Biography:Wang-Chiew Tan
Wang-Chiew Tan | |
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| 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
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
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
- ↑ "Wang-Chiew Tan's Homepage". https://wangchiew.github.io/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wang-Chiew Tan, Director of Research, Megagon Labs, http://www.megagon.ai/wangchiew-tan/, retrieved 2018-10-16
- ↑ Foley, Katherine Ellen (March 3, 2018), "Pets don't make humans immediately happy the way other people do", Quartz, https://qz.com/1220286/pets-dont-make-humans-immediately-happy-the-way-other-people-do/
- ↑ "Data annotations, provenance, and archiving", ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery), https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=936895, retrieved 2018-10-16
- ↑ Wang-Chiew Tan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "New Faculty", UC Santa Cruz Currents, January 20, 2003, http://www1.ucsc.edu/currents/02-03/01-20/newfac.html
- ↑ "Wang-Chiew Tan Wang-Chiew", ACM Fellows (Association for Computing Machinery), https://awards.acm.org/award-winners/TAN_0563874, retrieved 2018-10-16
External links
- Wang-Chiew Tan publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Home page
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