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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, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE)
    – Present
  • Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
    – Present
  • Member, British Computer Society (BCS)
    –

Corporate Experience

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

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

Current Projects

  • Enhancing Library Accessibility and Inclusion for Persons with Autism and Their Caregivers
    – Present

    SIT Community Leadership And Social Innovation Centre (CLASIC) grant - SGD14,800

  • Use of an Artificial Intelligence-enabled Chatbot to Inform Clinical Practice in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
    – Present

    SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medicine Innovation Institute (AMII) Allied Health & Pharmacy Innovation Challenge Catalyst Programme - SGD25,854

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

    SIT Ignition Grant - SGD172,500

Past Projects

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

    SIT CLASIC Project Grant - SGD14,973.50

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

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

  • Research & Development of Methods for a Holistic Evaluation of AV Safety Under Tropical Urban Conditions
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    LTA Urban Mobility Grand Challenge Funding Initiative - SGD4,232,304

  • Crowdfunding Investors’ Behaviour: Characteristics and Decision Making
    –

    SIT Ignition Grant - SGD88,400

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Journal Papers

  • D.C.W. Tong, X.Y. Tan, A.Q. Chen. (2024). Eye Strokes: An Eye-gaze Drawing System for Mandarin Characters. Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 7, 2, Article 29 (May 2024), 15 pages. 
    https://doi.org/10.1145/3654702

  • A.Q. Chen, W. Goh. (2015). "Two Factor Authentication Made Easy", In Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era, v.9114, pp.449-458, Springer.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19890-3_29

  • 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-012-0156-6

  • 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-011-0251-y

  • 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-011-0130-8

  • A.Q. Chen (2010). “Widget Identification and Modification for Web 2.0 Access Technologies
    (WIMWAT)”, SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing (96):11-18, ACM.
    https://doi.org/10.1145/1731849.1731851

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

Conferences

  • D.C.W. Tong, X.Y. Tan, A.Q. Chen. (2024). “Eye Strokes: An Eye-gaze Drawing System for Mandarin Characters.” Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 7.2 (2024): 1-15.
    http://doi.org/10.1145/3654702

  • K. Chen, T.W. Low, A.Q. Chen. (2024). “ATTN: towards practical automated tabular semantic analysis.” In International Workshop on Advanced Imaging Technology (IWAIT) 2024, vol. 13164, pp. 232-235. SPIE
    https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018449

  • S.W.D. Quek, J.K.F. Teo, N. Louahemmsabah, Y.B.C. Tong, A.Z.R. Poh, Q. Cao, C.K. Seow, P.C. Yau, A.Q. Chen. (2023). “Improving Teamwork in Software Engineering Projects in Higher Education.” In 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 1-8. IEEE.
    https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343476

  • A.Q. Chen, I. Atmosukarto, S.H.L. Goh. (2023). “Transforming Student Learning through Industry-Driven Software Development Projects“. In 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 1-9. IEEE.
    https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343262

  • Tian Zhi, Hongbo Ni, Xiaoguang Yu, A.Q. Chen. (2023). “SleepABP: Noninvasive Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Based on Ballistocardiogram in Sleep State.” In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, pp. 88-92, ACM.
    https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3610697

  • 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1145/3410530.3414398

  • 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19890-3_29

  • 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.

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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
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