Talks & Publications

Selected presentations, writing, and moderation

Selected examples of my public talks, writing, and moderation in research data services, open scholarship, scholarly communication, and library technology.

Conference & seminar presentations

• FORCE2026 — Does Agentic Deep Search Converge? Reproducibility Questions for LLM-Driven Literature Discovery, with Aaron Tay and Dong Danping.
• IATUL 2025 (Shanghai, China) — Supporting Ethical Research: Implementing Local AI Transcription Services for IRB Compliance
• CLSTL 2025 (Gandhinagar, India) — Invited Speaker, Library Research Support in the AI Era: New Tools, New Allies, New Possibilities
• Singapore Rising Scholars Conference 2024 (SMU) — Streamlined workflow for qualitative data analysis with Whisper and ATLAS.ti, with Bryan Leow and Dong Danping.
• 13th International CALIBER 2022 (BHU, Varanasi, India) — Theme Speaker, The emerging area of data services: A case of SMU Libraries.
• SAUL Copyright Seminar 2022 (SMU) — Moderator, Panel Discussion on Text and Data Mining, exploring the implications of Singapore’s text-and-data-mining copyright exception for academics and librarians.
• LAS Conference 2019 (Singapore) — Rebranding NTU Library: A Transmedia Approach, with Samantha Seah and Thavamalar Mohan.

Writing

• 2025 — Why University Libraries Should Not Overlook Research Staff, Times Higher Education (Campus).
• 2024 - An AI Assistant to Streamline the Research Process, Katina Magazine