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Professor Hang Chang Chieh (Chairman, Management Board)
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Since April 2006, Professor Hang Chang Chieh has been appointed as the Chairman of Interactive & Digital Media Steering Committee of NUS.
Professor Hang Chang Chieh received the Ph.D degree in Control Engineering from the University of Warwick, England, in 1973. From 1974 to 1977, he worked as a Computer and Systems Technologist in the Shell Eastern Petroleum Company (Singapore) and the Shell International Petroleum Company (The Netherlands). Since 1977, he has been with the National University of Singapore, serving in various positions including being the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
From 1994 to 2000, he served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of research. From 2001 to 2003, he was seconded to Agency for Science, Technology and Research as its Deputy Chairman. From 2004 - 2007, he was appointed Director, Centre for Management of Science & Technology of the National University of Singapore. Since July 2007, he was appointed Head, Division of Engineering & Technology Management of NUS. Prof Hang was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1998 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK in 2000. He has served as the founding Chairman of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) since 2001. He also serves as non-executive director of five high-tech companies.
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Professor Ryohei Nakatsu (Director)
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On 1st March, 2008, Professor Ryohei Nakatsu was appointed as the Director of Interactive & Digital Media Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also a visiting professor at Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands and at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.
He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University in 1969, 1971 and 1982, respectively. After joining NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Cooperation) in 1971, he mainly worked on speech recognition technology. Since 1994 until 2002, he was the president of the ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories. In the spring of 2002 he became a professor at the School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University. At the same time he established a venture company, Nirvana Technology Inc., and became the president of the company. In March of 2008 he moved from Kwansei Gakuin University to National University of Singapore (NUS) and now he is a Professor of NUS and the Director of Interactive & Digital Media Institute (IDMI) of NUS.
In 1978, he received Young Engineer Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Japan (IEICE-J), also in 1996, the best paper award from the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia, in 1999 and 2000, Telecom System Award from Telecommunication System Foundation, in 1999 and 2000, the best paper award from Virtual Reality Society of Japan, and in 2000 the best paper award from the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence.
He is a fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Japan (IEICE-J). He is also a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan, and Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and others. Also he is a chair of IFIP Technical Committee on Entertainment Computing (IFIP TC14).
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Professor Lawrence Wong Wai Choong (Deputy Director, Administrator)
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Professor Lawrence Wong is the Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is concurrently Deputy Director of the Interactive and Digital Media Institute at NUS. He was previously Executive Director of the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) from Nov 2002 – Nov 2006. Since joining NUS in 1983, he served in various positions at the department, faculty and university levels, including Director of the Computer Centre at NUS from Jul 2000 - Nov 2002, Director of the Centre for Instructional Technology, NUS, from Jan 1998 - Jun 2000. Prior to joining NUS in 1983, he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Lab, NJ, USA from 1980 to 1983.
Prof Wong’s research areas of interest include mobile radio communication systems, robust digital speech communications, robust video communications systems and multimedia network protocols and systems. He has published over 200 papers in international journals and conferences in these areas. He and his co-authors received the IEE Marconi Premium Award in 1989 and Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) in 2006.
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Associate Professor Adrian David Cheok (Deputy Director, Research)
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Adrian David Cheok is Director of the IDM Network, the Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore and Deputy Director of IDMI. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He has previously worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded computing in Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Osaka, Japan) and NUS. He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interaction, wearable computers and smart spaces, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics, and multi-modal recognition. He has successfully obtained funding for four externally funded projects in the area of wearable computers and mixed reality from the Defense Science Technology Agency Singapore. The research output has included numerous high quality academic journal papers, research prototype deliverables to DSTA, numerous demonstrations including to the President and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, CNN / CNBC television worldwide broadcasts on his research, and international invited new media exhibits such as Ars Electronica.
He is currently an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore where he leads a team of over 20 researchers and students. He has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous international and local conferences and events. He is invited to exhibit for two years in the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, launching in the Ars Electronica Festival 2003. He was IEEE Singapore Section Chairman 2003, and is presently ACM SIGCHI Chapter President. He was awarded the Hitachi Fellowship 2003, the A-STAR Young Scientist of the Year Award 2003, and the SCS Singapore Young Professional of the Year Award 2004. In 2004 he was invited to be the Singapore representative of the United Nations body IFIP SG 16 on Entertainment Computing and the founding and present Chairman of the Singapore Computer Society Special Interest Group on Entertainment Computing. Also in 2004, he was awarded an Associate of the Arts award by the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore.
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