Administration and Professional Society Role

Administrative Role

Various responsibilities at division (40 faculty) and school (200 faculty) level such as faculty recruitment, co-ordinating the research activities, research student admissions, accreditation activity, statistics and reporting, etc.; major roles are listed below.

• Deputy head of the division of information engineering (2006-2011)
• Chairman, school of EEE faculty search committee, intelligent computing & info. security (2010-present)
• Member, school of EEE faculty search committee, signal processing and systems (2009-2010)
• NTU research office discipline cluster EP2 sub-committee (2015-present)
• PhD India Outreach team member (2013-2014)
• School of EEE curriculum revamp taskforce (2016-present)
• School of EEE academic curriculum committee, infocomm area (2016-present)
• School of EEE teaching excellance award committee (2008-2009)
• School of EEE research working committee (2008-2011)
• School of EEE resource committee (2007-2011)
• Cluster supervisor, cluster 3.1 (5 divisional laboratories) (2010-2012)
• Program director, centre for information security, surveillance systems (2009-2010)
• School of EEE evaluation committee for masters admission (2008-present)
• Divisional review committee for research student admission (2009-2014)
• School of EEE SWOT analysis taskforce (2014)
• Judge, Singapore science & engineering fair, MOE (2016)
• Assessor, NTU NRP enrichment & H3 science research project (2014-2016)
• Expert mentor, MOE innovation program (2014)
• Faculty associate, Institute for Infocomm Research (2006-2008)

Professional Society Role

· Affiliate member, Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2014)

· Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Chapter of Singapore Section (2012,2011)

· Vice chair, IEEE Signal Processing Chapter of Singapore Section (2010, 2009)

· Treasurer, IEEE Signal Processing Chapter of Singapore Section (2008)

· Secretary, IEEE Signal Processing Chapter of Singapore Section (2007)

· Member of executive committee, IEEE Signal Processing Chapter of Singapore Section (2013)

· Set up (jointly) the IEEE Signal Processing Chapter for Bangalore (Karnataka, India) Section

· Member, Technical Committee on Information Processing Theory and Applications, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) (2010-present)