CHIEN-SING LEE's
personal (unofficial) website
Chien-Sing, an IEEE Senior Member, comes from a pure Science background during her secondary school, then education for her first and second degrees and Information Technology for her PhD. She respects each discipline for its uniqueness and is awed by how each enriches and complements the other. What she is or will be, is totally by God's grace and wisdom.
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She still stands on the shoulders of giants. Special thanks to her mentors, both international and local when she was studying at Universiti Putra Malaysia (1987-1993), Universiti Malaya (1996-1999) and during her tenure in Multimedia University [MMU] (1997-2011), Georgia Tech (Feb-June 2009) and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman [UTAR] (2013-2015).
Credits (chronological order)
MMU-UTAR leaders of 14 (1997-2011) + 2 years (2013-2015), Prof. Hean-Teik Chuah (Fulbright and and IEEE Fellow,), Prof. Hong-Tat Ewe (MIT) with regards to IEEE Education tenets, universality, interdisciplinary (engineering education, computer science, computing, creative industries education, sustainability), and Chinese culture and Buddhism.
ex-PhD supervisor Prof. Yashwant Prasad Singh for artificial intelligence foundations
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Dr. K. Daniel Wong for design thinking, computational thinking, and interdisciplinary education and Smart Cities, mild cognitive impairment FRGS studies (post-MMU)
Prof. Bo Jiang (CT-STEM-HCI)​, Prof. Siu-Cheung Kong, Prof. Maggie Wang (post-MMU),
Late grandma, Mdm. Lion Long Neo, parents and siblings
The IEEE, ACM and authors of the US global standard textbooks she has used since the the beginning of her computing career in 1997 till to date, especially on
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Multimedia, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Human Computer Interaction (in Multimedia University),
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Games design, graphic design (in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman),
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Information Systems Analysis and Design (Profs. Valacich, George and Hoffer), Project Management, and Information Systems Management and Strategy (Profs. Gamble, Peteraf and Thompson
Prof. David E. Drew (collaboration in past ICCE workshops)​
Prof. John H. Hughes on mild cognitive impairment /dementia FRGS research
Prof. Imre Rudas, Prof. M. C. Zhou, Prof. G. Fortino, Prof. G. Long, Prof. T. Strasser, for their inspirational research
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Special thanks to the following, in the past and/or present, for making her achievements possible:
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Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship
The Fulbright Commission:
Prof. Malachi Edwin Vethamani (Fulbright influence while she was studying in Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Prof. Abtar Kaur (Fulbright influence while she was studying in Universiti Malaya)
Prof. Hean-Teik Chuah (Fulbright influence in Multimedia University and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman)
US Fulbright Professors who came to Multimedia University (MMU)
Her Fulbright Visiting Fellowship at
Lehigh University's Lehigh Valley STEM lab with Lehigh University's EEC Faculty and colleagues (Jan 2009), Prof. MC Chuah for her earnest efforts to help those less privileged in the Lehigh Valley, and at
Georgia Tech's (Feb-June 2009) Learning-by-Design lab with Prof. Janet Kolodner, and Prof. Ashok K. Goel's Design Intelligence Lab in 2008/2009.
Though a short 6 months, it provided a richer, broader and deeper views towards computing, information systems, and Artificial Intelligence, enhancing her CogMoLab research in Multimedia University (MMU).​
This invaluable Fellowship, the support of her mentors far and wide and locally in Malaysia and her Multimedia University team, privileged her to be awarded the 2009 Ten Outstanding Young Malaysian (Science and Technology Development) by the Junior Chamber International (M).
Eastern overseas exposure
JICA (2007) for opportunities to visit outstanding universities and industries. Experiencing what the future would be like through VR headsets and seeing corn-based devices (my first experience with the circular economy). They redefined the role of museums, as not only the past, but also, the future.
​A 2-year (2011-2013) research venture as a Faculty at the Graduate Institute of Networked Learning Technologies, National Central University (NCU), Taiwan on the teaching of Mathematics to students in grades 1-3, with Prof. Tak-Wai Chan.
Thanks to NCU and ex-colleagues, as she is not familiar with the primary school environment. Self-explorations to exhibitions during her free time, opened her eyes to design competitions, e.g. RedDot. It triggered an innate curiosity, arising from prior experiences at the Georgia Aquarium, and Singapore Arts Science Centre.
Creative Industries
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​A 2-year (2013-2015) adventure in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) under the same leadership as when she was in MMU, provided invaluable insights into another side of design-based research - in games design, pre-school and graphic design.
Together with Dr. K. Daniel Wong, she integrated lessons learnt from prior studies in MMU and Georgia Tech and mainly, Dym, Agogino, Eris, Frey, & Leifer's (2005) Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning with UTAR's then Creative industries' syllabi. Lessons learnt on design, were enlightening.
Returned to computing
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​She has since returned to computing and information systems at Sunway University, building mainly on computing fundamentals in the past, Dym et. al.'s propositions and past research by
the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, the Ministry of (Higher) Education e-Science, IRPA grants,
Multimedia University grants,
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship/grant,
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman grant,
Sunway University's grant,
the Malaysian Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, and
... Prof. Bo Jiang's China's Natural Science Foundation grant ...