[ Professional Activity ]

Organizing Committee and Session Chairmanships in International Conferences:

·         International Program Committee, 3rd Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED 2011),  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 July 2011

·         Program Chair, 2010 International Conference on High-Speed Circuits Design (HSCDˇ10), National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, 28-29 October 2010.

·         International Program Committee, 2nd Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED 2010), Penang, Malaysia, 3-4 August 2010.

·         International Advisory Committee, 1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Signal Processing and VLSI Design, GNEC Convention Center, Hyderabad, India, 11-13 June 2010.

·         Technical Advisory Committee, International Conference on VLSI Design & Commun ication Systems (ICVLSICOM-10), Chennai, India, 8-10 January, 2010.

·         Poster and Special Session Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits, Devices and Systems, ISIC-09, Singapore, December 2009.

·         International Program Committee, 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS-2009), University of Milan, Italy, 15-16 July 2009.

·         Technical Program Committee, 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2007), Xiamen, China, 28 Nov – 1 December, 2007.

·         Technical Program Committee, the 1st Workshop on System and Software in Wireless System-on-Chip (WSOC 2007), organized in conjunction with the 2007 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2007, Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2007.

·         Review Committee Member, IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits, Devices and Systems, ISIC-07, Singapore, 26 -28 September 2007.

·         Organizing committee, UK-Singapore Partners in Science – Microelectronics Embedded Systems Workshop (MES-2007), Singapore, 23-24 January 2007.

·         Special Session Organizer, “Constraint-driven hardware for digital signal processing”, 2006 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS-2006), Singapore, 4-6 December 2006.

·         Session Chair, “Arithmetic Circuits”, 2006 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS-2006), Singapore, 6 December 2006.

·         Session Chair, “Novel Communication Techniques,” 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006.

·         Session Chair, “Wireless Systems III,” 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006.

·         Publication Chair, 10th Asia Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, Singapore, October 24-26, 2005.

·         Session Chair, Session on “Communication Circuits and Systems II,” 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-2005), Kobe, Japan, 26 May 2005.

·         Technical Program Committee, 10th International Symposium on Integrated Circuits, Devices and Systems, ISIC-04, Singapore, 8-10 September 2004.

·         Session Chair, Session on “Computation Kernels and IP for Communication Systems - II,” 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-2004), Vancouver, Canada, 23-26 May 2004.

·         Session Chair, Session on “Computer Network,” IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS-2002), Singapore, 17 December 2002.

·         Session Chair, Session on “Image Manipulation and Compression I,” IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP-2002), Malaga, Spain, 9-12 September 2002.

·         Session Chair, Session on “Image Manipulation and Compression II,” IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP-2002), Malaga, Spain, 9-12 September 2002.

·         Technical Program Committee, 9th International Symposium on Integrated Circuits, Devices and Systems, ISIC-01, Singapore, 3-5 September 2001

·         Technical Program Committee, 8th International Symposium on Integrated Circuits, Devices and Systems, ISIC-99, Singapore, 8-10 September 1999

　

Editorship:

·         Editorial Board Member, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2008.

·         Editorial Board Member, The Open Electrial and Electronic Engineering Journal (OEEE), Bentham Science Publisher, 2007.

·         Advances in Computer Systems Architecture. Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 3740, T. Srikanthan, J. Xue and C. H. Chang Edited, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005.  

·         Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, January 2010 – December 2011.

·         Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Since January 2011.

·         Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Green Integrated Circuits and Systems”, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 20, No. 1, February 2011, published by World Scientific.

·         Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, January 2012 – December 2013.

·         Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Design and Automation for Integrated Circuits and Systems”, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, June 2012, published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation.

·         Guest Editor, Special Issue, IEEE Transacions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, 2012.

·         Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Energy and Variability Aware Circuits and Systems”, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 2012, published by World Scientific.

　

Visiting Professorship:

·           Visiting Assistant Professorship, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, June 2003

·           Visiting Assistant Professorship, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, December 2005

·           Visiting Professorship, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, July 2007

·           Visiting Professorship, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, July 2007

·           Visiting Professorship, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, January 2008

·           Vistiing Professorship, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, September 2008

　

Memoranda of Understanding:

Research work led to the signing of memorandum of understanding on R & D collaboration (Algorithms and architectures for high rate WPAN) between Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems ( Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and the Panasonic Singapore Laboratory, Singapore, April 3, 2001.

　

Reviewer of International Journals ans Conferences:

2011, Microelectronics Journal.

2011, Microprocessors and Microsystems.

2002-2008, 2010-2012, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I.

2003-2009, 2011, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II.

2002, 2007, 2009-2011, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

2005, 2008, 2011, 2012 IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design for Circuits and Systems.

2005, 2007-2011, Integration, the VLSI Journal.

2010, IEICE Electronics Express.

2005, 2010, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.

2005-2008, 2010, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processings.

2009, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.

2009, The Journal of Signal Processing Systems.

2009, Journal of Research and Practice in Information technology.

2008, The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal.

2007, 2008, IET Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems.

2007, ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics.

2007, IEEE Transactions on Image Processings.

2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques.

2006, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

2005, 2006, IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems.

2005, 2006, The Imaging Science Journal, official learned journal of Royal Photographic Society.

2005, Journal of Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, Special Issue on Computationally Efficient Digital Filter Design in Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing.

2002, 2003 EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing.

2002, International Journal of Electronics.

2002, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Special Issue on Authentication, Copyright Protection and Information.

2001, International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering.

2003-2012, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

2011, the 9th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference (NEWCAS 2011), Special Session on Hardware-based Security, Bordeaux, France, 26-29 June, 2011.

2010, 17th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2010), Athens, Greece, 12-15 December 2010.

2010, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2010), Cairo, Egypt, 19-22 December 2010.

2010, International Conference on VLSI Design & Communication Systems (ICVLSICOM-10), Chennai, India, 8-10 January, 2010.

2010, International Conference on Green Circuits and Systems (ICGCS-2010), Shanghai, China, 21-23 June, 2010.

2008, International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design 2008), Hyderabad, India.

2007, International Workshop on Systems and Software for Wireless SoC (WSOC 2007), Taipei, Taiwan.

2007, IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2007), Xiamen, China.

2006, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006) Istanbul, Turkey.

2004, IPSI-2004 Conference at Venice, Italy.　

 

Seminars and Professional Development Courses:  

 

·         IQ, EQ and AQ – The Art of Well-being, Invited seminar at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, LT22, 21 November 2011.

·         NTU-TUM (Technische Universitat Műnchen) Joint MSc. Course on Integrated Circuit Design, 15 hours of lecture on “Digital Integrated Circuits”, 24 October – 1 November 2011.

·         NTU-TUM (Technische Universitat Műnchen) Joint MSc. Course on Integrated Circuit Design, 15 hours of lecture on “Digital Integrated Circuits”, 18-24 November 2010.

·         NTU-TUM (Technische Universitat Műnchen) Joint MSc. Course on Integrated Circuit Design, 15 hours of lecture on “Digital Integrated Circuits”, 16-20 November 2009.

·         Invisible Watermarking for Integrated Circuit Intellectual Property Protection, Keynote speech at the World Congress on Science, Engineering and Technology 2009 (WCSET’09), River View Hotel, Singapore, 26 August 2009, organized by the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET).  

·         Information Theoretic Approach to Multiple Constant Multiplications, Invited seminar presented at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 8 June 2009.  

·         Common Subexpression Elimination for Design of Low Complexity FIR Filter, Invited seminar at the 1st International Workshop on Circuits and Systems Optimizations and Implementations, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 6 February 2009.

·         Staying Positive in a Tough Work Environment, Postgraduate student seminar at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 26 September 2008.

·         A Bumpy Road to Research Paper Publications, Seminar and dialogue session with students and academic staff at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 26 September 2008.

·         低复杂度与高速有限脉冲响应滤波器的设计, Low Complexity and High-speed FIR Filter Design, Invited seminar (in Mandrain) presented at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 24 September 2008, invited by Beijing Jiaotong University.

·         Constraint based Watermarking for VLSI IP Protection, Invited seminar presented at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 25 September 2008 under the auspicious of “Distinguished Lecturer Program” (“与大师面对面讲座”) of Beijing Normal University.

·         Digital Watermarking for IP Protection, Seminar presented at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 9 January 2008, Invited by ReSMIQ (The Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec).

·         The Effort that Counts – An Insight into High-Speed CMOS Design, half-day graduate student course conducted at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 11 January 2008, Invited by ReSMIQ (The Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec).

·         Computational Transformation for Low Complexity FIR Filter Design, Seminar presented at Surrey Space Center, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, 12 July 2007.

·         NTU-TUM (Technische Universitat Műnchen) Joint MSc. Course on Integrated Circuit Design,  15 hour lecture on “Digital Integrated Circuits”, 16-20 November 2009, 3-7, November 2008, 20-25 September 2007, 13-28 November 2006, 21-25 November 2005.

·         Low Power and Redundant Binary Arithmetic Circuits for Digital Signal Processing, half day invited seminar presented at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, on 4 December 2004.

·         On research publication – planning, preparation and review. Invited seminar and dialogue session with postgraduate students of Centre of Microelectonics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, on 5 December 2005.

·         Low Power, Low Voltage Arithmetic Circuits - From Basic Cells to Scalar Product Macrocell, at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, 26 June 2003.

·         Efficient Reverse Converters for Residue Number Systems and Color Quantization by Self-organizing Map, at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, 19 June 2003.

·         RF and Mixed Signal IC Design Course, Contracted by Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore (IME) to conduct a six-day practical training on the simualtion of high frequency circuits for their RTP (Reseach and Training Programme, A*STAR) trainees at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 13-15, 20-22 January 2003.

·         Arithmetic Macrocell Design – From Algorithm to Architecture, at COE Technology Week focus siminar on Low Power Digital IC and DSP Design, held in Nanyang Technological University on 12 March, 2002.  

 

Professional and Consultancy Services to Industry:  

 

·         Since March 2011, Act as advisor of a new start-up company Connaxion (www.connaxion.com), cofounded by Mr. Khur Boon Kgim, the honorary secretary of EEE Alumni Association, in 2011. Connaxion explores new trend in internet to empower anyone to build and grow meaningful relationships by providing the tools to engage, manage and grow social network.  With Connaxion, the website can be easily built and managed to make communities sustainable and profitable. Connaxion received the i.Jam funding and mentorship support by the Interactive Digital Media Program Office (IDMPO) of Singapore at SiTF Awards 2011

·         February 2011, Invited by Associate Commissioning Editor of Engineering Technology of John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, UK to review a new book proposal on Circuit Mechanic.

·         June 2010, invited by the Senior Commissioning Editor of the Science and Technology Books of Elsevier South Asia to review of proposal and chapters of new book on VLSI System Design.

·         June 2006 - contracted by Pearson Education South Asia Pte Ltd to carry out adaptation of the 4th Edition of the textbook “Digital Design: Principles and Practice” authored by John Wakerly.

·         Feb. 2006 – appointed as External Examiner for the Diploma in Electronic & Computer Engineering Course of the School of Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore for a period of four years from Academic Years 2006/2007 to 2010/2011.

·         1 January 2005 – 31 March 2005, Act as technical consultant to Panasonic Singapore Laboratory, providing suggestions and advises to analyze and evaluate power dissipation for their digital circuits and modules at RTL and gate level. 

·         1 Jul. 1999 – 30 Jun. 2000, Act as technical consultant to Flextech Electronics Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary company of a public listed Flextech Holdings, to provide suggestions and advises to Flextech Electronics technical application division, review findings and recommendations concerning the technologies, applications and expertise deemed suitable for the design and development of Flextech's project.

·         1997, developed a new block cipher, Hash-based Iterative Data Encryption algorithm (HIDE), for Perfect Innovation Pte. Ltd., which specializes in fax routing devices and services. The symmetric cipher was designed based on an unbalanced Feistel structure with moderate speed and low memory requirement in order to be implemented directly on the resident 8-bit micro-controller of the fax router.