Summary
Chi-loong Chan is a hybrid product and UX leader with nearly two decades of experience blending journalism, PR, marketing and software to make data-driven stories that resonate. As founder of VslashR and an adjunct lecturer at SUTD and SIT, he designs and builds interactive visualizations and teaches both the design and technical sides of data viz using frameworks like Vue/Angular and libraries such as D3.js. He has led product and engineering teams at startups and agencies, translating business needs into robust development processes and shipped work for clients including government bodies and enterprises like Fortinet and Temasek. Active in Singapore’s data-vis ecosystem, he organizes and hosts community meetups (Data-Vis-Singapore, Hacks-Hackers) and runs the local portal Visualizing Singapore. Now focused on education and AI governance at Genue, he applies his storytelling-first philosophy to help the sector navigate AI impacts. A coder-designer at heart, he pairs hands-on implementation with public speaking and curriculum-building to push visual storytelling forward.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Victoria JC
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems & Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Chinese, English