SHARON S.L. TAN

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Academic Co-Director, Center for Health Informatics


Teaching Interest
  • Healthcare Management and Information Systems
  • Consumer Health Informatics
  • Knowledge management
  • Software Team Dynamics



Class Instructor National University of Singapore
  • Software Team Dynamics (IS2104), 2009-now
  • B2C Ecommerce Applications (CS4264), 2006-2009
  • Knowledge Systems and Management (CS5253), 2006, 2008-2009
  • Knowledge Systems and Management (IS5112), 2010-2014
  • Contemporary Theories in IS (IS6003), 2015-now
  • Seminars in Information Systems I (IS6005), co-taught with other IS faculty, 2011
  • Seminars in Information Systems I (CS6771), co-taught with other IS faculty, 2009

Carnegie Mellon University
  • Organizational Behavior (70311), 2002-2003



Thesis Committee
    PhD Thesis Supervisor/Co-Supervisor
    • Lingling Xu
      1. Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award (2010)
      2. Placement: Agency for Integrated Care, Senior Research Analyst
    • Nadee Goonwardene, IS PhD Candidate (conferred in June 2016)
      1. Research Achievement Award (2015)
      2. Research fellow at Singapore Management University
    • Jiang Junhui, IS PhD Candidate (conferred in June 2016)
      1. Research Achievement Award (2015)
      2. Placement: Assistant Professor at South China University of Technology
    • Oteng Ntsweng, 2nd year IS PhD Candidate
    • Ying-Qiu Dong, 3rd year IS PhD candidate
    • Ong Zhi Quan, 2nd year IS PhD Candidate

    PhD Thesis Committee Member
    • Yu Tong
      1. Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award (2010)
      2. Placement: City University of Hong Kong, Assistant Professor
    • Kishaloy Halder, 2nd year CS PhD candidate

    PhD Thesis Examiner
    • Wang Xinwei, 2007
    • Naresh Kumar Agarwal, 2010
    • Pee Loo Geok, 2010
    • Yi Cheng, 2011
    • Liu Na, 2012
    • Faezeh Karimi, 2012
    • Cui Tingru, 2014
    • Yang Zhenbin, 2014
    • Yue Yanzhen, 2015
    • Supunmali Ahangama, 2015
    • Zhang ZhenSheng, 2016
    • Yang Yang, proposal defense in Jan 2016
    • Harry, Nguyen Duy Hoang, proposal defense in Feb 2016
    • Liu Yang, proposal defense in Jul 2016

    Master Thesis Examiner
    • Lim Tze Kuan, Eric, 2007
    • Zhang Dong, 2007
    • Li Mingguo, 2011
    • Cheng Yihong, 2012



Teaching Grants
  • NUS Learning Innovation Fund – Technology (LIFT), “Enhancing Research Skills in Graduate Nursing Students: Effectiveness of An E-learning Module”, 2013 – 2015, $9,800, Co-investigator (collaboration with NUS Alice School of Nursing, Co-PI)



Industrial Attachment
  • Project Title: Operational and Clinical Process Improvement for Medication Management
    • Host Organization: IHiS (Integrated Health Information Systems)
    • Students supervised: TIO Celia and KOH Yi Wen



Others
  • Established the CMU/ETIM and NUS/IS concurrent Masters degree program (CDP) for Electronic Commerce students and Information Systems degree program (2012; 2016)
  • Revamped a core PhD module for IS Department on Contemporary Theories in IS (2015)
  • Co-created E-learning module on Research Methodology for Graduate Nursing Students (2014)
  • Initiated the integrated 3-hour lecture-and-tutorial pedagogy adopted by IS department
  • Developed new core IS module on Software Team Dynamics, with innovative classroom activities, simulation tools, and video-based discussions
  • Workshop organizing member for 3rd (2013) and 4th (2014) School of Computing Term Project Showcase (STePS)