Tan Yean Nee

Tan Yean Nee

  • Associate Programme Leader for Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Actuarial Studies
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics
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Biography

Tan Yean Nee has a passion for mathematics, as evidenced by her academic qualifications and teaching achievements. She joined Sunway University in 2014 as a teaching fellow. Prior to this, she served as a tutor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia and worked as a teaching assistant during her candidature at National Taiwan University. In 2015, she was awarded a Certificate of Teaching Quality Recognition, and she received the Student Appreciation of Teaching Award in 2016, 2018, and most recently, from 2021 to 2023. Her research interests include matrix algebra, algebra, and coding theory.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • MSc in Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2013)
  • MSc in Mathematics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia (2012)
  • BSc (Hons) Mathematics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia (2009)

Research Interests

  • Matrix algebra
  • Abstract algebra
  • Coding theory

Notable Publications

  1. Tan, Y. N., How, G. A., & Ang, M. H. (2010). Groups with small conjugacy class. Proceedings of the 6th IMT-GT Conference on Mathematics, Statistics and Its Applications, 244–251.
  2. Tan, Y. N., Lee, T. C., & Ang, M. H. (2010). An explicit basis on Riemann-Roch space of Elliptic function fields. Proceedings of the 6th IMT-GT Conference on Mathematics, Statistics and Its Applications, 252–266.
  3. Tan, Y. N., & Malissa, M. (2015). The integration of active students-centered and problem based learning context for Mathematics. International Symposium on Teaching, Education, and Learning - Summer Session (ISTEL 2015-Summer), 71–87.
  4. Tan, Y. N., & Ho, C. K. (2017). I-tromino tilings of holey squares. AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1905, No. 1, p. 030038. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5012184