OOI, Beng Chin

Department of Computer Science
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
Computing 1, Law Link, Singapore 117590
ooibcATcompDOTnusDOTeduDOTsg

 
Research
A germ is not polished without rubbing, nor a system perfected without reengineering.

Objectives

To DO INNOVATIVE and SOLID research, and BUILD DEPLOYABLE systems, while having FUN...
My Research Group
DB System Research Group

Current System Projects
  • UTab: A Universal Table inspired storage system for free-and-easy data publishing and sharing. 2005--
    Application: MarcoPolo
  • PiPa: Database support for interactive media (a reincarnation of VIPER to handle video, audio, smart objects etc). 2005--
  • SpADE: A SPatio-temporal Autonomic Database Engine for location-aware services (funded by A*STAR 2003-2007)
  • BestPeer: Adaptive p2p platform for object sharing . 1999-
    -- Spinoff: Bestpeer Technologies
  • S3: Scalable, Sharable and Secure P2P Based Data Management System (funded by ASTAR 2007-2010) (BestPeer 2.0)
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    Recently Completed Projects
  • VIPER: VIsual Property-based search Engine for image Retrieval.1995 - 2003. Spinoff: GeoFoto (1999)
  • GENESIS: GENomE Sequence Indexing and Searching
  • RETINA: RETina INformation Analysis
  • GAtlas: A Geographical Search Engine
  • DStorM: Distributed Storage Manager. 1992-2001

    • Patents

  • Apparatus and method for performing transformation-based indexing of high-dimensional data. Singapore patent:103262. 2004. US patent: 7117217. 2006.
  • Transformation-based method for indexing high dimensional data. US Patent pending 2002.
  • Transformation-based method for NN search. US Patent: 6 834 278 B2. 2004
    • Facilities
  • There are 3 huge Database Labs that house the research students and research fellows, and many high-end work stations and clusters for experimental studies.
    • Other Information
  • Publications ;
  • My graduate students