Dr. Charanjit Singh Bhatia

The award was given at the 2008 INSIC Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, USA on 13 Aug 2008. Professor Bhatia was awarded in recognition of his dedicated, long-term leadership and outstanding level of contribution to tribology and head-disk interface research for the INSIC EHDR (Extremely High Density Recording) Research Program in advanced hard disk storage technology.

Professor Bhatia is the only individual to have twice been awarded the INSIC Leadership Award (in 1998 and 2003), and he was honored for nearly a decade and a half of leadership in tribology research, for his recent efforts in leading a working group to define approaches to the head-disk interface for 10 terabit per square inch recording, and for his pioneering efforts to include the entire nation of Singapore (through the involvement of the Data Storage Institute, the National University of Singapore and, most recently, the Institute for Materials Research and Engineering) in INSIC's research programs.

IBM Faculty Award 2008

Professor Bhatia is the first NUS faculty member to receive the IBM Faculty Award. The IBM award is a competitive worldwide programme intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organisations. It also aims to promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies strategic to IBM.

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Dr. Charanjit Singh Bhatia
Email: elebcs@nus.edu.sg
Telephone: 6516 7216

Dr. Tan Kay Chen

Associate Professor Tan Kay Chen received the Recognition Award (2008) from the International Network for Engineering Education & Research (iNEER) for outstanding contributions to engineering education and research.

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Dr. Tan Kay Chen
Email: eletankc@nus.edu.sg
Telephone: 6516 2127

Dr. Lian Yong

The award recognizes outstanding work in the field of Multimedia Communications. The best paper is selected from any publication in an IEEE Communications Society's journal/magazine or in the proceedings of an IEEE ComSoc sponsored conference/workshop/ symposium in the two years preceding the award.

Joint Source-Channel -Authentication Resource Allocation and Unequal Authenticity Protection for Multimedia Over Wireless Networks

Abstract >> There have been increasing concerns about the security issues of wireless transmission of multimedia in recent years. Wireless networks, by their nature, are more vulnerable to external intrusions than wired ones. Many applications demand authenticating the integrity of multimedia content delivered wirelessly. In this work, we describe a framework for jointly coding and authenticating multimedia to be delivered over heterogeneous wireless networks.

We firstly introduce a novel concept called unequal authenticity protection (UAP), which unequally allocate resources to achieve an optimal authentication result. We then consider integrating UAP with specific source and channel-coding models, to obtain optimal end-to-end quality by the means of joint source-channel-authentication analysis. Lastly, we present an implementation of the proposed joint coding and authentication system on a progressive JPEG coder. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is indeed able to achieve the desired authentication of multimedia over wireless networks.

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Publication Date: June 2007
Volume: 9, Issue 4 on page(s): 837-850

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Dr. Lian Yong
Email: eleliany@nus.edu.sg
Telephone: 6516 2993

Dr. Cheok, Adrian David

World Economic Forum announces Associate Professor Adrian David Cheok as a 2008 Young Global Leader on March 12, 2008. This award, from the World Economic Forum (WEF), recognises 200 to 300 young leaders for their professional accomplishment, commitment to society and potential to shape the future.

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Dr. Cheok, Adrian David
Email: elecad@nus.edu.sg
Telephone: 6516 7515