CV
Education
- PhD in Information Systems, Singapore Management University
- MSc in Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments, University College London
- BEng in Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore
Work experience
- Assistant Professor, Design and Artificial Intelligence / Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design (current)
- Senior Lecturer, Information Systems Technology and Design / Design and Artificial Intelligence, Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Research Fellow, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University
- Graduate Instructor, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University
- Teaching Assistant, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Cognition and Human Factors Laboratory, DSO National Laboratories
- Research Assistant, Media Processing Laboratory, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR
Grants & Funding
- PI, Ministry of Education AcRF Tier 1 Grant — SGD 400,000 (2024-2027). TalkSketch: enhancing concept generation through sketching supported by large multimodal models.
- PI, Ministry of Education AcRF Tier 1 Grant — SGD 428,158 (2023-2026). Enhancing mental health support through context-aware text communication systems.
- Co-PI, SMU-SUTD Joint Research Grant — SGD 369,600 (2023-2025). Transforming competitive swimming with physiological & smart drone-based sensing, analysis and coaching insights.
- Co-PI, SUTD Growth Plan — SGD 692,000 (2021-2024). From BigD to BigD+: an SUTD community-led development of next-gen design education.
- Co-PI, Temasek Labs — SGD 85,000 (2021-2022). Early detection of rumours in social media.
- PI, SUTD Pedagogy Innovation Grant — SGD 11,400 (2020-2021). AI-enabled real-time feedback for instructional videos to enhance learning and attention.
Honours & Awards
- ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems — Honourable Mention Award (top 5% of submissions), “Words to Describe What I’m Feeling: Exploring the Potential of AI Agents for High Subjectivity Decisions in Advance Care Planning” (2026)
- ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems — Honourable Mention Award (top 5% of submissions), “Towards Aligning Multimodal LLMs with Human Experts: A Focus on Parent-Child Interaction” (2026)
Publications
See the full, regularly-updated Publications page.
Teaching
Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design
- 60.005 HCI and AI (Course Designer and Lead, 2022-present)
- 50.006 User Interface Design and Implementation (Course Lead, 2021, 2025-present)
- 01.400/401 Capstone (2021-present)
- 10.014 Computational Thinking for Design (2020-present)
- 50.002 Computation Structures (2019-2023)
- 10.020 Data-Driven World (2021-2022)
- 10.009 Digital World - An Introduction to Computational Thinking (2020)
- Introduction to Human-Centred AI, GEO/FACT (2024-present)
Lecturer, Singapore Management University
- IS113 Web Application Development (Guest lecture, 2019). Front end styling and interaction, hybrid app development.
Graduate Instructor / Teaching Assistant, Singapore Management University
- IS306 Interaction Design and Prototyping (3 terms, 2014-2017)
- IS416 Mobile and Pervasive Technology and Applications (1 term, 2015)
Service
See the full Service page for programme committees and reviewing. Selected departmental service:
- Deputy Chair, SUTD Institutional Review Board (2026-present)
- Vice President, SIGCHI Singapore Chapter
- Associate Chair, CHI (2025-2027)