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BIOGRAPHY 

Zhiping (Penn) LIN received the B. Eng degree in control engineering from South China Institute of Technology, China in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Cambridge, England in 1987. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calgary, Canada from 1987 to 1988. He was an associate professor at Shantou University, China from 1988 to 1993, and a senior engineer at DSO National Laboratories, Singapore from 1993 to 1999. Since Feb. 1999, he has been an associate professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently serving as the Program Director of Bio-Signal Processing, Center for Signal Processing, NTU, and the Chairman of the Final Year Project Committee, the School of EEE, NTU.

  Professional Memberships

Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2000 – Present)

Member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society

  

EDITORIAL BOARDS

2010 - present:            Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II

2005 – present             Co-Editor of the international journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing

2001                            Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Applications of Groebner bases to multidimensional systems and signal processing,” in the international journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing

 2000 – 2007                Associate Editor of the international journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

1993 – 2004                Editorial board member of the international journal of Multidimensional Systems and    Signal Processing

 INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

 2007-2008                    Serve as Distinguished Lecturer, Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE

 2003                             Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I

 2000                               Listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering

 1999                              Listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World

1998                             Plenary address at the First International Workshop on Multidimensional Systems, Poland

 AWARDS

 

(a)    1983-1987: Received a scholarship for studying overseas towards a PhD degree from the Chinese Government (this award was given to those who won a nationwide competition in 1982).

 

 

(b)   1983-1986: Received an Overseas Research Student award from the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the U.K. (this award was given to outstanding overseas PhD students studying in a U.K. university).

 

 

(c)    2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (to Qiyue Zou, a former Master student) for the paper co-authored by Q. Zou, Z. Lin and R.J. Ober, “The Cramer Rao lower bound for bilinear systems,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, USA, vol. 54, pp. 1666-1680, May, 2006.

 

(d)   2008: SGH Scientist Award (to Dr E.H.M. Ong, a collaborator) for the paper co-authored by E.H.M. Ong, P. Padmanabhan, Y.H. Chan and Z. Lin, “Evaluating the use of heart rate variability for the prediction of mortality in critically ill patients presenting to the Emergency Department”, presented at the 17th Singapore General Hospital Annual Scientific Meeting, 25-26 Apr 2008.
 

PATENT

1997     Z. Lin, “Automatic meter reading systems,” U.K. Patent No. 2,284,961, Sep., 1997

 2010     M. E. H. Ong, Z. Lin, W. Ser and G.-B. Huang, “Method of Predicting the Survivability of a Patient,” US patent filed, Mar. 2010.

SERVICE FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

     (a)    2001: Program Co-Chair of the Third International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore

(b)   2003: General Vice-Chair of the Fourth ICICS, Singapore

(c)    2006: Finance Chair of IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Singapore

(d) 2008: Tutorial speaker of IEEE APCCAS, Macao, China

(e)   Session Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2001, 2003-2007, 2009 and several other international conferences

(f)    Special Session Organizer for IEEE ISCAS’s 2001, 2003, 2005; ICIP 2004, ICARCV 2000

(g)    Program Committee Member for IEEE ISCAS’s 2001 – 2005, 2008 and several other international conferences

 SERVICE TO SOCIETY

      (a)    Member of DSP Technical Committee, Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE, 2001 – present

(b)   Member of Life Science and Systems Applications Technical Committee, Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE, 2005 – present

(c)    Vice Chair of Singapore Chapter of Circuits and Systems, IEEE,  2006

      (d)    Chair of Singapore Chapter of Circuits and   Systems, IEEE, 2007 – 2008

Invited presentations at CONFERENCES

 

IEEE ISCAS’s 1999, 2001, 2003; IEEE ICIP 2004; MTNS’s 2000, 2006, Telethealth 2007, IEEE APCCAS 2008 and several other international conferences

 

Invited SEMINARs at UNIVERSITIES

 

(a)  IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecture:

(1)   Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada, June, 2007;

(2)   Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, June, 2007;

(3)   National University of Singapore, Singapore, October, 2007;

(4)   National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December, 2007;

(5)   National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, December, 2007;

(6)   Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, June, 2008;

(7)   Ajou University, Seoul, Korea, September, 2008;

(8)   Macao University, Macao, China, December, 2008.

 

(b)  Other invited seminars:

(1)   Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, May, 2005;

(2)   University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA, May, 2005;

(3)   University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, May, 2005;

(4)   Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, June, 2008.

SERVICE AS REVIEWER

 

(a)    The Israel Science Foundation

(b)   IEEE Transactions on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing

(c)    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

(d)   IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (I, II)

(e)    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

(f)    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

(g)    IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation

(h)   IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

(i)     IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

(j)     IEEE Signal Processing Letters

(k)   IEE Proceedings of Vision, Image and Signal Processing

(l)     IEE Proc. Radar, Sonar & Navigation

(m) IEE Proceedings of Control Theory & Applications

(n)   IEE Electronics Letters

(o)   IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals

(p)   Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing

(q)   Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing

(r)     Image and Vision Computing

(s)    Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

(t)     Journal of Magnetic Resonance

(u)   International Journal of Control

(v)   Journal of the Franklin Institute

(w)  Automatica

(x)   EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing

(y)   Mathematics of Control, Systems and Signals

(z)    International Journal of Systems Science

(aa)International Journal of Robust & Nonlinear Control

(bb)                       Neurocomputing

(cc)Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I, J. of Systems and Control Engg.