Dean’s Graduate
Award Winners 2001
The talks are scheduled on March 7, 14, and 21, 2001 in LT34.
Photos supported by GeoFoto
School of Computing
January
26, 2001
Past Winners of Dean's Graduate Award
Teow Loo Nin
Loo Nin has been working in
pattern classification for his PhD thesis, particularly in the use of
biological modeling, uncertainty reasoning, and statistical learning. His
research results have been published as full papers in the proceedings of 3 top
international conferences: IEEE CVPR 2000, UAI 2000 and ICML
2000. Loo Nin obtained both his BSc and MSc in Computer Science from NUS in
1992 and 1997 respectively. Prior to joining the PhD program in 1998, he worked
at Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories for 6 years as a research engineer. To date,
he has co-authored 9 conference and 3 journal papers.
Wu Hui is a Ph.D candidate at
the Department of Computer Science. His current research focuses on the area of
the instruction scheduling with timing constraints. It is motivated by the
applications of ILP (Instruction Level Parallelism) machines in embedded
systems where critical tasks are subject to timing constraints such as release
time constraints and deadline constraints. Some results have been accepted in a
rank-1 journal, a rank-1 international conference and a rank-2 international
conference: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering(regular paper), PACT
2000(full paper), and CP 2000(full paper). Recently, He and Jaxan
Jaffar have solved a number of open problems and improved a number of existing
scheduling algorithms such as the classical algorithm for two processor
scheduling with release times and deadlines proposed by Garey and Johnson.
Lixin is a PhD candidate and his research is on computer vision and
pattern recognition, in particular, view-based object modeling, detection
and registration. The major results have been published as full papers in
the two top international conferences: IEEE CVPR 2000 and ACM Multimedia
2000. Lixin is also interested in image processing and compression, and
received the MSc degree from School of computing, NUS in 1998. Prior to
joining the postgraduate program at NUS, he received BEng from Nanjing
Institute of Posts and Telecommunications in 1991, and worked with the
Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Engineering for five years.
Yu Cui is a PhD candidate and
her research is on high-dimensional indexing techniques. iMinMax (appears
in ACM PODS 2000) and iDistance (system development for Geofoto, a NUS start up company) were
proposed respectively for high-dimensional range queries and nearest neighbor
queries. These indexes are dynamic, flexible, efficient and easy to implement.
More importantly, they can be integrated into DBMS either as stored procedures
or as part of kernel, cost-effectively. Such indexes are useful for fast
retrieval in multimedia databases, time series and medical databases. One
patent has been filed based on the research. She has received BEng from Nanjing University
of Aeronautics & Astronautics (NUAA) in 1995.
Xuetao is a PhD candidate and researches on the
decomposing polygon meshes, a common denominator for three-dimensional digital
models, for interactive applications such as fast collision detection. The
results have been accepted and published in two top conferences: ACM I3D
2001 (full paper) and ACM SIGGRAPH 1999 (short paper). One patent
has been filed based on the research. He has got MEng and BEng from Xian
Jiaotong University in 1994 and 1991 respectively. Before joining NUS, he had
been working as a Lecturer in Xian Jiaotong University from June 1994 to October
1997.
Heng Tao researches on the
database performance issues, indexing techniques, multimedia, and the Internet
applications. The results have been published as a full paper and a demo paper
in ACM MM 2000. He has been developing a system Foto-Smart: a
semantic-based web image Search Engine for Geofoto,
a NUS start up company. He graduated from School of Computing, NUS in 2000 with
the First Class Honours Degree.
Calvin's research assesses how
the Internet (enabled in part by MP3) may shape the future music industry.
There has been plenty of speculation about how the music industry may change in
future but such a systematic effort that considers the perspectives of all
players is new. Further, this study suggests possible strategies for the
various players in the market (some of which are currently being played out).
The current research has been accepted for publication by Communications of
the ACM (Volume 44) . This paper serves as a foundation for further
research on the music industry. Calvin graduated with First Class Honours from
School of Computing, NUS.
Sun Jing is a MSc candidate and his research is on tools support for the
integrated formal methods in particular the XML/XSL approach to the
development of a web environment ZML for the Z family formal
specification languages. The ZML environment has also been formally
designed by Object-Z itself. ZML provides a foundation for the
development of the XSLT projection tools from Object-Z/TCOZ models (in
XML) to UML diagrams (in XMI).
The current result has been accepted by the top conference WWW-10 2001 as
a full paper (refereed track). In addition, Sun Jing also co-authored a
full paper published at IWSSD-10 2000. He graduated from Nanjing
University in 1998 and joined NUS in Jan 2000.