Dr. Leow Wee Kheng obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1989 respectively. He pursued Ph.D. study at The University of Texas at Austin and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994. While studying Ph.D., he also worked as a Research Assistant in Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation at Austin, Texas. His research group later spun off into a software company called Pavilion Technologies Ltd, which provides neural network-based software solutions to large factories and facilities for process control, monitoring, and analysis. He joined the company as a Software Engineer and served as the principal designer and developer of the first and second versions of the company's software products.
 
After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he returned to National University of Singapore to begin his teaching and research career. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Associate Director of Centre for Information Mining and Extraction (ChIME), both in the School of Computing. He has served in various administrative positions including member of the School Executive Committee, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Studies Committee, etc. He is currently the Curriculum Chair of the Department of Computer Science.

His curent research interests include computer vision, medical image analysis, multimedia retrieval, protein docking, etc. He has published more than 80 technical papers in journals, conferences, and books. He has been awarded two U.S. patents and has published another patent under PCT. He has served in the Program Committees and Organizing Committees of various conferences.

He has collaborated widely with a large number of local and overseas institutions. His current local collaborators include I2R of A*STAR, Singapore General Hospital, National University Hospital, and National Skin Centre, and overseas collaborators include CNRS in France and National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital in Taiwan. He has also played key roles in the establishment of MOUs and Research Agreements with CNRS and National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan.
 

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Dr. Leow Wee Kheng obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1989 respectively. He pursued Ph.D. study at The University of Texas at Austin and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994. His curent research interests include computer vision, medical image analysis, and protein docking. He has published more than 80 technical papers in journals, conferences, and books. He has also been awarded two U.S. patents and has published another patent under PCT. He has served in the Program Committees and Organizing Committees of various conferences. He has collaborated widely with a large number of local and overseas institutions. His current local collaborators include I2R of A*STAR, Singapore General Hospital, National University Hospital, and National Skin Centre, and overseas collaborators include CNRS in France and National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital.