Meet The Team
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary people. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary person” (adapted from Elbert Hubbard). At CCLAW, we value each member of our interdisciplinary team and work closely together to create the future of law. Find out more about our team below.
Centre Director, Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science (Practice)
Lim How Khang
How Khang is currently the Director of the Centre for Computational Law (CCLAW), as well as the Bachelor of Science (Computing & Law) Programme. His areas of specialization are in Computational Law, Natural Language Processing and Legal Technology. He teaches Digital Intelligence for Lawyers, Digital Innovation for Access to Justice, Criminal Law and Ethics and Social Responsibility.
Deputy Director, Assistant Professor of Law
Jerrold Soh
Jerrold is an assistant law professor, legal analytics startup founder, and self-taught programmer. He teaches torts, a legal area of under-appreciated relevance to technology and AI regulation. His research centrally asks how we might best deliver justice at scale to those who need it.
Principal Investigator
Wong Meng Weng
Meng is a computer scientist (CS Penn ‘97) and co-founder of Legalese, a computational law startup that applies computer science to law. Meng previously designed Internet email infrastructure (RFC4408), co-founded two high-tech startups and JFDI.Asia. He’s been appointed to research fellowships at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, Stanford University’s CodeX, and Ca’Foscari University.
Industry Director
Alexis Chun
Alexis is a recovering lawyer and self-taught programmer. She is the co-founder of Legalese, a computational law startup that applies computer science to law. An advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, she received her Bachelor of Laws from Queen Mary, University of London (2:1).
Engineers and Research Scientists
Senior Research Scientist – Computational Linguistics
Inari Listenmaa
Inari is a computational linguist who specialises in multilingual language technology. She received her PhD in computer science from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where her research focused on applying software testing methods to computational grammars. At CCLAW, she is responsible for natural language generation from code.
Senior Research Engineer, Symbolic AI
Ruslan Khafizov
Ruslan is a software engineer with 2 decades of experience of building large-scale transactional systems for banks and startups. He is currently exploring possible applications of artificial reasoning in the legal domain.
Research Associate
Han Yongming
Yongming works as a research engineer at CCLaw. He has a MSc in Data Science and a PhD in Philosophy from Brown University, and has also taken classes in programming language design/implementation and formal verification.
Research Engineer
Keong Jo Hsi
Jo Hsi has a background in information systems engineering. She is on the expert systems team, where she aims to build tools that make complex systems intelligible and emergent behaviour explorable.
Research Engineer
Maryam Hanafiah
Maryam has a background in biological sciences, computational biology, and pharmacognosy, and transitioned to web development after working in drug regulation. She is in the natural language generation team.
Assistant Research Engineer
Watt Seng Joe
Joe graduated with a Bsc in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore, with a minor in Computer Science. He specializes in logic and programming language theory, and enjoys functional programming. Joe is currently developing a rigorous, formal semantics for the DSL and an accompanying logical reasoning and verification engine.
Administrative staff
Centre Manager
Lis Kho
Lis has been in the Higher Education sector for more than a decade. She started her career in International Student Mobility and moved on to doing Academic Policies and Governance related work before taking on the role of Centre Manager.
Administrative Executive
Crystal Lim
Crystal has a background in Marketing, specialising in PR. She is now taking on an administrative role within the centre while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
Affiliated Researchers
Affiliated Researcher
Martin Strecker
Martin is a computer scientist specializing in formal methods, computer-supported reasoning, and programming language technology.
Affiliated Researcher
Megan Ma
Megan Ma is a CodeX Fellow at Stanford Law School. Her research considers the limits of legal expression, in particular how code could become the next legal language. Her work reflects on the frameworks of legal interpretation and its overlap in linguistics, logic, and aesthetic programming.
Affiliated Researcher
Craig Atkinson
Craig Atkinson is the Founder / Director of Lexmerca International Trade, a Consultant with the United Nations International Trade Centre, and a Research Affiliate with the Yong Pung How School of Law at Singapore Management University. Craig’s applied research focuses on the legal-technical bases for computational forms of commercial rules that extend accessibility for humans and enable operationalization by machines.
Affiliated Researcher
Avalon Campbell-Cousins
Previously a mathematician with interests in graph theory, Avalon Campbell-Cousins is now a PhD student in biomedical signal processing at the University of Edinburgh.
Affiliated Researcher
Adam Nicholas
Having completed a degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, Adam has recently accepted an MPhil offer to pursue research in the same place.
Affiliated Researcher
Dmitriy Podkopaev
Dmitriy Podkopaev leverages his engineering skills to solve a multitude of challenges as a senior Data Scientist at Simmons Wavelength Ltd., the tech arm of the London-based law firm Simmons & Simmons.
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