PERSONAL DETAIL

      Date of Birth   : 23 March 1960

      Sex                  : Male

      Nationality       : Singaporean

      Marital Status  : Married (with two daughters)

 

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

      1999 : Doctor of Philosophy, School of Computing, NUS.

      1994 : Master of Science (Computer and Information Sciences), NUS.

      1989 : Diploma in Computing Technology, NUS.

      1985       : Bachelor of Science (Emphasis in Computer Science and Mathematics), NUS.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

       October 2001            : Remote Sensing and GIS Advanced Training Workshop in

                                         Watershed Management for ASEAN, Malaysian Centre for

                                         Remote Sensing, National Space Development of Japan, and

                                         Asian Institute of Technology, Kuala Lumpur.

      June 2001                  : IKONOS Satellite Regional Affiliate Requirements

                                         Manager Training, Space Imaging LLC, Denver, Colorado.

      Jan 1990 to Feb 1990  : Air Operation Center Application S/W Course,

                                         Ericsson Radar Electronics AB.

November 1989                         : Avionics Navigation and Radar Systems, IEEE, Singapore Section.

December 1988          : VAX/VMS System Management II, Digital Equipment Corporation.

Nov 1985 to Feb 1987    : Tactical Programming Training, GRUMMAN Corporation, New York.

 

 

AWARD

July 2000                     : Meritorious Teaching Award, Faculty of Science, NUS.

July 1999                     : Meritorious Teaching Award, Faculty of Science, NUS.

July 1997                     : Science Teaching Award, Faculty of Science, NUS.

      July 1982 to June 1985 : National Trade Union Congress (INCOME) Scholarship.

 

 

RECOGNITION IN TEACHING

July 1998      : Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award.

August 1998 : Nominated for IT in Teaching Award.

 

 

RECOGNITION IN RESEARCH

May 1998     : Nominated for the Best Paper Award in the 12th Workshop

                      on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS98, Canada), IEEE.

July 1998      : Invited talk in School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University,

                      Singapore.

      August 1998 : Invited Talk in Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore.

 

WORKING EXPERIENCE

 

      Since 5 Jan 2001         :    Deputy Director, Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP),

                                           Duty: Assist the Director in strategic planning and in daily operations and matters in CRISP.

 

      Nov 1998 to Jul 2001   :    Head, Education Division, Centre for Information Technology and Applications (CITA),

                                             Science Faculty, NUS. Duties: Design and implement IT Education Programme in the

                                             Faculty of Science; manage the daily operations of the Scientific Computation and

                                             Multimedia Communications (SCMC) Minor.

 

 

 

      Feb 2000 to Dec 2000  :   Visiting Fellow in Dean’s Office, Science Faculty, NUS. Duties: lecturing 3 cross faculty

                                             modules in Scientific Computations (SCC2302), Web-Based High Performance

                                             Computing (SCC3302), and the Computer Science topic in Science Foundation (SF1100).

 

 

 

      Mar 1994 to Jan 2000  :    Instructor in Dept. of Physics, NUS. Duties : Lecturing C, Advanced C, C++ and JAVA

                                             modules for Computer Programming and Applications (CPA) Minor and SCMC Minor;

                                             lecturing the Computer Science topic in Science Foundation Module.

 

 

      Jun 1990 to Feb 1994   :    Teaching Assistant in Dept. of Physics, NUS.

 

 

      Apr 1985 to May 1990 :    Defence Science Organization, Computer Systems Division, Mindef. 

                                             Position Held: Software Specialist, and Computer Systems Manager.

                                             Expertise: Command, Control and Communication (C3) Systems for

                                             Air-to-Air Centre and Ground-to-Air Centre.

 

 

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION ENGAGEMENT

 

Project manager and lecturer for Infocomm Technology course for the Ministry of Education,

March 2000 to May 2000.

URL: http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/~phytaysc/ict2000/

 

 

Project manager and lecturer for Computer course for the Ministry of Education,

March 2000 to May 2001.

URL: http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/~phytaysc/cc2001/

 

 

ADMINISTRATION ( Ž : current     , · : completed )

 

 

  CRISP

Ž     Deputy Director (since Jan 2001).

 

 

  University Service

Ž     Member of Directorate, NUS CO-OP (since July 2000). Member of PC Sub-Com (since July 2000),

Member of Book Sub-Com (July to August 2000), Chairman of Book Sub-Com (since Sept 2000),

Honorary Secretary (since    July 2001).

 

 

   Faculty Level

Ž     Academic Advisor, SCMC Minor (since July 1999).

Ž     Member, Faculty Modular Committee (since April 1999), Faculty Timetabling Committee (since April 1999).

Ž     Member of Scientific Committee (since January 2000), National Olympiad in Informatics, School of Computing, NUS.  

·         Head, Education Division, Centre for IT and Applications (Nov 1998 to July 2001).

·         Advisor, Science CBLC (July 1999 to August 2001).

·         Lecturer and Coordinator, Science Foundation Programme (April 1999 to July 2001).

·       Academic Advisor, CPA Minor (July 95 to June 1999).

·       Committee on Promotion of Science Faculty (July 97 to July 98), Faculty IT Committee (June 96 to June 97).

·       Organizer and Speaker, Faculty IT Seminar (5 July 96).

 

 

   Department Level

·        Webmaster, Physics Department (August 96 to January 2001).

·        Author, Physics Department Brochures (March 1996 to January 2001).

·        Y2K Coordinator, Physics Department (January 1999 to January 2000).

·        Chairman, Author and Editor, Physics Departmental Research Report (April 98).

·        Member, Author and Editor, Departmental Handbook Committee (March 96 to March 97).

 

 

   International Conference

·       Member, Scientific Committee on 2nd International Conference on: “Circuits, Systems

              and Computers”, Greece, 26-28 October 1998.

·       Session Chair, 1996 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Japan,

 3-6 June 1996.

 

   Book Review

Ž     Reviewer, Prentic-Hall International (since 1997).

 

 

CURRENT RESEARCH WORK RELATED TO REMOTE SENSING

Applying Parallel Processing Techniques for GEO Coding

Parallel Processing of Thermal Data from Satellite

Applying Data Mining Technique for Hot Spot Detection on Satellite Data

 

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

Remote Sensing and Image Processing, Parallel Simulation, Performance Modeling,

High Level Architecture (HLA), IT and Applications.

 

 

FUNDED PROJECT

Investigator of PaSTA (Parallel Simulation - Techniques and Applications), funded by MOE and

Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), 4 years, $380,000.

Principle Investigator: A/Prof Teo Yong Meng. RP969715/A. Completed on August 2001.

 

 

Investigator of Cluster-Based Distributed Simulation using HLA, funded by NUS and Command Control

Communications and Computer Systems Organization (CSO) Mindef, 3 years, $274,249.

Principle Investigator: Dr Gary Tan Soon Huat. CSOC9900327.

 

 

THESIS EXAMINED

Examiner of master thesis entitled “A Simulation Platform for Investigating Data Filtering in Data

Distributed Management”, School of Computing, NUS, May 2000.

 

 

SUPERVISED THESIS AND PROJECT

Member of Advisory Committee on PhD work entitled “Memory Management for Parallel Simulation”,

School of Computing, since July 2000.

 

 

Supervisor of Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Science (UROPS) project on “Probabilistic

Memory Management in Optimistic Parallel Simulation”, July 1999 to Dec 1999.

 

 

Supervisor of UROPS project on “Using JAVA Socket for Remote Sensing Data Processing”,

January 2001 to July 2001.

 

 

Supervisor of Science Mentorship Programme (SMP), organized by Ministry of Education    

and  NUS Faculty of Science, on “Discrete-event Simulation of Queuing System”, Feb 2000 to Aug 2000.

 

 

Supervisor of  SMP project on “Using JAVA Socket for Virtual Collaborative Classroom”, Feb 2001 to Aug 2001.

 

 

Co-supervisor of  Honour’s year project on “Spatial Data Mining on Satellite Data”,  School of Computing,

 September 2001. On going.

 

 

Co-supervisor of  Honour’s year project on “Modeling from Photographs/Videos with Satellite Data”, 

School of Computing, September 2001. On going.

 

 

 

Updated on 29 October 2001