Gary S. H. TAN, Ph.D
Associate
Professor and
Associate Dean
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, 04/05 and 06/07.
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.
He is Associate Dean, a position he held since January 2011. 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 is now Master of Sheares Hall.
He has had project collaborations with KTH (Royal Institute of Technology),Sweden, and FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency), and is a collaborator with SMART.
He serves on the program committee of Distributed Simulation and Real-time Systems Symposium, and is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Modelling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing (World Scientific).
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
Ju Hongyu Final
Year Hons Student A
Generic Simulation Environment
Current Research Students
Seth Hetu Ph.D Symbiotic Simulation Framework for Crisis
Management
Xu Yan Ph.D Symbiotic Simulation for Real-Time Traffic
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 11 – May 12)
Conferences
and Workshops
· Winter Simulation
Conference
Selected Publications
Last Updated: 6 June 2011