Scholar
Nancy F. Chen
Google Scholar ID: K3Z9UiAAAAAJ
ISCA Fellow, AAIA Fellow, Multimodal Generative AI Group Leader, AI for Education Head at A*STAR
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,727
H-index
25
i10-index
75
Publications
20
Co-authors
32
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025 ISCA Fellow, citation: For significant contributions and technical leadership in multilingual speech processing, multimodal human-machine communication, and AI technology deployment. 2025 AAIA Fellow, 2025 Inducted Professional Member, IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) - IEEE honor society for top engineers. 2025 Asia Women Tech Leader Award. Keynotes at Multimedia Modeling (MMM) 2025, ACPA 2025, 2025 EMNLP CODI CRAC, O-COCOSDA 2025. Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2023. Inaugural A*STAR Fellow, 2023.
Research Experience
- Served as program chair for NeurIPS 2025 and ICLR 2023, IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer 2023. Involved in multiple research projects on multimodal and multilingual technologies. Developed speech evaluation technology deployed by the Ministry of Education, Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic to support home-based learning and promote spoken language education.
Education
- Received her PhD from MIT and Harvard. During her PhD, she worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on multilingual speech processing.
Background
- Leads the Multimodal Generative AI Group and the AI for Education Programme at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Also a principal investigator at Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), A*STAR. The team works on multimodal, multilingual large language models with targeted applications in education, healthcare, and defense.
Miscellany
- Part of the AI Alliance led by IBM and Meta. Team developed the SeaEval Benchmark for multicultural and multilingual foundation models. Featured in ELLE magazine, March 8, 2025.
