Dr. Owen Noel Newton Fernando
College of Computing & Data Science · Nanyang Technological University · Singapore
Editorial & Review Roles
  • Associate Editor — Entertainment Computing, Elsevier (2013–Present)
  • Associate Editor — ACM Computers in Entertainment (2010–2012)
  • Guest Editor — Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (AHCI), Issue on Computer Games in Education (2012)
  • Guest Editor — AHCI, Issue on Interactive Play and Learning for Children (2007)
  • Reviewer: ACM CHI, Entertainment Computing (Elsevier), ACM Transactions on Multimedia, ACM CiE, AHCI, Springer ICEC, ACM ACE, IEEE VR, MobileHCI, Augmented Human International Conference
Conference Organisation
  • Organizing Committee Member — ICAIE 2025 (International Conference on AI and Education) (2025–Present)
  • Organizing Committee Member — IAR 2025 (Industrial Automation and Robotics) (2025–Present)
  • Special Session Chair — ICSSE 2018, National Taipei University, Taiwan
  • Session Chair — International Conference on Cyberworlds 2019, Kyoto, Japan
  • Publicity Co-Chair — Advances in Computer Entertainment, IEEE VR, International Symposium on VR Innovation (all 2011)
  • Track Co-Chair — Interactive Digital Media track, International Simulation and Gaming Association 40th Annual Conference (2008)
  • Organizing Co-Chair — Designing Cute Interactive Media Workshop, DIS 2008, Cape Town
  • Organizing Chair — Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art Workshop, IEEE/ACM ISMAR 2007
  • Organizing Chair — Spatial Audio for Mobile Devices Workshop, MobileHCI 2007, NUS Singapore
  • Publicity Chair — MobileHCI’07, National University of Singapore
  • Program Committee: IEEE VR (2010–2012), Springer ICEC (2010–2018), ACM ACE (2007–2012), ACM SIGCHI Workshop on Assistive Augmentation (2014), International Symposium on VR Innovation (2011)
External Supervision & Examination
  • External Supervisor — Faculty of IT, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2025–Present)
  • External Supervisor — School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (2022–Present)
  • External Supervisor — Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University (2015–2019)
  • External Examiner — Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland (2019–2022)
  • Panel Member — BSEWWT Mid-Term Review, Singapore (2019–2020)
  • Judge — James Dyson Foundation Curious Engineer Design-athon 2023
  • Judge — Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (2017)
  • Judge — NTU Hackathon 2016, College of Engineering
  • Assessor — NTU-A*STAR-HCI H3 Science Research, Oral & Paper Assessment (2023)