C. Service

C.1 University Service

Although not required for my tenure dossier, I include this section as in my opinion, I have performed a notable amount of service for my current rank. My service also is centered on the same subjects as my research: dissemination of scholarly academic research (especially C.1.a.2 and C.2.a.1)

(a) University Service

• Department representative (along with A/P Ng Hwee Tou) on the NUS UCEP Student Feedback committee; chaired by Prof. KP Mohanan. I was responsible for coordinating the programming aspects of this committee. See the notes at the end of this section.

• Department representative to the NUS–Academic Research Repository (ARR) meetings; invited by A/P Mohan Kankanhalli (now full Prof).

(b) Departmental Service

• Honors Year Project committee member – AY 2006-current
• Graduate Studies committee member – AY 2005-current, strategic planning and student recruitment areas
• EXCO Assistant Professor Representative – AY 2004/2005
• IOI/NOI Training and problem development – mathematical tricks training session (26 May 2003, and 2004)
• Maintainer of New Staff FAQ
• NITA project reviewer (undergraduate in 2003, postgraduate in 2004)

(c) Visitors Hosted

• Yahoo! Visiting Team to NUS SoC: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Rosie Jones, Donald Metzler, Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research Labs (Santa Clara, CA, USA and Barcelona, Spain), 25 Jul 2008
• Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, Computer Lab, 11-18 Dec 2007
• Dongwon Lee, Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Science and Technology, 12-26 December 2006 [OAP Inbound Visitor]
• Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, Arts, Media and Engineering, 19 July-2 August 2007 [OAP Inbound Visitor]
• David K Evans and Michel Galley, Graduate Research Assistants Columbia Univesity, 22 December 2005
• John Chen, Research Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia, 25 July 2005.
• Hari Kalva, Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University, 5 July 2004
  Content Adaptation for Mobile Multimedia
• Krishna Bharat, Principle Scientist, Google Corporation, 12 July 2004
  Google from the Inside

C.2 Service to International Academic Community

(a) International Organization

• Anthology Editor (from 2008 onwards): for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL; rank 1), – this position heads the archiving and development of both conference and journal proceedings for the world’s premiere NLP organization.

• ACM SIGIR 2008 Registration Chair – for the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR; rank 1), I ran the annual meeting’s conference registration for 2008, when the meeting was held in Singapore. Coordinated student volunteers and administrative and web support staff to ensure registration for the conference, tutorials and workshops went smoothly. The SIGIR conference hosted over 500 registrants from over 30 countries.

• AIRS 2006 Proceedings Chair – for the Asian SIGIR science community, I was responsible for compiling, editing and printing the proceedings of the Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) in 2006, when the event was held in Singapore. I needed to coordinate over 50 full and poster papers and liase with the international publisher (Springer) to get the volume indexed, printed. This volume is part of the reputable Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) range.

C.3 Service to Professional groups / Industry

(a) Professional Groups

• PREMIA, board member: 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008
• PREMIA, auditor: 2004/2005

In progress / Planned

• World Scientific Publishers, Consultant: 2008
• Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies: Specialized Course Instructor

C.4 Supplemental Documentation

With respect to my service on the University Level on the NUS UCEP Student Feedback Committee, I was congratulated on my service by the chair of the committee, Prof. KP Mohanan.

from Mohanan, Karuvannur P (ELL) <ellkpmoh@nus.edu.sg>

to kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg,

Vincent Ooi <vinceooi@nus.edu.sg>, Yow Chea Keng <cceyowck@nus.edu.sg>,

"Ng Hwee Tou (SoC)" <nght@comp.nus.edu.sg>,

"QUEK, Ser Aik" <bizundergrad@nus.edu.sg>

date Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 7:17 PM

subject UCEP discussion on SF profiles

Dear all,

This is to report to you that the UCEP discussion of the work on SF

profiles went well. They were quite impressed by our contribution.

In my presentation, I invited their attention to what the profiles

show, namely, the need to revamp the SF questions such that students

reflect on their learning experience instead of evaluating the

teacher. (See the attached ppt slides.) They were quite convinced. I

also raised the question of whether phase 2 of the project should

start now, or after the SF is revamped. The consensus was that the

latter option would be the best.

What that means is that as far as we are concerned, our work has been

successfully completed. Thank you for making this project a success.

Mohanan

from Mohanan, Karuvannur P (ELL) <ellkpmoh@nus.edu.sg>

to kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg

date Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 7:26 PM

subject Project on qualitative comments in Student Feedback

Dear Min,

As you must have inferred from the discussion at the meeting today,

the University Committee for Educational Policy is quite pleased with

the project on qualitative comments in student feedback. The project

is now successfully completed. This would not have been possible but

for the dedication of the members of the student research team Kyaw

Zaw Lin, Aye Maung, Thet Lin Thu,Koh Qian Yu, and Kevin Lim. I would

like to thank them, but I don't have their email addresses, so I would

be grateful if you could forward this message to them. In particular,

please thank Zaw Lin for me.

Mohanan

Professor K. P. Mohanan

Chair, Research Team on SF

UCEP member