PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Hsiang Hui Lek

Also known as Lek Hsiang Hui

Hsiang Hui Lek is a computing educator at the National University of Singapore who has published on sentiment analysis and text mining and teaches AI solutioning and generative AI. He published Sentix, an aspect and domain sensitive sentiment lexicon, at the IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence in 2012, earned a PhD in Information Systems from NUS in 2013, and coauthored a 2018 text-mining study of teamwork in student chat. NUS gave him its Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY2015/16, AY2016/17 and AY2017/18, and he received the National Day Awards Commendation Medal in 2022. With Ooi Wei Tsang and Kate Sangwon Lee, he developed THE1008 Applied Generative AI: From Prompting to Evaluation, a course on large language models that all first-year NUS undergraduates take from AY2026/27. He is a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Dean, Industry Relations at the NUS School of Computing.

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Timeline

  1. 2006

    Teaching at NUS Computing

    He begins teaching computing courses at the School of Computing of the National University of Singapore in 2006. His courses include programming methodology, enterprise systems analysis and development, and data mining.

  2. 2012–2014

    Sentix and Twitter sentiment papers

    With D. C. C. Poo, he publishes Sentix, an aspect and domain sensitive sentiment lexicon, in the proceedings of the IEEE 24th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence in 2012. The pair follow with Aspect-Based Twitter Sentiment Classification at the same series in 2013 and a paper on automatic generation of an aspect and domain sensitive sentiment lexicon in the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools in 2014.

  3. 2013

    A PhD in Information Systems

    He receives a PhD in Information Systems from NUS in 2013. His research area is natural language processing, with a focus on sentiment analysis, and his bachelor's degree is a first class honours degree in Computer Engineering from NUS.

  4. 2015–2019

    Annual Teaching Excellence Awards

    NUS gives him its university-level Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY2015/16, AY2016/17 and AY2017/18, and places him on the ATEA Honour Roll for AY2018/19.

  5. 2018

    Mining teamwork in student chat

    With Dhivya Suresh and Elizabeth Koh of Nanyang Technological University's National Institute of Education, he coauthors a paper at ICCE 2018 on identifying teamwork indicators in student chat data. The team tests multi-label classification with feature engineering and finds that adding linguistic features improves the identification of teamwork indicators.

  6. 2022–2024

    Commendation Medal and teaching awards

    He receives the National Day Awards Commendation Medal in 2022. For AY2023/24, he wins the Annual Teaching Excellence Award of NUS and the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award of the School of Computing.

  7. 2026

    A compulsory generative AI course

    Starting in AY2026/27, all first-year NUS undergraduates take THE1008 Applied Generative AI: From Prompting to Evaluation, which he develops with Associate Professor Ooi Wei Tsang and Dr Kate Sangwon Lee of the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre. Students learn to use large language models and multimodal AI in academic and professional settings.

  8. As of October 2026

    Senior lecturer and assistant dean

    He is a Senior Lecturer (Educator Track) at the NUS School of Computing, where he has taught since 2006, as well as Assistant Dean, Industry Relations and a Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy. His courses include IS3108 Full-stack Software Engineering for AI Solutions II and IS4108 AI Solutioning Capstone Project, and the NUS AI Lab lists AI education as his research interest. He also walks participants through the learning journey of the Full Stack Development with AI programme.

Career

  1. Since 2006National University of SingaporeSenior Lecturer (Educator Track)

Education

  1. 2013National University of SingaporePhD in Information Systems

From the biography.

  1. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes National University of Singapore. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes National University of Singapore. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes National University of Singapore. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes National University of Singapore. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. DR LEK HSIANG HUI - Bootstrap bootstrap.com.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Lek Hsiang Hui - NUS Computing comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Identifying teamwork indicators in an online collaborative problem-solving task: A text-mining approach library.apsce.net. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Fostering an AI-fluent generation: NUS equips students to use AI well news.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. People – NUS AI Lab nusail.comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Full Stack Development with AI | NUS Executive Programme nus.comp.emeritus.org. Checked 21 October 2026.