Associate Professor and
Vice Dean, Student Life
email: gtan@comp.nus.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6516 6276
Gary Tan was a pioneer in the Direct Honours Programme of the National University of Singapore and received his
B.Sc (1st class Honours) from NUS. He
received his M.Sc and Ph.D
from the University of Manchester
, U.K.
He has been
lecturing at the School of Computing , National University of Singapore since 1990,
and was the recipient of Teaching Awards of the Faculty of Science in both 1992
and 1998, the Teaching Excellence Awards from the School in 1999 and 2002, and
the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 03/04, 04/05 and 06/07. He is also
on the ATEA Honour roll for 2008.
His research interests
include parallel and distributed computing, scheduling and load balancing,
declarative multiprocessors, parallel and distributed (interactive) simulation
and High Level Architecture. He is currently working on Symbiotic Simulation
and Traffic Simulation. He is a member of the Modelling and Simulation Group which is part of the Computer Systems Lab.
He has served as Chair of
the NUS PROSE committee, a
cross-faculty agency tasked with promoting the use of good English in the
University. He was also a Resident Fellow of Kent Ridge Hall (1993-2003), and
was Master of Sheares
Hall (2003-2013). He is now Vice Dean of Student Life at the school.
He has had project
collaborations with KTH (Royal Institute of
Technology),Sweden, and FOI
(Swedish Defence Research Agency), and is a
collaborator with SMART, and Beihang University.
He serves on the program
committee of Distributed Simulation and Real-time Systems Symposium, and is on
the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Modelling,
Simulation, and Scientific Computing (World Scientific) and Journal of Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (Elsevier).. He is a member of ASIASIM federation, and was Co-chair of AsiaSim2013 ( held
in Singapore in November 2013). He was Program Chair of DSRT 2016 held in London, and Conference Co-chair of SIMUTOOLS 2016 held in Prague. He is President of the Society of Simulation and Gaming of Singapore
(SSAGsg).
Research Students (completed)
| Current Students | ||
| M. Shalihin bin Othman | Ph.D | Framework for Predictive Evacuation |
| Past Students | ||
| Yu Jun | Masters | High Level Architecture/DDM |
| Ng Wee Ngee | Accel Masters | Distributed Supply Chain Simulation |
| Karthik Shenoy | Masters | Parallelism in HLA environment |
| Hu Yu | Masters | Automated Federate Compatibility Matcher |
| Zhao Na | Masters | Object Exchange Template in Distributed Supply Chain |
| Zhang Gong | Masters | Peer to Peer Computing |
| Hausi Horatiu | Intern | HLA Federation across Continents |
| Liu Peng | Masters | A UML-based Tool for Designing HLA Federates |
| Anders Persson | Intern | Migration and Load Balancing in HLA-based Distributed Simulation |
| Laura Andreescu | Exchange | A Study of Spread of Bird Flu |
| Shahab Mokarizadeh | Intern | Composability of Simulation Models |
| Akbari Shahmirzadi | Intern | Composability of Simulation Models |
| Seth Hetu | Ph.D | A Symbiotic Framework for Crisis Management Simulation |
| Xu Yan | Ph.D | Performance Improvements for Real-time Traffic Simulation |
| Vu Vinh An | Ph.D | Strategy Generation for Traffic Simulation |
Research Projects
- Principal Investigator, Object and Data Management in Distributed
Real-time Simulation, University Research Grant (Nov 98 - Jun 02)
- Principal Investigator, Cluster-based Distributed Simulation Using
HLA, research collaboration with CSO, MINDEF (Oct 99 - Sep 02)
- Collaborator, Performance Improvements of Web-Servers, University
Research Grant
- Principal Investigator, Distributed Supply Chain Simulation,
University Research Grant (Dec 01 - Nov 03)
- Principal Investigator, An Architecture for Developing Reusable
Simulation Model Components, Defence Innovative
Research Programme, DSTA grant (May 02 - Apr 04)
- Principal Investigator, Composability of Simulation Models,
University Research Grant (Feb 05 - Jan 08)
- Principal Investigator, A Framework for Symbiotic Simulation of
Crisis Management (Sep 07 - Aug 10)
- Principal Investigator, Parallel, Scalable
Transporation Simulation (June 12 – Dec15)
- Principal Investigator, Future Urban
Mobility II (Jun 16 – Dec 19)
- Principal Investigator, Resource Deployment and Optimisation for Disaster Management (NRF, Oct 18 - Sep 20)
Selected
Publications
Last Updated: 10 June 2019