Local Organising Committee

Professor Jack Qiu

Professor Jack Qiu is the Chair and Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he directs the Asian Communication Research Centre (ACRC). His work focuses on digital media and social change, particularly in Asia and the Global South. Professor Qiu publishes in both English and Chinese, with some of his works translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA) and a recipient of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy. He also served as a Past President of the Chinese Communication Association (CCA).

Professor May Lwin

Professor May Lwin is the Associate Provost (Faculty Affairs) and the President’s Chair Professor of Communication Studies at WKWSCI, NTU. She is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy and Sustainable Cities (CHESS), a Joint Professor at the NTU LKC School of Medicine, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne. As a Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), Professor May specializes in strategic and health communication, with research projects focused on improving health outcomes in communities.

Professor Edson Tandoc

Edson C. Tandoc Jr. is the Associate Chair for Research and Strategy and a Professor at WKWSCI, NTU, as well as the Director of the Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube). He is the incoming chair of the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). His research focuses on the sociology of message construction in the context of digital journalism. He has conducted studies on how news and social media messages are constructed. This research has also led him to examine journalism from the perspective of news consumers, exploring how readers interpret critical incidents in journalism, engage in reconsidering journalistic norms, and how changing news consumption patterns facilitate the spread of fake news.

Associate Professor Hyunjin Kang

Hyunjin Kang (Ph.D., Penn State University) is an Associate Professor at WKWSCI, NTU. Before joining WKWSCI in 2016, she worked as a postdoctoral scientist at the Centre for the Connected Consumer at the George Washington University School of Business. Her research focuses on the psychological and social impacts of new interactive technologies, including mobile, social media, AI, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Specifically, she examines the role of agency (human and machine agency) in human-technology interactions, with a focus on two key areas: persuasion and privacy management. Her work explores the implications of human and machine agency for persuasion in strategic communication contexts such as health communication and advertising, while also investigating online users' privacy-related perceptions and management, along with the underlying psychological mechanisms.

Assistant Professor Benjamin (Benjy) Li Junting

Benjamin (Benjy) Li is the Assistant Chair (Undergraduate Studies) and an Assistant Professor at WKWSCI, NTU, where he leads the Fatigue in Communication and Technology Research Lab at the Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube). Benjy was awarded the 2021 Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowship by Singapore’s Ministry of Education (MOE). In 2014, he became the inaugural Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, also awarded by MOE. He spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, part of the Department of Communication.

Dr Lee Chu Keong

Dr. Lee is the Assistant Chair (Lifelong Learning and International Relations) and the Programme Director of the MSc (Knowledge Management) program at WKWSCI, NTU. Although trained as a chemical engineer, he pursued further studies in information science and knowledge management. In addition to his role at NTU, he has taught at both Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic. His current teaching assignments include graduate courses on knowledge management, business information sources and services, and data science.

Jacqueline Au Yong

Jacqueline Au Yong is the Head of Administration at WKWSCI, NTU, where she leads the administrative team to drive strategic and operational alignment and enhance capabilities to support quality education and research. Her experience spans stakeholder management and partnerships across the public, private and social sectors. She serves on the Board of Directors for the charity Every Child Matters, advising on charity management and fundraising, and is part of the Silent Heroes Award Organizing Committee for 2023. Jacqueline has also taught Sociology of Health, and Social Action and Policy and Social Theories as an adjunct faculty member at the Singapore Institute of Technology.