Chek Tan
Director, Centre For Immersification
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolChek Tan is a knowledge engineer and academic leader with nine years of professional experience and a PhD in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore. As Director of the Centre for Immersification and Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology, he blends human creativity with computational intelligence to advance immersive learning and interactive media. His career spans teaching, program leadership, and game studio co-direction at institutions including UTS, DigiPen and SUTD, giving him deep domain expertise in games, simulation, and applied research. Chek is equally at home translating research into curriculum and practical projects, having overseen DigiPen programmes and run interdisciplinary studios. Based in Singapore, he maintains a professional portfolio of projects at ch3k.com that showcases a pattern of turning experimental ideas into usable educational technologies. Colleagues describe him as a creative pragmatist who bridges academia, industry practice and experiential design.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Chinese, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
singaporetech/eod
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:42 commits in 1 year
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