Wang-Chiew TAN

Wang-Chiew is a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research. Prior to joining Meta, she led the research efforts at Megagon Labs with the goal of building advanced technologies to enhance search by experience. Prior to that, she was a Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz. She also spent two years at IBM Research - Almaden.

She received her B.Sc. (First Class) in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She received the 2019 VLDB Women in Database Research Award. She is a co-recipient of the 2020 Alonzo Church Award. She is a 2021 NUS outstanding Computing Alumni and she is a Fellow of the ACM.