightweight Realtime Token Pruner before Large Language Models
VIP 10K Awardee

UROP Student

Yajing Yang
Yajing Yang
IPP Doctoral Student (Aug ‘20)

PhD Candidate August 2020 Intake

Sahajpreet Singh
Sahajpreet Singh
CTIC Doctoral Student (Jan ‘25)
Co-Supervised by Kokil Jaidka

PhD Candidate January 2025 Intake