Resume

Education

• B.Sc. (Hons) (1971) in Physics from University of Singapore
• M.Sc. (1973) in Radiation Studies from University of Surrey, UK
• Ph.D. (1986) in Computer Science from University of Virginia, USA

Membership of Professional Bodies

• IEEE Senior Member
• ACM
• AAAI, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
• International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Member of Governing Board (2004 - present)
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) Singapore, Founding President (2004 - 2008), Vice-President (2008 - present)

Employment

• 2008 - Professor, NUS
• 1996 - 2008 Associate Professor, NUS
• 1989 - 1995 Senior Lecturer, NUS
• 1986 - 1988 Lecturer, NUS
• 1982 - 1986 Senior Tutor, NUS
• 1974 - 1982 Senior Scientific Officer, Dept of Scientific Services, Ministry of Health

Appointment

• Faculty Associate, Institute of Infocomm Research (2006 to Present)
• Chair, Search Committee, Department of Computer Science, SOC, NUS (2007 to Present)
• External Evaluator for Research Committee, City University of Hong Kong, 2010
• External Evaluator for Cross Council Office (BRMC & SERC), A*STAR, 2009
• PhD External Examiner, University of Mysore, India, 2007
• PhD External Examiner, Thapar University, Patiala, India, 2007
• External Evaluator for Innovation and Technology Commission, Government of Hong Kong Special Administration Region, 2002, 2006, 2009
• External Evaluator for Research Committee, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2005, 2007
• Technology Assessment Consultant for Multimedia Development Corporation, Malaysia, 2001-2003
• PhD External Examiner, University of Western Australia, 2000

Editorial Board Membership

• Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition (2002 to present)
• Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition Letters (2006 to present)
• Member of Editorial Board, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2006 to present)
• Member of Review Board, Applied Intelligence (2006 to present)

Research

• Document Image Analysis
• Text Mining
• Natural Language Processing
• Neural Network Applications

Professional Services

• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2011, Beijing, China
• Member of Program Committee, 22th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Arras, France, 2010
• Member of Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), Kolkata, India, 2010
• Member of Program Committee, 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
• Member of Program Committee, 9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2010, Boston, USA
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2009, Barcelona, Spain
• Member of Program Committee, 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA
• Member of Program Committee, 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Inteligence (PRICAI), 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Member of Program Commitee, 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2008, Osaka, Japan
• Member of Program Committee, The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2008, Ceara, Brazil
  
• Member of Program Committee, 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2008, Osaka, Japan
• Member of Program Committee, Third International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2007)
• Member of Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2007)
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Computing:
  Theory and Applications, Platinum Jubilee of the Indian Statistical Institute, 2007.
• Member of Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Data Mining and Information Retrieval 2007 (DMIR-2007)
  
• Member of Program Committee, 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2007
• Member of Program Committee, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) 2006
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2006)
• Member of Organizing Committee and Chair of PAKDD School, 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)
• Area Chair, Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV2005)
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2005)
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Graphics Recongition (GREC2005) in conjunction with ICDAR2005
• Member of Technical Committee, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2004)
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL2004)
• Member of Program Committe, International Workshop on Document Image Analysis and Retrieval 2003, (DIAR2003) in conjunction with CVPR 2003
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Web Document Analysis, 2003 (WDA2003) in conjunction with ICDAR2003
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Graphics Recongition, 2003 (GREC2003) in conjunction with ICDAR2003
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2002 (ICPR2002)
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Science & Informatics 2002 (CS&I'02)
• Member of Program Committee, First SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, in conjunction with COLING2002
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Web Document Analysis, 2001 (WDA2001) in conjunction with ICDAR2001
• Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Graphics Recongition, 2001 (GREC2001) in conjunction with ICDAR2001
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications 2001 (ICWAA2001)
• Member of Program Committee, Chinese Language Processing Workshop, International Conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics 2000 (ACL2000)
• Member of Program Committee, Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering 2000 (JCKBSE'00)
• Member of Program Committee, Web & Text Mining Workshop, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2000 (PRICAI2000)
• Member of Program Committee, Machine Translation Summit 1999 (MT Sumimit'99)
• Member of Program Committee, Natural Language Processing Symposium 1995 (NLPRS'95)

Invited Talks

• "Pattern Recognition and Medical Imaging", Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Treatment and Prediction Workshop, jointly organized by Singapore Bioimaging Consortium and Institute for Infocomm Research, 15 Jan 2009, Biopolis, Singapore
• "Pattern Recognition in Biomedical Imaging", Ocular Imaging Symposium 2008, 26 June 2008, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
• "Automated Retrieval and Generation of Brain CT Radiology Reports", 7th Korea-Singapore Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics and Natural Language processing, 15-16 Feb 2008, Seoul, Korea
• "Document Image Analysis - Introduction & Advanced Topics", Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies, CSIT, 1-2 Oct 2007, Singapore
• "Restoration of Warped Document Images", Seminar Series on Communications, Networking, Signal & Image Processing, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 4 Sept 2007, West Lafayette, USA.
• "A wording image coding technique and its applications in information retrieval from imaged documents", International Workshop on Document Analysis, 8-11 March 2005, organized by the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India. ISI is the top Research Institute in India.
• "Document Image Restoration" at the Records Management Workshop, 19 March 2001, organized by National Archives of Singapore, National Heritage Board.
• "Document Image Analysis Research at the National University of Singapore", 28 May 1999, Samchok National University, Korea.
• "Text Extraction from Document Images" AI Seminar Series, 21 May 1999, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Kyushu, Japan.
• "Kanji as Lexical Constraints in Alignment of Japanese and Chinese Texts" at Natural Language Processing Special Interest Group Seminar, 27-28 May 1994, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
• "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine" 2nd SMA Computer Conference, 6 September 1987.
• "Selecting the First Project" at AI Workshop on Expert Systems, 4-8 May 1987, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore