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Dr. Chunyan Miao has been an Assistant/Associate Professor in the School of Computer Engineering (SCE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) since 2003. She was a founding faculty member and Associate Professor at the Centre for Digital Media (CDM) which was jointly established by The University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Electronic Arts (EA) USA (a leading game company).

Dr. Miao is currently serving as the Founding Director of the Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY). LILY was set up in 2012 with a large research grant of S$26 Million awarded to Dr. Miao by the National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore, NTU, UBC and industry partners. LILY is one of the first research centers focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for help the elderly lead an active, healthy and dignified lifestyle.

For the past two decades, Dr. Miao has worked on new disruptive Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches and theories that synergize human intelligence, artificial intelligence and behavior data analytics (AI powered by humans). AI is experiencing a renaissance, having recently undergone a dramatic shift – from trying to invent intelligent machines towards harnessing the power of the human brain to tackle problems that cannot be solved by computers alone (AI powered by many humans).

Since 2003, Dr. Miao has received over $50 Million in research funding. She has successfully led over ten large national research projects in AI, intelligent interactive digital media, smart health, personal big data analytics and aging in place technologies. Results from Dr. Miao’s basic AI research have been used in important application areas such as technologies for graceful aging, healthy living and innovative learning. Specific high-impact real world examples include Parkinson’s disease predictive analytics, Stroke detection and rehabilitation, Citizen science for helping Dementia patients and 21st century learning behavior analytics and assessment in massive multiuser virtual worlds.

Dr. Miao is the recipient of 8 Best Conference Paper/Presentation Awards and over 20 Research Awards. She has published over 200 journal and conference papers in top-tier venues. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Technology and the new International Journal of Crowd Science. She is also Editor/Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Journal of Internet of Things, and Web Intelligence Journal. She has served as General Chair/Program Committee Chair for several international conferences and is a frequent keynote and invited speaker at leading conferences, universities and research organizations worldwide.

Dr. Miao received a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from NTU, and was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at SFU in Canada. She was awarded a Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship for a collaborative research program in AI empowered new learning technologies at Harvard University and MIT. She has been a Visiting Professor in the Multi-agent Lab, a well-known AI research centre at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Prior to her appointment as LILY Director, Dr. Miao was a founding member/Director of the Emerging Research Lab (2004-2012) at NTU. She has supervised/co-supervised over 30 graduate students at NTU, UBC and SFU. She has graduated 15 PhD students and mentored 11 postdoctoral fellows as main supervisor, all in the area of Artificial Intelligence. Many of them are now award-winning researchers in top academic institutions and companies. Dr. Miao is the recipient of the 2010 SCE Most Popular Lecturer Award and a teaching excellence grant from the Ministry of Education in 2012. In 2015, she was conferred two Koh Boon Hwee Inspirational Mentorship Recognition awards by the President of Singapore.