Dr. David Shum
Keynote Speaker
Yeung Tsang Wing Yee and Tsang Wing Hing Professor in Neuropsychology, Chair Professor of Neuropsychology and Dean of Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor David Shum received his Bachelor of Arts (1st Class Honours in Psychology) from Massey University, New Zealand, and his Doctor of Philosophy (in Neuropsychology) from The University of Queensland, Australia. Before moving to Hong Kong, he spent almost three decades working at Griffith University, Australia. Currently, he is a Chair Professor of Neuropsychology and the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also the Yeung Tsang Wing Yee and Tsang Wing Hing Endowed Professor in Neuropsychology.
He has over 35 years of experience in the assessment and rehabilitation of higher-level cognitive functions (e.g., attention, memory, and executive function) in normal and brain-injured children and adults. In recent years, he has been spending more time and effort in understanding the nature of prospective memory (i.e., remembering to do things in the future) and social cognition in older adults and examining their relationships with everyday functioning, mental health, and quality of life. Professor Shum has published his research in top journals and as books, book chapters, psychological tests, and encyclopedia entries. He has also been successful in attracting national and internal competitive research grants from funding bodies such as the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and the Hong Kong Health Medical Research Fund.
Dr. Jansen Ang
Keynote Speaker
Director, Police Psychological Services Department, Chief Psychologist, Singapore Police Force, Associate Professor (Adj), College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, Nanyang Technological University
Associate Professor (Adjunct) Dr Jansen Ang is the Director of the Police Psychological Services Department (PPSD). The PPSD provides psychological services to police officers, police operations and investigations as well as support organizational excellence in the police. He is also the Chief Psychologist of the Police and oversees the development of psychological services and professionalism of psychologists deployed within the police to units such as the Scam Public Education Office, Transport Security Command, Protective Security Command, Training Command, Programme Evaluation Office, and other units.
He currently consults and supervises the professional activities of psychologists in the various Home Team Departments. In these, he advises on the Home Team’s psychological response in times of national crises and disasters as well as coordinating the psychological resilience to support Home Team needs. He is the Deputy Head of the Home Team CARE capability (i.e., the Home Team’s psychological response in times of National disaster and crises). He also supports talent development in the Home Team and is an Advisor to the Pheonix Community. Jansen’s current research interests are in the area of scams and organized crime profiling as well as the development of psychological services to support law enforcement officers and operations. He has published in the area of operations psychology, officer resilience, stress and coping as well as forensic psychology. He serves as a reviewer on the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. He was also the distinguished graduate of the Home Team Senior Command and Staff Course – then the pinnacle leadership course conducted in the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2009.
Dr. Keong Yap
Keynote Speaker
Professor of Psychology and Deputy Head of School, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
Professor Keong Yap is the Deputy Head of School in the School of Behavioural and Health Sciences at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). He received his Bachelor’s and Honours degrees in psychology from the National University of Singapore, before earning a Doctor of Psychology from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. He is also a registered clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience across public and private mental health settings. Professor Yap is internationally recognised for his research on obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding disorder having authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications. Based at the ACU Strathfield campus, he teaches into the honours and clinical psychology programs and is dedicated to training the next generation of psychologists and mental health researchers.
Dr. Yow Wei Quin
Conference Co-Chair/ Keynote Speaker
Professor of Psychology, Head, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Professor Yow Wei Quin is currently Head of Humanities, Arts & Social Science at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and a visiting Senior Academician at the Changi General Hospital. She obtained her PhD (Psychology), MA (Psychology) and MSc (Statistics) from Stanford University, USA. Her main area of research is examining socio-cognitive development across the lifespan, including how factors such as the language environment that we grow up in influence our cognitive functioning, as well as how technology influences the way we communicate and interact with each other. Professor Yow has published more than 70 international peer-refereed papers, conference proceedings and book chapters in top-tiered journals and conferences such as Developmental Science, Child Development, Journal of Gerontology Series B, Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, Innovation in Aging, Frontiers in Psychology, Cognitive Development, GSA, SRCD, Cognitive Science Society, etc., in the area of social cognition, bilingualism, technology and aging. She also currently serves in the Editorial Board for Cognitive Development and Frontiers in Psychology, Consulting Editor for Child Development, co-Chair of Publications Committee, SRCD, and Associate Editor for Innovation in Aging (from January 2024), and a recipient of multiple awards, such as the Public Administration Medal (Bronze), GSA Diversity Mentoring & Career Development Fellowship, SUTD Outstanding Education Award, and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Teacher/Scholar Award.
Dr. TONG Ka Ho
Conference Co-Chair
Assistant Professor and Externship Coordinator, Department of Counselling and Psychology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Dr. TONG Ka Ho, Adrian is an Assistant Professor and a counselling psychologist at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, where he received the university’s Teaching Excellence Award for the 2023–2024 academic year. His research specializes in contemporary therapeutic frameworks, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Therapy, alongside deep inquiries into the psychotherapy process. He is also dedicated to systemic family wellbeing, focusing on parental stress, special educational needs (SEN), and pioneering approaches in immersive art psychotherapy. Externally, he serves as the Scientific Officer for the Division of Counselling Psychology of The Hong Kong Psychological Society.