LO Siaw Ling
Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Information Systems (Education); Mentor, SCIS Pedagogy Course; ResWORK Fellow
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, University of Newcastle, 2017
Teaching Topics
- Digital Analytics Technology
- Digital Business – Technologies and Transformation
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsLO Siaw Ling is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator specializing in applied text analytics, AI in education, and actionable intelligence, with a strong track record in leveraging advanced AI and NLP techniques to solve real-world problems across education, business, and urban analytics.
Bridges methodological innovation in AI, NLP, and machine learning with applied impact in education, business, and urban analytics; empowers organizations and communities with actionable intelligence; recognized for interdisciplinary research, real-world deployment, and pedagogical advancements in generative AI; consistently emphasizes practical solutions and transformative decision-making.
Focused research areas include Developing practical AI and NLP approaches to extract actionable insights from diverse data sources; personalizing learning and pedagogical integration of generative AI; agentic evaluation metrics for MCQ and semi-open ended question grading; situational intelligence for urban events using social media; future of work and workforce dynamics.
Bridges methodological innovation in AI, NLP, and machine learning with applied impact in education, business, and urban analytics; empowers organizations and communities with actionable intelligence; recognized for interdisciplinary research, real-world deployment, and pedagogical advancements in generative AI; consistently emphasizes practical solutions and transformative decision-making.
Focused research areas include Developing practical AI and NLP approaches to extract actionable insights from diverse data sources; personalizing learning and pedagogical integration of generative AI; agentic evaluation metrics for MCQ and semi-open ended question grading; situational intelligence for urban events using social media; future of work and workforce dynamics.
Areas of Expertise
Applied text analyticsAI in educationnatural language processing and text miningmachine learning and deep learningknowledge discovery and data miningsocial media marketing and digital strategieslearning and curriculum analyticsurban and social analytics.
Past Awarded Grant
- PromptTutor - Generative AI-enabled Personalised Tutor for Reflection Learning in Programming Courses, Tertiary Education Research Fund (TRF), Ministry of Education (MOE), PI (Project Level): OUH Eng Lieh, Co-PI (Project Level): TAN Kar Way, LO Siaw Ling, 2024, S$286,610.2
- Actionable Situational Intelligence for Urban Events using Social Media, ST Engineering Mission Software & Services Pte Ltd, PI (Project Level): LO Siaw Ling, 2021, S$865,569
- Generative Agents for Pre-Assessment Evaluation: Simulating Student Knowledge-state Deficiencies via LLMs, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1, PI (Project Level): LO Siaw Ling, Co-PI (Project Level): KE Ping Fan, 2025, S$149,200
- DE.AI: Debunking misconceptions for Enhanced Student Learning with the Power of Generative AI, Education Research Fellowship, Center of Teaching Excellence, PI (Project Level): LO Siaw Ling, 2023
- Adaptive Learning with Automated Doubt Mining and Topic Alignment, Technology-Enabled Learning Grant, Centre of Teaching Excellence, PI (Project Level): TAN Kar Way, Co-PI (Project Level): LO Siaw Ling, OUH Eng Lieh, 2020
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- EL Ouh, KW Tan, SL Lo, BKS GanProceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in …, 2025
- Y Zhang, EL Ouh, A Ho, SL Lo, KW Tan, F LinProceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in …, 2025
- Y Zhang, SL Lo, PYW MyintInformation & Management 62 (1), 104065, 2025
- PYW Myint, SL Lo, Y ZhangComputers and Education: Artificial Intelligence 7, 100339, 2024
- PYW Myint, SL Lo, Y ZhangInformation Processing & Management 61 (4), 103695, 2024
- Y Zhang, SL Lo, PY Win Myint
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Qualification
- PhD, University of Newcastle, 2017
Teaching Topics
- Digital Analytics Technology
- Digital Business – Technologies and Transformation