Resume
Academic Achievements
- Research works:
- - Distance Based Image Classification: A solution to generative classification's conundrum?
- - Co-authors: Daniel Lin, Siying Liu, Hongdong Li
- - Modeling Preferences with Availability Constraints
- - Co-author: Hady Lauw
- - Link Prediction for Bipartite Social Networks: The Role of Structural Holes
- - Co-authors: Shuang Xia, Ee-Peng Lim
- - Natural Language Processing for Solving Math Word Problems
- - MWPToolkit: An Open-Source Framework for Deep Learning-Based Math Word Problem Solvers
- - Co-authors: Yihua Lan, Lei Wang, Dongxiang Zhang, Ee-Peng Lim
- - The Gap of Semantic Parsing: A Survey on Automatic Math Word Problem Solvers
- - Co-authors: Dongxiang Zhang, Lei Wang
- - Modeling Intra-Relation in Math Word Problems with Different Functional Multi-Head Attentions
- - Co-authors: Jierui Li, Lei Wang, Jipeng Zhang, Yan Wang, Dongxiang Zhang
- - Machine Learning Applications in Education
- - Analysis of online posts to discover student learning challenges and inform targeted curriculum improvement actions
- - Co-authors: Michelle Cheong, Jean Chen
- - An Intelligent Platform with Automatic Assessment and Engagement Features for Active Online Discussions
- - Integrated Telegram and Web-based Forum with Automatic Assessment of Questions and Answers for Collaborative Learning
Research Experience
- Courses I am now teaching:
- - CS610: Applied Machine Learning
- - CS602: Algorithm Design and Implementation
- - CS202: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Courses I taught before:
- - IS102: Computer as an Analysis Tool (course code COR1305)
- - ISSS606: Social Analytics and Applications
- - IS703: Decision Analytics and Optimization (Ph.D. course, co-taught with Prof. Lau Hoong Chuin)
- - CS421: Introduction to Machine Learning (known as IS449 before SIS became SCIS)
- - QF624: Machine Learning and Financial Applications
- - CS603: Multi-agent Systems (Taught when Shih-Fen was on sabbatical leave)
- - CS604: Deep Learning for Visual Recognition (co-taught with Yiliang)
Background
- Research interests include machine learning, deep learning, and their applications in education. Brief bio: was a student till year 2011. Now an assistant in SMU and the artificial director of MITB programme.