National University of Singapore

Research Centres

CSIDM

In June 2008, 4 million dollars from the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) through the Interactive Digital Media Programme Office (IDMPO) was awarded to NUS to carry out research collaboration with the China-Singapore Institute of Digital Media (CSIDM). CSIDM is wholly owned by CASIA (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation) and is the first R&D institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences set up outside China. The co-directors of the collaboration project are Assoc Professor Ng Hwee Tou of NUS Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, and Professor Xu Bo of CASIA.

The collaboration project focuses on language mediation, breaking the language barrier to enable communication between speakers of different languages. It carries out research on natural language processing, speech processing, and multimedia processing

To read more about CSIDM, kindly visit http://www.csidm.sg/

NExT

The NExT Search Centre (NUS-Tsinghua Extreme Search Center) received $10M in May 2010 from the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) through the Interactive Digital Media Programme Office (IDMPO). With Professors Chua Tat Seng from NUS and Sun Maosung from Tsinghua as Co-Directors, the Centre focuses on the following 3 broad areas of research:

Area 1: Live Media Search: research into techniques to handle millions of live sensors, along with mobile devices and other associated news, calendar and e-mailing information.

Area 2: Multilingual Forum Search: research into mining and retrieval of forum data, including opinion mining and sentiment analysis. It will handle live forum data in both English and Chinese.

Area 3: Distributed Infrastructures: tackle issues and systems in distributed and p2p architecture as well as extreme database system. This is to support the dynamic storage and updating of millions of live sensors over large geographical areas.

To read more about the NExT Search Centre, kindly visit http://next.comp.nus.edu.sg/

COSMIC

In August 2010, COSMIC (Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities) received $10M from the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) through the Interactive Digital Media Programme Office (IDMPO). With Professors Bernard Tan from NUS, Ravi Poovaiah from IITB and Assoc Professor Suresh Sethi from NTU as Co-Directors, the research objective of the Centre is to empower the next 10 million people in the community through social media innovations that improve the way they live, work, and play. Specifically, the people targeted are those involved in the informal economy (numerous such people are poorly supported by existing technologies).

To read more about COSMIC, kindly visit http://cosmic.nus.edu.sg/