Min-Yen Kan

Min-Yen Kan is an Associate Professor and Vice Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), with a focus on the Department of Computer Science. He earned his Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University.

• Associate Professor, NUS Department of Computer Science
• Vice Dean of Undergraduate Studies, NUS School of Computing

His research spans Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Digital Libraries, and Information Retrieval, with applications in Human-Computer Interaction, Web Systems, and Recommendation Technologies. He leads the Web, Information Retrieval, and NLP Group (WING.NUS), driving projects in scholarly document analysis, dialogue systems, and AI ethics.

Recent publications highlight his work on LLM alignment, multimodal deception detection, and evaluation frameworks. Key trends include ethical NLP, knowledge aggregation in vision-language models, and combating misinformation through AI.

Scientific Awards:

• Best Paper Award, CIKM 2019
• Distinguished Service Awards, ACL
• Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award, JCDL 2012

As a PhD advisor, his students have secured roles at institutions like Google and USTC. He also serves on the ACL Ethics Committee and as associate editor for Information Retrieval and JAIR.