TAN Wee Kek

COM3-02-35

651 66731

www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~tanwk

Associate Professor (Educator Track)
Fellow, NUS Teaching Academy
Lead Coordinator, NUS Artificial Intelligence Competency Programme (AICP)
Member, School Curriculum Committee (SCC)
Member, Faculty Promotion in Educator Track Committee (FPEC)
Chair, Department Curriculum Committee (DCC)
Member, Department Search Committee

Ph.D. (Information Systems, National University of Singapore)
B.Comp. (Information Systems, National University of Singapore)

Dr. TAN Wee Kek is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He served as an Assistant Dean in the School's Office of Student Life from 2019 to 2024. He has also been a Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy since 2017 and served as Vice-Chair of its Executive Committee from 2020 to 2024. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems in July 2013 and a Bachelor of Computing in Information Systems (First Class Honours) in July 2007, both from the National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he attended Singapore Polytechnic and graduated with a Diploma in Computer Information Systems with Merit in July 2001. His current research interest focuses on Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), including the adoption and use of artificial intelligence technologies in teaching and learning. In terms of disciplinary research, he has a keen interest in consumer-based information technology (e.g., online decision aids, social computing, virtual worlds, and consumer cloud services). Most of his research is based on design science, a well-established problem-solving paradigm that has been widely adopted in information systems research. His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), and the Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE). His work has also been presented or is forthcoming in conferences such as the ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference (SIGMIS-CPR), IFIP Working Group 8.2 Working Conference (IFIP WG8.2), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), and International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI). He received the faculty-level Research Achievement Award in 2013 and was a nominee for the ACM SIGMIS 2009 Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year. He presently teaches undergraduate students, graduate students, and adult learners subjects on software engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. He is the Lead Coordinator of the NUS Artificial Intelligence Competency Programme (AICP). For his unwavering commitment to educational excellence, he has won the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) multiple times over the years and has been placed on the Honour Roll of both awards twice. In 2017, he was also conferred the Commendation Medal (Pingat Kepujian) by the President of Singapore.

RESEARCH AREAS

Digital Transformation, Platforms & Innovation

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Consumer-based Information Technology (e.g., online decision aids, social computing, virtual worlds and consumer cloud services)
Technology-Enhanced Learning
Learning Analytics
Information Systems Education

RESEARCH PROJECTS

RESEARCH GROUPS

TEACHING INNOVATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Tan, W. K., Teo, H. H., Tan, C. H., and Yang, Y. "The Social Dimension of Mobile Commerce - Engaging Customers through Group Purchase," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9751, HCI in Business, Government, and Organizations: eCommerce and Innovation, Nah, F. F.-H. and Tan, C. H. Eds, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016, pp. 468-479. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016 ICHCI
Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Productpedia - A Collaborative Electronic Product Catalog for Ecommerce 3.0," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9191, HCI in Business, Nah, F. F.-H. and Tan, C. H. Eds, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015, pp. 370-381. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Los Angeles, California, United States, August 2-7, 2015 ICHCI
Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "When Two is Better than One - Product Recommendation with Dual Information Processing Strategies," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 8527, HCI in Business, Nah, F. F.-H. Ed, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2014, pp. 775-786. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Creta Maris, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014 ICHCI
Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "Conveying Information Effectively in a Virtual World: Insights from Synthesized Task Closure and Media Richness,"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 63:6, June 2012, pp. 1198-1212.
Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "Consumer-based Decision Aid that Explains Which to Buy: Decision Confirmation or Overconfidence Bias?,"Decision Support Systems (DSS), 53:1, April 2012, pp. 127-141.
Tan, W. K., and Tan, C. H. "Teaching Information Systems Development via Process Variants,"Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE), 21:2, Summer 2010, pp. 159-172.
Tan, C. H., Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Designing an Information Systems Development Course to Incorporate Agility, Flexibility, and Adaptability,"Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), 26, March 2010, Article 10, pp. 171-194.
Tan, W. K., Nguyen, T. T. D., Oo Tha, K. K., and Yu, X. "Designing Groupware that Fosters Social Capital Creation: Can Facebook Support Global Virtual Team?," in Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, California, United States, August 6-9, 2009, Paper 525.
Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "Would I Use My Personal Blog for Commercial Exchange?," in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Verona, Italy, June 8-10, 2009, 78.
Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Blogging to Express Self and Social Identity, Any One?," in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Verona, Italy, June 8-10, 2009, Paper 42.
Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Training Students to be Innovative Information Systems Developers: Synergizing Project-based Learning with Problem-based Learning," in Proceedings of the 47th ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference (SIGMIS-CPR), Limerick, Ireland, May 28-30, 2009, pp. 19-32. [2009 Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Nominee]