Please email Kwan Hui Lim for his updated and full curriculum vitae.
Ph.D. - Engineering (Computer Science), The University of Melbourne, Australia [2018]
Master of Science (Research), The University of Western Australia, Australia [2013]
Bachelor of Computer Science (1st Class Honours), The University of Western Australia [2007]
Assistant Professor, Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design [2018 - Present]
Director, Social and Urban Analytics Lab [2018 - Present]
Chair, ISTD Undergraduate Committee [2020 - Present]
Fellow, SUTD Academy [2019 - Present]
DSTG Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Media Analysis, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne [2017 - 2018]
Visiting Researcher, Department of Design & Innovation, Case Western Reserve University [2016]
Research Engineer, Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University [2013 - 2014]
AI/Technical Advisor, Smoove Xperience Pte Ltd [2022 - Present]
Advisory Member, MOE Syllabus Review Committee for H2 Computing [2022]
Chief AI Advisor, EdTech Startup [2021 - 2022]
Advisory Member, IMDA Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee [2018 - 2020]
Research Intern, IBM Research Australia [2016]
Visiting Researcher, Ping An Technology, Shenzhen, China [2013]
Recognised among the World’s Top 2% Scientists based on a list by Stanford University [2021, 2022, 2023]
Nominated for Asian Young Scientist Fellowship [2024]
Excellent Presentation Award, 15th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering [2023]
Shortlisted for Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship [2019]
Best Paper Runner-up, Online Recommender Systems and User Modeling Workshop [2018]
Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning (Only 4 awarded in Australia, out of all PhD students) [2016]
Shortlisted for the Melbourne School of Engineering PhD Thesis Prize [2018]
Currie Hall Academic Prize (Top student at Currie Hall, out of 300+ residents) [2007]
Dean’s Congratulations for 1st Class Honours Award [2007]
Public Transport Authority Management Science Prize [2006]
Winthrop Australia Prize in Operating Systems [2005]
Dean’s Congratulations for Overall Outstanding Academic Performance [2005]
Multiple Top Student Awards for BCompSci Studies [2004 - 2007]
Awarded for topping the following nine units: Visualization; Mobile and Wireless Computing; Decision Making; Computer Networks; Concurrent Programming; Computer & Network Security; Operating Systems; International Information Systems; and Information Systems.
Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship for PhD research [2014 - 2017]
Melbourne International Research Scholarship for PhD research [2014 - 2017]
NICTA Top-Up Scholarship for PhD Research [2014 - 2017]
UWA CSSE Ad Hoc Top-Up Scholarship for MSc Research [2012 - 2013]
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship for MSc Research [2011 - 2013]
Australian Postgraduate Award for MSc Research [2011 - 2013]
UWA ‘Safety Net’ Top-Up Scholarship for MSc Research [2011 - 2013]
Currie Hall Bursary Scholarship [2006]
Singapore Armed Forces Local Study Award for BCompSci Studies [2004 - 2007]
16 competitive travel grants for conference attendance [2012 - 2017]
UniMelb Conference Travel Scholarship 2017, ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant 2017, Google PhD Travel Scholarship 2017, UMAP’16 Student Travel Grant 2016, ACM SIGWEB Student Travel Award 2016, Google Australia PhD Travel Scholarship 2016, ICAPS’16 Doctoral Travel Grant 2016, Google PhD Travel Scholarship 2015, IJCAI-AIJ Student Travel Grant 2015, IJCAI Student Volunteer Program 2015, ACM SIGMOD Student Travel Award 2015, UWA Postgraduate Students’ Association Conference Travel Award 2012, IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant 2012, ACM SIGWEB Student Travel Award 2012, UWA Graduate Research Travel Award 2012, IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant 2012
Industry Track Chair, 17th International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’25)
Associate Editor, Social Network Analysis and Mining
Senior PC Member: IJCAI’25, IJCAI’24, IJCAI’23, AAAI’22
PC Member: ECMLPKDD’25, KDD’25, AAMAS’25, AAAI’25, AusDM’24, CIKM’24, ECML-PKDD’24, ACL’24, IJCNN24, NAACL24, WNUT’24, AAMAS’24, AAAI’24, CIKM’23, EMNLP’23, ECAI’23, ACL’23, EACL’23, AAMAS’23, AAAI’23, WNUT’22, EMNLP’22, CIKM’22, RecSys’22, IJCAI’22, NAACL’22, ACL’22, AAMAS’22, WNUT’21, CIKM’21 Resource Track, EMNLP’21, ACL/IJCNLP’21, AAMAS’21, EACL’21, AAAI’21, CSCW’20, CIKM’20 Resource Track, IJCAI’20, ACL’20, AAAI’20, CSCW’19 Poster Track, CSCW’18 Poster Track, KG4IR’18, WNUT’16
Reviewer (Conferences): CHI’22 Main Track, CSCW’21 Main Track, ICMI’19, ECML-PKDD’19 Demonstration Track, CSCW’19 Main Track, CSCW’18 Main Track, WCNC’18, CHI’18 Main Track, CHI’17 Late-breaking Work, CSCW’17 Interactive Posters, CHI’16 Late-breaking Work, CSCW’16 Main Track, CHI’15 Work-in-Progress, PIMRC’12
Reviewer (Journals): Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, EPJ Data Science, VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (ACM), CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Information & Management (Elsevier), Journal of Spatial Science (Taylor & Francis), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), IEEE Access, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Sustainability (MDPI), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Landscape and Urban Planning (Elsevier), Information Systems (Elsevier), Knowledge and Information Systems (Springer), ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (MDPI), Sensors (MDPI), Journal of Location Based Services (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Springer), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier), Big Data Research (Elsevier)