An Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since Nov 2002. I worked at Nokia Research Center in Finland for 9 years as a research engineer and senior research engineer.

I have established and directed the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Lab at NUS School of Computing. Our current focus is on three main research projects:

  • Multimodal Mobile Music retrieval(M3R)

  • NUS Mobile Music Group(NuMOG)

  • Affective Music Computing(AMC)

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Education



2002 Doctorate in Information Technology Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.
2001 Visiting Scholar Experimental Psychology Department, University of Cambridge, UK.
2000 Licentiate in Information Technology Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.
1993 Diplom-Ingenieur in Telecommunication Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
1983 BSc in Wireless Communication Southern China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.



Work Experience



Assistant Professor
School of Computing, National University of Singapore since 2002.
  • Computer-assisted music edutainment.

  • Multimodal mobile music retrieval.

  • Audio & music processing and analysis.

  • Compressed domain audio processing.

  • Scalable & robust media streaming.

  • Perception-aware, low-power media processing.
Senior Research Engineer
Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, 2000 - 2002.
 
  • Audio compression.

  • Compressed domain processing.

  • Error control concepts with applications to wireless communications.
Research Engineer
Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, 1993 - 2000.
  • Evaluation and implementation of methods for digital audio signal compression.

  • Prototype implementation of DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) receiver.

  • Integration and debugging software on TI DSP processors.

  • Development of new psychoacoustic models for audio coding.

  • Audio codec optimization.

  • Development and evaluation of digital audio watermarking technologies for copyright protection.

  • Development of error concealment techniques for audio delivery over wireless packet networks.
 

Contact:


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