Wang-Chiew Tan is a Singaporean computer scientist specializing in data management and natural language processing.
[2] At Megagon Labs, Tan was the lead researcher on a study with the University of Tokyo that concluded that the company of other people is more effective than pets at making people happy.
[2] Her 2002 dissertation, Data Annotations, Provenance, and Archiving, was jointly supervised by Peter Buneman and Sanjeev Khanna.
[4][5] Before working at Megagon, she has been a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz beginning in 2002,[6] and, from 2010 to 2012, was on leave from Santa Cruz as a researcher at IBM Research - Almaden.
[2] Tan was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2015 "for contributions to data provenance and to the foundations of information integration".