PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Min-Yen Kan

Also known as Min Yen Kan, Kan Min Yen, Min‐Yen Kan, 靳民彦

Min-Yen Kan's research spans natural language processing, scholarly reference parsing and misinformation detection. At Columbia, he earned a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.; in 2002, he chose an NUS faculty position and planned a Spring 2003 start. He coauthored ParsCit, an open-source reference-parsing package, edited the ACL Anthology from 2008 to 2018, and received the ACL's 2019 Distinguished Service Award; he shared CIKM2020's Best Paper Full Research Paper Award for FANG, a misinformation-detection framework. Studies he coauthored examined language-model format bias in 2025 and human-AI dialogue in 2026. As of October 2026, he is an Associate Professor and Vice Dean at NUS Computing and a Resident Fellow at Valour House.

Now at
National University of Singapore and Valour House
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Timeline

  1. 1996–2002

    Columbia degrees

    He earns a B.S. in 1996, an M.S. in 1998 and a Ph.D. in 2002 at Columbia University.

  2. 2002

    An NUS faculty offer

    In 2002, he is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in Columbia's Computer Science department's Natural Language Processing group; he receives academic faculty offers and chooses NUS, where he plans to start in the Spring Term of 2003.

  3. 2008

    ParsCit reference parsing

    In 2008, he coauthors ParsCit, an open-source package for parsing reference strings. Its trained conditional random field labels tokens in a reference string.

  4. 2008–2019

    ACL Anthology editor

    From 2008 to 2018, he edits the ACL Anthology; in 2019, he receives the ACL's Distinguished Service Award for his work on the archive.

  5. 2020

    FANG detects misinformation

    In 2020, Min-Yen Kan and Nguyen Van Hoang win CIKM2020’s Best Paper Full Research Paper Award for FANG, a framework that uses graph neural networks to detect misinformation on social media.

  6. 2025

    LLM format bias

    In 2025, he coauthors a study that examines format bias in large language model performance and proposes an evaluation approach for constrained output formats.

  7. 2026

    Human-AI dialogue framework

    In 2026, he coauthors a conceptual framework for analyzing dialogue in collaborative problem-solving, with attention to human-AI and multi-agent interaction.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate Professor and Vice Dean

    As of October 2026, he is an Associate Professor and Vice Dean of Undergraduate Studies at NUS Computing, and a Resident Fellow at Valour House.

Career

  1. NowNational University of SingaporeAssociate Professor; Vice Dean of Undergraduate Studies
  2. NowValour HouseResident Fellow

Education

  1. 2002Columbia UniversityPh.D.
  2. 1998Columbia UniversityM.S.
  3. 1996Columbia UniversityB.S.

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.

Sources and credits

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  1. Announcement of the 2019 ACL Distinguished Service Award (DSA) | ACL Member Portal aclweb.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Min's Job search page comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Min-Yen Kan - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Associate Professor Kan Min-Yen and alumnus Nguyen Van Hoang win Best Paper award at CIKM2020 comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. KAN Min Yen - NUS Computing comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Min-Yen Kan (靳民彦) | Homepage comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.