BEN LEONG

Assistant Professor, School of Computing

National University of Singapore

15 Computing Drive, COM2 Building, #03-20, S(117418)

Tel: (+65) 6516 4240 Fax: (+65) 6779 4580

Email: benleong at comp.nus.edu.sg

 

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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.
 
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.
 

Honours National University of Singapore (2007-Present)                                 Singapore
  • ATEA Honour Roll 2011
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award AY2009/2010
  • School of Computing Teaching Excellence Honour Roll AY2009/2010
  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY2009/2010
  • 2009 ComSoc & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award AY2008/2009
  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY2008/2009
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award AY2007/2008
  • Faculty 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
Awarded
Grants
  • "Accessible Fault-Tolerant Computing on Commercial Hardware" (R-252-000-472-646/R-252-000-472-232), 18-month JPP grant (January 2012 to June 2013): $49,800.
  • "OpenNAT: Enabling Universal Connectivity in an Increasingly Heterogeneous World" (R-252-000-440-112), 2-year grant (Jan 2011-Dec 2012): $136,188.
  • "Application of Game Mechanics to Improve Student Engagement" (C-252-000-090-001). 1-year Teaching Enhancement Grant (Sep 2010-Aug 2011): $6,300.
  • "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.
Professional Service

NUS School of Computing:

  • Singapore Science & Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2012, Judge
  • SoC Faculty Teaching Evaluation Committee, Member (Aug 2011-Jul 2013)
  • SoC Computer Science EXCO, Junior Faculty Representative (Oct 2008 - Jun 2011)
  • 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
  • Computing for Volunteer Welfare Organizations, Faculty Advisor (since 2007)

Service:

  • Vice Chair, 3rd ACM Asia-Pacific Wokshop on Systems (APSys 2012) 
  • Poster Co-Chair, 19th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2011) 

Served on Technical Programme Committee:

  • 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2012)
  • 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012)
  • 19th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2011) 
  • 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2011)
  • 1st ACM Asia-Pacific Wokshop on Systems (APSys 2010) 
  • 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:

  • IEEE/ACM Transactions for Networking
  • IEEE Communication Letters
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE Software
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE Transactions for Parallel and Distributed Systems 
  • IEEE Transactions for Vehicular Technology
Professional Membership
  • Member, IEEE
  • Member, USENIX
  • Member, ACM

Curriculum Vitae [ pdf ]

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