Dr Tianchong Wang (Alex) is a Senior Lecturer in STEM in Innovative Education Futures at Flinders University's College of Human Sciences and Culture.

Tianchong's work centres on technology-enhanced learning and teaching, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education. An advocate for the UN's SDG4, his research aims to enhance education equity, quality, and inclusiveness, foster positive change in learning environments, and empower educators and learners in underprivileged communities.

Before joining Flinders, Tianchong was a Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology and a post-doctoral fellow at the Education University of Hong Kong. 

Besides research, he conducts teacher capacity-building activities in the Global South. His media commentaries on AI in education and research have been featured in international higher education platforms and national media outlets, contributing to public understanding of this fascinating field.

• AI in education
• Women in STEM
• Blended learning
• ICT-enabled learning at scale
• Digital learning for development
• Mobile learning 

An advocate for the UN's SDG4, his research aims to enhance education equity, quality, and inclusiveness, foster positive change in learning environments, and empower educators and learners in underprivileged communities.

Tianchong is a highly cited early career researcher with over 2000 citations and an h-index of 21. He developed and taught Hong Kong's first master-level course on AI in Education at the University of Hong Kong in 2020. His media commentaries on AI in education and research have been featured in international higher education platforms and national media outlets, contributing to public understanding of this fascinating field.

In 2016, he co-developed UNESCO's framework for quality blended learning adoption and contributed to large-scale development projects addressing urban-rural disparities in STEM education quality in developing Asia. He also authored UNESCO's reports on digital technologies in education and served as Consultant and Chief Rapporteur for UNESCO's roundtable on generative AI and education in Asia-Pacific in 2023.

Tianchong’s funding highlights include securing a Google Award for Inclusion Research (USD 60,000, 2023-2024, co-primary investigator) to develop a framework leveraging generative AI for enhancing female inclusion in K-12 education, in collaboration with La Trobe University. He also served as Associate Investigator on the Invergowrie Foundation Grant (AUD 1.2 million, 2022-2024), supporting the Invergowrie STEM Hub initiative in partnership with The University of Melbourne, Deakin University, and Swinburne University of Technology. Additionally, he co-supervised a Teaching Development Grant (HKD 152,718, 2018-2019) aimed at improving literacy through the creation of teacher-made e-books for struggling readers

Tianchong actively engages with international and regional stakeholders in various capacities. He has participated in research projects commissioned by international organisations such as UNESCO, Commonwealth of Learning, The World Bank, IDRC and The HEAD Foundation. He is often appointed as a resource person by development aid agencies to conduct teacher capacity-building activities in the Global South. Besides research, he conducts teacher capacity-building activities in the Global South.