Wang-Chiew Tan
Wang-Chiew Tan | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Singaporean |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | data lineage and data integration |
| Awards | ACM Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Megagon Labs |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Buneman and Sanjeev Khanna |
| Website | wangchiew |
Wang-Chiew Tan is a Singaporean computer scientist specializing in data management and natural language processing. Her work in data management includes data provenance (or data lineage) and data integration. She is currently a Research Scientist at Facebook AI,[1] and was previously the Director of Research at Megagon Labs in Mountain View, California.[2]
At Megagon Labs, Tan was the lead researcher on a study with the University of Tokyo that concluded that the company of other people is more effective than pets at making people happy.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Tan earned her bachelor's degree in computer science (first-class) at the National University of Singapore, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] Her 2002 dissertation, Data Annotations, Provenance, and Archiving, was jointly supervised by Peter Buneman and Sanjeev Khanna.[4][5]
Before working at Megagon, she has been a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz beginning in 2002,[6] and, from 2010 to 2012, was on leave from Santa Cruz as a researcher at IBM Research - Almaden.[2]
Recognition
[edit]Tan was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2015 "for contributions to data provenance and to the foundations of information integration".[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Wang-Chiew Tan's Homepage". wangchiew.github.io.
- ^ a b c Wang-Chiew Tan, Director of Research, Megagon Labs, retrieved 2018-10-16
- ^ Foley, Katherine Ellen (March 3, 2018), "Pets don't make humans immediately happy the way other people do", Quartz
- ^ "Data annotations, provenance, and archiving", ACM Digital Library, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2018-10-16
- ^ Wang-Chiew Tan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "New Faculty", UC Santa Cruz Currents, January 20, 2003
- ^ "Wang-Chiew Tan Wang-Chiew", ACM Fellows, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2018-10-16
External links
[edit]- Wang-Chiew Tan publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Home page
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Singaporean computer scientists
- Singaporean women scientists
- Singaporean women computer scientists
- National University of Singapore alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
- Natural language processing researchers
- Data miners