NUS ECE Dept - Dr Tan Woei Wan


Brief Curriculum Vitae
Name: TAN Woei Wan
Present Appointment: Associate Professor
Contact Information: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering National University of Singapore 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117576 Tel: (65) 6516-8323; Fax: (65) 6779-1103 E-mail: wwtan@nus.edu.sg
Research Areas: Application of systems science and computational intelligence paradigms for controller design, metrology and fault detection and diagnosis Intelligent modelling, control and fault diagnosis using computational intelligence techniques Application of advanced control algorithms to the semiconductor manufacturing industry Development of microelectromechanical pressure sensors Auto-tuning of multivariable systems
Teaching Areas: Control Engineering, Basic Electrical Engineering courses
Academic/Professional Qualifications: BEng (1993); MEng (1994), National University of Singapore DPhil (1997), University of Oxford, UK
Awards/Honours (Post-PhD): Research Best Student Paper Award, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 1st Prize, Philips Young Innovators Challenge 2006 (Supervisor of Team) Best Poster Presentation Award, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems Teaching Faculty Letter of Commendation for Teaching Excellence 1999/2000 Faculty Teaching Honours List Award 2000/2001 Faculty Certificate of Teaching Commendation 2002/2003 Faculty Certificate of Teaching Commendation 2003/2004 Faculty Certificate of Teaching Commendation 2004/2005 University Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2005/2006 Faculty Teaching Honours List Award 2007/2008
Career History: Research Engineer, University of Oxford, (1997) Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, (1998-Present)
Professional/Consulting Activities: Member, Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1996-Present) Member, Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, CIS , IEEE Chair, IEEE CIS "Future Directions in Fuzzy Sets and Systems" Task Force Member, Women in Computational Intelligence Committee, IEEE Reviewer for 24 International Journals Special Sessions Chair, The 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2001) International Programme Committee, The 4th Asian Control Conference (ASCC 2002) Local Arrangement Chair, The 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2003) International Programme Committee, Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2004) Programme Chair, The 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2005) Programme Chair, FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2005 International Scientific Committee, International MEMS Conference (IMEMS 2006) International Programme Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM 2006) International Programme Committee, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2006) International Programme Committee, Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006) International Programme Committee Co-Chair, IFAC Workshop on Advanced Process Control for Semiconductor Manufacturing Finance Chair, Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007) International Programme Committee, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2008) nternational Programme Committee, Workshop on Applications of Computational Intelligence to Benefit Society, WCCI 2008
Major Publications (Maximum of 3): Tan W.W. and Dexter A.L., (1999), "Self-learning neurofuzzy control of a liquid helium cryostat", Control Engineering Practice, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1209-1220. Tan W.W. and Li F.Y.R., (2003), "An in-situ temperature measurement system for DUV lithography", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1136-1143. Tan W.W., Ge. P., Tay E.H. and Loh A.P., (2003), "Development of a 3-plates capacitive pressure sensor", International Journal of Computational Engineering Science, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 613-616.

Updated on 28 April 2009