Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Research
Awards & Achievements
International Awards & Achievements |
Name |
Awards / Achievements |
| Anne Tiedemann, Moteza Fakhri, Ralf Heiderhoff, Jacob Phang & Ludwig Josef Balk |
Best Poster Paper Prize at the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA 2009), 6-10 July 09, Suzhou, China. IPFA 2009 is devoted to the fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms of semiconductor device failures and issues related to semiconductor device reliability and yield, especially those related to advanced process technologies.The winning paper is titled "Advanced Dynamic Failure Analysis on Interconnects by Vectorized Scanning Joule Expansion Microscopy". The paper is a result of the research collaboration between Wuppertal University, Germany, and NUS. |
| Cai Guowei, Chen Benmei, Lee Tong Heng |
The Asian Control Conference (ASCC) is a biennial event and a major international control systems event held in Asia. The history of ASCC dates back to 1994 when the first ASCC was held in Tokyo. The subsequent conferences then were held in Seoul (1997), Shanghai (2000), Singapore (2002), Melbourne (2004), Bali (2006), and Hong Kong (2009). All of them had several hundreds of participants coming from around the world. The 2009 ASCC Best Application Paper Award winning work on the design and implementation of a robust automatic flight control system for a small-scale UAV helicopter, by Guowei Cai, Ben M. Chen & Tong H. Lee, features the successful utilization of advanced modeling and control techniques to a real UAV platform, which has achieved a top level performance in accordance with the military standard set by the US Army Aviation for military rotorcraft. The work is part of the research activities conducted by the UAV Research team in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. The team has currently expanded its research horizon in the directions related to the cooperative control and coordination of multiple UAVs, and vision-based indoor and urban navigation. This 2009 Best Application Paper Award carries a prize of USD500 and certificates for each author. The 7th ASCC was held 27 - 29 August 2009, in Hong Kong. |
| Yang Jing, Yu Changyuan, Chen Zhihao, Ng Junhong & Yang Xuefeng |
Best Paper Award, Symposium P (Fiber Optical Devices and Applications), 5th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) 2009, 28 June - 3 July 2009, Singapore. The winning paper is titled "Polarization Insensitivity Optic Distributed Strain Sensing System Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering". The prize consists of SGD500 and a certificate. |
| Tan Kok Kiong, Tang Kok Zuea, Huang Sunan, Andi Sudjana Putra, Lee Tong Heng, Ng Soon Chye, Jerry Chan Kok Yuen, Tan Lay Geok & Mark Chong Seow Khoon |
Best Paper Award in Automation, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics & Automation (ICMA 2009), 9 -12 Aug 2009, Changchun, Jilin, China. The winning paper is titled "Automated Haematopoletic Stem Cells Harvesting Machine". There were more than 2000 delegates in this conference, & the team clinched this prestigious top award. |
| Lian Yong | Appointed Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transcations on Circuits and Systems II for a two- year term starting from 1 Jan 2010. This is the first time in the transaction's 57 years history that someone in Asia has been given this prestigious position. |
| Aaron Danner | His work on "Photorealistic Rendering of Metamaterials Devices" with his collaborator (Prof Ulf Leonhardt of St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK) has gained international visibility. Metamaterials can be used to design devices that have very unique properties, such as invisibility cloaks, universal mirrors, perfect lenses, or devices that bend light in ways that are impossible with ordinary materials. His research is related to photorealistically depicting such devices in action in order to study their performance, to "experience the devices" as they would actually appear if built, and to study the construction of such materials. The work was reported in the following online media in July 2009 : In addition, a CBS news reporter will conduct a personal interview with Dr Danner in Aug 2009. |
| Yeo Yee Chia | Dr Yeo Yee Chia and team comprising Dr Ang Kah Wee (PhD graduate, NUS Graduate School), Mr Lin Jianqiang (previously UROP Student), Mr Tung Chih-Hang (previously Member of Technical Team, IME), Dr Narayanan Balasubramaniam (previously Manager, IME), and Assoc Prof Samudra Ganesh Shankar (Collaborator) won the 2008 IEEE Paul Rappaport Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society (IEEE EDS). This prestigious award was established in 1984 to honor the author(s) of the best paper that appeared in an IEEE EDS publication in the preceding calendar year. It is presented annually and the recipient(s) is awarded a certificate and a cheque for $2,500. IEEE EDS consistently publishes top tier journals. In year 2008, it published more than 400 papers in the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and more than 300 papers in the IEEE Electron Device Letters. The winning paper from NUS is titled "Strained n-MOSFET With Embedded Source/Drain Stressors and Strain-Transfer Structure (STS) for Enhanced Transistor Performance" published in the March 2008 issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. It is the 2nd time Dr Yeo is receiving this award. He first received it in 2002 for a paper he wrote as a PhD student. |
| Lian Yong | Appointed by IEEE Awards Board as one of nine members of 2010 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology Committee to select the receipt(s) for this newly created Institute Awards. The Medal is one of the 18 Medals presented by the IEEE Board of Directors to recognize & identify the outstanding achievement & contributions for the work of engineers in the field of medicine and biology. |
| Ko Chi Chung | ETRI Journal 2008 Best Editor Award, 24 Feb 2009. This award has been newly instituted, & Prof Ko is the first winner. He is awarded in recognition for his responsiveness and dedication as an editor. The prize is a plaque and an honorarium of USD 1,000. |
| KK Tan, SC Ng, S Huang, KZ Tang & TH Lee |
The ex-utero haematopoietic stem cells extraction apparatus developed by the team has been licensed to SG Meditech Pte Limited, which will develop this technology for introduction into the market in the near future. |
| Lawrence Wong | Elected by IEEE, USA to be the IEEE Region 10 Director, with effect from 1 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2012. Prof Wong will be the Director-Elect from 1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2010. |
| Tang Kok Zuea, Huang Sunan, Tan Kok Kiong & Lee Tong Heng |
Excellent Paper Award in the international section of the Digital Signal Processing Creative Design Contest 2008, on 29 Nov 2008, Tainan, Taiwan. The winning work on intelligent physiotherapy arm has attracted Mitsui Sumitomo Research Grant 2008/2009. |
| Dim-Lee Kwong | Region 10 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow (2009), USA, for his contributions to silicon technology and leadership in directing microelectronics research on 12 Nov 2008. |
| Tao Yonghong & Yao Libin | Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuit (EDSSC) 2008, 8-10 Dec 2008, Kowloon, Hongkong. Winning paper is titled "A 1-V, 81-dB, 780-KS/s Sigma Delta Modulator in 0.13-µm Digital CMOS Technology". |
| Lian Yong | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow (2009), USA, for his contributions to the design of low-power and high-performance digital filters on 12 Nov 2008. |
| Lee Tong Heng | Appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Mechatronics Journal, effective 1 October 2008. This is a prestigious appointment in a major international journal. |
| Charanjit Singh Bhatia | 2008 Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Distinguished Contribution Award. The award was given at the 2008 INSIC Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, USA on 13 Aug 2008. Prof 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. Prof Bhatia is the only individual to have twice been awarded the INSIC Leadership Award (in 1998 & 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 &, most recently, the Institute for Materials Research & Engineering) in INSIC's research programs. |
| Tan Kay Chen | 2008 iNEER (International Network for Engineering Education and Research) Recognition Award, 29 July 2008, Hungary. Prof Tan was awarded for his outstanding contributions to engineering education and research. |
| Ge Shuzhi, Sam | Changjiang Guest Professorship, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ministry of Education, China, 2008-2010. This is one of the highest honor from China. |
| Charanjit Singh Bhatia | IBM Faculty Award 2008, for his project on "Fabrication, Characterisation and Performance of Thin Film Si Photovoltaic (PV) Cells. This award is based on a worldwide competition, with the objective of fostering collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and service organisations. This award is a 1st for NUS faculty member. |
| Lian Yong | 2008 Multimedia Communications Best Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for the paper "Joint source-channel-authentication resource allocation and unequal authenticity protection for multimedia over wireless networks" in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol.9, No.4, June 2007, pp.837-850. 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. |
| Adrian Cheok | Young Global Leader Award 2008 . This award, from World Economic Forum (WEF), recognises 200 to 300 young leaders for their professional accomplishment, commitment to society and potential to shape the future. |
| Qiu Chengwei | 2008 Young Scientist Award from International Union of Radio Science. This award is given to Ph.D holders below 35 years old. The award ceremony will be held in Chicago, USA in Aug 2008. |
| BM Chen | IEEE Fellow (2007) for contributions to linear systems theory, robust control theory, and industrial control applications |
| Tan Woei Wan | Best Poster Presentation Award, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2006), 16-21 Jul 2006, Vancouver, Canada |
| A Kassim | The top 2nd most downloaded papers, in the top 25 list of hottest articles downloaded in period Apr - Jun 2006, for Medical Image Analysis Journal |
| SS Ge | IEEE Fellow (2006) for contributions to theory and analysis of stable adaptive neural networks for intelligent control systems |
| AM Khambadkone | 2nd Prize, 2005 Industrial Power Converter Committee (IPCC) Best Paper Award, IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), USA |
| LW Li | IEEE Fellow (2004) for contributions to dyadic Green's functions, spheroidal wave functions, and waves in complex media |
| K. Peng, B. M. Chen, G. Cheng & T. H. Lee |
Best Industrial Control Application Prize, for the winning paper titled "Friction and nonlinearity compensation in hard disk drive servo systems using robust composite nonlinear feedback control", Proceedings of the 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 58-63, July 2004 |
| P Vadekeppat | 2nd prize, FIRA Robot World Cup 2004, Busan, Korea |
| PY Kam | Best Paper Award, VTC 2004, Los Angeles, USA |
| P Vadekeppat | 1st prize, FIRA Humanoid Robot Competition 2003, Vienna, Austria |
| AM Khambadkone | Best Paper Award (2003), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, USA |
| J Phang | "Chevalier" (2003) in the order of the "Palmes Academiques", France |
| M Motani | Telcom Italia Mobile Award, SIMagine 2003, Cannes, France |
| H Garg | Bronze Medal, SIMagine 2002, Cannes, France |
| WK Ho | Best Paper Award (2003), IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, USA |
| AO Adeyeye | TR100 Young Innovators Award, MIT's Technology Review, 2002, Boston, USA |
| YH Wu | Best Poster Award, MRS Fall Meeting 2002, Boston, USA |
| TS Yeo | IEEE Fellow (2002) for research in electromagnetic scattering |
| SS Ge | Best Theoretical Paper Award, WCICA, 2002, Shanghai, PR China |
| SH Ong | Second Best Poster Presentation, IADR General Session 2001, Chiba, Japan |
| J Phang | Best in Session Paper Award, ISTFA 2001, Santa Clara, USA |
| AM Khambadkone | Best Presentation Award, IECON 2001, Denver, USA |
| Choi Wee Kiong | IET Fellow (2001) |
| TS Low | IEEE Fellow (2001) for research in development of technology for magnetic data storage |
| YC Lim | IEEE Fellow (2000) for research in design of FIR digital filters |
| J Phang & D Chan | Best Paper Award, ISTFA 2000, Phoenix, USA |
| S Guan | Best Paper Award, MAMA 2000, Woolongong, Australia |
| YF Lu | International Laser Prize (2000), Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis, Germany |
| R Oruganti, YC Liang & HL Pan | Outstanding Paper Award (2000), IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, USA |
| JX Xu | Best Poster Paper Award, Asian Control Conference (2000) |
| CC Hang | IEEE Fellow (1998) for research in Control Engineering in Singapore |
| BM Chen | Best Poster Award, Asian Control Conference (1997) |
| JR Potter | Best Paper Award (1996), Acoustical Society of America, USA |
| YC Lim & Y Lian | 1996 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Guillemin-Cauer Award for the Best Paper published in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, Vol.41, No.8, pp.518-525, 1994. The Guillemin-Cauer Award is to recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems during the 2 calendar years preceding the award." |
| YC Lim, SN Koh & CC Ko | Most Meritorious Paper Award (1990), IREE Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Australia |
| SP Yeo | Ambrose Fleming Premium (1989), IEE Proceedings on Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, UK |
| L Wong | Marconi Premium (1989), IEE Proceedings on Communications, Radar & Signal Processing, UK |
| Ling Chung Ho | IET Fellow (1989) for Microelectronics. |
| SP Yeo | IEE Electronics Letters Premium (1985), Electronic Letters, UK |
| Leong Mook Seng | IET / IEE Fellow (1979-current) for Microwave, Antennas & Propagation |
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