Faculty Profile

• Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours), National University of Singapore, 2009
• Master of Information Technology (Minor Thesis), Monash University, 2005
• Bachelor of Computer Science, Monash University, 2002
• Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore)

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science (Practice), Singapore Management University, Aug 2019-Present
• Director, Bachelor of Science (Computing & Law) Programme, Singapore Management University, 2019–present
• Director, Centre for Computational Law, Singapore Management University, 2020-present

Other Positions

• Member, Law Reform Sub-Committee on Smart Contracts of Singapore Academy of Law, 2019–present
• Member, Blockchain Consortia Governance Legal Panel, IMDA, 2020–present
• Member, Singapore Academy of Law’s Specialist Accreditation Scheme: Cybersecurity and Data Protection Subcommittee, 2020–present
• Deputy Director, Legal Technology and Innovation Office, Attorney-General’s Chambers, 2017–2018
• Deputy Senior State Counsel, Strategic Planning and Organisational Excellence Office, Attorney-General’s Chambers, 2016–2017
• Deputy Public Prosecutor, Criminal Justice Division, Attorney-General’s Chambers, 2011–2015
• Singapore Academy of Law, Law Reform Sub-Committee on Smart Contracts, 2019–present

Honours & Awards

• Punch Coomaraswamy Prize in the Law of Evidence, NUS, Academic Year 2008/09
• Dean’s List, NUS, Academic Year 2006/07 and 2007/08

Courses Taught

• Digital Intelligence for Lawyers
• Digital Innovation for Access to Justice
• Criminal Law
• Ethics and Social Responsibility

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Computational Law
• Natural Language Processing
• Legal Technology

Selected Publications

Legal Topic Classification: A Comparative Study of Text Classifiers on Singapore Supreme Court Judgments (Soh, Lim and Chai) (First Natural Legal Language Workshop, NAACL-HLT2019, Minneapolis, USA, 7 June 2019) https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/papers/W/W19/W19-2208/