Researcher

Nancy F. Chen is a Senior Principal Scientist and Lead Principal Investigator at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I²R), where she heads the Multimodal Generative AI group and AI for Education programme. A serial best paper award winner and honoree of Singapore’s 100 Women in Tech, her AI research spans culture, healthcare, neuroscience, social media, education and forensics. Chen’s multilingual tech has led to commercial spinoffs and adoption by Singapore’s Ministry of Education. Chen has multiple grants under Singapore’s National Multimodal LLM Programme in addition to leading research efforts for MERaLiON (Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Learning in One Network).

Chen is an active international research advisor and leader, having served as Program Chair for AI conferences such as NeurIPS and ICLR. She is also a member of the APSIPA Board of Governors and has served as IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer and an ISCA Board Member. Previously, she worked at MIT Lincoln Lab during her PhD studies at MIT and Harvard, US.