Profile of Dr Tat-Seng CHUA


 

Dr Chua is the KITHC Chair Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He was the Acting and Founding Dean of the School during 1998-2000. Dr Chua's main research interest is in multimedia information retrieval, in particular, on the extraction, retrieval and question-answering (QA) of text, video and live media. He is currently working on several multi-million-dollar projects: interactive media search, local contextual search, and live media search. His group participates regularly in TREC-QA and TRECVID news video retrieval evaluations.

Dr Chua is active in the international research community. He has organized and served as program committee member of numerous international conferences in the areas of computer graphics, multimedia and text processing. He is the conference co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2005, ACM CIVR 2005, and ACM SIGIR 2008. He serves in the editorial boards of: ACM Transactions of Information Systems (ACM), Foundation and Trends in Information Retrieval (NOW), The Visual Computer (Springer Verlag), and Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer). He is the member of steering committee of ICMR (International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval) and Multimedia Modeling conference series; and as member of International Review Panel of two large-scale research projects in Europe.

Dr Chua is leading a joint Center between NUS and Tsinghua University to develop technologies for live media search.

 

 

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