About
Passionate about machine learning and computer science. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering at UTAR, after graduating with Distinction in BCS (Hons) Artificial Intelligence. Awarded grants and prizes totaling up to MYR 650,000 (USD 150,000) for leading research and innovative projects. Experienced in developing machine learning applications across finance, education, blockchain, and sustainability, while consistently achieving 10+ top championships.
- AI Researcher and Ph.D. Candidate with publications in IEEE Transactions and other Q1 journals.
- Received international research mobility grants for collaborations in France, Taiwan, Germany, Japan, and Canada.
- Secured multiple project grants as Principal Investigator, including Payment Network Digital Campus grants.
- Back-to-back recipient of Outstanding Talent Award 2024 and 2025 by the university.
- Served as Postgraduate Representative in the Student Representative Council (SRC) from 2023 to 2025.
Personal Details
- Website: jingjietan.com
- Phone: +6011-3810 0852
- Email: 2000tanjingjie@gmail.com
- GitHub: jingjie00
- Linked In: linkedin.com/in/jingjietan/
- Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=BJ4i9nkAAAAJ
- Nationality: Malaysian
Experiences
Experience in industrial and academic sectors across multiple countries.
Industrial Experience
Tanya Jiwa
AI Engineer
April 2025 - October 2025
Contract
- Delivered an LLM-powered mental health automation system that reduced human resource requirements by 72% for the education sector while maintaining high-quality psychological services.
- Advised on technology stack choice with CTO, and streamlined testing, achieving a 30% reduction in development time and a 40% acceleration in cloud-hosted deployment readiness.
Huawei Technologies
Network Engineer
October 2020 - January 2021
Intern, Malaysia
- Developed automation scripts for Network Technical Deployment, facilitating deployment across 100 servers and accelerating the process by approximately 20x.
- Executed Project Management with Data Analytics for networking hardware deployment across 3 projects with Malaysian Telecom Companies.
- Coordinated with 2 local departments, headquarters, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective communication.
Angsamas Media Coding School
Programming Lecturer
September 2022 - February 2023
Contract, Malaysia
- Delivered comprehensive AI, IT and programming lectures with hands-on practical sessions to over 500 students, including working professionals.
- Achieved 250% growth in both enrollment and revenue through effective curriculum delivery and student engagement.
Self-employed
Software & Website Developer
Ongoing
Freelancer
- Designed and developed more than 10 web and mobile applications for small-sized enterprises according to provided business requirements.
Academic Experience
Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN)
Department of Computer Science
September 2025 - January 2026
Visiting Scholar (Fully Funded), Canada
Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT)
Advanced Artificial Intelligence Research Center
February 2025 - March 2025
Visiting Scholar (Fully Funded), Japan
Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH)
Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS)
May 2025 - June 2025
Visiting Scholar (Fully Funded), Germany
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)
ICS Multimedia System Laboratory
September 2024 - October 2024
Visiting Scholar (Fully Funded), Taiwan
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN)
Laboratoire de Traitement et Transport de l'Information
April 2024 - June 2024
Visiting Scholar (Fully Funded), France
Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) Specialized in Machine Learning
November 2022 - November 2025
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science (LKCFES)
Achievements: Best Presenter & Best Project Demo @ UTAR Postgraduate Colloquium 2024, Best Student Excellence Awards @ Joint International Workshop 2025 on AI Engineering and Technology (AIET 2025)
Scholarships: UTAR Education Foundation Scholarship (Fast Track Ph.D.), UTAR Research Fund – Research Scholarship Scheme, Greatech Integration – Student Assistantship
| Research Areas: | Meta Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Human Robot Interaction |
| Scholarship Awards: | Fully Funded Direct PhD Program |
| UTAR Education Foundation Scholarship | |
| UTAR Research Fund – Research Scholarship Scheme |
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours), Specialized in Artificial Intelligence
June 2019 - June 2022
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT)
CGPA: 3.9717 (First Ranked), Book Prize, 7 President's List, 1 Dean's List
Achievements: Innovation and Creativity Award, SDG Merit Award
Scholarship: Hong Leong Foundation Scholarship, UTAR Top Achiever Scholarship
Awards:Foundation in Science (Physical Science)
May 2018 - May 2019
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Center for Foundation Studies (CFS)
CGPA: 3.8272, President's List, Dean's List
Scholarships: UTAR Top Achiever Scholarship
High School (Science Stream)
January 2013 - December 2017
Bagan Jaya High School (SMK)
Grade: Malaysian Certificate of Education (SPM) 8As and 2Bs
Achievements: Outstanding Student Awards (2017), Best Student Leader (2015-2017)
| Malaysian Certificate of Education (SPM): | 8As and 2Bs |
Publications
Publications with international collaboration, including Q1 journals in IEEE Transactions, conference proceedings, and peer-reviewed works across computational social systems, natural language processing, machine learning, and cybersecurity.
Journals
1. Prompting-in-a-Series: Psychology-Informed Contents and Embeddings for Personality Recognition with Decoder-Only Models
Tan, J. J., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., Hum, Y.-C., Mokraoui, A., & Lo, S.-Y. (2025).
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcss.2025.3593323 · JIF: 4.9
2. Adaptive Focal Loss with Personality Stratification for Stably Mitigating Hard Class Imbalance in Multi-Dimensional Personality Recognition
Tan, J. J., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., & Hum, Y.-C. (2025).
Adaptive focal loss with personality stratification for stably mitigating hard class imbalance in multi-dimensional personality recognition. Scientific Reports, 15(1). Springer Nature. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-22853-y. Link · JIF: 3.9
3. Psychology-Informed Natural Language Understanding: Integrating Personality and Emotion-Aware Features for Comprehensive Sentiment Analysis and Depression Detection
Tan, J. J., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., & Hum, Y. C. (2025).
Psychology-informed Natural Language Understanding: Integrating Personality and Emotion-aware Features for Comprehensive Sentiment Analysis and Depression Detection. Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology, 33(S4). https://doi.org/10.47836/pjst.33.s4.04 · JIF: 1.2
4. SiMiC: Context-Aware Silicon Microstructure Characterization Using Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Networks for Field-Emission Tip Analysis
Tan, J. J., Schreiner, R., Hausladen, M., Asgharzade, A., Edler, S., Bartsch, J., Bachmann, M., Schels, A., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., & Hum, Y.-C. (2025).
SiMiC: Context-Aware Silicon Microstructure Characterization Using Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Networks for Field-Emission Tip Analysis. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 43(6), 0005068. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0005068 · Editor’s Choice · JIF: 2.7
5. LLM-as-a-Judge for Theory-Agnostic Personality Recognition
Tan, J. J., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., Hum, Y.-C., Mokraoui, A., & Lo, S.-Y. (2025).
Status: Reviewing.
6. Large Language Model in Multilingual Personality Recognition
Tan, J. J., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., Hum, Y.-C., Mokraoui, A., & Lo, S.-Y. (2025).
Status: Reviewing.
Conference Proceedings
1. Siamese-Driven Optimization for Low-Resolution Image Latent Embedding in Image Captioning
Tan, J. J., Mokraoui, A., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., & Hum, Y.-C. (2024).
In 2024 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA) (Vol. 10, pp. 79–84). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.23919/spa61993.2024.10715604
2. SEAVIP: Social Enhancement Application for Visually Impaired People with User-Centered UI/UX and Mobile-Optimized Face Recognition
Tan, J. J., Tan, J. S., Egambaram, A., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., & Hum, Y.-C. (2026).
In The 5th International Conference on Computer Technologies (ICCTech 2026), Langkawi, Malaysia, February 3–5, 2026. https://www.icct.net/ · Best Presenter
3. Tri-Axial Scaling in Aerial Object Detection: Model Size, Dataset Size and Quality, and Test-Time Inference in the Cadot Challenge
Wong, Y. J., Tan, J. J., Tham, M.-L., Kwan, B.-H., & Hum, Y. C. (2025, July).
Tri-Axial Scaling in Aerial Object Detection: Model Size, Dataset Size and Quality, and Test-Time Inference in the Cadot Challenge. IEEE. https://dx.doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.175322322.26858739
4. Load Balancing Methods for Lossless RDMA Environments
Wang, H., Luo, J., Tan, J. J., Wang, J., & Liu, K. (2026).
Status: Reviewing.
5. Policy-Agnostic Knowledge Aggregation in Federated Personality Modeling under Heterogeneous Privacy Constraints
Tan, J. J., Wang, H., Luo, J., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., Hum, Y.-C., Mokraoui, A., & Liu, K. (2025).
Status: Preparing.
Miscellaneous
1. Bytes of Peace: Leveraging Technology to Promote Trust and Security
Tan, J. J. (2025).
ASEAN-IPR Regional Conference on Cybersecurity: The Role of Information and Technology in Fostering a Culture of Peace in ASEAN. ASEAN IPR Publication, pp. 60–67. Publication link
2. Enhancing Performance in Sentiment Classification of Textual Messages through Personality Recognition Integration
Tan, J. J., Kwan, B.-H., Ng, D. W.-K., & Hum, Y. C. (2023).
In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Applied Engineering and Sciences (SAES2023), pp. 258–259, eISBN: 9786297590646. https://saes.upm.edu.my/
Achievements
Back-to-back recipient of Outstanding Talent Award 2024 and 2025 by the university in recognition of leading projects and competitions. The total accumulated grants and cash prizes amount to MYR 650,000 (~USD 150,000), excluding separately granted travel funds and conferences/summits/events expenses. View academic awards
1. PayHack Hackathon
May 2023 · Payment Network Malaysia · 100+ teams
Champion, MYR 20,000 (~USD 5,100)
2. Deriv AI Hackathon
February 2026 · Deriv · 100+ teams
Champion, MYR 15,000 (~USD 3,850)
3. CHIPTA Hackathon
September 2023 · Malaysian Government · 50+ teams
Champion, MYR 10,000 (~USD 2,500)
4. BRIDG3 Hackathon
July 2024 · Maschain · 100+ teams
Champion (Overall Track), USD 2,500; 1st Runner Up (Impact Track), USD 1,000
5. CADOT Challenge
July 2025 · IEEE · 10+ teams
Champion, EUR 1,000 (~USD 1,200)
6. CISCO AI Hackathon 2024
December 2024 · Cisco · 100+ teams
Champion, MYR 1,000 (~USD 250)
7. Huawei ICT Competition
March 2022 · Huawei Technologies · 100+ teams
1st Prize (Individual), ~USD 200; 1st Runner Up (Team), ~USD 200; 3rd Runner Up (Regional)
8. Alibaba My Digital Talent in U Competition
January 2023 · Alibaba Cloud · 1000+ participants
1st Prize (Team), MYR 180,000 (~USD 46,000); 1st Runner Up (Individual), MYR 2,000 (~USD 500)
9. I-RIA Innovation Competition
December 2023 · Universiti Utara Malaysia · 149+ teams
Gold Award & Best Presentation, Sponsored Patent
10. ASEAN-China-India Youth Leadership Summit
November 2023 · OSG Youth Alliance & Resolute · 100+ teams
1st Prize (Malaysia), Sponsored presentation at global summit (Singapore)
11. Community Technological Project Competition
August 2023 · Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember · 30+ teams
Champion, Fully Sponsored Trip
12. ASEAN-IPR Cybersecurity Conference – Youth Essay Competition
January 2025 · ASEAN-IPR · National competition
1st Prize (Malaysia), Sponsored publication, trip, and conference (Thailand)
13. Malaysia National Mathematical Olympiad (OMK)
December 2015 · PERSAMA · 1000+ participants
1st Prize, Qualified for IMO selection test
14. Loyalty Hackathon
July 2023 · Tune Protect · 30+ teams
1st Runner Up, MYR 5,000 (~USD 1,200)
15. AIGC Competition
November 2023 · Bricks · 50+ teams
1st Runner Up, Sponsored trip to forum meeting (China)
16. MCMC Datathon
November 2024 · Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission · 50+ teams
1st Runner Up & Best Presenter, MYR 3,500 (~USD 800); Sponsored trip (Malaysia)
17. SUI Hacker House MY
March 2025 · SUI Foundation · 20+ teams
1st Runner Up, MYR 3,000 (~USD 750)
18. Science Bowl
March 2019 · UTAR · 100+ teams
1st Runner Up
19. Payment Network Digital Campus 2023
December 2023 · Payment Network Malaysia · 30+ teams
2nd Runner Up (PDC Summit), MYR 20,000 (~USD 4,600)
20. Payment Network Digital Campus 2024
December 2024 · Payment Network Malaysia · 30+ teams
2nd Runner Up (PDC Summit), MYR 30,000 (~USD 6,700)
21. Can You Hack It Hackathon
November 2023 · Hong Leong Bank · 80+ teams
2nd Runner Up, MYR 2,500 (~USD 600)
22. IOTA Hackathon Malaysia
February 2025 · IOTA Foundation · 20+ teams
3rd Runner Up, USD 1,500
23. Build On Malaysia Hackathon
December 2020 · Amazon Web Service Hackathon · 10+ teams
3rd Runner Up, USD 1,600
24. Malaysia National Mathematical Olympiad (OMK)
December 2016 · PERSAMA · 1000+ participants
3rd Prize, Qualified for IMO selection test
Applications
Selected applications and projects. Click the title to view more details.
1. SEAVIP: Real-Time Face Recognition Social Enhancement for Visually Impaired People
https://github.com/jingjie00/SEAVIP
- A machine learning-integrated mobile social assistant application for visually impaired people, with executable app and functionality details at https://seavip-app.web.app.
- Collaborated and supported by Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB), receiving high positive feedback (~5/5 ratings) from 8 visually impaired users during post-project review.
- Successfully deployed on Google Play Store and Huawei AppGallery, featuring robust system architecture, user-centered UI/UX design, and a mobile-optimized algorithm, currently accepting localization contributions.
- Dual recipient of the UTAR Innovation & Creativity Award 2024 and UTAR SDG Merit Award 2024.
- Best Presenter Award at ICCTech 2026 for presentation quality, technical contribution, and social impact.
2. Self-Coded Physical to Online Restaurant Menu Conversion System
https://github.com/jingjie00/phy2online_menu
- A digital transformation application enabling traditional restaurants to convert their existing paper menus into an online system using only a camera scan.
- Undergraduate Research Scheme Project completed with commendation as part of a postgraduate research collaboration.
Certifications
Summary of key professional certifications and selected online courses.
1. Huawei ICT Certification
HCIP: Datacom Network Automation Developer
HCIA: Artificial Intelligence, Datacom, Security
2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3. Microsoft Certified Professional Certification
Azure AI Fundamentals
Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
Azure Data Fundamentals
Azure Fundamentals
4. Alibaba Cloud Certification
ACS: Machine Learning
ACP: Cloud Computing
ACA: Cloud Security, Cloud Native, System Operator, Developer, Database, Big Data
5. Selected Online Courses
Google IT Automation; IT Fundamentals for Cybersecurity; Programming with Google Go; SAS Programmer; Blockchain Revolution; Become an EMT
Skills
Technical skills supporting research, engineering, and real-world applications.
Languages
English, Chinese, Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese
Programming Languages
Python, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, MIPS, Go, R
Machine Learning
PyTorch, OpenCV, TensorFlow, Keras
Frontend & Applications
HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, XML, React.js
Web-2 & Distributed Computing
Firebase, GCP, AWS, Azure, ACP, Node.js
Web-3 & Technologies
MasChain, Aptos, IPFS, Remix, Spheron
Databases
PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, DynamoDB
Hardware Systems
Arduino, Raspberry
Multimedia Tools
Adobe Photoshop, PremierePro, AfterEffect, OBS, Mixer
Office Tools
LaTeX, iWork, Microsoft Office, Publisher, Visio, Project, Access
Guest Activities
Invited talks, lectures, and judging roles at universities and conferences.
1. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan (2024) – Guest Lecturer
- Machine Learning Application Introduction – Invited by Prof. LO Shih-Yu (Cognition and Communication Laboratory).
- Personality Recognition Application – Invited by Prof. CHEN Po-An (Economics and Computing Laboratory).
2. Centre of Internet of Things and Big Data (CIoTBD), UTAR – Guest Speaker
- My Research Journey: 3 Years, 3 Continents, 31 Countries – Invited by Dr. TAN Joi San (Chairperson CIoTBD).
3. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) EEPIS Branch – Guest Speaker
- International Webinar: Unlock Global Potential – Invited by Mr. M. Rizky Pratama (Chairperson IEEE, EEPIS branch).
4. PayNet Digital Campus 3.0, Malaysia (2025) – Guest Speaker
- UTARPay Application – Invited by Payment Network (PayNet) for Annual PDC Summit.
5. Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia (2023) – Guest Judge
- Hack@10 Hackathon – Invited by Dr. Rohaini Binti RAMLI (College of Computing and Informatics).
Memberships & Fellowships
Professional fellowships and leadership roles in organisations and councils.
1. beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship
Fellow (Cohort 3, 2025)
2. UTAR Student Representative Council (SRC)
Postgraduate Representative (2023/2024/2025) & Faculty Representative (2020/2021)
3. UTAR Ambassador
University Appointed (2021)
4. Mensa Malaysia
Executive Committee Member (2023/2024)
5. Miscellaneous Certifications
- Certified First Aider (Basic First Aid + CPR).
- Certified PCEIA & CEILLI.
References
Work and academic references.
Huawei Technologies
Email: alexl.chong@huawei.com
Mr. Alex Lim Yao Chong
Supervisor | Senior Engineer
University of Tunku Abdul Rahman
Email: jstan@utar.edu.my
Dr. Tan Joi San
FYP Supervisor | Assistant Professor
University of Tunku Abdul Rahman
Email: ooiby@utar.edu.my
Ts. Dr. Ooi Boon Yaik
Assistant Professor | Head of Computer Science Department
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