Chair of INGSA-Asia

Wee Hoe Tan is a Professor and the Deputy Director of the International Institute of Science Diplomacy and Sustainability (IISDS) in UCSI University, Malaysia. Dr Tan received a PhD in Education, specializing in game-based learning from University of Warwick. He began working between the creative industry and the academia, facilitating university-industry collaboration in Malaysia, UK and US. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, he was a Visiting Faculty at SUTD Game Lab, Singapore, a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the Penn State College of Education, and a Visiting Research Scientist at the Play2Prevent Lab, Yale Center for Health and Learning Games. He is also an honorary lecturer of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), and appointed as an adjunct professor in UNITAR International University and Sichuan University of Culture and Arts, and a visiting professor of the Guilin University of Electronic University. His research interests spread across various fields in creative multimedia and inventive problem solving.