KHONG, Andy W. H.

Assistant Professor

Principal Investigator: STATINA
Principal Investigator: Infrasound Signal Processing (completed)
Principal Investigator: SENTIA

Andy Khong is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to that, he obtained his Ph.D. ('02-'05) from the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, after which he also served as a research associate ('05-'08) in the same department. He obtained his B.Eng. ('98-'02) in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interest includes adaptive filters, acoustic source localization, seismic signal processing and speech enhancement. He was the recipient of the best student paper award at the International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control 2005.

   
   

GAN, Woon Seng

Associate Professor

Co-Principal Investigator: STATINA

GAN, Woon-Seng received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of EEE, NTU. His research interests include audio signal processing, psycho-acoustical signal processing and real-time digital signal processing. Woon-Seng is currently serving as a Deputy Director for the Centre for Signal Processing, NTU and an associate editor for EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing. He has published over 130 international journals and conferences and two books.

   
   

FAM, Jimmy

STATINA
(Touch interface)

Jimmy Fam received the Diploma of Instrumentation & Control Engineering in 2002 from Singapore Polytechnic and Bachelor of Technology (Electronics) from National University of Singapore in 2010. He was an undergraduate student researcher with    the Interactive and Digital Media Institute at NUS in 2010. His interest is on human-computer interface.

   
   

BEKRANI, Mehdi

Research Associate: STATINA
(Acoustic signal processing)

Mehdi Bekrani was born in Gorgan, Iran, in 1979. He received the B.Sc. degree from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, in 2002, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tarbiat Modares University, in 2004 and 2010, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He is currently a research associate at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His current research interests include acoustic signal processing and their applications.

   
   

ARUN, Kattukandy

Ph.D. Candidate: STATINA
(Touch interface)

Arun received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from MES College of Engineering affiliated to Calicut University, India in 2003 and later earned Advance Post Graduate Diploma in Embedded Systems from DOEACC, India. After working  for three years in Research and Development team (DSP group) of various telecom and automotive industries, he graduated from NTU, Singapore with Msc Degree(Signal Processing)  in 2008. Again he worked in R&D, DSP -Product development for nearly two years in Singapore before joining NTU. He is specializes in real-time implementation of algorithms in Matlab and C for various ARM, Analog Devices and TI DSP chips. His research interest includes Speech, Video and Audio signal Processing.

   
   

LI, Renshi

Ph.D. Candidate: STATINA
(Loudspeaker array)

LI, Renshi received his B.Eng. degree (1st Class Hons.) in Circuit and Systems from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in June 2009. His research interests include Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), Neuron Cells, IC hardware design and signal processing.

   
   

LIAO, Lei

Ph.D. Candidate: STATINA
(Acoustic signal processing)

LIAO, Lei received his B.Eng. degree in Circuit and Systems from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2008. He is now pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the field of Information Engineering at NTU. His research interests include array signal processing, acoustic signal processing, blind system identification and blind source separation.

   
   

LIM, Shiyun

Researcher: STATINA
(Touch Interface)

LIM, Shiyun is currently an undergraduate student in Nanyang Technological University. She is currently pursuing a B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering and Media, as well as a B.A. in Economics. She is expected to graduate at the end of 2012. Her research interest is on human-computer touch interface.

   
   

LIU, Benxu

Ph.D. Candidate: STATINA
(Acoustic signal processing)

LIU, Benxu received his B.Eng. degree in Automation from the department of Control Science and Engineering and the M.Eng. degree majoring in Systems Engineering in 2006 and 2008 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He is now pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the field of Information Engineering, mainly about touch screen for next generation applications, in Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

   
   

LIU, Di

Research Associate: STATINA
(Acoustic signal processing)

LIU, Di received her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics from Beijing Normal University, China in 2007 and M.Sc. degree in Signal Processing from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2009. During Master study, she worked as Research Assistant in Temasek Lab@ NTU for half a year, in the area of image interpolation using Dual-tree Complex Wavelet Transform. Her research interests include de-noising, adaptive signal processing, image processing and computer vision.

   
   

ONG, Eunice

Researcher: STATINA
(Touch Interface)

Eunice Ong is a current undergraduate student, pursuing her B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering and Media (IEM)  at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interest include gesture recognition and source localization. She is also looking at various aspects related to commercialization.

   
   

RAJAN, Rashobh

Research Associate, Ph.D. Candidate: STATINA
(Acoustic/speech signal processing)

Rashobh R.S was born in India, on April 24, 1980. He received the B.Eng, degree in Electronics and Communication engineering from Anna University, India and the M.S.c degree in Signal Processing from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Since January, 2009 he is a Research Associate at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and will pursue his part-time Ph.D. degree in August 2009. His research interest includes speech dereverberation and speech recognition.

   
   

REDDY, Vinod Veera

Ph.D. Candidate: SENTIA
(Seismic signal processing)

Vinod received his B.Eng. degree in Electronics and Communications from R.V College of Engineering affiliated to V.T.U, India in 2003. He was with Accord Software and Systems for 3.5 years working on the design and development of algorithms for automotive GPS receivers. He is now pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the field of Information Engineering at NTU. His research interests include speech source separation and array signal processing.

   
   

REJU, Vaninirappuputhenpurayil

Research Fellow: STATINA
(Touch interface, Acoustic signal processing)

Vaninirappuputhenpurayil Gopalan REJU was born in India in 1970. He received the B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from University of Kerala, India, in 1992, M.Tech. degree in electronic engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India, in 1994 and Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2010. He was in Cochin University of Science and Technology as lecturer from 1995 to 2002 and in NTU as Research Associate from 2007 to 2010. Currently he is a Research Fellow in Division of Information engineering, NTU. His research interests include array signal processing and blind source separation.

   
   

VENKATRAMAN, Divya

Research Associate, Ph.D. Candidate: SENTIA
(Seismic signal processing)

Divya Venkatraman received her Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication engineering from PSG College of Technology, India, in 2003. From 2003-2006 she worked for Infosys Technologies, India, on several Microsoft technologies including Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft BizTalk Server. She received her Master's degree in Signal Processing from the School of EEE in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2008. From 2008-2009 she continued to worked as a Research Associate in the School of EEE, in the area of compression of video signals from surveillance camera. Currently she is pursuing her Ph.D in the field of Information Engineering at NTU. Her research interest includes video compression, array signal processing and signal deconvolution.

   
   

WANG, Liang

Project Officer: STATINA
(Loudspeaker array)

WANG, Liang was born in Xi’an, China in 1983. He received his B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 2003. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. degree in the field of digital signal processing in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From Jan 2009, he is a project officer in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His current project involves in interactive loudspeaker array system. His research interests include loudspeaker array, active noise control, and audio signal processing. He has since published 7 international journal and conference papers.

   
   

WU, Kai

Ph.D. Candidate: Acoustic source localization

WU, Kai received his B.Eng. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from the School of Electronic Engineering in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2010. He is now pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the field of Information Engineering at NTU. His research interests include acoustic signal processing and source localization.

   
   

YAP, Xuexin

Project Officer, M.Eng. Candidate: STATINA
(Touch interface)

Xuexin received a diploma in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore, in 2002. In 2008, he graduated from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, with a B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is currently researching on the feasibility of Time Reversal Signal Processing in solids with “Speech, Touch and Acoustic Tangible Interfaces for Next-generation Applications” (STATINA) whilst pursuing his M.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His research interests include the application of electronics in audio and musical equipment, psychoacoustic related fields, and selective focusing of signals.

   
   
   
Past Members
   
RAMACHANDRAN, Bremananth

Post-doctoral research fellow

STATINA (Dec. 09- Jun 11)

   
SULAIMAN, Amir

Research associate

STATINA (Jan. 09- Jul. 11)