Joey
Tianyi Zhou.

I work at the intersection of AI efficiency, robustness, and agentic systems.

As the Head of the Applied AI Systems & Agents Chapter at the Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), I drive the development of the A*STAR Agentic AI platform. I lead the development of AgentOS, an agentic AI platform that supports agentic transformation across Singapore’s research institutions and helps enterprises capture, organize, and preserve institutional knowledge. I also serve as Deputy Director at the Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR). I am also heading AI Engineering & Platform at the National Applied AI Centre of Excellence (CoE), driving the adoption of Agentic AI across companies in Singapore. Concurrently, I am also a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at Singapore Management University (SMU). I obtained my Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2015. Prior to my current roles at A*STAR, I worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the Sony US Research Center in San Jose, California.

My research explores how to improve AI efficiency and robustness from a data perspective: building models that use less computation and training data, and remain reliable under perturbations and distribution shifts.