Values - Nanyang Technological University

Mission
To achieve excellence in teaching
and world-class research in
computer engineering.
Vision
VicE-DEAN (Academic)
Prof Goh Eck Soong, Angela
VicE-DEAN (Administration)
Assoc Prof Chan Syin
VicE-DEAN (Research)
Assoc Prof Lee Bu Sung, Francis
Sub-DEAN (Alumni Affairs)
Assoc Prof Khong Chooi Peng
Sub-DEAN (Student Affairs)
Asst Prof Tay Joc Cing
School ADmiNiStRAtoR
Asst Prof Ang Ee Luang
� Foster an innovative and
entrepreneurial spirit
� Prepare graduates for lifelong
learning and leadership
� Conduct cutting-edge research
in collaboration with industry
and eminent international
institutions
SCE Organisation Chart
DEAN
Assoc Prof Seah Hock Soon
Editorial Board
Advisor: Assoc Prof Seah Hock Soon
Chief Editor: Assoc Prof Khong Chooi Peng
Editors: Ms Anita Sebastian
Asst Prof Ang Ee Luang
Asst Prof Arlene Bastion
Designer: Mrs Jean Tan-Pang
Photographer: Mr Toh Leong Teck
Goals
Enquiries/feedback, please email sce-enquiries@ntu.edu.sg
Reg. No. 200604393R
hEAD, computer communications
Assoc Prof Lau Chiew Tong
hEAD, computer Science
Assoc Prof Cai Wentong
hEAD, computing Systems
Assoc Prof Graham Leedham
hEAD, information Systems
Assoc Prof Lim Ee Peng
� Develop our human resources
to their fullest potential
� Raise the school profile locally
and internationally
� Cater to diverse backgrounds
and learning abilities of
students
� Promote self-learning through
structured courses
� Increase the sense of
belonging of students and
alumni
SCE Advisory Committee
Chairman
Mr Khoong Hock Yun
Infocomm Development
Authority, Singapore
International Advisors
Prof James D Foley
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Prof José Luis Encarnacão
Fraunhofer-Institute for
Computer Graphics, Germany
External Members
Mr Chang Yew Kong
SES Systems Pte Ltd
Mr Robert Chew
Accenture Pte Ltd
Mr Andrew Lim
Sun Microsystems Pte Ltd
School Members
Assoc Prof Seah Hock Soon
Prof Goh Eck Soong, Angela
Assoc Prof Lee Bu Sung, Francis
Assoc Prof Graham Leedham
Values
� Innovation
� Integrity
� Teamwork
� Lifelong learning
� Professionalism
� Passion
� Proactiveness
Breaking trails. Setting tracks.
Our tagline depicts our mission to break away from
the beaten track and venture into unchartered
territories. By doing so, SCE aspires to set new heights
in engineering by pioneering innovations.
Front cover: (From left) Smiles all around as Dr Chia, CEO of MDA,
Assoc Prof Seah, Dean, SCE, and Mr Miura, President, Anime
International Company, enter into a landmark agreement. Anime
frames on cover and page 3 are courtesy of “Ah! My Goddess”
@ Fujishima Kousuke•Kodansha/”Ah! My Goddess” production
committee.
PulSCE is a biannual publication of the School of Computer Engineering.

CACAni to the Rescue
Creativity, design, and now CACAni, join forces to speed up
production of animation and games.
SCE’s revolutionary new
Computer-Assisted Cel
Animation (CACAni) system
was developed for just that
purpose. This is an exciting
fusion of free-hand drawing
and animation that is all
set to revolutionise the way
animation is produced.
To create a smooth
sequence of motion in an
animation film, a minimum
of 25 frames is needed
per second. Currently, to
prepare this sequence,
animators have to spend
hours at the drawing board
tracing, sketching and colouring each frame of an animation
sequence. That’s 25 times that an animator needs to draw
and colour a frame for each second of animation!
With SCE’s CACAni system, animators need only to
draw the sketches for the main keyframes. This means that
if the animator provides two keyframes, the system will
automatically generate the in-between frames, creating a
smooth and realistic sequence. For example, one keyframe
shows a lady looking at the horizon, while another keyframe
shows the same lady looking straight at the screen. With
Breaking New Ground
Dr Chia (centre) looks on as Dr Seah (left) and
Mr Miura seal the deal.
In a landmark agreement signed on
20 June 2006 at the Singapore Expo,
SCE broke into the Japanese animation
CACAni generates intermediate frames and auto-colours sequences.
industry through a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with Anime
International Company (AIC) which
is based in Japan. The event was
witnessed by Dr Christopher Chia, CEO
of the Media Development Authority
of Singapore.
Under this MOU, SCE and AIC will
jointly develop 13 anime episodes,
using the CACAni system (see article
above) developed by the school. These
episodes will be broadcast in Japan,
and possibly in Singapore as well.
Anime refers to Japanese art form
that uses animation to tell a story,
both fiction and fantasy.
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CACAni, the sequence would
show the lady looking at the
horizon, then turning to face
the screen.
Given a coloured frame,
the CACAni system will also
auto-colour the other frames
in that sequence.
Hence, the tedious,
labour-intensive process of
drawing and colouring all
the intermediate frames is
now eliminated.
What will be the
advantages that CACAni can
bring to any studio working
to produce animation or
Japanese anime? This seminal technology from SCE would
significantly reduce production time and cost. It would also
free up time for animators and other creative people to focus
on more constructive issues such as concepts and ideas for
the animation, instead of labouring over a drawing board for
many hours.
The CACAni team at SCE is led by Assoc Prof Seah Hock
Soon and key players comprise Asst Prof Tian Feng, Mr Lu
Yixiang, Mr Lu Peng, Mr Qiu Jie, and Mr Chen Quan. CACAni
technology can be extended to game and 3D applications.
In his speech at the MOU signing
ceremony, Mr Toru Miura, President,
AIC, expressed a keen interest in
working with SCE. He said, “The
application of SCE’s technology will
enhance our production capability and
I’m sure that the eventual product will
be a success when it is aired in Japan.”
Dr Seah was equally happy to
team up with AIC. He said, “Through
this MOU, SCE’s technology will equip
Singapore with an edge to attract
animation production companies to be
based here, and subsequently conduct
their animation production work in
Singapore.”

04 School News
Empowering Students... Take Charge Of
Your Learning!
The highest form of cooperation we
can get from others is to be able to
convince them that they are the best
persons to effect change in themselves.
This truism, though accepted, is not put
into practice often enough. In teaching,
where the general feeling still exists
that the professor is the main source of
information, it is believed that learning
comes from direct teaching even
though technology might be used, as
in ‘online lectures’. Few would dispute
that active learning has very sound
principles; nevertheless, many still fear
that this ‘radical’ approach would result
in some undesirable consequences.
There several legitimate issues:
• Fear of the unknown and,
therefore, of its outcomes
• Loss of ‘control’ over the learning
process and learners
• The great challenge of proving that
learning actually takes place
• Lack of ‘uniformity’ of learning
unless the instructor provides it
Notwithstanding all the concerns
above, two teaching teams in SCE –
unbeknownst to each other – decided
to put the ‘new’ empowerment concept
into practice. The two teams teaching
greatly different subjects tried their
new approach for two semesters. Below
is a brief write-up of their approach,
experience and their feedback.
The two teams decided to discover:
• What happens if we were to put
the learning process in the hands of
the students?
• Can we empower students to take
charge even in terms of content
and methodology?
• Will this work towards effective
learning?
Team teaching effort: “Gee, these tough concepts are not
easy to explain.”
TEAM I: Small Group Teaching-
Learning
The first team worked under the
leadership of Assoc Prof Abdul Wahab
teaching Digital Circuits and Systems.
Making some fundamental changes to
their lecture and tutorial set-ups, they
decided to give longer hours to smaller
classes by reducing traditional lecture
time. Their approach makes groupwork
compulsory. The tutor becomes a
facilitator and examines any problems
with the group. Responsibility for
one’s own learning and that of the
small group members is mandatory.
The teaching team works to instill in
the students pride in and ownership
of their views and the ability to share
success with members.
Another feature is the conscious
removal of the urgency to go through
everything in great detail. There
is a deliberate effort to encourage
reflection and an appropriate pacing.
Each tutorial is not ‘water-tight’ but is
part of a larger whole with subsequent
weeks used as part of the process. On
top of this, there is the mandatory
requirement that students are to
present their understanding of the
concepts learnt to the larger lecture
class. This ‘teaching’ by the students
creates within themselves a greater
learning and understanding.
Asked if there were
significant results, Dr Wahab
and Assoc Prof Ng Geok
See were very positive in
their response. Quantifiable
results? Where 20-30% of
students used to fail the
subject, the figure is now
closer to 5%. Contributing
factors? The teaching team
believes that smaller sized
groups are a must to make
this work. Additionally, the
tutors must demonstrate a
willingness to engage students in open
discussion and be ready to continually
evaluate the amount of knowledge
acquired.
Student feedback? The team
reported very favourable responses
from students. “They like it very
much, because they are actively and
meaningfully engaged in the discussion
of concepts and in enhancing
their learning process in a friendly
environment,” said Dr Wahab.
TEAM 2: Knocking One’s
Head Against the Same Wall...
Again??
What does one do if one’s students have
been taught the same things for years
Team Building: Small group at the
‘production line’.

Team Building: “Let’s put your ideas to test!”
but do not seem to have mastered them
at all? And what if these same students
are ‘fed up’ with having to be taught
more of the same... especially if they
want to be engineers, and therefore
only want to spend time on technical
subjects which are ‘relevant’?
The team in SCE teaching English
Proficiency in 2004 facing this perennial
double-jeopardy decided to opt for
a completely radical strategy. Assoc
Prof Khong Chooi Peng came up with
the idea of the ‘INC’ approach which
stands for Initiation, Negotiation, and
Collaboration.
Under this totally new approach,
the students are completely empowered
to take charge of their learning. Briefly,
the strategy’s three phases work like
this:
the iNitiAtioN Phase Students form
teams of 4-6 members. They decide
what they want to learn and how to
share learning with the larger class. This
includes deciding on the topic focus,
the language problems they want to
deal with within that topic, and the
presentation of materials to the entire
class. Some of the topics the small
groups chose included Information
Technology, The English Language,
Global Citizenship, and Youth Culture,
Concerns, and Responsibilities.
the NEGotiAtioN Phase Each small
group meets with its tutor to show the
plans and materials they have in hand.
The aim of these meetings is to decide
on how the materials will
be dealt with, by which of
the students, and in what
form. More importantly,
they allow the tutor
to access the value of
the materials and the
student-designed tasks.
The selected materials
collected by the students
(text, audio, video)
are then planned for a
two-week period (eight
contact hours). The group
also tells the tutors what
language items they find
problematic in the materials. The tutor
then devises exercises for the whole
class based on this feedback.
the collAboRAtioN Phase Each
small group then presents their topic,
materials, and peer-teaching tasks
to the whole class. The other small
groups become the peer-students
with the tutor always in the room,
taking notes for points to be dealt with
e.g. mispronunciations, problematic
expressions, etc. One other collaborative
effort is that all groups being ‘taught’
give brief written feedback to the
group at the end of two weeks on a
form devised by the tutors.
Dr Khong and team, comprising
Ms Nimmi Jayathurai and Ms Fazillah
Ismail, are extremely pleased with
the students’ enthusiasm. The entire
student-generated course was rich
in its diversity and
totally of interest
to the students
themselves. Several
groups came up
with video clips, e.g.
Saving Private Ryan,
to introduce their
topic on the horrors
of war. Others
created their own
quizzes at the end of
their ‘teaching stint’.
While some wrote
poems, others did
mini-slide shows
depicting cultures
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with running commentaries, and some
challenged other groups to a debate
on their convictions regarding the
particular subject.
How were the students assessed?
Two pre-tests were given before the
course began. The same tests were
administered 11 weeks later, indicating
a significant level of improvement. In
addition to the presentations to the
class, each small group submitted a
portfolio of all the materials they had
accumulated, copies of other groups’
assessments of their performance, and
a short report of what they had set out
to do and had accomplished. The tutors
then evaluated the portfolios as part of
course work.
The teaching team was really
pleased with the level of student
involvement. They are more convinced
than ever that if you can allow
students a meaningful and significant
contribution to their own learning,
the process becomes a much happier
and more effective one. Acquisition of
skills and technology becomes a joint
enterprise.
Will this work with all subjects?
“Not to the same extent, perhaps,”
ventured Dr Khong. “However, it
should work well as long as we keep on
the same side of the continuum ... that
half of the continuum that operates
on learning through being positively
or actively engaged, and not merely
through being lectured at.”
Team Building: “We just need to tweak our product a little to beat
the competitors!”

06 School News
Imaging and Restoring Singapore’s History
The National Archives of Singapore (NAS) was commissioned to amass and preserve Singapore’s
heritage. One of the historical items to be preserved is the collection of hand-written government
ledgers. SCE’s Asst Prof Michael Brown gets involved.
These government ledgers from the 1800s
are brittle and easily torn. Many are already
suffering from significant tears.
The documents (see pictures above)
are, not surprisingly, in poor condition
as a result of wear and tear over the
years, and from physical decay of the
materials themselves – decay that has
been exacerbated by the local humidity.
Preservation of these documents is
therefore particularly challenging from
an archival and preservation point of
view.
NAS is in the process of digitizing
these ledgers to produce high-resolution
images of individual pages. Such
digitization serves two purposes, to
preserve these materials in digital form
and to provide a convenient means of
access to the content within them.
Imaging a large collection
page-by-page is a slow and tedious
undertaking. This task is made even
more arduous by the poor and delicate
condition of these manuscripts, often
unsuitable for imaging with traditional
flatbed scanners. Tears in the materials
must first be physically repaired before
imaging can be done. Camera-based
imaging is an unsuitable alternative
as the ragged shape and tears of the
manuscripts result in undesirable
artifacts in the captured images.
To further compound matters, the
majority of the materials suffer from
‘ink-bleed-through’, where the ink
on one side of the paper has seeped
through the fibres to the other side of
the page (see image on next column).
The only solution to this problem at
this time is a chemical wash that would
indiscriminately remove ink from both
sides of the page. However, this process
can only be applied a few times before all
ink-based content is completely erased.
Addressing these issues is the focus
of the recent A*STAR PSF grant entitled
Imaging and Restoration Techniques
of Historical Archives, awarded to
SCE’s Asst Prof Michael Brown. The
two collaborators, Mr Lim Guan Hock,
former deputy director of NAS, and
Assoc Prof Tan Chew-Lim, from the
School of Computing, NUS, have set
out two objectives for the project. The
first is to develop an imaging technique
that can capture the materials ‘as-is’
with minimal handling. This approach
involves acquiring a high-resolution 3D
scan of the material together with highresolution
images. Using the 3D data
and captured images, these materials
can be flattened and repaired ‘virtually’
without any risk to the real material.
The second objective is to develop
a user-assisted technique to aid ‘clean
up’ of the bleed-through process. This
approach involves registering the frontand-back
images of an individual page
and then allowing the NAS staff to
give simple image-based suggestions
via a user-interface to help guide a
segmentation algorithm to identify
actual foreground ink from seeped ink.
While the goals of this project
are quite easily expressed, there is a
tremendous opportunity for research
in the development of solutions.
Furthermore, by addressing these two
objectives, researchers hope to deliver
an imaging system and processing
tools that will significantly expedite
the imaging efforts of NAS and other
archives outside of Singapore.
SCE Dinner & Dance is an annual event organised by students in SCE. This year, the event
will also include Staff Appreciation Night as one of the activities. This would be an SCE
event involving faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
Date : 1 September 2006
Time : 1800 – 2300 hrs
Venue : Raffles Town Club
Theme : Viva Las Vegas
Dress Code : Formal / Smart Casual
For more information, please contact the chairperson of the event,
Jason Ngo, at jasongo_11@yahoo.com.sg

SCE – Coming to you LIVE!
The Singapore-MIT Alliance
(SMA) was established in 1998
to encourage educational and
research collaboration among
engineers and life scientists from
MIT, NTU, and NUS. Now, SCE is
teaching part of a course from
our campus to MIT.
Subjects offered through the SMA and
NTU are generally related to manufacturing
technology and optimisation methods.
A new addition, however, to the courses
offered this semester is the hybrid subject
Statistical Learning and Data Mining in
Bioinformatics. This course combines two
fields: Computational Biology taught by SCE’s Assoc Prof
Jagath Rajapakse, and Statistical Learning and Data Mining
taught by Prof Roy Welsch, MIT.
After two years, the course material may be uploaded
as open courseware which can be accessed by students
worldwide.
In the pipeline is also a textbook geared towards
students reading this custom-made course. Unlike existing
books that compile recent research papers, this book focuses
on concepts, examples, and exercises for graduate students
to understand the subject matter better.
Cameras in each classroom capture images of professors,
students, and all computer-based materials (slides,
simulations, etc.). Students at both sites have live access to
Double Degree, Multiple Prospects
www.ntu.edu.sg/compbiz
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Dr Rajapakse teaching a class in NTU. The screen on the left shows his teaching material, while
the right shows the students in class in MIT.
monitors displaying what is being taught. There is also a little
button next to each student to press when he has a query.
The cameras will then swivel to focus on the student and his
image fills the screen in both locations. Both professors from
NTU and MIT can answer the question, and discuss concepts
back and forth.
General student feedback is that the course is
innovative, more exciting than regular classes, and that they
can really get the best of both worlds. Helen Zhou, an NTU
student in the class, feels that while the course is rather
difficult and intense, it does prepare her well for advanced
research. She says, “If you really want to do research in Data
Mining and Statistics, as well as Bioinformatics, this is the
course to take.”
One of SCE’s academic highlights is its new double degree programme with
NTU Nanyang Business School, which will be offered to undergraduates
enrolled in academic year 2006/2007.
A hybrid curriculum was specially prepared to combine both computing
and business elements. Some of the subjects offered include Data
Management and Business Intelligence, Enterprise Computing, IT Security,
Project Management, and Telecommunications Industry Management.
Upon completion of the four-year programme, students graduate with two
degrees – Bachelor of Business (Information Technology) and Bachelor of
Engineering (Computer Science).
Asst Prof Zhou Suiping is the SCE programme coordinator for this
double degree. He feels this programme will meet the demand for graduates
with technology and business skills. This programme aims to bridge the gap
between IT and business, empowering our graduates with both technical IT
skills and soft skills of business.

08 Alumni News
Who would have thought it possible to gather 14 SAS/SCE cohorts for
an evening of camaraderie? Two hundred busy professionals and staff
turned up for the inaugural reunion dinner on 18 February 2006.
It was a truly memorable night! About
200 staff and alumni from the Classes
of 1993 - 2005 attended the reunion
dinner in the spirit of nostalgia. It was
a great evening of renewing ties of
friendship, networking, and rebonding
of the SCE Alumni Spirit.
The panoramic view from the
OCBC Executive Club provided a
spectacular setting. The dining room,
where the event was held, was
gaily bedecked with gold and silver
balloons.
The evening was graced by two
Guests–of-Honour, Dean of SCE, Assoc
Prof Seah Hock Soon, and Director of
Alumni Affairs Office, Mr Soon Min
Yam. Sub-Dean of Alumni Affairs, Assoc
Prof Khong Chooi Peng, kicked off the
event with a warm welcome.
Dr Seah addressed the guests
and shared the major milestones and
developments of the school. This was
followed by a brief presentation of
the Master of Science programmes
by Assoc Prof Chan Syin, Vice-Dean
(Administration).
The highlight of the evening was
the ‘Pyramid Challenge’. Assoc Prof
Goh Wooi Boon created much hilarity
with his witty hosting of the game
show. It was amazing how certain
words related to SCE, such as The
Johari Window, still struck a chord,
Great Company, Good Foo
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even among the alumni who had left
the school a long time ago.
The Dean gave away the lucky
draw and the ‘Guess Who? (An Eye for
SCE Staff)’ contest prizes. This contest
was to identify the familiar academic
staff in a black and white photograph
taken more than a decade ago!
The end of the programme did
not mark the end of the night. The
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dinner hall continued to buzz with
chatter and laughter. In fact, the end
of the night marked the beginning of
a new revitalised chapter among the
SCE alumni, a milestone in fostering a
closely-knit alumni family.
One of our alumni, Joseph
Chai (Class of 1997) commented,
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1. “Oh dear, there are so many
unfamiliar names… I didn’t
realise it has been ages since we
graduated from SCE.”
2. “It is heartening to have so many
of you back for our first reunion
dinner.”
3. Our recent alumni.
4. “Lady Luck is smiling on me
tonight.”
5. “I have told you for the umpteenth
time… that is not the answer! If
only you hadn’t skipped so many
lectures back then!”
6. Dr Seah (fourth from left) with
some of our 2005 graduates.
7. Dr Khong (second from left)
with four alumni from the Class
of 1996.
8. Some senior staff with happy-
looking alumni.
9. Asst Prof Ang Ee Luang (left) with
some SCE alumni couples.
“Surprisingly, after close to 10 years of
absence, my lecturers still remember
my name and the things I used to do!”
It was truly a wondrous event,
reaffirming our faith that the bonds are
still strong. All it takes is for us to touch
base regularly.
Watch out for the next event!
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Behind the scenes
“You mean those photographs in the
programme booklet were of us taken
so long ago? I could not recognise
myself!”
“Since we are working so hard,
how many gifts can we keep for
ourselves..?”
“Hey our PulSCE has made its way into
the goodie bags!”
www.scealumni.ntu.edu.sg/Infohub.net

10 Alumni News
Taking The Roads Less Travelled
From left: Mr Dev Ramnane, Mr Amey V Laud, Mr Manik
Gupta, Assoc Prof Khong Chooi Peng, Sub-Dean (Alumni
Affairs), Mr Andrew Chew and Dr Patrick Chan.
The forum on 30 March
2006 brought together
five of our outstanding
alumni at The Roads
Less Travelled seminar.
The panel consisted of
Dev Ramnane (2003
Alumnus), Director of
Imfinity; Manik Gupta
(1999 Alumnus), IT Project
Manager of Hewlett
Packard; Amey V Laud
(1998 Alumnus), CEO of
Genvea Biosciences Pte
Ltd; Dr Patrick Chan, (1994 Alumnus), Research Director of IDC Asia/Pacific;
and Andrew Chew (1994 Alumnus), Senior Pricing Manager of Dell.
Topics discussed include the challenges involved in a start-up company,
the formula for success, and the kind of research opportunities available
upon graduation. This insightful forum serves as a platform for alumni to
share their experiences and accomplishments with the undergraduates. It is
also a good opportunity for our alumni to reconnect with the school.
Looking through Google
Glasses
What is it like to work at Google? Is it true that there is free food in every
building? What are the ‘20% rule’ and the ‘100-feet rule’ that keep Googlers’
happy? SCE students got an inside
look at Google in a recruitment talk
organised on 13 February 2006.
Tan Chade Meng (1994
Alumnus) is a Senior Engineer at
Google and the first Singaporean to
be hired by Google. He spoke on how
Google operates and the qualities of
employees that they are on the look
out for. Undergraduates present were
inspired by the experiences recounted
by Chade Meng and quite impressed
with his career achievements after
graduation.
Chade Meng said (tongue-
in-cheek?), “Google is looking for
talented, motivated people. Look at
me. I am one good example.”
Tan Chade Meng had a captive audience
of students and staff with his stories
about Google.
Postcard from
our Alumni
Mervin Chan, SCE graduate of 2005,
recently had his marriage solemnisation
in our very own Yunnan Gardens
on 6 June 2006. Mr Soon Min Yam,
Director of NTU’s Alumni Affairs Office,
officiated at the ceremony. Mr Soon
has been Deputy Registrar of Marriages
since 1992 and has been solemnising
marriages for alumni and staff of NTU
since September 2005.
Picture of marital bliss.
It was pure coincidence that both
Mervin and his wife, Yvonne Lin, ended
up at the same workplace. Mervin is
currently working for NCS (seconded
to DSTA), while Yvonne is also working
in DSTA as an Engineer. Mervin served
on the CE Club and was chairman of
Exclaim 2, SCE’s school day.
They have known each other for six
years since their first year at NTU. They
met through the same ECA – Welfare
Services Club. “Coming back to Yunnan
Gardens to solemnise the marriage
makes the day even more memorable,
because this is the place which holds
good and bitter-sweet memories for
us. NTU will always have a special place
in our heart. It is where we got our
education, where we ‘grew’ from our
experiences, as well as where we met.”

Discover Engineering!
Discover Engineering @NTU, formerly
known as CoE Tech Week, was held
on 11 March 2006 at the Nanyang
Auditorium. The one-day affair aimed
to increase undergraduate enrolment
through generating awareness and
interest in engineering. The event,
held on the same day as LIFE@NTU,
attracted over 5,600 visitors.
This year, there was also an
interactive website to reach out to the
public. Game Lab was commissioned
to prepare two online games, one
with engineering content involving
circuits, the other involving bird flu
and biotechnology.
SCE Assoc Prof Lee Keok
Kee, Chairman of the Organising
Agent Neil
Weng Jianshu at the ART Competition in Japan.
Agent Neil designed by PhD student,
Weng Jianshu, was ranked second
at the Agent Reputation and Trust
(ART) Competition organised by the
International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent
Systems in May 2006 in Japan.
Measuring an agent’s reputation
helps it decide which partner to work
with. The ART initiative was launched
with the goal of establishing a testbed
for comparative study of reputation
and trust-related and technologies.
Neil is able to evaluate the other
agents’ reputation based on its
The winning team of the Most Popular
Undergraduate Project category.
Committee, was able to pull off the
event splendidly with his team. He said,
“Organising it was very challenging
and seeing it come to fruition was
very satisfying. Furthermore, it’s good
that SCE students did very well.” And
that they did.
previous experience with them. Neil
would then apply a metric to derive the
agents’ reputation to help it decide on
the degree of trust to place on them.
This method acts against the presence
of inaccurate opinion and reputation
information.
Jianshu, co-supervised by Prof
Angela Goh and Asst Prof Miao Chun
Yan, is a team member in a trust agent
research project funded by A*STAR.
Coder Extraordinaire
Ardian Poernomo did SCE proud when he won India’s
Google Code Jam programming contest in India in
2005. And then, he went off to India in 2006, and did
it again!
An interest in programming that was inculcated
at a young age, has blossomed into a passion. Now he
other News 11
most Popular undergraduate
Project
First place: Multi-Agent System for
Interactive Lab, with team members:
Asst Prof Miao Chun Yan, Abhinav
Agrawal and Weng Jianshu.
Second place: Faculty Mining via
SIMPLICITY, with team members:
Asst Prof Franklin Fu, Cheok Meeau
Chin, Lee Ri Kang Kelvin, Lin Jiating
Justin, Koh Hong Hui, Nguyen Hoang
Anh and Ong Sze Wee Francis.
most Popular Nanyang
Research Programme Project
First place: Palmprint Classification,
with team members: Ms Li Fang,
Choon Kean Fatt, Tejas Shikhare
and Victor Chan.
Third place: OLAP Reporting Tool
for Mobile Clients, with team
members: Asst Prof Vivekanand
Gopalkrishnan, Swati Gupta and
Zhiren Yang.
The trust metric used by Neil will be
applied in this project.
What is an Agent?
An agent is an intelligent software that acts
on behalf of a user or programme. It has the
capability to adapt and learn in response
to the environment. When several agents
interact with each other, they form a multiagent
system. In a multi-agent system,
partners with varying properties interact
together. An agent would use its knowledge
of learnt responses to decide with which
agent to interact.
“Don’t take the competitions
too seriously.”
takes part in as many programming contests as possible, mostly online. There
are no prizes for these competitions, just a ranklist.
Before the competition in India, he would go online, source for
programming problems, and work on them. This helped to boost his
confidence for the competition. In 2005, he went into the competition a little
apprehensive, but with hope. In 2006, he was concerned about not being as
prepared as the other participants. But none of that stopped him. Knowledge
and determination got him through it all.

12 other News
Long Service Awards
These smiles have brightened the school for many years!
There are some staff in SCE who have seen all the changes
in the school. At the school meeting in January 2006, we
honoured staff who have served the school for more than
10 years.
The 15-year long service award recipients are Assoc
Profs Abdul Wahab Bin Abdul Rahman, Goh Wooi Boon, Ng
Geok See, Yap Ma Tit, Hui Siu Cheung, Khong Chooi Peng,
and Kwoh Chee Keong. Non-academic staff in the same
category comprise Mr Lam Hoy Kong, Mr Loo Kian Hock, Mr
Teo Hai Poh, and Ms Wong Heng Keow.
The 10-year long service award recipients are Assoc Profs
Graham Leedham and Michel Pasquier. Other awardees in the
same category are clerical officer, Ms Haslina Bte Mohamad
and technical executive, Mrs Ng-Lee Fui Chin.
Thank you for all your contributions to the school!
Staff Welfare in SCE
The Staff Welfare Committee in SCE
comprises Mrs Jessie Lew, Ms Suzie
Tan, Ms Siom Siew Ling, Ms Wong Lee
Chin and Mr Goh Tong Hai. Together,
they plan and organise interesting
gatherings and tours or visits for all
SCE staff throughout the year.
Events in the last six months
include the Breakfast Chat in the
Discussion Room, Ubin on Wheels, a
farm and factory tour, a visit to the
Ah.... the great outdoors! Cycling is more
tiring than it looks. But I wouldn’t be
anywhere else today.
Night Safari,
and a one-day
fruit farm tour
in Desaru. In
the pipeline are
plans for a trek and durian picking
tour in July, the school dinner and
dance in September, and another
farm and factory tour in November.
Chairperson of the committee
since August 2005, Jessie has been
very busy. She wrote, “The cycling
trip to Pulau Ubin was the best event
so far. 36 of us, including a little 2year-old
girl, gathered at Changi
Jetty one Saturday morning. Cycling
through ‘wild’ Ubin was physically
demanding on everyone, but
the journey was challenging and
enjoyable. Joy factor: getting away
from the routine of a workday.
Our Star Performer
Assoc Prof Stephen Turner, the director of the
Parallel and Distributed Computing Centre (PDCC),
was presented with the award for Outstanding
Performance in 2005.
Among his notable achievements: Dr Turner won
the IBM Shared University
Research (SUR) award for
his project Integrated
Virtual Experimentation
and Business Process
Implementation for
High-tech Manufacturing
and Service Networks.
His other on-going
collaborations are with
Dr Turner receiving his award from
Dean, SCE, Assoc Prof Seah.
SIMTech, IHPC, DSTA, University of Birmingham,
Brunel University, Georgia Institute of Technology
(GT), and IBM TJ Watson.
He is actively involved in the school’s Grid
Computing flagship project and is currently
coordinating SCE-GT collaboration on Grid Computing
and Computer Simulation, results of which are coming
to life at PDCC.
Dr Turner was on the advisory board of the IEEE
Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
(1997–2005). He is also an Associate Editor of
Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modelling
and Simulation International, and Editorial Board
member for International Journal of Simulation:
Systems, Science, and Technology. Apart from this,
Dr Turner serves on the Exam Paper Moderation
Committee. Now that’s a workload and a half!
Being active in the outdoors also
helped to lift everyone’s spirits. The
unbelievable reward for the day was
a thirst-quenching, chilled fresh
coconut juice drink near the jetty!”
Everyone felt that it was a good
time for bonding and for the families
of the staff to interact and get to
know each other. The committee
aims to organise a variety of
activities to cater to different
interests.
And guess who takes care of
the staff Discussion Room? The very
same committee. They welcome your
suggestions.

Awards and Achievements
best paper award at the Principles of Advanced
and Distributed Simulation (PADS) conference
Assoc Prof Stephen John Turner, Assoc Prof Cai Wentong,
and Chen Dan won the Best Paper award at the PADS
conference. Their paper, titled A Framework for Robust
HLA-based Distributed Simulations, introduces a
framework for robust HLA-based distributed simulations
using the decoupled federate architecture. The
framework exploits the architecture to provide a generic
fault-tolerant model that uses a ‘dynamic substitution’
approach to deal with failure. It supports reusability
of legacy federate code, and is platform-neutral and
independent of federate modelling approaches.
ScE undergraduate is two-time winner of
Google’s india code Jam
Fourth-year student Ardian Kristanto Poernomo was the
winner of Google’s India Code Jam in 2005 and 2006.
This year’s competition attracted more than 14,000
programmers from the South East Asian region. After an
initial rigorous qualifying round, 500 proceeded to round
two. The top 50 scorers from this flew to Bangalore for
the Grand Finals. Programming in the competition can be
done in Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
Ardian received a cash prize of Rs 122,000 for top
placing, and an iPod Nano for participation in the event.
Also from SCE, fourth-year students Nguyen Phuong
Ngoc and Prima Chairunnanda came in fourth and fifth
respectively.
New Books
Congratulations on publishing your books!
Alexei Sourin. Computer Graphics: From a Small
Formula to Cyberworlds (2nd edition). Pearson
Prentice Hall, Singapore, 2006.
Hsu Wen Jing and Huang Shell Ying. Anatomy of
HCTS: A High-capacity Container Terminal System
for Mega Vessels, NUS Publishing, 2006.
Benjamin Premkumar and Cai Jianfei. Principles
of Wireless Communications and Networks (2nd
edition). Pearson Prentice Hall, Singapore, 2006.
Awards and Achievements 13
ScE takes top award at the Pacific-Asia
conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
mining (PAKDD) 2006
The 10th PAKDD 2006, together with Singapore Institute
of Statistics and the Pattern Recognition & Machine
Intelligence Association of Singapore (SAS), hosted a
data mining competition early this year.
Participating teams had to solve a classification
problem with the objective to predict, with accuracy,
some customer data for a telco operator. Fourth-year
student Hanny Yulius Limanto, Asst Prof Tay Joc Cing,
and Dr Andrew Watkins from Mississippi State University
emerged champions in the University Category. The team
used an immune-system-inspired data mining algorithm
to predict the data.
undergraduate awarded overseas research
internship
Third-year student, Ms Kanika Jain, under the supervision
of Asst Prof Tay Joc Cing, was awarded an International
Research Studentship (of £3300) from University College
London to undertake research in Multi-agent Modelling
of Biological Systems at the Centre of Mathematics
and Physics in Life Sciences and Experimental Biology
(CoMPLEX). She will spend a semester from June to
December 2006 at CoMPLEX.
New Appointments
Prof Srikanthan Thambipillai
Director, Intelligent Devices and
Systems Cluster
Assoc Prof Kwoh Chee Keong
Deputy Director, Biomedical and
Pharmaceutical Engineering Cluster
Mr Wong Chee Kien, Gabriyel
Director, Game Lab
Asst Prof Ong Yew Soon
Deputy Director, Emerging Research Lab
Asst Prof Bertil Schmidt
Deputy Director, MSc (Bioinformatics)

14 Recent Visitors
Recent Visitors
22 May - 14 Jun 06 Prof Sun Xian-He,
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
22 - 23 May 06 Prof Richard Fujimoto,
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
22 May 06 Dr Georgios
Theodoropoulos, Senior Lecturer,
University of Birmingham, UK; Dr Brian
Logan, Lecturer, The University of
Nottingham, UK
17 - 19 May 06 Prof Jeff Kramer,
Imperial College, UK
17 - 18 May 06 Dr Shandar Ahmad,
Reader, Department of Biosciences,
Jamia Millia Islamia University, India
11 May 06 Assoc Prof Malini Olivo,
Principal Investigator; Dr Patricia
Thong, Research Fellow, National Cancer
Centre, Singapore
5 May 06 Dr Wang Shiying, Vice-
Chairman, School of Computer; Prof Xu
Ming, National University of Defense
Technology, Hunan, China
21 Apr 06 Prof Kerson Huang, Emeritus
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA
20 Apr 06 Prof Dik Lee, The Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong
13 Apr 06 Prof Sham Navathe, College
of Computing, Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA
9 - 21 April 06 Prof Wang Wei,
Head of Department of Computing
and Information Technology, Fudan
University, China
7 - 12 Apr 06 Prof Andrew
Pomiankowski, Director, Centre for
Mathematics and Physics in Life Sciences
and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX),
University College London, UK
17 Mar 06 Ms Teo Chor Guan,
Manager, Software Engineering; Ms
Alicia Lee Muller, Recruiter, Lucasfilm
Animation, Singapore
9 Mar 06 Mrs Foo Chui Hoon, HOD
(Science); Mr Julius Chan, LH (Physics),
Victoria Junior College, Singapore;
Delegation of nine teachers from SN
Kansagra School, India
7 Mar 06 Ms Zhou Yilu, Research
Associate/PhD candidate, University of
Arizona, USA
1 Mar 06 Prof Huang Qingming,
Professor and Deputy Director, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
1 Mar 06 Dr Bernard Hamonic,
Research Scientist, CNRS-DAE (French
National Centre for Scientific Research,
Directorate for Industrial Relations),
France
22 Feb 06 Dr Harold Raveche,
President, Stevens Institute of
Technology, Hoboken, USA
13 Feb 06 Mr Tan Chade-Meng,
Software Engineer; Mr Sreeram
Ramachandran, Software Engineer;
Ms Yvonne Agyei, Manager of Global
University Programs; Ms Neetu
Sabharwal, Global University Programs,
Google, USA
7 Feb 06 Prof Andrew Ortony,
Professor of Education, Psychology,
and Computer Science, Northwestern
University, USA
18 Jan 06 Assoc Prof David Suter,
Assoc Dean of Research, Institute of
Vision Systems Engineering, Monash
University, Australia; Delegation of
Professors, Huanan University of
Science and Technology, China
17 Jan 06 Ms Teo Chor Guan, Manager,
Software Engineering; Mr Oliver Acker,
Manager of Artistic Development,
Lucasfilm Animation, Singapore; and
colleagues from Lucasfilm Animation,
USA
5 Jan 06 High School Students, SMA
Negeri 4 Medan, Indonesia
22 Dec 05 Mr Tan Chade-Meng,
Software Engineer, Google, USA
9 Dec 05 Dr Nguyen Canh Hoang,
Vice-Dean of Faculty of Information
Technology; Assoc Prof Ho Si Dam,
Head of Dept of Computer Networking;
Dr Dinh Manh Tuong, Head of Dept
of Computer Sciences; Dr Nguyen Tue,
Head of Dept of Information Systems;
Dr Do Duc Giao, Head of Dept of
Applied Mathematics in Information
Technology, Vietnam National University,
Vietnam
8 Dec 05 Delegation of faculty
members, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, India
1 Dec 05 Dr Sanjay Chawla, Senior
Lecturer, The University of Sydney,
Australia
28 Nov 05 Prof Erkki Sutinen,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Joensuu, Finland
23 Nov 05 Students, Ngee Ann
Polytechnic, Singapore
22 Nov 05 Prof Staffan Nordmark,
Executive Director, Swedish Foundation
for Strategic Research, Sweden;
Ms Madeleine Caesar, Chief Executive
Officer, The Knowledge Foundation
(KK), Sweden; Mrs Ewa Ställdal
Eriksson, Chief Executive Officer, The
Vardal Foundation, Sweden; Dr Björn
Brandt, Director of Administration,
Swedish Foundation for Strategic
Research, Sweden; Dr Måns Lönnroth,
Managing Director, The Foundation
for Strategic Environmental Research
(MISTRA), Sweden; Mr Roger
Svensson, Managing Director, The
Swedish Foundation for International
Cooperation in Research and Higher
Education (STINT), Sweden; Prof
Thommy Svensson, Delegation
Coordinator/Director, The Swedish
School of Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies
(SSAAPS), Sweden
21 Nov 05 - 20 Feb 06 Dr Gleb
Nosovskiy, Tan Chin Tuan Exchange
Fellow, Moscow State University, Russia
16 Nov 05 Mr Philip Peterson, Head
of Animation Technology; Ms Teo Chor
Guan, Manager, Software Engineering,
Lucasfilm Animation, Singapore
9 Nov 05 Mr Norihiro Suzuki, Director,
Embedded System Platform Research
Laboratory (ESPRL), Hitachi Ltd,
Japan; Mr Shinobu Koizumi, General
Manager, Software Design Platform
Technology Centre, ESPRL, Hitachi Ltd,
Japan; Dr Shinobu Yoshida, Associate
Director and General Manager, Research
& Development Centre, Hitachi Asia Ltd,
Singapore
7 Nov - 1 Dec 06 Prof Peter Sloot,
Informatics Institute, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
28 Oct 05 Prof Chris Jesshope,
Informatics Institute, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
25 Oct 05 Dr Ulrich Schnaut, Head of
EADS Singapore R&D/R&T Project;
Dr Helmut Zinner, Senior Manager, Key
Account Defence and Space, Corporate
Research Centre, European Aeronautic
Defence and Space Company (EADS),
Germany
24 - 27 Oct 05 Assoc Prof
Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India
Continued on next page.

Seminars and Workshops
23 May 06 Seminar: Scalable Software
in Cyberspace: From Virtual Private
Environment to Quality of Service,
Prof Sun Xian-He, Illinois Institute of
Technology, USA
18 May 06 BIRC Seminar: Solvent
Accessibility Prediction in Proteins,
Dr Shandar Ahmad, Department
of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia
University, India
8 May - 8 Jun 06 BIRC Workshop: First
Virtual Workshop in Bioinformatics,
Dr Meena Sakharkar, NTU;
Dr Manoranjan Dash, NTU; Dr Jiang
Daxin, NTU; Dr Jagath C. Rajapakse, NTU
20 Apr 06 Seminar: Query Routing
in Peer-to-Peer Search Engines, Prof
Dik Lee, The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Hong Kong
17 – 19 Apr 06 CHiPES Workshop: Rapid
Prototyping with Field Programmable
Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Prof T Srikanthan,
NTU; Mr Quek Kai Hock, Research
Associate, NTU; Mr George Rosario
Jagadeesh, Research Associate, NTU
7 Mar 06 Seminar: Combining
Probability Model and Web Mining
Model: A Framework for Proper Name
Transliteration, Ms Zhou Yilu, University
of Arizona, USA
1 Mar 06 Seminar: Sports Video Analysis
and Enhancement
Personal Customised Video Service, Prof
Huang Qingming, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing, China
13 Feb 06 Seminar: Affect and Emotion
in Intelligent Agents: Why and How?,
Prof Andrew Ortony, Northwestern
University, USA
Continued from previous page.
24 - 25 Oct 05 Dr Priyono Eko Sanyoto,
Director; Mr Basuki Winoto, Head of
Software Application Study Programme,
Politeknik Batam, Indonesia
24 Oct 05 Mr David Chappell, Principal,
Chappell & Associates, San Francisco,
USA
17 Oct 05 Mr Vittal Kini, Director, CTG
ISRC, Intel, India
8 Feb 06 Seminar: Ancient Egypt:
Thousands or Hundreds of Years Ago?,
Dr Gleb Nosovskiy, Moscow State
University, Russia
20 Jan 06 Seminar: Simulating Quantum
Computation by Contracting Tensor
Networks, Dr Shi Yaoyun, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
18 Jan 06 Seminar: Computer Vision
– Statistics and Geometry, Assoc
Prof David Suter, Monash University,
Australia
11 Jan 06 C2i Graduate Research
Seminar: Fuzzy Modelling in
Reinforcement Learning,
Mr Quah Kian Hong, NTU
5 Jan 06 C2i Seminar: Initiatives in
Signal Processing in Smart Ambiance,
Dr Huseyin Abut, San Diego State
University, USA
1 Dec 05 Seminar: Synthesis of Large
Scale Gene Networks from Microarrays,
Dr Sanjay Chawla, The University of
Sydney, Australia
29 Nov - 15 Dec 05 Six seminars
on Financial Mathematics, Dr Gleb
Nosovskiy, Moscow State University,
Russia
28 Nov 05 C2i Seminar: Speaker
Localisation Using Microphone Array
and Simple Fuzzy Logic Modelling,
Dr Waleed H. Abdulla, The University of
Auckland, New Zealand
18 Nov 05 PDCC Seminar: Modelling
Multi-cellular Organisms with
Distributed Cellular Automata,
Prof Peter Sloot, Informatics Institute,
University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
14 Oct 05 Delegation from Xiamen
University: Prof Zhou Changle, Dean,
Information Science and Technology
School; Prof Zeng Wenhua, Vice
Director, Software School; Prof Ye
Chen-Chun; Prof Li Maoqing, Xiamen
University, China
11 Oct 05 Assoc Prof Dong Guozhu,
Wright State University, USA
Seminars and Workshops 15
17 Nov 05 Division of Psychology and
C2i Joint Seminar: Creativity, Intuition,
Emotions and Perceptual Learning
– Potential Fields for Wider Collaboration
in Cognitive Sciences, Prof Wlodzislaw
Duch (Visiting Professor at NTU),
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
28 Oct 05 PDCC Seminar: Microgrids
– Massive On-chip Concurrency using
Microthreaded Microprocessors,
Prof Chris Jesshope, Informatics
Institute, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
26 Oct 05 Seminar: Enhanching
Lifetime in Wireless Adhoc/Sensor
Networks, Assoc Prof Ananthanarayanan
Chockalingam, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India
25 Oct 05 Seminar: Interference
Cancellation in Uplink OFDMA, Assoc
Prof Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India
24 Oct 05 Seminar: Software in a
Service-oriented World, Mr David
Chappell, Chappell & Associates,
San Francisco, USA
3 Oct 05 Seminar: Conceptual
Partitioning: An Efficient Method
for Continuous Nearest Neighbour
Monitoring, Mr Kyriakos Mouratidis,
The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, Hong Kong
5 Oct 05 Dr Jean-Christophe Olivo-
Marin, Head of the Quantitative Image
Analysis Unit; Dr Paul Brey, Director,
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, Institut Pasteur, France
3 Oct 05 Mr Kyriakos Mouratidis, PhD
candidate, The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Hong Kong

New Staff
Academic Staff
Asst Prof Dr Sun Aixin
Division of Information Systems
Research Interests: Information
Retrieval, Text/Web Mining,
Machine Learning.
Asst Prof Low Yoke Hean,
Malcolm
Division of Computer Science
Research Interests: Parallel and
Distributed Computing, Modelling and
Simulation, Multi-Agent Systems, Web
Services and Workflow, Planning and
Scheduling (optimisation for manufacturing
and logistic systems).
Asst Prof Sudha Natarajan
Division of Computing Systems
Research Interests: Computer
Vision and Image Processing,
Embedded Systems, Neural Networks.
Asst Prof Johan Henry
Division of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer
Graphics, Computer Animation,
Image Processing.
Research Fellows
Dr Ho Sy Loi
BioInformatics Research Centre
Dr Nguyen Ngoc Minh
BioInformatics Research Centre
Administrative Staff
Miss Tiffany Ong Wee Kee
Asst Manager (Alumni Affairs)
Miss Yap Liy Mui, Molly
Asst Manager (Research)
Miss Tan San Hong, Shirley
Secretary to Vice-Dean
(Administration)
Mr Tay Yoong Hin
Administrative Officer,
Interaction and Entertainment
Research Centre
Asst Prof Qian Kemao
Division of Computing Systems
Research Interests: Optical
Metrology and Fringe
Processing, Image Analysis and Processing,
Computer Vision, Augmented Reality,
Computer Animation.
Asst Prof He Ying
Division of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer
Graphics, Geometric Modelling,
Visualisation, Scientific Computing.
Adjunct Assoc Prof Mitchell
Wayne Pierce
Division of Information Systems
Research Interests: Comparative
Microbial Genomics, Bioinformatics,
Parasitology and Infectious Disease, The
RNA World.
Adjunct Assoc Prof Li Haizhou
Division of Computing Systems
Research Interests: Speech and
Dialogue Processing, Pattern
Recognition, Natural Language Processing,
Information Retrieval.
Research Associates
Mdm Liu Ying
Emerging Research Lab
Mr Zheng Xuebin
BioInformatics Research Centre
Mr Matthias Zumpe
Centre for Advanced Media
Technology
Mdm Ren Yunxia
Emerging Research Lab
laboratory Executives
Mr Lu Peng
Centre for Advanced Media
Technology
Mr Kesavan Asaithambi
BioInformatics Research Centre
Mr Tan Sing Yau
BioInformatics Research Centre
Adjunct Assoc Prof Tan Boon
Ooi, Patrick
Division of Information Systems
Research interests: Cancer and
Pathogen Genomics, Systems Biology,
Computational Biology.
Mr Steven Xia Qian
(Teaching Fellow)
Division of Computer Science
Research Interests:
Collaborative Computing, Human-
Computer Interaction, Distributed
Systems, Software Engineering.
Mr Wong Chee Kien, Gabriyel
(Lecturer)
Division of Computing Systems
Research Interests: Real-time
Rendering Techniques, Game Engine
Architecture, Ubiquitous Gaming
Platforms, Artificial Intelligence in Games.
Project officers
Mr Chen Quan
Centre for Advanced Media
Technology
Mdm Pooja
BioInformatics Research Centre
Mr Zhou Chen
Centre for Multimedia Network
and Technology
Mdm Pooja
Bioinformatics Research Centre
Mr Lu Feng
Centre for Multimedia Network
and Technology
Mr Guan Wei
Centre for Multimedia Network
and Technology
Mr Huang Youliang
Centre for Advanced
Information Systems
Mr Qiu Jie
Centre for Advanced Media
Technology
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