Summary
Chen Loy is a President's Chair Professor and Lab Director at NTU’s MMLab, specializing in computer vision and deep learning with particular strength in image/video restoration, generative modeling, and representation learning. He combines an academic pedigree (PhD, Queen Mary University of London) and international research experience across CUHK and industry collaborations to translate cutting-edge vision research into real-world applications. A seasoned conference leader and editor—serving roles at IJCV, TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR and NeurIPS—he will co-chair CVPR 2026, reflecting strong community influence. Chen also bridges academia and entrepreneurship as co-founder of Synvo AI, indicating an interest in productizing research. His work is notable for sustained editorial leadership alongside hands-on lab mentorship, producing influential scholarship visible on his Google Scholar profile. Based in Singapore, he blends rigorous theory with applied systems thinking to drive both fundamental advances and impactful deployments.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Queen Mary, U. of London