Min-Yen Kan

Min-Yen Kan serves as Vice Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, bringing extensive expertise in natural language processing, digital libraries, and information retrieval. His academic credentials include BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, where he was part of the Natural Language Processing Group. As a senior member of both ACM and IEEE, he has made significant contributions to computational linguistics, including serving as the ACL Anthology Director (2008-2018) and currently co-chairing the ACL Ethics Committee. His research impact is evidenced by over 16,000 citations, with groundbreaking work in areas such as matrix factorization for online recommendations, keyphrase extraction, and scholarly paper recommendation systems. He leads the Web Information Retrieval/Natural Language Processing Group (WING) at NUS, where he has mentored over 150 research projects and taught more than 2,000 students. His excellence in teaching was recognized with an Excellent Teaching award in 2015, and he has played crucial roles in organizing major conferences in NLP, information retrieval, and digital libraries.