Dr Vivien Shan Wen

Workforce Competencies and Capability Development: Competency frameworks, assessment and programme evaluation to support professional practice and organisational development.

Adult and Workplace Learning: Research-informed, experiential and applied learning; diversity education and inclusive learning environments.

Human-Centred AI and the Future of Work: AI in recruitment and HRM, cultural and algorithmic bias, responsible AI use and professional judgement.

Culture, Inclusion and Organisational Behaviour: Cross-cultural negotiation and decision-making, stereotyping, gender and social inequalities, and fair workplace practices.

Applied Research for Social Impact: Translating research into evidence-informed frameworks and evaluation to support capability building in organisations and the social service sector.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aNs7_zgAAAAJ&hl=en

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wen-Shan-4

Shan, W., & Wang, Z. (2026). A large-scale multilingual data mining framework for detecting cultural bias in job advertisements. In H. Shen (Ed.), Computer and electrical engineering: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering (ICCEE 2026). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/ATDE260665 Best Paper Presentation Award.

Kumar, A. G., Miao, X., Anand, A., Shan, W., & Wang, Z. (2026). Long-term risk mitigation in rail safety via retrieval-augmented large reasoning models. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE 2026). Best Paper Presentation Award. Sydney, Australia, 12-14 March 2026. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA260866

Wang, M., Zhao, Y., Wang, Z., Ma, F., Wang, Y., Huang, M., Wahab, F., Shan, W., & Wang, X. (2026). Hierarchical graph-bag-network for self-supervised multi-graph learning. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (pp. 1049–1058). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792416 (Top-tier AI/computing conference) Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 29 June-3 July 2026.

Wang, M., Zhao, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Huang, M., Ma, F., Wahab, F., Shan, W., & Wang, X. (2026). Self-supervised contrastive re-learning for multi-graph multi-label classification. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(31), 26363–26371. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i31.39842 (Top-tier AI conference) Singapore, 20-27 January 2026.

Ma, S., Zhao, Y., Ma, F., Liu, B., Wang, Z., & Shan, W. (2026). Multi-graph fusion cross-model contrastive learning for recommendation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(18), 15519–15527. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i18.38580 (Top-tier AI conference) Singapore, 20-27 January 2026.

Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Shan, W., Huang, M., & Wang, X. (2025, July). Graph contrastive learning with progressive augmentations. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V. 1 (pp. 2079–2088). (Top-tier conference) https://doi.org/10.1145/3690624.3709307 Toronto, Canada, 3-7 August 2025.

Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Wang, Z., Shan, W., Li, L., Li, Q., Huang, M., Wang, M., Pan, S., & Wang, X. (2025). N2GON: Neural networks for graph-of-net with position awareness. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 267, 65790–65801. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v267/wang25fa.html (Top-tier AI conference) 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), Vancouver, Canada, 13-19 July 2025.

Nagpaul, T., & Shan, W. (2024, December). Experience and reflection: The bases of a successful diversity and inclusion course. Higher Education Conference, Singapore.

Shan, W., Chew, J., Wang, Z., Sharma, A., Ng, A. B., & See, S. (2024). Redrawing the “lack of fit” model: Culture’s influence on gendered job ads across positions. Accepted for the Eastern Academy of Management International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 17–21 June 2024.

Shan, W., Chew, J., Wang, Z., Sharma, A., Ng, A. B., & See, S. (2024) “From Words to Walls: Deciphering Cultural Impact on Gender Bias in Job Descriptions.” Accepted as the full-paper in the 37th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), Singapore (Top-tier Management Conference)

Li, Y., Chen, X., Zhao, Y., Shan, W., Wang, Z., Yang, G., & Wang, G. (2024). Self-Training GNN-based Community Search in Large Attributed Heterogeneous Information Networks. In 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (pp. 2765–2778). IEEE. Utrecht, Netherlands. (Top-tier Conference) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE60146.2024.00216

Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Shan, W., Huang, M., Wang, M., Huang, M., & Wang, X. (2024). Towards robust multi-label learning against dirty label noise. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 5581–5589). https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/617 (Top-tier AI conference) Jeju, South Korea, 3-9 August 2024.

Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Wang, Z., Shan, W., & Wang, X. (2024). Limited-supervised multi-label learning with dependency noise. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 38(14), 15662–15670. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i14.29494 (Top-tier AI conference) Vancouver, Canada.

Pan, L., Li, X., Wang, Z., Zhang, R., Yang, N., & Shan, W. (2024). Enhancing multi-label text classification by incorporating label dependency to handle imbalanced data. In 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 1–8). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650276 Yokohama, Japan, 30 June-5 July 2024.

Shan, W., Keller, J., Mor, S., & Semnani-Azad, Z. (2023). “Damned If You Are Culturally Ideal: Backlash against Relational Women among Chinese Negotiators.” In L. C. Wang, New Directions for the Study of Gender and Identity in Negotiation Interactions. Academy of Management, Boston. (Rank 1 Conference) Symposium DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.13252symposium

Shan, W., Chew, J., Wang, Z., Sharma, A., Ng, A. B., & See, S. (2023). "Culture Matters, But Not Always: How Cultural Impacts Vary Across Various Preventive Measures Against COVID-19." The 36th conference of International Association for Conflict Management, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Top-tier Management Conference)

Shan, W., Wang, Z., Su, Y., & Loh, A. (2023). "Conflicting Voices of Campaigns for Healthcare Workers During COVID-19: Positive or Negative Depends on Culture." The 36th conference of International Association for Conflict Management, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Top-tier Management Conference)

Chu, Y., Sun, X., Jiang, S., Xie, T., Wang, Z., & Shan, W. (2023). "Imbalanced Few-shot Learning based on Meta- transfer Learning." In L. Iliadis, A. Papaleonidas, P. Angelov, & C. Jayne (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2023 (pp. 357–369). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44198-1_30 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Wang, H., Chu, Y., Ning, H., Wang, Z., & Shan, W. (2023).  "User Feedback-based Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Sequential Recommendation." The 16th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, Guangzhou, China. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40289-0_30

Pan, L., Yang, Y., Wang, Z., Zhang, R., Shan, W., & Li, J. (2024). Image segmentation with vision-language models. In Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 233–238). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3638584.3638624 Beijing, China.

Zhao, Q., Li, L., Chu, Y., Wang, Z., & Shan, W. (2022). “Density Division Face clustering Based on Graph Convolutional Networks.” 26TH International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Aug 21–25, Montréal Québec. Best Paper Award https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR56361.2022.9956670

Chu, Y., Guo, J., Shan, W., & Wang, Z. (2022). “EfficientFCOS: An Efficient One-stage Object Detection Model based on FCOS.” 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Hangzhou China. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCWD54268.2022.9776033

Wang, Z., Chowdhury, S., Low, M. Y. H., & Shan, W. (2021). "News Insider: Innovating News Understanding to Improve the Quality of Reading Experience." 2021 2nd Asia Conference on Computers and Communications, Singapore. Best Paper Presentation Award https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCC54619.2021.00027

Chu, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, L., Zhao, Q., & Shan, W. (2021). "Fine-Grained Image Classification Based on Target Acquisition and Feature Fusion." The 14th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2021), Tokyo, Japan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82153-1_18

Zhao, Q., Yang, J., Wang, Z., Chu, Y., Shan, W., & Tuhin, I. A. K. (2021). "Clustering Massive-categories and Complex Documents via Graph Convolutional Network." The 14th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2021), Tokyo, Japan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82136-4_3

Shan, W., Keller, J., Mor, S., & Semnani-Azad, Z. (2018). Do women underperform men in negotiations? The role of cultural knowledge. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1), Article 14027. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14027abstract (Rank 1 Conference) Chicago, USA.

Shan, W., Keller, J., Mor, S., & Semnani-Azad, Z. (2017). “Negotiating like a “man” or a “woman”? Gender differences in negotiation outcomes driven by cultural convention.” The 30th International Association of Conflict Management Conference, Berlin, Germany. (Top-tier Management Conference)

Shan, W., & Keller, J. (2017). “The Chosen Strategies: Stereotypically Jewish business practices in China.” The Third Annual Asian Management Research Consortium, Singapore.

Shan, W., & Keller, J. W. (2015). “What’s a masculine negotiator? What’s a feminine negotiator? Depends on who you ask and when.” The 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada. (Rank 1 Conference) https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2015.16787abstract

Shan, W., & Keller, J. (2015). “What’s a masculine negotiator? What’s a feminine negotiator? Depends on who you ask and when.” The 28th International Association of Conflict Management Conference, Clearwater, USA. (AC4 SCHOLAR AWARD at Top-tier Management Conference)

Shan, W. (2015). “Are men better negotiators everywhere? A Meta-analytical review of gender differences in negotiation performance in individualistic vs. collectivistic cultures.” National Psychology Graduate Student Conference, Singapore. (BEST PRESENTATION AWARD)

Shan, W. (2014). “Culture as a Moderator of Gender difference in Negotiation Performance: A Meta-analysis.” The 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, USA. (Rank 1 Conference) https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2014.15715abstract

Shan, W. (2014). “Are men better negotiators everywhere? Low- vs. High-context culture as a moderator of gender difference in negotiation.” The 27th International Association for Conflict Management Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands. (DRRC SCHOLAR AWARD at Top-tier Management Conference)

Phua, D., & Shan, W. (2013). “Warring identities: Management of multiple professional identities among creative entrepreneurs.” Asian Perspectives on Creative Industries, Singapore

X. Liu, W. Shan. (2013). “Gender differences in consumers' reactions to online spam reviews of restaurants and hotels.” The Second Annual Workshop on Analytics for Business, Consumer and Social Insights, Singapore.

Shan, W., & Jin, S. (2008). “Studies on the stereotype of region related behavioral habits.” The Sixth Chinese Psychologist Conference, Hong Kong.

Zhang, X., Zhou, R., Yang, B., Shan, W., & Xu, Q. (2008). “An ergonomic study of the efficiency of the mobile shortcuts and page-turning keys in Chinese users.” Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Adelaide, SA, Australia. https://doi.org/10.1109/WKDD.2008.74

Zhang, X.-M., Shan, W., Xu, Q., Yang, B., & Zhang, Y.-F. (2007). An ergonomics study of menu-operation on mobile phone interface. In Workshop on Intelligent Information Technology Application (IITA 2007) (pp. 247–251). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IITA.2007.87 Zhangjiajie, China, December 2007.

Shan, W. (2007). “Effect of leader’s manner in leading process and subsequent evaluation on subordinates’ impression.” The 11th Chinese Academic Conference of Psychology, Kaifeng, China.

Shan, W. (2026, July 17). Expert commentary in “Gen Z workers in Asia say they are using AI to do more – but their bosses are expecting more too.” CNA TODAY, The Big Read. Discussed AI-enabled productivity, career progression, professional judgement and organisational support. Link

Shan, W. (2025, July 3). Expert commentary on sick-leave monitoring, toxic workplace practices and employee trust. 8world, Hello Singapore (狮城有约). Link

Shan, W. (2025, July 1). Expert commentary in “From Matcha Girl to Coffee B*tch: Understanding Xiaohongshu’s mean girls at work.” Her World. Link

Shan, W. (2025, May 28). Expert commentary on salary growth and negotiating a pay rise. 8world, Hello Singapore (狮城有约). Link

Shan, W. (2025, April). Workplace Commentary: Supporting Large Families in Singapore, Invited Expert Interview by The Business Times 

Shan, W. (2024, August 24). Expert commentary in “She lost her husband at age 40: More widows seeking support to move on with life.” The Straits Times. Link

Shan, W. (2024, July 24). Invited expert interview on artificial intelligence and recruitment. Hello Singapore, 十分访谈, 8world / Mediacorp Channel 8. Link

Shan, W. (2024, May). Workplace Commentary: Are We Really Putting Too Much Onus on Men to Also Advocate for Women's Rights? Invited Interview by Her World, Singapore’s No. 1 Women’s Magazine.

Shan, W. (2024, March 25). Invited expert interview on new job positions and the employment market. Hello Singapore, 十分访谈, 8world / Mediacorp Channel 8. Link

Shan, W., Keller, J., Imai, L. (2016, Summer). What’s a masculine negotiator? What’s a feminine negotiator? It depends on the cultural and situational context. Invited by Editor of Research Insights, Dispute Resolution Magazine by American Bar Association, 22(4), 30.