Mohan Kankanhalli is Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is the Director of the NUS AI Institute. He is also the Deputy Executive Chairman of AI Singapore, which is Singapore’s National AI R&D Program. Mohan obtained his BTech from IIT Kharagpur and MS & PhD from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mohan’s research interests are in Multimodal Computing, Computer Vision, and Trustworthy AI. He has made fundamental contributions in the areas of image and video understanding, visual saliency, content authentication, privacy, and trustworthy AI. As Director of NUS AI Institute, he leads initiatives on multimodal models and trustworthy machine learning. He is also engaged in leadership roles in multimedia computing such as being the Senior Editor of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing journal and the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia magazine. He is on the editorial boards of Springer Multimedia Systems and Springer Journal on Big Data. Mohan is a member of World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence. He is an IEEE Fellow.
