Profile
Esther specialises in designing and developing AI-driven digital products and solutions that support organisations in transforming their business processes. Her areas of expertise include the application of AI techniques, design thinking, digital solution design, and software automation. She is passionate about exploring how emerging AI technologies can be applied to redesign processes, improve user experiences, and create innovative digital solutions.
Prior to joining NUS-ISS, she was with Singapore Polytechnic, where she contributed to the development of the institution-wide Virtual Campus, creating online learning solutions and digital applications to support teaching and learning across the polytechnic. She also served as a firmware engineer at Wearnes R&D centre, contributing to the design and development of BIOS for in-house designed computers.
Esther is currently the Chief, Software Systems practice at NUS-ISS, where she leads a team of lecturers in the design and delivery of graduate-level programmes focused on developing industry-relevant capabilities in AI, digital innovation, and technology. Her academic and research experience includes product design, with a particular focus on information architecture design. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
- PhD Information Studies (Nanyang Technological University), 2011.
- MSc in Information Studies (Nanyang Technological University), 2002
- BSc in Information Systems (University of London), 1992
- Managed the operation of Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis including financial planning, recruitment, internship and graduation
- Oversee the design of the Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis curriculum
- Taught object oriented analysis and design, mobile application design, web and mobile user interface design and development related topics
- Conducted research and published papers on mobile information presentation and mobile application design subject
- Supervised internship projects with start-up and MNC organisations
- Context awareness
- Information organising and chunking for mobile platform
- Mobile user interface design
- Visualisation and presentation of information on small screen display
- Tan, E. M. & Goh, D. H.(2015). Presenting social media information on mobile devices using multiple contexts. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 67(2), DOI: 10.1108/AJIM-09-2014-0124
- Tan, E. M. & Goh. D. H. (2014). A study of social interaction during mobile information seeking. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1002/asi.23310
- Tan, E. M., Goh, D. H., Theng, Y. L. and Foo, S. (2012). Social Interaction Patterns during Mobile Information Seeking. The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7634, 2012, 106-115.
- Tan, E. M., Foo, S., Goh, D. H., Theng, Y. (2009). TILES: classifying contextual information for mobile tourism applications. Aslib Proceedings, 61(6), 565 - 586. DOI: 10.1108/00012530911005526.
- Tan, E.M.Y., Foo, s., Goh, D.H.,Theng, Y.L.(2009). TILES-A model for classifying and using contextual information for context-aware applications. In the proceedings of 4th International Digital Information Management, ICDIM, DOI:10.1109/ICDIM.2009.5356787.
- Tan, E. M., Goh, D. H., Theng, Y. and Foo, S (2007). An analysis of services for the mobile tourist. Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems, Singapore, 490-494. DOI: 10.1145/1378063.1378142
- Object oriented analysis and design
- Web and Mobile user interface design
- Designing and developing web applications
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