Jul 2004 – present

Research / Teaching Assistant
Ph.D. Candidate

Behavioral IR / Information Seeking

Supervisors: A/P Danny C. C. Poo and Dr Yunjie (Calvin) Xu

Teaching Assistant /

Teaching-related experience

Teaching Assistant for CS2261 Enterprise Systems Development

Designing and conducting tutorial discussions/lab workshops (three 2-hour sessions per week)

Designing and managing project evaluations

Guiding and managing Honors Year tutors (10 in 2006-07; 8 in 2007-08)

Helping guide and solve student problems in a programming/lab-based module

Student assessment – ‘explains concepts clearly’, ‘able to explain difficult concepts’, ‘helpful’, ‘kind’, ‘friendly’, ‘very approachable’, ‘very patient and knowledgeable’ (Teaching Assessment Report, Semester 2, 2006/2007)

Managing all administrative aspects of the module

Helping guide undergraduate students on their Honors Year Projects:

2007-2008

2006-2007

2005-2006

(1 student) Concept Extraction and Presentation (CEPres)

(5 students) 3D Virtual Learning Environment, Concept Extraction

(11 students) Knowledge Community, Automatic Taxonomy Creation, Automatic Classification in Taxonomy, Localization/ Specialization/ Cues/ Personalization, Automated Content Gathering, Manual Content Gathering through school visits, corpus-based search, meta-search engines and inter-library loans

Co-supervised two Secondary 3 students (Joel Low Wor On and Benjamin Lau Wei Yii) under the Raffles Institution Research Education Mentorship Program 2006 on the project “Content and Metadata Population for the Education Taxonomy Portal”

Research Assistant

Developed the concepts for:

K-Comm, a knowledge community to tap on the tacit knowledge residing within every single individual, enhancing one’s self worth in the process. Helped guide the project.

Wrote research grant proposals; CEPres awarded a grant of S$32,000

Engaged in a survey design on information sources

Engaged in experiment design to investigate the moderating role of the ability to specify information need on Query Expansion and Taxonomy.

Developed an Education Taxonomy Portal that will provide services to facilitate schools teachers and students to navigate and look for information effectively. The project will impact the entire education sector in Singapore and the region (Zope/Plone, CPSSkins, Python, Dell PowerEdge 2850 Server)