ViSenze co-founder

Chua Tat-Seng's role at ViSenze

An NUS computing professor, he co-founded the visual search company in 2012.

Chua Tat-Seng is a Singaporean computer scientist. He earned a BSc in civil engineering and computer science from the University of Leeds in 1979 and a PhD in computer science from Leeds in 1983.

At the National University of Singapore he was the founding dean of the School of Computing from 1998 to 2000. He holds the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Chair Professorship and directs NExT, the joint research centre of NUS and Tsinghua University. He received the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievements Award in 2015 and became a Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science in 2024.

ViSenze was founded in 2012 as a spin-out from NExT. Chua co-founded it with Oliver Tan, Li Guangda and Roger Yuen, and served as chief scientist. Its search engine understood product images, so a shopper could find a dress by photographing it.

ViSenze raised a $3.5 million Series A in 2014, a $10.5 million Series B in 2016 and a $20 million Series C in 2019. In 2025 Rezolve AI, a Nasdaq-listed company, acquired it.

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What did Chua Tat-Seng study?

Chua Tat-Seng earned a BSc in civil engineering and computer science in 1979 and a PhD in computer science in 1983, both from the University of Leeds.

What is Chua Tat-Seng's role at ViSenze?

He is a co-founder of ViSenze and served as its chief scientist. The visual search company spun out of the NUS-Tsinghua NExT research centre in 2012. Rezolve AI acquired it in 2025.

What does Chua Tat-Seng do at NUS?

He is the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Chair Professor at the NUS School of Computing. He was the school's founding dean from 1998 to 2000 and directs NExT, the joint research centre of NUS and Tsinghua University.