Resume

Education

• B.Sc. (Hons) (1971) in Physics from University of Singapore
• M.Sc. (1973) in Radiation Studies from University of Surrey, UK
• Ph.D. (1986) in Computer Science from University of Virginia, USA

Membership of Professional Bodies

• IEEE Senior Member
• ACM
• AAAI, American Association of Artificial Intelligence
• International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Member of Governing Board (2004 - present)
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) Singapore, President (2004 - present)

Employment

• 2008 - Professor, NUS
• 1996 - 2008 Associate Professor, NUS
• 1989 - 1995 Senior Lecturer, NUS
• 1986 - 1988 Lecturer, NUS
• 1982 - 1986 Senior Tutor, NUS
• 1974 - 1982 Senior Scientific Officer, Dept of Scientific Services, Ministry of Health

Appointment

• Faculty Associate, Institute of Infocomm Research (1 Mar 2006 to 28 Feb 2008)
• PhD External Examiner, University of Mysore, India, 2007
• PhD External Examiner, Thapar University, Patiala, India, 2007
• External Evaluator for Innovation and Technology Commission, Government of Hong Kong Special Administration Region, 2002, 2006
• External Evaluator for Research Committee, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2005
• Technology Assessment Consultant for Multimedia Development Corporation, Malaysia, 2001-2003
• PhD External Examiner, University of Western Australia, 2000

Editorial Board Membership

• Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition (2002 to present)
• Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition Letters (2006 to present)
• Member of Editorial Board, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2006 to present)
• Member of Review Board, Applied Intelligence (2006 to present)

Professional Services

• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2011, Beijing, China
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2009, Barcelona, Spain
• Member of Program Committee, 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA
• Member of Program Committee, 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Inteligence (PRICAI), 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Member of Program Commitee, 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2008, Osaka, Japan
• Member of Program Committee, The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2008, Ceara, Brazil
  
• Member of Program Committee, 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2008, Osaka, Japan
• Member of Program Committee, Third International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2007)
• Member of Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2007)
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Computing:
  Theory and Applications, Platinum Jubilee of the Indian Statistical Institute, 2007.
• Member of Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Data Mining and Information Retrieval 2007 (DMIR-2007)
  
• Member of Program Committee, 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2007
• Member of Program Committee, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) 2006
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2006)
• Member of Organizing Committee and Chair of PAKDD School, 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)
• Area Chair, Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV2005)
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2005)
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Graphics Recongition (GREC2005) in conjunction with ICDAR2005
• Member of Technical Committee, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2004)
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL2004)
• Member of Program Committe, International Workshop on Document Image Analysis and Retrieval 2003, (DIAR2003) in conjunction with CVPR 2003
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Web Document Analysis, 2003 (WDA2003) in conjunction with ICDAR2003
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Graphics Recongition, 2003 (GREC2003) in conjunction with ICDAR2003
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2002 (ICPR2002)
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Science & Informatics 2002 (CS&I'02)
• Member of Program Committee, First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, in conjunction with COLING2002
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Web Document Analysis, 2001 (WDA2001) in conjunction with ICDAR2001
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Graphics Recongition, 2001 (GREC2001) in conjunction with ICDAR2001
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications 2001 (ICWAA2001)
• Member of Program Committee, Chinese Language Processing Workshop, International Conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics 2000 (ACL2000)
• Member of Program Committee, Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering 2000 (JCKBSE'00)
• Member of Program Committee, Web & Text Mining Workshop, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2000 (PRICAI2000)
• Member of Program Committee, Machine Translation Summit 1999 (MT Sumimit'99)
• Member of Program Committee, Natural Language Processing Symposium 1995 (NLPRS'95)

Research

• Document Image Analysis
• Text Mining
• Natural Language Processing
• Neural Network Applications