Rate My Professor Vincent Tan

Tan was appointed Assistant Professor at NUS in 2014, Associate Professor in 2018, and Professor in 2023. He previously held positions as a scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an elected member of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the society. Tan has received the MIT EECS Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize, the NUS Young Investigator Award, the Singapore NRF Fellowship, the NUS Young Researcher Award, and the Singapore NRF Investigatorship. He has been awarded multiple teaching excellence honors at NUS, including the Annual Teaching Excellence Award. Tan serves as Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He regularly acts as area chair or senior area chair for conferences including ICLR and NeurIPS. His professional email address is vtan@nus.edu.sg.