Quah Tong Seng, Jon
Assistant Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Division of ICIS

Phone: (65) 6790 5871, Fax: (65) 6792 2971
Office: S2-B2c-84
Email: itsquah@ntu.edu.sg
Personal Website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/icis/cv/itsquah.htm

Biography

Dr. Quah is currently a professor with the Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS), a division of the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He received his BSc (Hons) in Information Systems, MSc in Computer Performance Monitoring, and PhD in Modeling Financial Markets using Neural Networks from the National University of Singapore in 1988, 1991, and 1997 respectively. An entrepreneur turned academician, Dr. Quah had been a faculty member of the Department of Information Systems & Computer Science as well as Institute of Systems Science, both within the National University of Singapore campus. Dr. Quah has undertaken joint projects with major companies in banking and airline industries, as well as statutory boards of the government body. Dr. Quah published widely in international conferences and journals. His research interests include: A.I. applications utilizing neural networks, expert systems, data mining etc. (such as financial markets modeling); Internet applications (such as e-commerce and e-learning); software engineering (such as software reliability, fault prediction etc.); and proximity based wireless applications.

Research Interest

  • Neural Network Applications – especially on financial market modeling
  • Software Engineering – focusing on software reliability and maintainability
  • Internet Applications – such as E-commerce, mobile agent, E-learning
  • Proximity Based Wireless Applications – for example: intelligent multi-agents cooperative system for mobile handsets [Research scholarships leading to Ph.D. are currently available]

Selected Research Projects

  • Design, Implementation and Management of a High-performance Object-based Storage and Retrieval System for Large Scale Multimedia Applications
  • Estimating Software Reliability using Computational Intelligence
  • Modeling Disease Pattern of Population using Computational Intelligence

Selected Publications

  • Tong-Seng Quah, Mie Mie Thet Thwin. Prediction of Software Development Faults in PL/SQL Files Using Neural Network Models. Information and Software Technology, Vol 46 No. 8, pp 519-523, 2004.
  • Andreas Schmid, Tong-Seng Quah. Synergetic Integration of Aglets and E-speak in E-commerce. Informatica – an International Journal of Computing and Informatics, Vol 27 No. 4, pp 391-398, 2004.
  • Mie Mie Thet Thwin, Tong-Seng Quah. Application of Neural Networks for Software Quality Prediction Using Object-Oriented Metrics. Journal of Systems and Software, Vol 76, pp 147-156, 2005.
  • Tong-Seng Quah, Kian-Chong Wong. Predicting IPOs Performance using Generalized Growing and Pruning Algorithm for Radial Basis Function Network. International Journal of Information Technology, Vol 12 No. 1, pp 16-25, 2005.
  • Tong-Seng Quah and Chye-Huang Leow. Linking Businesses for Competitive Advantage – a Mobile Agent Based Approach. In book IT-Enabled Strategic Management: Increasing Returns for the Organization. Editor: Bruce A. Walters. Idea Group Publishing, 2006.