The Department of Continuing Education serves to prepare mid-career professionals to become skilled talent for the digital economy. The department offers both fundamental and specialized modules across a wide range of areas such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and software engineering. Department faculty bring wide-ranging expertise from multidisciplinary backgrounds that include years in the game industry, cybersecurity, academia, and software engineering fields.
Note: Courses taken within the Department of Continuing Education at DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore do not fall within the scope of ACCSC accreditation.
Continuing Education Faculty
Priyanka Hriday Bhoyar
Program Manager (Academic); Lecturer
Priyanka Hriday Bhoyar received her master’s degree in computer science and engineering with distinction and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Nagpur University, India. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in data science and engineering from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Bangalore. Before joining DigiPen (Singapore), she worked in the IT industry as a data scientist in sectors such as healthcare and e-commerce. Prior to that, she also worked as an assistant professor in India.
Priyanka’s research interests lie in networking, image processing, and machine learning. She has published research papers in top international journals and conferences. She also received a best faculty award during her academic experience.
Priyanka is passionate about teaching. At DigiPen (Singapore), she teaches Python, data structure, databases, and machine learning.
Priyanka Hriday Bhoyar teaches the following program(s): Technology in Finance Immersion Programme Artificial Intelligence Track — Machine Learning Software Development.
Dr. Christopher Teoh Chong Keat
Program Manager (Business); Assistant Professor
Dr. Christopher Teoh Chong Keat received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Before joining DigiPen (Singapore), Christopher held various roles in both academia and the industry, including lecturing in colleges in Malaysia. Christopher moved to Singapore in 2019 to pursue a career in data science and information technology.
Christopher’s research interests include metaheuristic algorithms, operations research, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing. He currently teaches the python programming language, as well as topics related to data algorithms and machine learning. As an instructor, Christopher hopes to inspire his students to reach higher to achieve their full potentials.
Outside the classroom, Christopher is an editorial board member of the Journal of Autonomous Intelligence. To date, he has published nine academic papers related to operations research.
Dr. Christopher Teoh Chong Keat teaches the following program(s): Technology in Finance Immersion Programme Data Analytics Track — Data Analytics and Data Engineering.
Alvin Yeo Hong Hee
Development Engineer
Alvin Yeo Hong Hee graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying from University Tunku Abdul Rahman in 2013 and a Specialist Diploma in Cybersecurity Software Development from DigiPen (Singapore) in 2020.
Prior to joining DigiPen (Singapore), Alvin worked at Attila Cybertech Pte. Ltd. as a cybersecurity consultant. He is passionate about cybersecurity domains, especially in the areas of pentesting, network securities, and open-source intelligence. To keep his skills up to date, Alvin often reads up about these topics in his free time and participates in capture-the-flag computer security competitions whenever he can.
Alvin currently helps to develop content and exercises for the Continuing Education courses at DigiPen (Singapore).