Wang-Chiew Tan
{{short description|Singaporean computer scientist}}
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| nationality = Singaporean
| field = Computer Science
| work_institution = Megagon Labs
| alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania
| doctoral_advisor = Peter Buneman and Sanjeev Khanna
| known_for = data lineage and data integration
| awards = ACM Fellow
| website = {{URL|https://wangchiew.github.io}}
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Wang-Chiew Tan is a Singaporean computer scientist specializing in data management and natural language processing. Her work in data management includes data provenance (or data lineage) and data integration. She is currently a Research Scientist at Facebook AI,{{Cite web|url=https://wangchiew.github.io/|title=Wang-Chiew Tan's Homepage|website=wangchiew.github.io}} and was previously the Director of Research at Megagon Labs in Mountain View, California.{{r|megagon}}
At Megagon Labs, Tan was the lead researcher on a study with the University of Tokyo that concluded that the company of other people is more effective than pets at making people happy.{{r|happy}}
Education and career
Tan earned her bachelor's degree in computer science (first-class) at the National University of Singapore, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.{{r|megagon}}
Her 2002 dissertation, Data Annotations, Provenance, and Archiving, was jointly supervised by Peter Buneman and Sanjeev Khanna.{{r|diss|mgp}}
Before working at Megagon, she has been a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz beginning in 2002,{{r|newfac}} and, from 2010 to 2012, was on leave from Santa Cruz as a researcher at IBM Research - Almaden.{{r|megagon}}
Recognition
Tan was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2015 "for contributions to data provenance and to the foundations of information integration".{{r|facm}}
References
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{{citation|title=Data annotations, provenance, and archiving|url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=936895|work=ACM Digital Library|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=2018-10-16}}
{{citation|url=https://awards.acm.org/award-winners/TAN_0563874|title=Wang-Chiew Tan Wang-Chiew|work=ACM Fellows|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=2018-10-16}}
{{citation|title=Pets don't make humans immediately happy the way other people do|url=https://qz.com/1220286/pets-dont-make-humans-immediately-happy-the-way-other-people-do/|magazine=Quartz|first=Katherine Ellen|last=Foley|date=March 3, 2018}}
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External links
- {{Google Scholar id|sOY-wjkAAAAJ}}
- [https://wangchiew.github.io Home page]
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Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
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