Aaron's Acadamic Page

TEACHING
I guess it is pretty cool and heartwarming at the same time, to receive a card such as this from a student two years after he had taken your module. (I hope it is not because I gave him the only A. ) To the student whose name I have forgotten -- thank you! I sitll have a lot to learn about teaching, among other things, from people around me, including my fellow colleagues (some of whom are my teachers), and even from my own students. For example, I learned this lesson from my teacher-cum-colleague. This article Best Teacher I Ever Had remains my favourite. Tomorrow's Professor^SM Listserv is a site where I obtain useful information on teaching and learning.
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WORK AND COMMITTMENTS
Designation: Lecturer, School of Computing [July 2000 - present] Other current appointments: Vice-Chair, ACM ICPC Regional Contest in Singapore (2007) Chair, AlgoMania Challenge (2007) Chairman, National Olympiad in Informatics Committee [October 2004 - present]* Member of IT Youth Award Evaluators' Committee [October 2004 - present] Member of Teaching Lab Coordinators Committee [January 2004 - present] Member of Teaching Track Selection Committee [July 2003 - present] Committee Member of CISA Association [April 2002 - present] Committee Member of National Software Competition (NSC) 2002 and 2003. Chief Judge of NSC Algorithm Individual Event 2002 and 2003. [February 2002 - present] SoC Academic Advisor [June 2000 - present] Past appointments: Assistant Dean (Special Programmes), School of Computing [June 2002 - June 2006] Advisor to NUS Students' Computing Club [August 1998 - June 2006] Honorary Secretary, National Olympiad in Informatics Committee [September 1997 - September 2004] Director, NUS Multi-purpose Co-operative Society [July 2000 - July 2004] FTEC Committee Member [July 2001 - July 2004] Committee Member of Academic Issues Subcommittee for students with special needs [May 2003 - January 2004] Chair, SoC Plagiarism Task Force [January 2003 - July 2003] President of CISA Association [April 1994 - April 2002] NUS CDTL Affiliate [July 1999 - 2002] Member of SEARCC 2000 ISSC Scientific Committee [December 2000] Member of MOE Computing Syllabus Review Committee [November 1997 - November 1998] Advisor to NSC (Programming Section) Competition [April - July 2000] Member of SEARCC'99 ISSC Scientific Committee [December 1999] Member of MOE Computing Syllabus Review Committee [November 1997 - November 1998] Trainer of Singapore International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) teams. [1992 - 1998] Team leader for IOI'92, IOI'93, IOI'94, and IOI'97. Member of the NUS Science Foundation Module, DISCS sub-committee. [January 1996 - December 1997] Councellor for the NUS Science Research Programme. [May - June 1995]
RESEARCH
Papers: Ang, C H, T C Tan and S T Tan, Tried linear hashing. In 4th Asian Computing Science Conference proceedings, edited by Jieh Hsiang, Atsushi Ohori, pp. 86-94. Berlin, Germany, Springer, 1998. Download: postscript file. Ang, C H and T C Tan, New linear node splitting algorithm for R-trees. In Advances in Spatial Database, 15-18 July 1997, Germany, pp. 339-349. Lecture notes in Computer Sceince, 1262, 1997. Download: postscript file. Member of the Algorithms and VLSI Design Automation Lab. Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
PROJECTS SUPERVISED
Self-Adjusting Data Structures in Retrieval (UROP). [May 2005 - April 2006] Shashin Jawahirlal Surti. Music Composition using Algorithms based on Music Theories (UROP). [Nov 2003 - Oct 2004] Liu Ruizhe. Program Analysis with Automated Generation of Inline Documentation (UROP). [Nov 2003 - Oct 2004] Sarabjit Singh. An Integrated Database System for CISAA. [1998] Co-supervision with Dr Ang Chuan Heng. Team members: Stephanie Lim Li Yen, Emily Ng Foong Sen, Dan Yeo Tzy Cheng. Introduction to Computer Science. [1996] Co-supervision with Dr Tay Yong Chiang. Team members: Lee Fui Li, Lee Lay Peng, Lee Sheau Poh.
AWARDS
Outstanding Mentor Award (2008), Science Mentorship Programmes SoC Teaching Excellence Award (2007). SoC Teaching Excellence Award (2006). SoC Teaching Excellence Award (2005). Students' Choice Award (2005/6). Students' Choice Award (2004/5). NUS Excellent Teacher (2003-2004). SoC Teaching Excellence Award (2003). SoC Teaching Excellence Award (2003). NUS Excellent Teacher (2002-2003). NUS Excellent Teacher (2001-2002). SoC Teaching Excellence Award (2001). SoC Teaching Excellence Award (1999).