Gary S. H. TAN, Ph.D

Associate Professor and
Assistant Dean, Corporate Communications
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 more recently, the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 03/04 and 04/05.

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 a member of the Modelling and Simulation Group which is part of the Computer Systems Lab.

For the new academic year 2007/08, he will be taking Programming Methodology (CS1101y) in the 1st semester, and Modelling and Simulation Techiques (CS5233) and Introduction to Programming (IT1002) in the 2nd semester.

He is Chair of the NUS PROSE committee. He was also a Resident Fellow of Kent Ridge Hall (1993-2003), and is now Master of Sheares Hall.

He has project collaborations with KTH (Royal Institute of Technology),Sweden, and FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency).


Research Students (completed)

Yu Jun                 Masters                  High Level Architecture/DDM
Ng Wee Ngee            Accelerated M.Sc         Distributed Supply Chain Simulation
Karthik Shenoy         Masters                  Parallelism in an HLA environment
HuYu                   Masters                  Automatic Federate Compatibility Matcher
Zhao Na                Masters                  Object Exchange Template in Distributed Supply Chain Simulation
Zhang Gong             Masters                  Peer-to-Peer Computing
Hausi Horatiu          Rumanian Intern          HLA Federation across Continents
Liu Peng               Masters                  A UML-based Tool for Designing HLA Federates
Anders Persson         Swedish Intern           Migration of and Load Balancing in HLA-based Distributed Simulation
Laura Andreescu        Rumanian Exchange Stu    A Study of Spread of Bird Flu
Shahab Mokarizadeh     Swedish Intern           Composability of Simulation Models
Akbari Shahmirzadi     Swedish Intern           Composability of Simulation Models

Current Research Students

Lucas Agussurja        Masters                  Distributed Constraint Computing
Seth Hetu              Ph.D                     Crisis Management Framework


Research Projects


Conferences and Workshops

  • Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications 2007
  • 40th Annual Simulation Symposium 2007
  • Winter Simulation Conference
  • Asia Modelling Symposium 08


  • Selected Publications

    Professional Activities


    Last Updated: 5 March 2008