We are thrilled to share that Dr. Mike Shou has been awarded the inaugural Provost’s Innovation Chair Professor Award and his project, “AI-powered Video Intelligence and Automation” has also been selected for the prestigious Innovation Venture Creation Award. These remarkable recognitions underscore the groundbreaking innovation of Dr. Shou’s research and its remarkable real-world impact and translational potential.
At NUS, Dr. Shou has made remarkable scientific innovations with high real-world impact in multimodal video AI. He has produced 7 widely-distributed software, each of more than 1,000 GitHub stars, demonstrating their wide adoptions. Dr. Shou has developed a series of pioneering video generation models including Show-1 and Tune-A-Video, which are efficient and affordable for general users to embrace AI-powered video creation. Also, Dr. Shou creates a seminal computer use video agent, ShowUI, which can take control of keyboard and mouse and follow user’s demand to automate computer tasks and improve human productivity. ShowUI received the Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2024 Open-World Agents workshop and the released model has been downloaded more than 240,000 times on HuggingFace.