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TAN Kar Way is an award-winning academic leader and educator whose impactful research and teaching in healthcare analytics, learning analytics, and sustainable operations have advanced data-driven solutions for real-world challenges in healthcare, education, and logistics.
Bridges methodological innovation in analytics and AI with practical applications in healthcare, education, and sustainable operations; recognized for translating research into practice through collaborations with hospitals, industry, and public agencies; strengths in interdisciplinary leadership, impactful teaching, and advancing AI-supported, data-driven decision-making for societal benefit.
Focused research areas include Operational process improvement in healthcare (patient flow, emergency procedures, bed management, surgical scheduling) using simulation, machine learning, and optimization; population well-being and social participation analytics; AI-enabled person-centred care and healthy ageing; informal student reflections and automated doubt detection for personalized learning; leveraging large language models (LLMs) for educational tools and assessment; sustainability analytics in logistics and smart cities.
Bridges methodological innovation in analytics and AI with practical applications in healthcare, education, and sustainable operations; recognized for translating research into practice through collaborations with hospitals, industry, and public agencies; strengths in interdisciplinary leadership, impactful teaching, and advancing AI-supported, data-driven decision-making for societal benefit.
Focused research areas include Operational process improvement in healthcare (patient flow, emergency procedures, bed management, surgical scheduling) using simulation, machine learning, and optimization; population well-being and social participation analytics; AI-enabled person-centred care and healthy ageing; informal student reflections and automated doubt detection for personalized learning; leveraging large language models (LLMs) for educational tools and assessment; sustainability analytics in logistics and smart cities.
Areas of Expertise
Healthcare applicationOperations managementSimulationBusiness processesSustainable supply chain
Past Awarded Grant
- AI-InterRAI: AI-Assisted InterRAI Assessment and Evaluation for Person-Centred Care Planning and Healthy Ageing, Singapore-New Zealand Joint Grant Call on Leveraging AI for Healthy Ageing, AI Singapore, National University of Singapore (NUS), PI (Project Level): DAI Bing Tian, Co-PI (Project Level): TAN Kar Way, NGO Chong Wah, 2025, S$1,329,998.8
- 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
- Development of the Emergency Department PRedictIve resOuRce (ED-PRIOR) Analytics Framework for Hospital Resource Utilisation in Trauma Patients, SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medicine Research Grant Initiative: Special Category (HSR-HEARTS), SingHealth Duke-NUS, Co-PI (Project Level): TAN Kar Way, 2024, S$57,750
- A Study for Evaluating Energy Sustainability Efforts in Maritime Terminal Operations in Singapore and with Selected International Ports (Phase 1), Singapore Maritime Institute, PI (Project Level): TAN Kar Way, 2015, S$70,224
- Green Transformation Lab, DHL, PI (Project Level): TAN Kar Way, 2015, S$480,000
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
- MH Tan, KW Tan, HC Lau2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2027-2032, 2024
- KW TAN, SSW LAM, SM CHEAHSingapore Management University, 2024
- X Jin, KW Tan2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 4922-4930, 2023
- MH Tan, KW Tan, HC Lau2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 1533-1538, 2023
Qualification
- PhD, Singapore Management University, 2014
Teaching Topics
- Analytics Foundations
- Analytics Applications for Smart Living
- Introductory Data Analytics in Healthcare
- Data Analytics Lab (Masters)
- Process Analytics & Applications (Masters)
- Capstone Projects (Masters)
