Researcher

Nancy F. Chen

Senior Principal Scientist and Lead Principal Investigator

A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I2R)

Nancy F. Chen is a Senior Principal Scientist and Lead PI at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I²R). She heads the Multimodal Generative AI group and AI for Education programme. A serial best paper award winner, her AI research spans culture, healthcare, neuroscience, social media, education and forensics. Chen’s multilingual tech led to commercial spinoffs and adoption by Singapore’s Ministry of Education. She is Program Chair for NeurIPS 2025, ICLR 2023, APSIPA Governor (2024–2026), IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2024), ISCA Board Member (2021-2024), and Singapore’s 100 Women in Tech (2021). Previously, she worked at MIT Lincoln Lab during her PhD studies at MIT and Harvard, US.

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