Tham, Chen Khong’s webpage

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore

 

 

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Overview of this page

 

Introduction and Research Areas

I am an Associate Professor in the Communications & Networks (CommNet) Area at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. 

 

I conduct research in the field of computer networks and distributed systems, focussing on the following areas:

  • Sensor networks and grid/cloud computing, e.g. cyber-physical system (CPS)
  • Cooperative & coordinated networked systems, e.g. wired, wireless, sensor networks, and distributed systems
  • Optimization and resource allocation in resource-constrained networks, e.g. Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless mesh networks, vehicular networks
  • Services computing and service composition

Theoretical frameworks and approaches:

  • Markov decision processes (MDP), dynamic programming (DP)
  • Distributed optimization
  • Game theory
  • Multi-agent systems (MAS) and coordination

 

Short Biography

THAM Chen Khong is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). His current research focuses on cooperative and coordinated networks and distributed systems, and cyber-physical systems involving wireless sensor networks and participatory sensing (see * below). His team had developed an Android-based application called ContriSense:Bus which seeks public cooperation to improve the public transportation experience. He and his co-authors won the Best Paper awards at IEEE ICUWB 2008 and ACM MSWiM 2007. From 2007-2010, he was on secondment at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore and served as principal scientist and department head of the Networking Protocols Dept and programme manager of the Personalization, Optimization & Intelligence through Services (POISe) (Services) Programme. From 2006-2009, he was the programme manager of a multi-institution research programme on UWB-enabled Sentient Computing (UWB-SC) funded by A*STAR Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Electrical and Information Sciences Engineering from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and held a 2004/05 Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas21 Fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is in the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Network Management, and was the general chair of the IEEE AINA 2011 and IEEE APSCC 2009 conferences.

* T Luo & CK Tham, “Fairness and Social Welfare in Incentivizing Participatory Sensing”, to appear in the 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Seoul, Korea, 18-21 June 2012. (19% acceptance rate from full papers)

Lecture Courses

I lecture the following graduate and undergraduate courses at NUS:

 

Semester 1
EE6902 Computer Communication Networks
EE2024 Programming for Computer Interfaces (2011/12)

 

Semester 2
EE5913 Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks

 

Funded Research Projects

Principal Investigator of:
Event Driven Autonomic Services Architecture with Composition and Event Processing (EDASACEP) (A*STAR SERC TSRP on Data Value Chain as a Service (DVCaaS))

See our earlier work on SensorGrid.

 

Recent Completed funded projects
- UWB-enabled Sentient Computing Architecture & Middleware with Coordinated QoS (USCAM-CQ) (A*STAR UWB-SC TSRP)
- Stream Processing for Machine Learning & Control (NUS ARF Grant)

Publications

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Technical Conferences

I am chairing a workshop on Cyber Physical Systems: Integrating Cloud, Mobility and Sensing (CaPSICUMS 2011) (December 2011) which is a part of the IEEE UCC 2011 conference in Melbourne, Australia.

Recent Past Commitments

General Chair of the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2011), 22-25 March 2011, Singapore

General Chair, 2009 IEEE Asia Pacific Services Computing Conference 2009 (APSCC 2009)

 

Student Projects

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Wireless mesh and sensor networks
Event driven architecture
Vehicular sensing
Participatory sensing
Smart Grid

 

Contact Information

E-mail addresses
   Work: eletck@nus.edu.sg


Web address (this page)
http//www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/eletck/

Mailing Address
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore,
10, Kent Ridge Crescent,
Singapore 119260.

Office Location
Block E4, Level 8, Room 6, 
Faculty of Engineering,
National University of Singapore.

Office Phone
(+65) 6516 7959

Office Fax
(+65) 6779 1103
 

Last updated: June 2011