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Dr. Michael Chia
Programme Director
Power-aware Wireless Sensor Network for Tracking & Monitoring
Dr. Chia Yan Wah, Michael received the BSc (1st Class Honours) and Ph.D. from Loughborough University, U.K.. He was a recipient of both the Overseas Research Student Awards from UK and Research Studentship from British Aerospace.
He joined I²R (in the former CWC) in 1994. Currently, he is a Principal Scientist and Programme Director in I²R. He holds adjunct positions in the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and is a member of Telecommunications Standards Advisory Committee of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and a Technical Advisory Member of R&S Communications & Measurements (Asia).
He has about 120 publications in journals and conferences and 15 patents granted/pending. He was a keynote speaker in International Conference of UWB 2005 and the general chair of ICUWB 2007. At I²R, he has led the research on RFID in 1996 and UWB in 1999, which led to successful commercializations to major companies. His research interests are transceiver, antenna, communications, radar and medical imaging.
Dr. Susanto Rahardja
Programme Director
Personal 3D Entertainment Systems
Susanto Rahardja received his B.Eng. degree from the National University of Singapore, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore), all in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He is a Principal Scientist, Director of Personal 3D Entertainment System Programme and Head of Signal Processing Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R).
He is also an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in NTU and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was the recipient of the IEE Hartree Premium Award in 2002. In 2003, he received the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Gold award in the Open Category, for his contributions on scalable to lossless audio compression technology.
Since 2002, he has been participating actively in the international ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (Moving Picture Expert Group, or MPEG) where he contributed to MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless System (SLS) and the technology is incorporated in ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.3:2006. He also contributed technology to the MPEG-4 Audio Lossless System (ALS) where it is now incorporated in ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.2:2006. In recognition for his contributions to the national standardization program, he was awarded the Standards Council Merit Award by SPRING Singapore in 2006.
In addition, for his leadership and technical contribution to advancement of digital audio signal processing and its adoption to the normative and informative parts of MPEG, he was awarded the National Technology Award in 2007.
Dr Rahardja has served in several boards, advisory and technical committees in various IEEE and SPIE related professional activities in the areas of multimedia. He is elected members of the Technical Committee of the Visual Signal Processing and Communications, Circuits and Systems for Communications and Multimedia Systems and Applications of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society. He is currently serving as Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia as well as the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 
Dr. Francois Chin
Programme Manager
Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity
- Academic Qualifications: PhD
- Research Interests/Areas: UWB, Signal Processing algorithms , parallel processing architecture, system design
- Selected granted patents:
- Francois Po Shin CHIN, Ying Chang LIANG, "Downlink Beamforming Method", Granted US Patent No. 6,694,155, Date of Grant: 17 Feb 2004
- Zhongding LEI, Francois Po Shin CHIN, Ying Chang LIANG, “Method for selecting switched orthogonal beams for downlink diversity”, Granted US Patent 6,850,741.
- Honors and Awards:
- Institution Engineering of Singapore(IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2005
- IEEE Vehicular Technology and Communications Best Paper Award in 1999 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-Fall, 19-21 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Professional Activities: IEEE senior members
- Selected Publications:
- YC Liang,F Chin and Ray Liu, Downlink beamforming for DS-CDMA mobile radio with multimedia services. 1999 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-Fall, pp.17-21. Amsterdam, September 1999.
- Y.Zhou, F.P.S. Chin, Y.C. Liang and C.C.Ko, Performance comparison of transmit diversity and beamforming for the downlink of DS-CDMA system. IEEE Tr. Wireless Communications, Vol.2, no.1, pp 320 – 334.
- Xiaoming Peng, Madhukumar, F. Chin, Tjeng Thiang Tjhung “A Simplified Transceiver Structure for Cyclic Extended CDMA System with Frequency Domain Equalization”, IEEE VTC 2005 Spring, May 2005.
- Zhongding Lei, Francois Chin, Yuen Sam Kwok, “UWB Ranging with Energy Detectors using Ternary Preamble Sequences”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2006, 3-6 Apr, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Manjeet Singh Rikhraj, Zhongding Lei, Francois Chin, Yuen Sam Kwok, “A Cyclic Odd Bit Inversion Code Mapping and Modulation Scheme for the IEEE 802.15.4b 868 MHz Band”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2006, 3-6 Apr, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Dr. Guan Cuntai
Programme Manager
Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring and Rehabilitation (AIM)
Academic Qualifications: PhD Research Interests/Areas: Neural Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning, Healthcare, Rehabilitation Selected granted patents: Guan Cuntai, Xu Jun, Li Haizhou , "Low Data Transmission Rate and Intelligible Speech Communication", US Patent No.6502073, 31 Dec, 2002 Honors and Awards: Winner of International Brain-Computer Interface Competition, 2005 Samsung DigitAll Hope Award, 2004 Best Paper Award, MEDSIP’04, September 2004
Professional Activities: Senior Member of IEEE Board Member of Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association, Singapore General Co-Chair, 10th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom), July 2008, Singapore Session Chair, IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioMED), 2008, Austria Track Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2006, UK Session Chair, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005, Shanghai Session Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, December, 2004, Singapore Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, etc., Conferences NIPS, ICME, EMBC, WCCI, IJCNN, etc
Selected Publications: Yuqing Li, Cuntai Guan, “Joint Feature Re-extraction and Classification Using an Iterative Semi-supervised Support Vector Machine Algorithm", Machine Learning, 2008 Haihong Zhang, Cuntai Guan, Chuanchu Wang, “Towards Asynchronous P300-based Brain-computer Interfaces: A Computational Approach with Statistical Models”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2008 Ranganatha Sitaram, Haihong Zhang, Cuntai Guan, Manoj Thulasidas, Yoko Hoshi, Akihiro Ishikawa, Koji Shimizu, Niels Birbaumer, “Temporal Classification of Multi-channel Near Infrared Spectroscopy Signals of Motor Imagery for Developing a Brain-Computer Interface”, NeuroImage, 34 (2007), pp1416–1427 Yuanqing Li, Shun-ichi Amari, Andrzej Cichocki, Cuntai Guan, "Probability Estimation for Recoverability Analysis of Blind Source Separation Based on Sparse Representation", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No.7, 2006, pp 3139-3152 Yuanqing Li, Cuntai Guan, "An Extended EM Algorithm for Joint Feature Extraction and Classification in Brain Computer Interfaces", Neural Computation, Vol. 18, No.11, 2006, pp. 2730–2761.
Dr. Jaya Shankar P.
Programme Manager
High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks
- Academic Qualifications: M.Eng, PhD
- Research Interests/Areas: Wireless Networking, Ad hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Mobile Middleware, MAC protocols
- Selected Publications:
- J. S. Pathmasuntharam, A. Das, A. K. Gupta, “Primary Channel Assignment based MAC (PCAM) – A Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks,” in IEEE WCNC, March 2004.
- J. S. Pathmasuntharam, A. Das, A. K. Gupta, “Channel Assignment for Nullifying the Critically Exposed Node Problem in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,” in IEEE SECON, October 2004.
- J. S. Pathmasuntharam, A. Das, A. K. Gupta, “Efficient Multi-rate Relaying(EMR) MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks” in IEEE ICC, May 2005, South Korea.
- J. S. Pathmasuntharam, A. Das, A. K. Gupta, “Synchronized and Concurrent Enabling of Neighborhood Transmission (SCENT) – A MAC Protocol for Concurrent Transmission in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks”, International Journal on Wireless and Optical Communications (IJWOC), December 2005.
- J. S. Pathmasuntharam, A. Das, P. Mohapatra, “A Flow Control Framework for Improving Throughput and Energy Efficiency in CSMA/CA based Wireless Multihop Networks” in IEEE WoWMoM, June 2006.
Dr. Yau Wei Yun
Programme Manager
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Dr. Bao Feng
Department Head
Cryptography and Security
- Academic Qualifications: PhD
- Research Interests/Areas: Cryptography, information security
- Selected granted patents:
- "Fast Encryption For Multimedia Data And High-Soeed Network"
- "Methods And Apparatus For Privately Retrieving Digital Objects
- "UBICASH SYSTEM-An Efficient And Practical Online Secure Payment System"
- Honors and Awards: 1999 NUS Outstanding Researcher Award
- Professional Activities:
- Conference General Chair - ISC’05, WIAP’05, MADNESS’05, ACNS’06
- Conference PC Chair - PKC’04, ISPEC’05, SNDS’06
- Conference PC Member - CNS02, ICICS02, Asiacrypt’02, PKC’03, ISC03, ICICS03, CANS03, WISA03, ACNS04, ISC04, Asiacrypt04, ACISP04, WISA 04, PKC 05, ACISP05, Asiacrypt05, WISA 05, ICICS 05, ACM-DRM 05, Mycrypt 05, DRMTICS 05, IEEE CSPEAC 05, IEEE WoNS 05, Indocrypt 05, PKC 06, Eurocrypt 06, ACISP 06, ISC 06, ISPEC 06, CANS 06, IWAP 06, SECURECOMM 06
- Selected Publications:
- Feng Bao, Robert Deng, Yongfei Han, Albert Jeng, Desai Narasimhalu, Teowhin Nagir, Breaking Public Key Cryptosystems on Tamper Resistant Devices, Presence of Transient Faults, The Second Workshop on Secure Protocols, Paris, April, 1997, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, 1997.
- Feng Bao, Robert Deng, Wenbo Mao, Efficient and Practical Fair Exchange with Offline TTP, Proceedings of 1998 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, pp. 77-85, 1998.
- Feng Bao, Cryptanalysis of a Partially Known Cellular Automata Cryptosystem, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS, VOL. 53, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2004.
- Feng Bao, Colluding Attacks to a Payment Protocol and Two Signature Exchange Schemes, Asiacrypt’04, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Dec 2004.
- Feng Bao and Robert Deng, Protocols That Hide User’s Preferences in Electronic Transactions, Computer Networks, Vol 48/4 pp 503-515, 2005.
Dr. Chen Zhi Ning
Department Head
RF and Optical
- Academic Qualifications: BEng, MEng, PhD, DoE
- Research Interests/Areas: Applied Electromagnetics, Antennas, and RF
- Selected granted patents:
- Low cross-polarization broadband suspended plate antennas Zhining Chen and M. Y. W. Chia, (Granted on July 5, 2005, US Patent No. 6,914,563, filed on July 25, 2003 based on PCT Patent Application No. PCT/SG01/000009 filed 26 Jan 2001)
- Compact antennas for ultra-wideband applications by Zhining Chen and Terence See, (PCT/SG2005/000282 on August 17, 2005
- Compact multi-tiered plate antenna array by Zhining Chen (PCT Patent Application No. PCT/SG2005/000014; International filing date: 20 Jan 2005, International Publication number: WO05071789A1; International Publication date: 4 Aug 2005; Claiming priority from Singapore Patent Application No. 200400539-3, Date of Filing: 26 January 2004)
- Selected Publications:
- Z. N. Chen, “Broadband suspended plate antennas with concaved center portion,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat.,vol. 53, no. 4, April 2005, pp.1550- 1551
- Z. N. Chen, “A new bi-arm roll antenna for UWB applications,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat.,vol. 53, no. 2, February 2005, pp. 672-677
- Z. N. Chen, “Suspended plate antennas with shorting strips and slots,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat.,vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 2525-2531, October 20, 2004
- Z. N. Chen, “Broadband roll monopole,” IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagat., Vol. 51, No. 11, 2003, pp.3175-3177
- Z. N. Chen, X. H. Wu, H. F. Li, N. Yang, and M. Y. W. Chia, “Considerations for source pulses and antennas in UWB radio systems,"IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 52, no.7, pp. 1739-1748, July 2004
Ashok Kumar Marath
Department Head
Communication Systems
Academic Qualifications: M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) specialising in wireless communications Research Interests/Areas: Physical layer processing and System level issues in Communication Engineering Selected granted patents: Rectifying Antenna circuit: US patent 6140924 - Professional Activities: IEEE Senior Member
- Selected Publications:
Y.-C. Liang, Syed N.A.A., Pilakkat, S.K., Ashok K. M. "Reconfigurable signal processing and hardware architecture for broadband wireless" EURASIP Journal Wireless Communications and Networking, August 2005, pp 323-332. A.K. Marath, Y.W. Chia, C.C. Ko, “Performance Analysis of Homodyne Receiver in Modulated backscattered system for intelligent Transportation”, Proceedings of Vehicular Technology Conference 1999, Houston, Texaspp 1198-1202 K. B. Huang, Q. S. Quek, S. N. A. Ahmed, B. Jin, M. A. Kumar, “ Techniques for reducing dynamic-range requirements for a software radio receiver”, HW-1-03, Software Defined Radio Technical Conference 2002 Marath, S. Naveen, Huang Kai Bin, Q.Q. Seng, J. Bo, M. Chia, Michael M. Li, "System Issues in the Implementation of a Multimode Terminal”, WWRF Phoenix, March 2002
Dr. Li Haizhou
Department Head
Human Language Technology Academic Qualifications: Ph.D. Research Interests/Areas: Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Pattern Recognition Selected granted patents: US Patent: "Method and Apparatus for Voice Annotation and
Retrieval of Multimedia Data", (Patent No: US 6,397,181 B1) granted on 28 May 2002. US Patent: "System for Chinese Tokenisation and Named Entity Recognition" (Patent No: US 6,311,152 B1) granted on 30 October 2001. US Patent: "Low data transmission rate and intelligible speech communication" (Patent No: US 6,502,073) granted on 31 December 2002. UK Patent: "Digital Audio Watermarking using content-adaptive multiple echo hopping" (Patent No. GB 2 363300 B) granted on 1 October 2003.
Honors and Awards: Professional Activities: Vice President, The Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), 2006-2008. Senior Member, IEEE. Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Local Organizing Chair, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, The 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Local Arrangments Chair, SIGIR 2008, The 31st Annual
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval. Workshop Chair, IJCNLP 2008, The 3rd International Joint
Conference on Natural Language Processing.
Selected Publications: Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, and Chin-Hui Lee, "Vector-based Spoken
Language Classification", in Springer Handbook of Speech Processing and Speech Communication, Jacob Benesty, M. Mohan Sondhi, Arden Huang (editors), Springer 2007 Tin Lay Nwe and Haizhou Li, "Exploring Vibrato-Motivated
Acoustic Features for Singer Identification", in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol 15, No. 2, 2007 Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, and Chin-Hui Lee, "A Vector Space Modeling Approach to Spoken Language Identification", in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol 15, No. 1, 2007 Haizhou Li, Khe Chai Sim, Jin-Shea Kuo, and Minghui Dong,
"Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names", The 45th Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2007), June 2007 Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li, "Ordering Phrases with Function Words", The 45th Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2007), June 2007
Dr. Ng See Kiong
Department Head
Data Mining
Academic Qualifications: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Carnegie Mellon University) Research Interests/Areas: Bioinformatics, Text Mining, Real-world Network Data Mining, Protein-Protein Interactions, Scientific Knowledge Discovery Honors and Awards: Best Paper Award, 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW2005) (2005). National Computer Board (NCB) Undergraduate Overseas Scholarship (1986-9)
Professional Activities: Editorial Boards Associate Editor,"Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology"(ABCB) book series, Imperial College Press, London, 2004-present. Advisory Editor, "Bioinformatics and Computational BioImaging"book series, Artech House Publishers, Inc, Boston, 2006-present. Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics(IJDMB), Inderscience Publishers, 2006-present.
Program Committees GIW-2006: 17th International Conference on Genome Informatics, Yokohama, December, 2006. PKDD06: Data and Text Mining for Integrative Biology Workshop, in the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Berlin, 18-22 September 2006. ISMB06 : 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 6-10 2006. PAKDD 2006 - KDLL : Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Life Science Literature and Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications, in 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Singapore, 9-12 April 2006. GIW-2005: 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics, Yokohama, December 19-21, 2005.
Journal Reviewing Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JCBC) (2003-present) IEEE Intelligent Systems (2005) ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing - Special Issue on Text Mining and Management in Biomedicine (2005) IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I) (2006)
Conference Keynotes "Unraveling Multi-Domain Dependencies in Protein-Protein Interactions", in the First International Conference on Computational Systems Biology (ICCSB-2006), Shanghai, 20-23 July2006.
Invited Talks - "Mining for Gold in Mountains of Unstructured Text", invited speaker for the Identifying and Managing Unstructured Information Conference, The Ark Group, Singapore, 26-28 April 2006.
- "Extracting and Exploiting Protein-Protein Contrasts from Biomedical Literature", invited speaker for the CHIME Text Processing Seminar, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 1 Mar 2006.
- "BioContrasts: Extracting and Exploiting Protein-Protein Contrasts from Biomedical Literature", invited speaker for the First International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine, KAIST, Korea, 26 Nov 2005.
- "Computational Purification of Protein Interactomes Using Network Topological Metrics", invited lecture for the BIOINFO2005 AASBi Conference, Busan, Korea, 23 September 2005.
- Selected Publications:
- J.J. Kim, Z. Zhuo, J.C.Park, and S.-K. Ng (2006) "BioContrasts: Extracting and Exploiting Protein-Protein Contrastive Relations from Biomedical Literature", in Bioinformatics vol 22, no. 5, pages 597-605.
X.-L. Li, S.-H. Tan, C.-S. Foo, and S.-K. Ng (2005) "Interaction Graph Mining for Protein Complexes Using Local Clique Merging", in Genome Informatics, vol 16(2), pages 260-269; also presented at the 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW-2005), Yokohama, Japan, December 19-21, 2005. BEST PAPER FOR GIW-2005. S.-K. Ng , S.-H. Tan (2004). "Discovering Protein-Protein Interactions", in Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vol. 1, No. 4, pages 711-741. S.-K. Ng, Z. Zhuo, S.-H. Tan, (2003) "Integrative Approach for Computationally Inferring Protein Domain Interactions", Bioinformatics, Vol 19, No. 8, pages 923-929. M. Perlin, G. Lancia and S.-K. Ng, (1995). "Toward Fully Automated Genotyping: Genotyping Microsatellite Markers by Deconvolution", American Journal of Human Genetics, 57(5):1199-1210.
Dr. Susanto Rahardja
Department Head
Signal Processing
Susanto Rahardja received his B.Eng. degree from the National University of Singapore, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore), all in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He is a Principal Scientist, Director of Personal 3D Entertainment System Programme and Head of Signal Processing Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R).
He is also an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in NTU and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was the recipient of the IEE Hartree Premium Award in 2002. In 2003, he received the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Gold award in the Open Category, for his contributions on scalable to lossless audio compression technology.
Since 2002, he has been participating actively in the international ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (Moving Picture Expert Group, or MPEG) where he contributed to MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless System (SLS) and the technology is incorporated in ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.3:2006. He also contributed technology to the MPEG-4 Audio Lossless System (ALS) where it is now incorporated in ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.2:2006. In recognition for his contributions to the national standardization program, he was awarded the Standards Council Merit Award by SPRING Singapore in 2006.
In addition, for his leadership and technical contribution to advancement of digital audio signal processing and its adoption to the normative and informative parts of MPEG, he was awarded the National Technology Award in 2007.
Dr Rahardja has served in several boards, advisory and technical committees in various IEEE and SPIE related professional activities in the areas of multimedia. He is elected members of the Technical Committee of the Visual Signal Processing and Communications, Circuits and Systems for Communications and Multimedia Systems and Applications of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society. He is currently serving as Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia as well as the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.
A/Prof. Tham Chen Khong
Department Head
Networking ProtocolsAcademic Qualifications: Ph.D. (Cambridge), M.A.(Engineering) (Cambridge) Research Interests/Areas: Quality of Service (QoS) management and mechanisms in networks and distributed systems Markov Decision Process (MDP), Reinforcement Learning
Selected granted patents: Method for Assessing Risk of Diseases with Multiple Contributing Factors, CK Heng, JF Cabrera & CK Tham, US Patent (pending)
Honors and Awards: Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellowship at University of Melbourne, Australia, 2003/04. 1st Runner Up, SingAREN/Sun-Netscape Alliance Distributed Applications Competition, Dec 1999, “Integrated Quality of Service and Network Management”
Professional Activities: Selected Publications: CK Tham, “SensorGrid Architecture for Distributed Event Classification”, book chapter in Sensor Networks and Configuration: Fundamentals, Standards, Platforms, and Applications, Springer-Verlag, November 2006. ISBN 3540373640. CW Ang and CK Tham, “Analysis and optimization of service availability in a HA cluster with load-dependent machine availability”, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2007. WL Yeow, CK Tham and WC Wong, “Energy Efficient Multiple Target Tracking in Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 56(2), March 2007. Y Liu, CK Tham and YM Jiang, “Conformance Analysis in Networks with Service Level Agreements”, Computer Networks, 47, 6, Elsevier Science, April 2005, pp. 885-906. TCK Hui and CK Tham, “Adaptive Provisioning of Differentiated Services Networks based on Reinforcement Learning”, in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Vol. 33, No. 4, IEEE, November 2003, pp. 492-501.
Dr. Huang Zhiyong
Acting Department Head
Computer Graphics and Interface
Academic Qualification:PhD (EPFL), MEng, BEng (Tsinghua) Research Interest/Area:Computer Graphics Granted patent:Huang Z, Tan T S, Wong T W, Li X, Method and apparatus for generating atomic parts of graphic representation through skeletonization for interactive visualization applications, United States Patents, 6,825,839, November 30, 2004. Professional Activities: Editorial board member of the Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics (China). He has served as a program committee member of conferences including PG (2003, 2005), CGI 2005, ICCA 2002, VRCIA 2006 , China Graph (2002, 2004, 2006), CAD/Graphics (2003, 2005), ICIP 2004, MMM 2006, VSMM 2006. Technical reviewers the EDB SIIRD project proposals (2002, 2003, 2006, 2007).
Selected publications: Yu H., Chang E.-C., Huang Z., Zheng Z., Fast Rendering of Foveated Volumes in Wavelet-based Representation, The Visual Computer 21(8-10): 735-744 (2005). Shou L., Huang Z., Tan K.-L., The Hierarchical Degree-of-Visibility Tree, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE CS, Vol. 16, No. 11, Nov. 2004, pp. 1357-1369. Yu M., Atmosukarto I., Leow W. K., Huang Z., Xu R.. 3D Model Retrieval With Morphing-Based Geometric and Topological Feature Maps. In Proc. IEEE CVPR 2003, II 656-661. Shou L., Huang Z. and Tan K.-L., HDoV-tree: The Structure, The Storage, The Speed, In Proc ICDE 2003, pp. 557-568. Akanksha, Huang Z., Prabhakaran B. and Ruiz, Jr. C. R., Visualizing Animation Databases, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Feb 2003, Vol. 13, No. 1, World Scientific, pp. 1-25. Li X., Woon T. W., Tan T. S., and Huang Z. Decomposing Polygon Meshes for Interactive Applications. The 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, March 19-21, North Carolina, USA, pp.35-42, pp. 243. Shou L., Chionh C. H., Huang Z., Ruan Y., and Tan K.-L. Walking Through A Very Large Virtual Environment In Real-time. VLDB 2001, pp. 401-410. Koh C. K. and Huang Z, A Simple Physics Model to Animate Human Hair Modeled in 2D Strips in Real Time, EG CAS 2001, pp. 127-138. Boulic R., Capin T. K., Huang Z., Kalra P., Linterrnann B., Magnenat-Thalmann N., Moccozet L., Molet T., Pandzic I. S., Saar K., Schmitt A., Shen J., Thalmann D., The HUMANOID Environment for Interactive Animation of Multiple Deformable Human Characters. Comput. Graph. Forum 14(3): pp. 337-348 (1995). Boulic R., Huang Z., Magnenat-Thalmann N., Thalmann D., Goal-oriented design and correction of articulated figure motion with the TRACK system. Computers & Graphics 18(4): 443-452 (1994), Elsevier.
Dr. Lim Joo Hwee
Acting Department Head
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
- Academic Qualifications: PhD (CSE) UNSW, MSc (by research) NUS, BSc (Hons I) (CS) NUS
- Research Interests/Areas: Visual Information Indexing and Retrieval, Learning for Computer Vision
- Selected granted patents: Lim, J.H. Method and Apparatus for Indexing and Retrieving Images using Visual Keyword. US Patent No 6,574,378 (3/6/2003), GB 2362078 (22/1/2003), SG Patent No. 82279 (30/6/2003).
- Honors and Awards:
- I²R FY06 Role Model
- ICME 2006 Best Student Paper Award
- Professional Activities: Member IEEE, Technical Program Committee Member for ACCV 2006 & 2007, ACM CIVR 2005, IEEE ICME 2006 & 2007, MMM 2007, VIP 2005 & 2006
- Selected Publications:
- Lim, J.H. & Jin, J.S. (2006). Discovering recurrent image semantics from class discrimination. EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, 2006(21): 1-11.
- Lim, J.H. & Jin, J.S. (2005). A structured learning framework for content-based image indexing and visual query. Multimedia Systems Journal, 10(4): 317-331.
- Lim, J.H. & Jin, J.S. (2005). Combining intra-image and inter-class semantics for consumer image retrieval. Pattern Recognition, 38(6): 847-864.
- Lim, J.H., Tian, Q. & Mulhem, P. (2003). Home photo content modeling for personalized event-based retrieval. IEEE Multimedia, 10(4): 28-37.
- Lim, J.H., Wu, J.K., Singh, S., & Narasimhalu, A.D. (2001). Learning similarity matching in multimedia content-based retrieval. IEEE Trans. KDE, 13(5): 846-850.
Dr. Sun Sumei
Acting Department Head
Modulation and Coding
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