Gary S.H. Tan

Associate Professor and
Vice Dean, Student Life
email: gtan@comp.nus.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6516 6276

Gary Tan was a pioneer in the Direct Honours Programme of the National University of Singapore and received his B.Sc (1st class Honours) from NUS. He received his M.Sc and Ph.D from the University of Manchester , U.K.

He has been lecturing at the School of Computing , National University of Singapore since 1990, and was the recipient of Teaching Awards of the Faculty of Science in both 1992 and 1998, the Teaching Excellence Awards from the School in 1999 and 2002, and the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 03/04, 04/05 and 06/07. He is also on the ATEA Honour roll for 2008.

His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, scheduling and load balancing, declarative multiprocessors, parallel and distributed (interactive) simulation and High Level Architecture. He is currently working on Digital Twins, Crisis Simulation and Traffic Simulation.

He has served as Chair of the NUS PROSE committee, a cross-faculty agency tasked with promoting the use of good English in the University. He was also a Resident Fellow of Kent Ridge Hall (1993-2003), and was Master of Sheares Hall (2003-2013). He is now Vice Dean of Student Life at the school and Master of the College of Alice & Peter Tan.

He has had project collaborations with KTH (Royal Institute of Technology),Sweden, and FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency), and is a collaborator with SMART, and Beihang University.

He serves on the program committee of Distributed Simulation and Real-time Systems Symposium, and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (Elsevier) and International Journal of Modelling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing (World Scientific). He is a member of ASIASIM federation, and was Co-chair of AsiaSim2013 and Asiasim2019, both held in Singapore in November 2013 and October 2019 respectively. He was Program Chair of DSRT 2016 held in London, and Conference Co-chair of SIMUTOOLS 2016 held in Prague. He is President of the Society of Simulation and Gaming of Singapore (SSAGsg).

Research Students (completed)

Current Students
Wang Chengxin	Ph.D	Traffic Network Prediction using Machine Learning
Past Students
Yu Jun	Masters	High Level Architecture/DDM
Ng Wee Ngee	Accel Masters	Distributed Supply Chain Simulation
Karthik Shenoy	Masters	Parallelism in HLA environment
Hu Yu	Masters	Automated Federate Compatibility Matcher
Zhao Na	Masters	Object Exchange Template in Distributed Supply Chain
Zhang Gong	Masters	Peer to Peer Computing
Hausi Horatiu	Intern	HLA Federation across Continents
Liu Peng	Masters	A UML-based Tool for Designing HLA Federates
Anders Persson	Intern	Migration and Load Balancing in HLA-based Distributed Simulation
Laura Andreescu	Exchange	A Study of Spread of Bird Flu
Shahab Mokarizadeh	Intern	Composability of Simulation Models
Akbari Shahmirzadi	Intern	Composability of Simulation Models
Seth Hetu	Ph.D (2013)	A Symbiotic Framework for Crisis Management Simulation
Xu Yan	Ph.D (2015)	Performance Improvements for Real-time Traffic Simulation
Vu Vinh An	Ph.D (2018)	Strategy Generation for Traffic Simulation
Muhd Shalihin bin Othman	Ph.D (2022)	A Learnable Behavioural Model for Emergency Evacuation

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Research Projects

• Principal Investigator, Object and Data Management in Distributed Real-time Simulation, University Research Grant (Nov 98 - Jun 02)
• Principal Investigator, Cluster-based Distributed Simulation Using HLA, research collaboration with CSO, MINDEF (Oct 99 - Sep 02)
• Collaborator, Performance Improvements of Web-Servers, University Research Grant
• Principal Investigator, Distributed Supply Chain Simulation, University Research Grant (Dec 01 - Nov 03)
• Principal Investigator, An Architecture for Developing Reusable Simulation Model Components, Defence Innovative Research Programme, DSTA grant (May 02 - Apr 04)
• Principal Investigator, Composability of Simulation Models, University Research Grant (Feb 05 - Jan 08)
• Principal Investigator, A Framework for Symbiotic Simulation of Crisis Management (Sep 07 - Aug 10)
• Principal Investigator, Parallel, Scalable Transporation Simulation (June 12 – Dec15)
• Principal Investigator, Future Urban Mobility II (Jun 16 – Dec 19)
• Principal Investigator, Resource Deployment and Optimisation for Disaster Management (NRF, Oct 18 - Sep 20)
• Co-Investigator, Data-driven Traffic Analytics for Incident Analysis and Management (NRF, May 20 - Apr 24)

Selected Publications

Last Updated: 9 July 2022