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Education |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, June 2006
Received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Science and
Engineering (Minor in Economics) and a Master of Engineering in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, both in 1997. Received
Ph.D. in Computer Science in June 2006 under the supervision
of Professor Barbara Liskov
(2009 ACM Turing Award winner). Thesis entitled “New
Techniques for Geographic Routing.” Completed Financial
Technology Option, a Certificate Program in Financial
Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Business in February
2005.
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Professional Experience |
National University of Singapore
Singapore, September 2001 - present
Appointed as a Senior Tutor in 2001. Appointed as Assistant
Professor in July 2006.
The Center for Excellence in Education/Fudan University
Shanghai, China, Summer 2006
Assistant Director of the
Research Science
Institute-Fudan 2006, a six-week research summer camp,
held in Fudan University, Shanghai.
MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Cambridge, MA, 2001 - 2006
Full-time graduate student in the Ph.D. program in Computer
Science.
Teaching Assistant for 6.829 (Computer Networks) and 6.170
(Laboratory in Software Engineering).
PSC Secretariat, PSD, Prime Minister’s
Office Singapore, May 1999 - August 2001
Held appointments of Assistant Director (Discipline) and
Assistant Director (Legal Service). Job scope included the
formulation of policies relating to Civil Service Discipline
matters and the human resource management for the Singapore
Legal Service.
Singapore Armed Forces School of
Signals
Singapore, January 1998 - May 1999
Awarded Sword of Honour and Signal Formation
Letter of Commendation. Held the appointment of
Communications Engineering Team Leader, SAF School of
Signals during fulltime national service. Currently
holding the NS appointment of Node Commander, 2nd Signals Battalion.
The Center for Excellence in Education
Cambridge, MA, Summer 1995
Served as a Tutor for the
Research Science Institute, a six-week research summer
camp, held at MIT.
Raffles Junior College
Singapore, Summer 1994
Taught Physics as a relief teacher for six weeks.
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Honours |
National University of Singapore
(2007-Present)
Singapore
- Faculty Teaching
Excellence Award AY2008/2009
- Signal Formation NSman of the Year
Letter of Commendation 2008
- Faculty Teaching
Excellence Award AY2007/2008
- NUS Annual Teaching
Excellence Award AY2007/2008
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1993-1997, 2001-2006) Cambridge, MA
- MIT IDEAS Competition 2002: Co-Leader
of team awarded third prize. Successfully designed,
implemented and deployed a data
collection system for the Salvation Army Homeless
Shelter in Cambridge, MA.
- MIT Varsity Letter Award: 4-year
varsity letter winner (’93-’97).
- NRA All-American Pistol Team 1996:
elected to All-American Second team (Free Pistol and Air
Pistol).
- Van Schaick Award 1996: for
outstanding contributions to the pistol team.
- MIT Individual Straight ‘T’ Award
1996: for athletic achievement.
- Malcolm G. Kisbert Award: for being
the Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year (1997).
- MIT Team Straight ‘T’ Award 1997: for
athletic achievement.
Pre-MIT (January to September 1993) Singapore
- Lee Kuan Yew Award for Science and
Mathematics
- Public Service Commission Overseas
Merit Scholarship (Open)
Raffles Junior College (1991-1992)
Singapore
- Ministry of Education Pre-University
Scholarship
- Old Rafflesian Association (ORA)
Scholarship
- RJC Certificate of Merit
- RJC Plaque Award
- RJC 1992 Top Pure Science Student
Award
- RJC 1992 Student of the Year Award
Raffles Institution (1987-1990)
Singapore
- Hullett Scholarship for Science and
Mathematics
- Raffles Institution Merit Prize
- Raffles Institution Service Award
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Awarded
Grants |
- "Achieving High-Bandwidth
Peer-to-Peer Data Transfers with Network Coding and the
Right Incentives in Heterogeneous Networking
Environments"
(R-252-000-348-112), 3-year grant (Apr 2008-Mar 2011):
$812,020.
- "Deployment and Evaluation of an
Unplanned 802.11x Wireless Mesh Network"
(R-252-000-311-112), 2-year grant (Sep 2007-Aug 2009): $102,000.
- "Hydra: A Peer-to-Peer Architecture
for Massively Multiplayer Online Games"
(R-252-050-281-101/ R-252-050-281-133), 2-year grant
(Jan 2007-Dec 2008): $154,314.
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Professional Service |
NUS School of Computing:
- SoC Computer Science EXCO, Junior
Faculty Representative (Oct 2008 - Oct 2010)
- ACM ICPC 2008, Member of Organizing
Committee
- SoC JC Outreach Task Force 2006-2007,
Member
- National Informatics Olympiad (NOI),
Member of Scientific Committee, 2007-2009
- IDA iWhiz Reality Show, Guest Judge
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Computing for
Volunteer Welfare Organizations, Faculty Advisor
Served on Technical Programme Committee:
- Workshop on Network and System
Support for Games (NetGames 2009)
- 23rd IEEE International Conference on
Advanced Information Networking and Applications
(AINA 2009)
- ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2008
- Workshop on Massively Multiuser
Virtual Environment (MMVE2008)
- 22nd IEEE International Conference on
Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA
2008)
- IEEE Consumer Communications and
Networking Conference (CCNC) 2008
- Globecomm General Symposium (Globecomm)
2007, P2P Track
Served as Reviewer:
- EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal
Processing
- IEEE/ACM Transactions for Networking
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- IEEE Transactions for Parallel and
Distributed Systems (TPDS)
- 4th Workshop on Network Coding,
Theory, and Applications (NetCod 2008)
- IEEE Conference on Computer
Communications (Infocomm) 2008
- IEEE International Conference on
Communications (ICC) 2007
- IEEE Wireless Communications and
Networking Conference (WCNC) 2007
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Professional
Membership |
- Member, IEEE
- Member, USENIX
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Curriculum Vitae [ pdf ] |
