Home Page of Dr NG Hwee Tou

Affiliation

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
Computing 1
Law Link
Singapore 117590
Tel: (65) 6516 8951
Fax: (65) 6779 4580
Email: nght@comp.nus.edu.sg
Home Page: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nght
Office: AS6 05-16

Program Co-Chair
Computer Science Program
Singapore-MIT Alliance

Senior Faculty Member
NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
National University of Singapore


Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1992
University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.

M.S. in Computer Science, 1987
Stanford University, U.S.A.

B.Sc. in Computer Science for Data Management (High Distinction), 1985
University of Toronto, Canada


Bio

Dr. Hwee Tou NG is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, Program Co-chair (Computer Science Program) of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and a Senior Faculty Member at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, USA in 1992. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval. He has published papers in premier journals and conferences including Computational Linguistics, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI. He is the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), and an editorial board member of Natural Language Engineering journal. He has also served as an editorial board member of Computational Linguistics journal (2004 - 2006). He is an elected member of the ACL executive committee (2008 - 2010) and a steering committee member and former secretary of ACL SIGNLL. He is program co-chair of EMNLP 2008 conference, was program co-chair of ACL-2005 and CoNLL-2004 conferences, and has served on the program committees of many past conferences including ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI.


Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval


Selected Publications

Google Scholar Citations

ACL Anthology Network Ranking (by Incoming Citations)

ACL Anthology Network Ranking (by H-Index)

Research Students

Awards

Participation in Benchmarking Evaluations

Invited Talks

Selected Professional Services