Wei Tsang Ooi

Assistant Professor,
AS6 #05-14,
Department of Computer Science,
National University of Singapore,
Singapore 117590.
ooiwt at comp.nus.edu.sg
TEL: +65-6516-4463 FAX: +65-6779-1610

Research

I belong to the NEMESYS research group, where we study how distributed systems, operating systems, embedded systems, and programming systems can better support multimedia.

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Publications

"Receiver-Driven View-Dependent Streaming of Progressive Mesh," with W. Cheng, NOSSDAV'08.

"An Analytical Model for Progressive Mesh Streaming," with W. Cheng, S. Mondet, R. Grigoras, and G. Morin, ACM Multimedia'07.

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Talks

"An Analytical Model for Progressive Mesh Streaming," NCU and Academia Sinica, Taiwan

"Neat Ideas in CS," Algo*Mania, Singapore

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Activities

I am a TPC member of NetGames 08, P2P-NVE 08, MMCN 09, and MMM 09.

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Openings

I have openings for research assistant (i.e., programmer) and research fellow (i.e., postdoc) in MPEG-4/H.264 streaming. Please contact me for details.

Courses

Last semester, I taught cs5229 (advanced computer networking) and cs4344 (networked games). Previously, I taught "UNIX Programming," "Competitive Programming," and "Data Structure and Algorithms," "Introduction to Computer Networks," and graduate course "Systems Support for Continuous Media".

You can find my teaching portfolio and course materials here.

Students

Current: Balaji Raman*, Cheng Wei, Pavel Korshunov, Liu Dan, Satish Verma.

Graduated:
Li Qingrui, M.Sc. 04, ST Microelectronics..
Li Yuan, M.Sc. 04, IBM, China.
Wang Na, M.Sc. 04, Motorola, China.
Pham Viet Thang, M.Sc. 05, Sun Microsystem, Vietnam.
Liu Yanhong*, Ph.D. 07, Verimag, France.
Ma Lin, Ph.D. 08, Macquarie Bank, Singapore.

* co-supervision with S. Chakraborty

I am also serving as examiner and thesis committee member for many students.

Biography

I received my B. Sc. (Hon.) degree from Dept. of Information Systems & Computer Science (now School of Computing), NUS in 1996, and Ph. D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2001. I spent a year as postdoc at Berkeley Multimedia Research Center in U.C. Berkeley, before re-joining NUS in 2002. I was originally from Alor Setar, Malaysia.

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