“Innovate, learn, and empower.”
The charge he set on the seal of the DTMS Lab.
Dr. Chi Che is an educational-leadership academic. The work connects curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment with AI literacy, graduate readiness, and leadership practice. He is a lecturer and an alumnus of Chulalongkorn University. Before Chiang Mai, the appointments ran through Thailand’s neighboring scholarly world in another direction: Poland, Chongqing, Chengdu, and a vice-deanship in China.
The doctorate asked a manager’s question. Academic management innovation based on the concept of meta skills, for private higher education institutions in Sichuan. Meta-skills — the master skills that unlock other skills — were not treated as a student slogan. They were treated as something an institution has to design, prioritize, and evaluate. The DTMS Lab is that dissertation given a room, a seal, a set of graduate students, and a public series of films.
At Payap he leads both the M.A. and the Ph.D. in Educational Leadership. The programs are new: approved in June 2025, opened for recruitment and instruction in Academic Year 2025, Semester 2, with no graduates yet. The lab’s first impact is therefore not an alumni story. It is a way of working, begun in public on 26 October 2026, with ELers from both programs signing for projects they will share.
Three lines of work
Academic management and institutional change
Design thinking applied to curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in private higher education.
Meta-skills and graduate readiness
What a graduate can actually do, and which of those capacities a university chooses to build first.
AI literacy and assessment
Institutional culture, student readiness, and the governance of AI-enabled judgment.
Preparation
- Ph.D., Educational System Management Leadership, Chulalongkorn University, 2025.
- M.A., Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, Chongqing University, 2014.
- B.A., English Translation and Interpretation, Sichuan International Studies University, 2012.
- Graduate-level coursework in Adult Learning and Leadership, Columbia University, 2025, non-degree.
- Languages: Mandarin Chinese, English, French, German, and Polish.
Appointments
Oct 2025 – present
Head of the Educational Leadership Department, and Lecturer
International College, Payap University, Chiang Mai
Program strategy, curriculum, quality assurance, and faculty coordination. Founder and Academic Lead of the DTMS Lab. Mentor to Master’s and doctoral students, in an international college aligned with the university’s Christian values.
Feb 2022 – Sep 2024
Vice Dean, English Major Department
Geely University of China
Curriculum, faculty, student progress, and teaching innovation across language, literature, and critical thinking.
Feb 2018 – Jan 2022
English Language Lecturer and Global Study Tour Coordinator
Southwest Jiaotong University Hope College
Undergraduate English, assessment, and international-exchange readiness.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
English Language Teacher and Global Study Tour Leader
New Oriental School, Chengdu
Academic English, IELTS, and TOEFL for students preparing to study abroad.
Feb 2014 – Dec 2014
Chinese Lecturer
College of International Education, Chongqing University
Chinese for European and American speakers, including HSK preparation.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Chinese Lecturer
Confucius Institute, Opole University of Technology, Poland
Language, culture, and community teaching with Polish educators.
Work the lab stands on
Sixteen peer-reviewed journal articles are listed on drchiche.com, eleven of them in 2026, with the dissertation kept separate. These five are the ones the laboratory’s films and briefing cite directly. A further line — teacherpreneurship as a meta-skill for transformational leadership — is the research brief in the film series.
- Che, C. (2026). AI literacy as a meta-skill: A four-domain model for academic management innovation in higher education. Frontiers in Education, 11, 1755238.Scopus Q1
- Che, C. (2026). AI-enabled assessment in higher education: Institutional culture and student meta-skill readiness across university tiers. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 14, 103141.Scopus Q1
- Che, C. (2026). Institutional design thinking: Re-architecting curriculum, pedagogy and assessment for meta-skills in Chinese private HEIs. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 25(5), 1–25.Scopus Q2
- Che, C., Chaemchoy, S., & Siribanpitak, P. (2026). Academic management and meta-skills in Chinese higher education: A systematic review of graduate readiness. Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 20(1), 264–277.Scopus Q3
- Che, C. (2024). Academic management innovation based on the concept of meta skills for private higher education institutions in Sichuan, China. Doctoral dissertation, Chulalongkorn University.Founding study
Service
Peer review recorded on ORCID as of 4 November 2026: 32 reviews across nine journals, among them Education Sciences, Publications, Societies, Industry and Higher Education, and the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education. The reviewing is part of the same scholarly portrait as the laboratory, not a separate career.
Identifiers
- ORCID0009-0000-3466-994X
- Scopus60258743900
- Web of ScienceLTN-3931-2024
- Google ScholarChi Che
- ResearchGateChi Che
- LinkedInDr. Chi Che
drchiche.com · Academic CV, November 2026 · chi_c@payap.ac.th