[ Concurrent Appointments and Research Grants ]

Concurrent Appointments:

June 2008 now

Assistant Chair, Alumni, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

June 2008 – now

Advisor and School Liaison of EEE Alumni Association.

February 2000 - December 2011

Deputy Director, Centre of High Performance Embedded Systems, the university level research centre hosted by the School of Computer Engineering and School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

April 2003 – December 2010

Program Director, VLSI Circuits and Embedded Systems Research Group, Centre of Integrated Circuits and Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

February 2009 January 2010

Chairman, School Search Committee for Three Assistant Professors in VLSI and IC Design

 

Research Grants:

1.  Singapore Principal Investigator of ‘Electronic Circuit Design – Systems’ team of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART) 5-year Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG5) research program on Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES), Approved total program funding S$25M, target start date: January 2012. Target Date of Completion: December 2016.  (The objective of LEES is to create an interdisciplinary research environment in which materials, device, and integrated researchers work together to shape innovation in seminconductor and integrated technology, leading to new low-energy systems. The goal of the ‘Electronic Circuit Design’ subprogram of LEES is to design the world’s first monolithic III-V/Si CMOS electronic and optoelectronic circuits and explore unique circuit designs that could not have been done with a silicon CMOS platform alone)

2.  Principal co-investigator of A 3D Design Platform of Multi-Processor System-on-Chip for New Media Application, Ministry of Education Academic Research Grant Tier II August 2010, Project No. MOE2010-T2-2-037, Approved amount S$726,100.00, Target Date of Commencement: 1 June 2011. Target Date of Completion: 31 May 2014.

3.  Collaborator of “Application of watermarking techniques in VLSI IP protection", Project No. JC200903180629A, Shenzhen Bureau of Science, Technology and Information, Approved funding RMB100,000.00, Date of Acceptance: 1 March 2009. Target Date of Completion: 31 March 2010

4.  Principal co-investigator of “Low Complexity Dynamically Reconfigurable Signal Processing for Cognitive Radio”, Project No. T208B1216 (ARC 10/08), Approved funding S$687,520.00, Date of Acceptance: 1 November 2008. Target Date of Completion: 31 October 2011.

5.   Principal investigator of “Logical Reversibility and Redundancy for Dependable Nanoelectronic Computations”, F&E Phase II Funding, M8008.U.EEE.01, Approved amount S$43,715, Date of Acceptance: 1 November 2006. Date of Completion: 31 October 2007.

6.   Collaborator of “A powerful datapath with less power?”, NTU College of Engineering Startup grant, M58020001.706022. Amount: S$98,000.

7.   Principal co-investigator of “Low power reconfigurable receiver architectures for migrating software defined radio technology from base stations to handsets”, URC/AcRF (RG 8/05), Approved amount S$64,514, Date of Acceptance: 11 October 2005. Date of Completion: 31 December 2008

8.   Principal co-investigator of “Power Sensitive Techniques for High Productivity Embedded Systems”, funded by A*STAR, Project No. 022 160 0046, Approved amount S$561,090. Date of Acceptance: April 2003. Date of Completion: 30 June 2006.

9.   Principal investigator of “Algorithms and architectures for high rate WPAN”, Joint R&D between Panasonic Singapore Laboratory and NTU, MOU approved on 3 April 2001, total external funding of S$100,000 under research account number M48900001, Date of completion: 2 April 2004

10. Principal co-investigator of “Intelligent Embedded Systems”, ACRF (RG41/97), Approved amount S$99, 190, Date of Acceptance: 1 April 1998, Date of Completion: November 2001.