Min-yen Kan
Vice Dean, Undergraduate Office
Singapore
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Top SchoolMin-yen Kan is a seasoned AI and NLP researcher and academic leader based in Singapore, currently Vice Dean of the Undergraduate Office at NUS Computing, overseeing degree programs for more than 1,600 students annually. An interdisciplinary associate professor, he founded the WING lab and leads research across natural language processing, information retrieval, digital libraries, learning analytics, and AI in education, with 150+ publications and 15+ PhD graduates. He has driven undergraduate education and research opportunities at NUS, piloting the Orbital Summer Independent Project Programme and forging enduring partnerships with Google Singapore, NOC, and international research centers. His service includes ACL leadership roles—Ethics Committee Co-Chair Asia, ACL Anthology Editor, and past Executive Committee member—helping shape policy and scholarly infrastructure in the NLP/IR community. Beyond academia, he engages with industry as a Turnitin AI Writing Advisory Board member, Entrepreneur First science partner, and adviser to Pencil, Wordster, and the AI ACCESS FOUNDATION, bridging research with real-world AI in education.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Columbia University
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Github Skills (103)
pii10
parser10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
foundation-models10
crf10
corpus10
acl10
orbit10
nlp10
string-parsing10
gaussian-mixture-models10
sem10
parsec10
information-retrieval10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
knmnyn/GMail-Mail-Merge
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
WING-NUS/sciwing
Sep 2019 - Sep 2024
SciWING is a modern toolkit for scientific document processing from WING-NUS
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 6 comments in 5 years 1 month
nusscientificwingdocument-processing
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