Asst Prof Edwin CHNG

Biography

Edwin Chng is an assistant professor of science education at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore. Prior to joining NIE, Edwin was trained as a secondary school Physics and Biology teacher in Singapore. During his time as a schoolteacher, Edwin has had teaching and curriculum leadership experience in two local secondary schools, as well as a short research analyst stint with Research & Management Information Division, Ministry of Education, Singapore. Edwin’s current research interest lies in the extraction of relevant student information from classrooms to support evidence-based intervention strategies. As such, he works primarily in the fields of multimodal learning analytics, educational data mining, and artificial intelligence (AI) in education. With the use of student pose and gaze data, Edwin has studied how students collaborate and how teachers facilitate in open-ended learning environments such as makerspaces. With the use of computer vision, Edwin has examined the deployment of AI agents to support science teachers with informed pedagogical and technological considerations. Overall, Edwin is interested in the educated use of technological innovations to augment teaching and learning in traditional classrooms.

Learn more about Asst Prof Edwin CHNG's Invited Talk: Augmenting Teacher Noticing in Science Experiments: Using Computer Vision to Extract Student Activity Information for Science Teachers