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Eric C-P CHUA

Director, Centre for Learning Environment & Assessment Development (CoLEAD)
PhD (Biomedical Engineering), University College Dublin, Ireland
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Health and Social Sciences
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Biography

Dr Chua is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology. 

He holds a concurrent appointment as the Director of the University's teaching and learning unit, the Centre for Learning Environment and Assessment Design. In this role, he works closely with academic staff in both faculty as well as student development. Prior to this, Dr Chua was the founding Program Director of SIT's Diagnostic Radiography and Radiation Therapy programs. In that role, he was leading efforts to graduate industry-ready practitioners through intensive industry engagement and strong curriculum design. Dr Chua's research interests are in the intersection of education and data analytics, and enhancing students' self-regulated learning.

SIT Appointments

  • Director, Centre for Learning Environment & Assessment Development (CoLEAD)
    – Present
  • Deputy Director, Centre for Learning Environment & Assessment Development (CoLEAD)
    –
  • Programme Director, SIT-TCD BSc in Diagnostic Radiography
    –
  • Programme Director, TCD BSc in Radiation Therapy
    –
  • Programme Director, SIT BSc (Hons) in Radiation Therapy
    –
  • Programme Director, SIT BSc (Hons) in Diagnostic Radiography
    –

Education

  • PhD (Biomedical Engineering)
    University College Dublin , Ireland
  • BEng (First Class) (Electronical & Electronic Engineering)
    Nanyang Technological University , Singapore

Achievements

  • The Commendation Medal, Singapore National Day Awards
  • Honorary Membership, Singapore Society of Radiographers
  • Nomination, SIT Teaching Excellence Award
  • Sleep Research Society Abstract Honorable Mention Award (Merit-based travel award), SLEEP 2013 - APSS 27th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA
  • Sleep Research Society First Time Attendee Travel Award SLEEP 2012 - APSS 26th Annual Meeting, Boston, USA
  • Sleep Research Society Abstract Meritorious Award (Merit-based trainee travel award), SLEEP 2012 - APSS 26th Annual Meeting, Boston, USA
  • Dag Stenberg Award (Best Abstract – Young Science Symposia), Worldsleep 2011 - Quadrennial Congress of the World Sleep Federation, Kyoto, Japan
  • Merit-based Travel Award, Worldsleep 2011 Quadrennial Congress of the World Sleep Federation, Kyoto, Japan
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • EEE Colour Award, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Professional Memberships

  • Member, IEEE
    – Present
  • Member, Sleep Research Society
    –

Research Interests

  • Healthcare Data Analytics
  • Medical Technology
  • Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
  • Radiographer Professional Development
  • Self-Regulated Learning

Current Projects

  • Supporting academically weaker students by improving their self-regulation for online learning
    – Present

    Principal Investigator, Tertiary Education Research Fund, Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE2020-TRF-013)

Past Projects

  • Improving access to private ambulances - a health services-centric study
    –

    Co-Principal Investigator, SIT Ignition Grant (P05000)

  • Development of an algorithm for predicting which individuals are highly vulnerable versus highly resilient to the effects of sleep loss on performance
    –

    Co-investigator, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (N66001-13-C-4035)

  • Heneghan C, Chua EC, McDarby G. Method and system for monitoring sleep
    –

    US 2011/0124979 Al, 2011.

  • Improving the efficacy of light therapy
    –

    Co-Investigator, National Medical Research Council, Singapore (NMRC/NIG/1000/2009)

Journal Papers

  • Ng CT, Roslan SNA, Chng YH, Choong DAW, Chong AJL, Tay YX, Lanca L, Chua EC. Singapore radiographers' perceptions and expectations of artificial intelligence – a qualitative study. J Med Imaging Radiat., 2022 Sep 14;S1939-8654(22)00339-3.

  • Seah LJY, Seow D, Mahmood D, Chua EC, Sng LH. Can the measured angle ABC on the lateral projection of the knee be used to determine the tube angulation for an optimum skyline projection? Radiography (Lond) 2022 May;28(2):407-411.

  • Chua EC, Sullivan JP, Duffy JF, Klerman EB, Lockley SW, Kristal BS, Czeisler CA, Gooley JJ.  Classifying attentional vulnerability to total sleep deprivation using baseline features of Psychomotor Vigilance Test performance. Sci Rep 2019; 9: 12102.

  • Chua EC, Fang E, Gooley JJ. Effects of total sleep deprivation on divided attention performance. PLoS One 2017;12(11):e0187098.

  • Chua EC, Shui G, Cazenave-Gassiot A, Wenk MR, Gooley JJ. Changes in plasma lipids during exposure to total sleep deprivation. SLEEP 2015;38(11):1683-91. (IF 5.1)

  • Patanaik A, Kwoh CK, Chua EC, Gooley JJ, Chee MW. Classifying vulnerability to sleep deprivation using baseline measures of psychomotor vigilance. SLEEP 2015;38(5):723-34. (IF 5.1)

  • Chua EC, Yeo SC, Lee IT, Tan LC, Lau P, Cai S, Zhang X, Puvanendran K, Gooley JJ. Sustained attention performance during sleep deprivation associates with instability in behavior and physiologic measures at baseline. SLEEP 2014;37(1):27-39. (IF 5.1)

  • Chua EC, Yeo SC, Lee IT, Tan LC, Lau P, Tan SS, Ho Mien I, Gooley JJ. Individual differences in physiologic measures are stable across repeated exposures to total sleep deprivation. Physiol Rep 2014;2(9).pii: e12129.

  • Liu N, Koh ZX, Chua EC, Tan LM, Lin Z, Mirza B, Ong ME. Risk scoring for prediction of acute cardiac complications from imbalanced clinical data. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2014;18(6):1894-902. (IF 3.9)

  • Gooley JJ, Chua EC. Diurnal regulation of lipid metabolism and applications of circadian lipidomics. J Genet Genomics 2014;41(5):231-50.

  • Ho Mien I, Chua EC, Lau P, Tan LC, Lee IT, Yeo SC, Tan SS, Gooley JJ. Effects of exposure to intermittent versus continuous red light on human circadian rhythms, melatonin suppression, and pupillary constriction. PLoS One. 2014;9(5):e96532.

  • Chua EC, Shui G, Lee IT, Lau P, Tan LC, Yeo SC, Lam BD, Bulchand S, Summers SA, Puvanendran K, Rozen SG, Wenk MR, Gooley JJ. Extensive diversity in circadian regulation of plasma lipids and evidence for different circadian metabolic phenotypes in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013;110(35):14468-73. (IF 9.7)

  • Chua EC, Tan WQ, Yeo SC, Lau P, Lee I, Ho IM, Puvanendran K, Gooley JJ. Heart rate variability can be used to estimate sleepiness-related decrements in psychomotor vigilance. SLEEP 2012;35(3):325-34. (IF 5.1)

  • Gooley JJ, Ho IM, St. Hillaire M, Yeo SC,Chua EC, van Reen E, Hanley C, Hull J, Czeisler CA, Lockley SW. Melanopsin and rod-cone photoreceptors play different roles in mediating pupillary light responses during exposure to continuous light in humans. J Neurosci 2012;32(41):14242-53. (IF 5.9)

Teaching Modules

Diagnostic Radiography, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC2002 - Research - Methods and Statistics
  • DRG4801 - Honours Thesis
  • DRG2002 - Healthcare and Radiological Informatics

Occupational Therapy, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC2002 - Research - Methods and Statistics

Radiation Therapy, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC2002 - Research - Methods and Statistics
  • HSC3005 - Biostatistics

Past

  • PTY1001 - Physics in Biology and Medicine (4371)
  • ACC1006 - Basic Statistics (41)
  • ACC3901 - Value-Added Programme 3 (Spreadsheet Application Tools) (246)
  • PHE1012 - Statistics (4131)
  • PHE1024 - Programming for Pharmaceutical Engineering (4166)
  • BHB1005 - Statistics (2866)
  • HSC1101 - Patient Care and Safety (1571)
  • HSC1005 - Research - Critical Appraisal of Literature (1566)