bio & background

Biodata
Tuck Wah, LEONG
place of birth: Ipoh, Malaysia
nationality: Australian
study, work, live: Melbourne, Australia 1984-2009
current location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Education
Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): The University of Melbourne
Thesis title: Understanding the Experience of Serendipity when
Interacting with Personal Digital Content
Supervisors: Professor Steve Howard & Dr Frank Vetere
Thesis examiners: Professor Kristina Höök and Professor Kees Overbeeke

Master of Multimedia: Swinburne University
Graduate Diploma Education: The University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Immunology: Monash University
ARCM: Royal College of Music
LRCM: Royal College of Music

Employment
2010 to present: Senior Researcher at the Culture Lab Newcastle, Newcastle University involved in the SiDE hub
2009-2010: Post Doctoral researcher/lecturer with Digital Urban Living group
at Aarhus University, Denmark
2001-2009: Associate Lecturer (and later PhD student) at the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Previous (major) incarnations
coordinator, lecturer-in-charge, associate lecturer
immunology researcher
high school teacher (biology, music, indonesian language)
shoe designer
choral conductor, composer, arranger

Membership and community service

Assisting in organizing Interaction Tyneside -a regular forum for talks regarding Human Computer Interaction and related fields in UK's Northeast region
Member of the Interaction Design Group (IDG) at the Department of Information Systems. I also organised the IDG seminar series for over a year
giving presentations about User-Experience research to undergraduates from the University of Melbourne as well as to Industrial Design staff and students at RMIT.
external assessor for Industrial Design students at RMIT
workshop lead CHI 2011 & CHI 2012
Associate chair DIS 2012
reviewing for HCI journals
- Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
- Interacting with Computers
reviewing for conferences (CHI, OzCHI, MobileHCI, NordiCHI, DIS, DUX, BHCI, Interact)
reviewing book chapters