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Assistant Professor

Alex Qiang Chen

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science , The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Cluster:
Infocomm Technology
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SIT Appointments

  • Assistant Professor
    – Present

Education

  • Ph.D. Computer Science
    The University of Manchester , United Kingdom
  • MSc. (Merit) Advanced Computer Science
    The University of Manchester , United Kingdom
  • B.Eng. (Hons) Electronic and Computer Engineering
    University of Leeds , United Kingdom

Achievements

  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
    –
  • PhD Studentship, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK
    –
  • 3rd prize, Poster presentation in ‘Make Some Noise’ Postgraduate Research Symposium 2007, Leeds, UK
  • Awarded Silver for the Most Outstanding Project in INNOVEX 2002 exhibition,Singapore
  • Awarded Silver for Youth Designer Awards for South Zone, Singapore
  • Awarded Gold for Youth Designer Awards for South Zone, Singapore

Professional Memberships

  • Member, Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA)
    – Present
  • Member, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)
    – Present
  • Member, Association for Computing Machinery (MACM)
    – Present
  • Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
    – Present
  • Member, British Computer Society (BCS)
    –
  • Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE)
    –

Corporate Experience

  • Singapore Dental Council, Complaints Committee and Disciplinary Committe panel member
    Present
  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Participant in Protocols and Formats Working Group
    –

Research Interests

  • User-Centered Design
  • Health and Medical Technologies
  • Web and Interactive Technologies
  • Digital Content Accessibility
  • Machine Learning
  • Human-Computer-Interaction

Current Projects

  • Tools for Story-Reading / Telling for students with Special Needs
    – Present

    SIT Classic Project Grant - SGD14,973.50

  • SiPSDE - Single-Integrated Platform Using GitHub for Software Development Education
    – Present

    SIT Applied Learning and Innovation Grant (ALIGN) - SGD20,160

  • FOCUSS: Foot Care for U @ SIT & Sengkang General Hospital
    – Present

    SIT Ignition Grant - SGD172,500

  • Research & Development of Methods for a Holistic Evaluation of AV Safety Under Tropical Urban Conditions
    – Present

    LTA Urban Mobility Grand Challenge Funding Initiative - SGD4,232,304

Past Projects

  • Crowdfunding Investors’ Behaviour: Characteristics and Decision Making
    –

    SIT Ignition Grant - SGD88,400

Journal Papers

  • A.Q. Chen, S. Harper, D. Lunn, A. Brown (2013) “Widget Identification: A High-Level Approach to Accessibility”, World Wide Web Journal, 16(1) pp.73-89, Springer

  • A. Brown, C. Jay, A.Q. Chen, S. Harper (2012) “The uptake of Web 2.0 technologies, and its impact on visually disabled users”, Universal Access in the Information Society Journal, 11(2) pp.185-199, Springer

  • S. Harper, A.Q. Chen (2012) “Web Accessibility Guidelines: A Lesson from the Evolving Web”, World Wide Web Journal, 15(1) pp.61-88, Springer

  • A.Q. Chen (2010) “Widget Identification and Modification for Web 2.0 Access Technologies
    (WIMWAT)”, SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing (96):11-18, ACM

  • A.Q. Chen (2009) “Web Evolution by Alex Q. Chen, with Jessica Rubart as author”, SIGWEB Newsletter, (0):1-2, ACM

Conferences

  • M. Guo, H. Ni, A.Q. Chen (2020). "OfficeBP: Noninvasive Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring Based on PPT in Office Environment", In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '20), ACM

  • A.Q. Chen, C.Y. Lim, L. Lu, C.N.C. Lo, D. Arisandi. (2018). "Digitalization of Traditional Marking", The Asian Conference on Education & International Development (ACEID 2018), IAFOR

  • P. Song, X. Yan, W.B. Goh, A.Q. Chen, Chi-Wing Fu. (2016). "Hand-posture-augmented Multitouch Interactions for Exploratory Visualization", SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Technical Briefs, pp.27:1--27:4, ACM, New York, NY, USA

  • Y. Liu, C. Zhang, C. Lee, Bu-Sung Lee, A.Q. Chen. (2015) “GazeTry: Swipe Text Typing Using Gaze”, In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction (OzCHI '15), ACM

  • A.Q. Chen, W. Goh (2015) “Two Factor Authentication Made Easy”, 15th International Web Engineering Conference (ICWE), LNCS 9114 pp.449-458, Springer

  • A.Q. Chen. (2013) Presenter at National Science & Engineering Week 2013 (UK) for School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK

  • A.Q. Chen. (2010). Widget Identification for Web 2.0 Access Technologies, Research Student's Symposium (Oral Presentation), Manchester, UK

  • A.Q. Chen. (2009). Widget Identification and Modification for Web 2.0 Access Technologies (WIMWAT), ASSETS 2009 Doctoral Consortium (Oral Presentation), Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • A.Q. Chen. (2009). Widget Identification and Modification for Web 2.0 Access Technologies, Research Student's Symposium (Poster Presentation), Manchester, UK

  • A.Q. Chen, S. Freear, D.M.J. Cowell (2007) “Measurement of Solid in Liquid Content Using Ultrasound Attenuation”, 5th World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography, Norway

Teaching Modules

Information and Communications Technology (Software Engineering), BEng (Hons)

  • ICT2106 - Software Design
  • ICT2101 - Introduction to Software Engineering

Information and Communications Technology (Information Security), BEng (Hons)

  • ICT2201 - Introduction to Software Engineering

Computing Science, BSc (Hons)

  • CSC3002 - Integrated Work Study Programme
  • CSC3001 - Capstone Project

Past

  • ICT1004 - Web Systems and Technologies (3081)
  • ICT2106 - Software Design (3261)
  • OTY3008 - Engineering and Technology for Healthcare Solutions (4046)
  • ICT4002 - Integrated Work Study Programme (IWSP) (3211)
  • ICT4001 - Capstone Project (3206)
  • CE1201/2 - Information Technology 2
  • CSC3007 - Information Visualisation (15936)
  • Professional Software Development 3