Teaching

Teaching philosophy

I believe that good teaching and student project supervision should achieve a balance of both short-term need for knowledge and long-term need for growth of students, in this knowledge driven and rapidly changing world. An analogy can be drawn from preparing a young man for his first long journey into a forest in old days. The young man should be provided with sufficient provisions and equipped with good hunting skills: the former enables his first survival in the competitive environment and the latter makes his advancement sustainable.

Courses taught in NTU

SC2104/CE3002	Sensors, Interfacing and Control (Year-2 undergraduate course)
CE 3007	Digital Signal Processing (Year-3 undergraduate course)
DM6102	Multimedia Information Management (postgraduate course)
CE/CZ2004	Circuits & Signal Analysis (Year-2 undergraduate course)
CE/CZ4002	Visual Media Compression and Processing (Year-4 undergraduate course)
Cx1006	Computer Organisation & Architecture (Year-1 undergraduate course)
CE2003	Digital System Design (Year-2 undergraduate course)
CPE 201	Digital Circuits & Systems (Year-2 undergraduate course)
CPE 208	Instrumentation & Data Acquisition (Year-2 undergraduate course)
CPE415	Digital Video Coding and Compression (Year-4 undergraduate course)
CPE 101	Electronics Principles (Year-1 undergraduate course)
CPE/CSC104	Logic Design (Year-1 undergraduate course)
SC 301	Control & Instrumentation (Year-3 undergraduate course)

Success Stories in Student Project Supervision

Undergraduate:

Short-listed project for Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor Award, Singapore, 2008
Consolation Prize in Discover Engineering’09 (NTU)
Winning DISCOVER URECA @ NTU Poster Exhibition and Competition for Peer Assessment Review category (2010)
A project being selected for L.I.F.E.@NTU (2013)
Second Runner-up for the 5-Minute Video Clip Contest at IEEE ICIP 2020 (with COVID-19 Test Strip Reader)
A project being selected for Virtual Open House, SCSE, 2020/2021

Posstgraduate:

2012 Dragon Venture – NTU Award
IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2013) Student Best Paper Award
Student Travel Grants: 1) ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM), 2015; 2) IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), 2015; 3) IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015; 4) International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
7th Place in SemEval-2016 (International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2016) Competition: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter (with 34 international teams)
1st Place, EmotionNet Challenge 2017, among 27 international teams
IEEE TENCON 2017 Best Paper Award in the Robotics domain
3rd place in Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS) task of TRECVID Challenge, 2018
Gold Level (personal) in 2019 WorldQuant Challenge
Selected into Lean LaunchPad Singapore - a governmental innovation and commercialisation platform- with technology in collaborative intelligence, 2020
Finalist, Best Paper Award 2020, annual Darmstadt Computer Graphics Night, Germany

Recently completed PhD projects

Aesthetic Visual Quality Evaluation (completed 2022)
Deep-learnt visual Feature Coding toward Collaborative Intelligence (completed 2021)
Visual Saliency and Quality Evaluation via Machine Learning (completed 2020)
Simplification, Filtering and Image-based Localization of 3D Point Clouds (completed 2020)
Quality Evaluation of Retargeted Images (completed 2019)
Modeling User Factors in multimedia Preferences via Machine Learning (completed 2017)
Salient Keypoint Detectors and Compact Feature Descriptors for 3D Perception (completed 2017)
Blind Quality ssessment of Image and Speech Signals (completed 2016)
Screen Image Evaluation and Processing (completed 2015)
Visual Object Tracking (completed 2015)
Perceptual Computer Graphics (completed 2014)
Video Compression and Coding (completed 2013)
Content-based Image Retrieval (completed 2013)
Visual Attention Modeling and Applications (completed 2012)
Visual and Speech Signal Quality Metrics (completed 2012)
Visual Signal Coding and Quality Evaluation (completed 2011)

Students' technical communication & presentation development

Advisor for students to achieve the extraordinary results in IET’s Present Around the World (PATW) competition:

Year 2008: National Winner, Regional Winner, and Global Winner;
Year 2009: National Winner, Regional Winner, and Global Runner-up;
Year 2010: National Winner, and Regional Runner-up;
Year 2011: National Winner, Regional Winner, and Global Winner.

Teaching-related Services

School Education Award Committee, SCSE, NTU, 2020, 2022, 2023
SCE Curriculum Review committee, 2010, NTU
Coordinator of EAB lab assessment (CPE 208), SCE, NTU, 2009
NTU Teaching Council, 2018-

External postgraduate thesis Examination

MEng

School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2003
Dept of Elec. Comp. Eng., National University of Singapore, 2004, 2007, 2008

School of Elec. Comp. Eng., RMIT Univ., Australia (2008, 2010)
Electrical & Computer, McMaster University (2008, 2023)
Department of Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2010, 2011, 2018)
School of Elec. Comp. Eng., National University of Singapore (2010, 2017)
Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland (2014)
School of Electronic information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2016)
School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University (2019)
Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Monash University, 2022, 2023, 2024
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia, 2023

Undergraduate Programme Assessor

Bachelor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), 2019-2025, University of Malaya

Other undergraduate courses taught

Electronics Principles
Logic Design
Signals and Systems
Microprocessor Systems
Computer Programming
CAD-based Electronic Design
Physics

Courseware Development

Digital Image Processing
Discrete Transforms
CAD for Electronic Circuit Design
DSP Implementation

Other student-realted roles
School Outreach Committee (2012-2014)
School Curriculum Review committee (2010)
Student Hall Fellow (since 2013)
Judge for Present! Your Skill!, NTU Student Presentation Competition, Feb 2008; March 2011
Double Degree (Business & Computing) Program Coordinator (2010-2014)
NTU Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Student Club Advisor (2007-2012)
Selection Committee, Summer Research Internship (SRI) Programme 2016, 2017, NTU
Evaluator, undergraduate student admission, April 2022
2017 Jury for the SCSE Outstanding PhD Thesis Award (OPTA)
Judge, URECA Exhibition and Competition (DISCOVER URECA @ NTU), March 2019
Panel for AY23 Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship (NPGS), NTU, 2023
Panel for PhD Scholarships, Graduate College, NTU, 2022
Selection Committee for AISG Fellowship, Graduate College, NTU, 2024
Panel member, Non-academic Achievements Selection Interview for Poly Applicants (Admissions AY2009/10)
Joint PhD Program for NTU and TU Graz, Austria: Joint Admission Committee (JAC), 2022; Programme Management Committee (PMC), 2023-

Teaching & Student Projects