Wei Tsang Ooi
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Co-Director, IPAL, a
Franco-Singaporean Joint Research Lab
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Co-Director, IPAL, a
Franco-Singaporean Joint Research Lab
Ph.D. Candidate (A*STAR ACIS Scholar, Co-advisor: Sun Ying, I2R)
Thanh graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2021, with BComp(Computer Science) Highest Distinction.
Thanh is a DesCartes PhD student, working together with Benoit Cottereau, CerCo.
Ph.D. Candidate
Zhou Chen received her Bachelor's degree from Jilin University in 2016. Her research interests lie in human-computer interaction, particularly on smart glasses.
Ph.D. Candidate (A*STAR Scholar, Co-advisor: Lai Xing Ng, I2R)
Yannis obtained his Master of Science, Industrial and Operations Research from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métie (ENSAM). He is currently looking into human-in-the-loop machine learning.
Yannis is a DesCartes PhD student, working together with Lai Xing Ng, I2R, and Axel Carlier, INP Toulouse and IRIT.
Ph.D. Candidate
Lingdong received his Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University in 2022 and his Bachelor of Engineering in Intelligent Science and Technology from the South China University of Technology in 2019. His interests lie in robust and scalable computer vision algorithms using deep learning, with particular focuses on 3D perception, domain adaptation, and visual representation learning.
Lingdong is a DesCartes PhD student, working together with Lai Xing Ng, I2R, and Benoit Cottereau, CerCo.
Ph.D. Candidate
Peisen receives his Master of Arts (Research) from Nanyang Technological University in 2022 and his Bachelor of Engineering (Information Engineering and MEdia) in 2020. He is currently a researcher at CNRS@CREATE and a part-time Ph.D. student. His interests include graphics, virtual reality, video game and graphic art.
Peisen is a DesCartes Researcher, working together with Christophe Jouffrais, IRIT and IPAL, and Jérémie Garcia, ENAC.
Ph.D. Candidate
Yuang graduated from Sichuan University, China, in 2021 with a Bachelor of Engineering and the National UNiversity of Singapore, in 2022, with a Master of Computer. He is working on networked multimedia systems, particularly, on 3D media streaming.
I am always looking for motivated Ph.D. students to collaborate with in the area of interactive multimedia systems and networking.
Thesis information and first jobs after graduation.
"Enhancing Sample Efficiency and Privacy in Real-World Decision-Making: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Approach", Ph.D. 2025. (Co-advisor: Cheston Tan, I2R)
1st Employment: Scientist (A*STAR)
"Creating More Effective Text-Based Computer-Delivered Health Messaging", Ph.D., 2023. (Co-advisor: Brian Lim)
1st Employment: Postdoc (Aalborg University, Denmark)
"Towards Attention-aware Concept Map based Review in Video Learning", Ph.D.,2023, (Co-advisor: Shengdong Zhao)
1st Employment: UX Researcher, AutoDesk
"A Queueing Theory Approach to Adaptive Video Streaming", Ph.D., 2020.
1st Employment: Co-Founder and CEO, Atlastream
"Adaptive Wireless Networking for Video Streaming", Ph.D., 2015 (Co-advisor: Mun Choon Chan).
1st Employment: Google, USA.
"Automated Analysis of Neuronal Morphology: Detection, Modeling and Reconstruction", Ph.D., 2015 (Co-advisor: Daniel Racoceanu).
1st Employment: Postdoc at ENS, France.
"Sprite Tree: An Efficient Image-Based Representation for Networked Virtual Environments", Ph.D., 2015
1st Employment: Visa, Singapore.
"3D Mesh Preview Streaming", Ph.D., 2014.
1st Employment: Garena, Singapore.
"Supporting Non-Linear and Non-Continuous Media Access in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Systems", Ph.D., 2013.
1st Employment: TAPI Data Solutions (CTO and Co-Founder), Singapore.
"Secret Sharing Approach for Securing Cloud-Based Image Processing," Ph. D., 2013.
1st Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, SICS, Sweden.
"Video Quality for Video Analysis," Ph. D., 2011.
1st Employment: Postdoc at EPFL, Switzerland
"Application-Specific Workload Shaping in Resource-Constrained Media Players," Ph .D., 2010. (co-advisor: Samarjit Chakraborty).
1st Employment: Postdoc at Ecole Polytecnique, France
"Streaming of High-Resolution Progressive Meshes over the Internet," Ph. D., 2010.
1st Employment: Postdoc, NUS.
"Techniques for Improving Predictability and Message Efficiency of Gossip Protocols," Ph. D., 2010.
1st Employment: Samsung, Korea.
"Techniques and Protocols for Distributed Media Streaming," Ph. D. 2008.
1st Employment: Macquarie Bank, Singapore.
"System-level Modeling and Analysis of Multimedia-SoC Platforms," Ph. D. 2007. (co-advisor: Samarjit Chakraborty).
1st Employment: Postdoc, NUS
"Edge AI for Video Surveillance", M. Comp., 2021
1st Employment: ByteDance, China.
"Explaining Deep Neural Network Classifier using alike Prototypes", M. Comp., 2020
"Supporting Arbitrary Zoom in Zoomable Video," M. Sc., 2013.
1st Employment: ViSenze, Singapore.
"Zoomable Video Playback on Mobile Devices by Selective Decoding," M. Comp., 2012.
1st Employment: Software Engineer, Google
"Texture Caching in Networked Virtual Environments," M. Sc., 2012.
"HTTP Live Streaming for Zoomable Video," M. Sc., 2012.
1st Employment: Microsoft.
"Multipath Routing over Wireless Mesh Networks," M. Sc., 2012.
1st Employment: Industrial Bank, China.
M. Comp., 2011.
"An Analytical Model for the Effects of Seek and Pause in Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand Systems," M. Comp., 2010.
1st Employment: Research Assistant, NUS.
"Quality-Driven Sensor Selection in Target Tracking," M. Sc. 2005, (co-advisor: Jit Biswas).
1st Employment: Sun Microsystem, Vietnam.
"Parallel Processing of Streaming Media on Heterogeneous Hosts using Work Stealing," M. Sc. 2004.
1st Employment: ST Microelectronics, Singapore.
"Distributed Construction of Resource-Efficient Overlay Tree by Approximating MST," M. Sc. 2004.
1st Employment: IBM, China.
"Design and Implementation of RTP Stream Classification Methods," M. Sc. 2004.
1st Employment: Motorola, China.
I have served on the thesis commitee of many graduate students.