| Name | Research Interests |
| Assoc Prof A S Madhukumar | Modulation and multiple access schemes for future broadband systems
Advanced signal processing algorithms for wireless communication systems
Cognitive radio systems: algorithms and architectures
Cooperative Radio Systems for Mobile multi-hop networks
Ultra wideband radio systems for wireless personal area networks |
| Assoc Prof Alexei Sourin | Shape modeling, shared virtual environments, haptic interaction, new user interfaces, 3D web visualization, virtual surgery, scientific visualization, music visualization. |
| Assoc Prof Alton Chua Yeow Kuan | Dr Chua’s research interests lie mainly in information and knowledge management, with a particular focus on user-generated content. The themes of his research include community question-answering system, online reviews and rumors in social media. For example, he studied the quality of answers submitted to Yahoo!Answers and whether prompt answers were necessarily of good quality. He also investigated the way questions ought to be phrased to maximize their chances of attracting good answers. On online reviews, he has identified a number of factors that make a given reivew helpful to other users. Another related line of inquiry is the distinctions between authentic reviews and fake reviews. Given the prevalence of online rumors in recent times, Dr Chua's efforts have been trained on understanding the virality of rumors, and how the ill effects of rumors can be curbed through the use of counter-rumors. |
| Assoc Prof Anamitra Makur | Compressed Sensing,
Filterbanks and Multirate Signal Processing,
Signal/Image/Video Compression and Processing |
| Dr Andrea Nanetti | Dr Andrea Nanetti—as a scholar, who started his research vocation in historical studies at the advent of computer operating systems with graphical user interfaces—has always been fascinated by the exponential growth of interdependencies between artificial actions (i.e., human made) and computational operations (i.e., completed by electronic devices able to store and process data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to them in a variable program or machine learning, which allows algorithms to learn through experience, and do things that we are not able to program). With this interest, he is proposing the theoretical need to direct traditional disciplinary knowledge toward a formal science of heritage (i.e., the treasure of human experiences), which will focus on how data and information—now encoded in complex interactions of written, pictorial, sculptural, architectural, and digital records, oral memories, practices, and performed rituals—may be inherited by machine learning algorithms. This state-of-the-art science pioneers integrated action plans and solutions in response to, and in anticipation of, the exponential growth of emerging needs in our increasingly complex human society. In practice, the research uses multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary methods to identify case studies for interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary teamwork investigations.
Since 2007, Dr Nanetti's main research project is EHM-Engineering Historical Memory (http://www.engineeringhistoricalmemory.com, since 2015 on Microsoft Azure). EHM is both an experimental methodology and an ongoing research project for the organization of historical information in the machine learning age. He first theorized it as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University in 2007. Since his arrival at NTU in 2013, Dr Nanetti has been working on the globalisation of his research interests. Starting from his background studies on the world as seen from Venice through its chronicles and diaries (1205-1433) and world maps (e.g. Fra Mauro), he opened the range of the investigation of other coeval historiographical traditions, in Chinese, Greek, Russian, Persian, and Arab. EHM develops and tests new sets of shared conceptualizations and formal specifications for content management systems in the domain of the Digital Humanities, with a focus on how to engineer the treasure of human experiences and serve decision making, knowledge transmission, and visionarios. In practice, his research develops and applies computationally intensive techniques (e.g., pattern recognition, data mining, machine learning algorithms derived from other disciplines, knowledge aggregators, interactive and visualization solutions). From a theory point of view, EHM focuses on history of historiography and studies new ontologies for the semantic web, inspired by Derrida's notion of trace, Ginzburg's "thread and traces" theory, and last but not least Umberto Eco's semiotics (e.g., 2007 'Dall'Albero al Labirinto', published in English in 2015 as 'From the Tree to the Labyrinth').
In his long-term strategic fit at the NTU Singapore School of Art, Design and Media, Dr Nanetti is designing and engineering a new generation of knowledge aggregators for immersive spaces to test how interactive media and AI can share the century-old experiences of Arts and Humanities with Sciences. In this intellectual framework in 2017 Dr Nanetti initiated an interdisciplinary project to revitalise the social nature of learning experiences from a transcultural perspective. The project is called “Dancing over Ideas of Research”. D.A.N.C.I.N.G. identifies the knowledge aggregation process (Definition, Assumption, Notion, Concept, Interpretation, Narrative, Gamut), which uses AI in immersive spaces to augment and expand the human capacity to discuss complex ideas (i.e., ways of seeing and representing reality) and ultimately facilitate solutions to the 21st century grand challenges. |
| Asst Prof Andrew Michael Duffy | Journalism in Singapore
Cross-cultural journalism education
Online journalism education |
| Assoc Prof Andy Khong Wai Hoong | Microphone array signal processing
Speech enhancement
Learning analytics
Machine learning algorithms for NLP applications |
| Assoc Prof Anilkumar K Samtani | Prof Samtani's areas of expertise are in intellectual property law and information technology law. His current research works focus on trademarks and bilateralism in intellectual property rule-making. |
| Assoc Prof Arul Indrasen Chib | Assoc Prof Arul Chib pursues action-oriented research in varied cross-cultural contexts. His research agenda focuses on the impact and role of mobile phone in (a) healthcare systems in resource-constrained environments of developing countries, and (b) transnational migration to developed countries. He investigates the key factors influencing the adoption of technology for positive health outcomes, and has engaged in the design and development of healthcare technology systems spanning online and mobile platforms. He increasingly interested in issues of power, focusing on the intersection of gender with technology, and the role of agency and appropriation in the achievement of goals ranging from socio-economic development, human well-being and empowerment, and societal change. He has published over 100 research articles.
As Director of the Singapore Internet Research Center, Dr. Chib led the SIRCA programme (established 2008), mentoring 30 emerging country researchers in Asia, Africa and Latin America, with mentoring events in Atlanta, Bangkok, Cape Town, Jamaica, Mauritius, Michigan, and Singapore.
Dr. Chib's contributions have led to a number of research awards, including the 2011 Prosper.NET-Scopus Award for the use of ICTs for sustainable development. This award was accompanied by a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, one of the highest honours within the European scholarly tradition. He has been awarded fellowships at Ludwig Maxmilians University and University of Southern California, and the S. I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. He serves on the editorial boards of Human Communication Research, Communication Yearbook, and Mobile Media and Communication, and is Senior Editor of The Electronic journal for Information Systems in Developing Countries.
Dr. Chib’s research has been profiled in the international such as the United Nations Chronicle. He presented keynote speeches at the Media Health Communication Conference 2012 in Munich Germany and Global Fusion Conference at Texas A&M University. He was General Conference Chair for ICTD2015, and on organizing committees for IFIP 8.6 2013 and ICTD 2012. He has been an expert speaker at events organized by UNESCO and UN-APCICT.
Dr. Chib has worked with non-governmental agencies such as INPPARES, Nyaya Health, Text to Change, Udaan, UNICEF and World Vision, securing external grants worth over S$ 5 million. Arul has lived and learned in India, Germany, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States of America. Dr. Chib is currently PI for MOE TIER 2 grant worth S$ 602,856 examining digital nativism.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Pei & Chib (2020). Defining mGender: The role of mobile phone use in gender construction processes. The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society
Brew-Sam & Chib (2020).Theoretical advances in mobile health communication research: An empowerment approach to self-management. Technology and Health. Elsevier
Chib, Bentley, & Wardoyo (2019). Distributed contexts of digital media and learning: Open practices as a response to marginalization. Comunicar
Rossmann, Riesmeyer; Brew-Sam, Karnowski, Joeckel, Chib, & Ling (2019). Appropriation of mHealth for Diabetes Self-Management: Lessons from two qualitative studies. JMIR Diabetes
Chib, & Shi (2018) Structured imaginings: Social media as a tool to reduce intergroup prejudice. Intercultural Communication Studies
Chib & Lin (2018) Theoretical advancements in mHealth: A systematic review of mobile apps. Journal of Health Communication
Loh, & Chib (2018) Tackling social inequality in development: Beyond access to appropriation of ICTs for employability. Information Technology for Development
Kang, Ling & Chib (2018) The flip from fraught to assumed use: Mobile communication of North Korean migrant women during their journey to South Korea. International Journal of Communication |
| Mr Benjamin Alexander Slater | Singapore Cinema
Screenwriting Craft and Practice
Fiction, Narratives & Storytelling
Interactive & Experiential Narratives
Urban Space, Psychogeography
Film Histories & Criticism
Creative Writing |
| Assoc Prof Benjamin Seide | • Virtual cultural heritage: Exploring state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) technologies for the benefit of promoting cultural heritage to a broader audience with “edutainment” applications
• Immersive technologies: 360 ̊ video experiences, 3D stereoscopy, dome projections and state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) applications at the intersection of media art and technology
• The art and science of visual effects and its role as an aesthetic and narrative device in filmmaking |
| Asst Prof Bernhard Johannes Schmitt | Bernhard's research interests are in the areas of stop-motion animation, experimental animation and interdisciplinary research in art and technology with an emphasis on social robots. |
| Dr Boey Yew Tung | Social media usage and adoption including implications for consumers, organizations and society
Sports marketing |
| Assoc Prof Cai Yiyu | His interest in Interactive & Digital Media (IDM) mainly includes Tactile/Haptic VR System Design, GPU-accelerated Digital Media Processing, Serious Games and Simulation, and Computer-aided Design.
He has been doing research in the intersection of IDM, and Bio & Medical Sciences covering from Computer-assisted Surgery to Volumetric Cellular Image Processing to Phase I/II Drug Clinical Trial Design to Protein Docking. In MedTech field, he pioneered the research and development on Cardiovascular and Intracardiac Interventional Simulation for pre-treatment planning and training application.
He is also active in industry-oriented research working closely with Engineering and Education sectors. |
| Assoc Prof Cham Tat Jen | Tat-Jen’s research interests are broadly in computer vision and machine learning. Currently, his BTC team has focused on high-fidelity 3D dynamic reconstruction of humans and room environments with casually placed sensors, via deep learning approaches for semantic understanding to enable accurate reconstruction in the presence of clutter, occlusion and limited sensor coverage. His previous work includes image-based localization in urban environments, object matching and registration, human tracking, activity recognition, as well as projector-camera systems to turn all surfaces into ubiquitous interactive displays. |
| Assoc Prof Chan Syin | Dr Chan Syin's research interests include multimedia information retrieval, web information extraction, ontology applications and multimedia understanding. |
| Assoc Prof Chau Lap Pui | Fast signal processing algorithms
Light-field imaging
VLSI for signal processing
Human motion analysis |
| Assoc Prof Chen Chun-Hsien | Assoc Prof Chen Chun-Hsien's areas of expertise are Industrial/Product Design, Knowledge Engineering, and Decision Support Systems. His current research work focuses on collaborative/human-centric/consumer-oriented product design and development, knowledge management, decision support systems and artificial intelligence in product/engineering design. |
| Assoc Prof Chen Hsueh-hua | Dr. Chen’s research interests include how technology brings changes in communication behaviors and facilitate both negative and positive individual and social outcomes, as well as the social and psychological impact of interactive digital media, which includes video games, virtual reality, and social media. She investigates the ways in which individuals negotiate their identities and social relationships through interpersonal interaction both in real life and in virtual environments. Dr. Chen has worked on several interdisciplinary projects that looks at specifically the design of interactive digital media, such as serious games and virtual reality for positive social outcomes.
Current research projects:
• Mobile gamification strategies to manage online emergence of nativism
• Understanding Game Mechanics and Gaming Experiences
• Utilizing Virtual reality and Video games to enhance prosocial behaviors and attitudes
• The effect of peer group and social norms towards negative and positive social media behaviors online |
| Prof Chen I-Ming | 1) Mechatronics system design: cable-driven systems, biomorphic robots, entertainment robots;
2) Wearable sensors and haptic devices;
3) Body sensor network, wireless sensor network and sensor grid;
4) Reconfigurable automation;
5) Parallel kinematics machines (PKM);
6) Micro- and nano-manipulation systems;
7) Spherical actuators and smart material based actuators;
8) Robotic locomotion. |
| Assoc Prof Chen Lihui | Dr. Chen's research interests include machine learning algorithms/soft computing (fuzzy logic and neural networks) with applications to data mining, web intelligence, image processing and pattern recognition. She has been actively working in those areas for many years on projects at various levels. Currently her research focus is on some basic researches in data mining as well as its applications which may have significance in information search and retrieval on Internet.
Ongoing Research Projects:
. Machine Learning and Mining Techniques for Web Intelligence, Information Retrieval
. Clustering Methods in Text/Web Mining
. Novel techniques for Document Summarization |
| Assoc Prof Chia Liang Tien | His research interests can be broadly categorized into the following areas, Internet related research with emphasis on the Semantic Web, Multimedia Understanding through media analysis, annotation and adaptation, Multimodal data fusion and Multimodality Ontology for Multimedia.. He has published over 100 refereed research papers. |
| Assoc Prof Chng Eng Siong | Specialisations include: speech and signal processing, microphone arrays and pattern classifications. |
| Assoc Prof Chong Yong Kim | Prof Chong's areas of expertise are Parallel and Distributed Multiprocessor Systems, Adaptive and Active Noise Control, and DSP-based Audio and Image Processing. His current research works involves Perceptual Subband DCT JPEG Image Coding System, DSP-Based Digital Media Processing and Integrated Headsets using the Adaptive Hybrid Active Noise Control System. |
| Assoc Prof Chua Hock Chuan | Image and Video Processing. Digital Media. Software & Programming technologies. |
| Asst Prof Corinne Tan | Broad research interests are in: Platform Governance; Law & Technology; Intellectual Property Law; and Media Law.
Currently researching on: Blockchains; Fake News; and Regulating Artificial Intelligence. |
| Mrs Cristina Gonzalez Ruiz | Her research interests include Cognitive Grammar and the role of Pragmatics in Grammar, Oral Communication Strategies for Language Teaching and Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL). |
| Assoc Prof Daniel Keith Jernigan | Modern and Contemporary British Literature; Modern and Postmodern Drama; Narrative Theory; Playwriting |
| Asst Prof Davide Benvenuti | Character Animation 3D and 2D
Animation tools development and new interface
Real time rendering and animation
Game engine development and improvement
Motion capture techniques and applications
Non realistic rendering and animation |
| Assoc Prof Deepu Rajan | Image and video processing, computer vision, multimedia signal processing. |
| Assoc Prof Dejan Grba | Dejan Grba’s research combines mutually inspired artistic and theoretical work in new media, interactive and generative art, and digital culture. He investigates human inventiveness in the arts, science, technology and in everyday life, aiming to recognize its features, to assess its consequences, and to identify its perspectives.
In art projects, he explores the creative, technical and relational aspects of concept-, event- or data-driven generative systems. This exploration tackles the essence of generative procedures by defining new ways to integrate the rendering of various media with the expressive, narrative, experiential and reflexive values. Merging his technical training with thorough education in visual arts, Dejan’s practice in new media is founded on research, and stylistically open. He is currently collaborating on three interdisciplinary projects in the areas of interactive VR and exploratory AI, including Interwoven Cultures, a multi-track, Tier 1 funded research project with PI Galina Mihaleva, Associate Professor at the ADM/NTU, CI Rajesh Piplani, Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NTU, and CI Hedren Sum Wai Yuan, Digital Humanities Project Manager at the Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity, NTU.
In theoretical work, Dejan has been developing an independent research program which examines generative art and creative AI within the conceptual, cognitive and ethical frameworks of visual arts, new media art and digital culture. Drawing on well-established discourse in new media studies and digital humanities, his theoretical approach integrates exploration of literature with inquiry, reflection and artistic experience. Informed by computer science, physics, biology, evolutionary and cognitive sciences, it combines empirical assessment with critical thinking, and cultivates an awareness for fallacies and biases which manifest in the arts, science and technology.
Since 2015, Dejan’s publication portfolio includes 30 contributions to peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings. With several papers and a book on generative art currently in development, he is conducting a comprehensive study of the various factors of inventiveness, expression and meaning making in the AI arts, creative AI and artefactual creativity. The study addresses the possibilities for augmenting creativity in the arts, digital humanities and computer science by critically examining the artists’ and researchers’ approaches to the AI technologies, the artistic overtones of the AI engineering, and the ambiguities which influence the creative AI. It is concerned with exploring the cognitive features of technological, methodological and content-related enhancement of human creativity, and with facilitating the authentic creative capabilities of automated systems. It is focused on discovering and evaluating new solutions for augmenting human creativity, on exploring the relationships between human and artificial intelligence, and on defining strategies for the responsible applications of the AI systems. |
| Prof Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen | Digital cinema and multimedia art
Visual music and experimental animation
Stereoscopic digital photography/film/video
Interactive art and architectural installation
- new display technologies
- new materials
- embedded systems
- physical and ubiquitous computing
- ambient media and health esthetics
- wireless and mobile media
Low cost and sustainable computing/media
Traditional material cultures and digital media; global visual culture; alternative social networks.
Creativity; art and science; art and technology; transdisciplinarity.
Author of articles and chapters on digital art and new media. |
| Asst Prof Elke E. Reinhuber | In her current artistic research, Elke Reinhuber investigates on the correlation between decisions and emotions and explores different strategies of visualisation and presentation. Her PhD thesis suggests 'Counterfactualism' as a new category for fine arts and humanity, dealing with the retrospective analysis of turning points in life.
- Counterfactuals in Media Art
- Immersive Environments
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- Imaging Technologies
- Expanded Photography
- Environmental Issues |
| Prof Er Meng Hwa | 1. Array Signal Processing
- Robust Broadband and Narrowband Beamforming Techniques
- Basic Array Theory & Pattern Synthesis Techniques
- Partially Adaptive Array Design
- Microphone Array Design
- Audio Beam Loudspeakers
2. Image Processing and Computer Vision
- Image Processing of VLSI Chips
- Images Resolution Enhancement Techniques
- Medical Imaging
3. Satellite Communications
- LEO Satellite Communications Technology
4. Optimization Techniques
- Constrained and Unconstrained Optimization Techniques
5. DSP Applications & Implementations
- Surround Sound System
- RSA Cryptosystem
- Microphone Array
- Audio Beam Loudspeakers
Secured and completed a total of 24 research projects with an accumulative grant of $20,873,595. |
| Prof Foo Shou Boon, Schubert | Professor Schubert Foo's research areas cover multimedia technology, Internet technology, multilingual information retrieval, digital libraries, information literacy, knowledge management and social media innovations. |
| Assoc Prof Galina Mihaleva | As for professional practice,she has been designing Couture Collections and accessories under the label ''GALINA COUTURE''.
Her recent interests and explorations are in the area of Fashionable Technology, which refers to the intersection of design, fashion, science, and technology.
Kinetic Dress, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2011-Present
● Original costumes made in collaboration with dance and technology specialist Jessica Rajko
● Workshop, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association convention in 2012
Telematic Dress, Tempe, Arizona, 2008-Present
● Costume that enables dancers to perform together when they are in different locations
● Collaboration with Nottingham-Trent University (United Kingdom) and Arizona State University
Motionᵉ, Tempe, Arizona, 2004-2005
● Costumes with embedded sensors that affected the light and sound of a dance concert
Sensory Chameleon Bodysuit, Tempe, Arizona, 2004
● Smart Second Skin clothing designs with the Biodesign Institute's Center for Applied Nanobioscience at Arizona State University and the Sensory Design & Technology of Cambridge, England
● Presentation at Wired Magazine's NextFest in San Francisco, California in 2004
Paper Interiors: a dance exploration or real and virtual dimension, Tempe, Arizona, 2002
● Costumes for a 3D multimedia-based dance performance by choreographer Jennifer Tsukayama
● Performance at the American College Dance Festival at Arizona State University |
| Prof Gan Woon Seng | His research interests include directional sound beam (AUDIO BEAM SYSTEM), active noise control, adaptive signal processing, psycho-acoustical signal processing, and spatial/3D audio processing. |
| Prof Gerard Goggin | Professor Goggin has longstanding interests in the social, cultural, political, and policy dynamics of emerging technology - especially mobile communication and media, Internet, social media, and, most recently, Internet of Things, connected cars, automation and AI.
Among other works, Goggin has co-edited various volumes, including three volumes on aspects of location technologies - Location Technology and Place (2012), Locative Media (2015), and Location Technologies in International Context (2019). In addition, Goggin has co-edited the reference works Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2014), Major Works: Mobile Technologies (2016), and the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society (2020). A founding editor of the journal Internet Histories, Goggin is also co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (2017).
Goggin also has an abiding interest in questions of social inequalities, inclusion and exclusion, and justice in communication and media. He has also worked extensively on consumer and public interest concerns, being among other things, a foundation member of the organization Australian Communication Consumers Action Network (ACCAN). He led a project on Digital Rights in Australia and Asia (2017-2019), and was a member of a group of international scholars who authored a chapter on media and communications for the landmark report of the International Panel on Social Progress (Cambridge University Press, 2018; 3 vols). Goggin has had a particular interest in disability and accessibility, with key books Digital Disability (2003), Disability and the Media (2015), and the new Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2020).
Current projects include: a book on apps, contracted with Polity Press for publication in 2020; and his NTU Start-up Project, 'Smart Equalities in Urban Southeast Asia', which explores disability and ageing in relation to emerging technologies such as connected cars, AI, and Internet of Things - with a focus on Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam. |
| Assoc Prof Goh Hoe Lian, Dion | Dion Goh has extensive experience in the areas of social media practices and perceptions, gamification techniques for shaping user perceptions and motivating behavior, and mobile information sharing and seeking. |
| Assoc Prof Goh Wooi Boon | Human Computer Interaction, Computer Vision |
| Assoc Prof Gray Hodgkinson | In recent work, Gray has been exploring the inclusion of 3D virtual reality to animation. Animation and virtual reality share a common fundamental in that they both take place inside an artificially constructed world. This commonality provides a starting point to explore how narrative and direction is affected when virtual reality is employed. |
| Prof Guan Yong Liang | 1) Modulation, coding, and signal processing
- UWB signal processing
- Dirty-paper coding
- MIMO coding
- Turbo/LDPC coding
- Multi-carrier modulation
- Wideband CDMA
2) Channel modeling
- Power line communication channels
- Multi-carrier channels
- UWB channels
3) Digital watermarking for information security
- Dirty-paper watermark coding
- Biomedical image watermarking
- Compressed video watermarking
- Watermark attacks and counter-attacks |
| Assoc Prof Hans-Martin Rall | Research profile Asst/Prof. Hans-Martin Rall
Asst/Prof. Rall's research interests are mainly in the areas of digital animation development and interdisciplinary research in art and technology.
He is a renowned director of independent animated short films, with 8 major film-funding grants awarded to him by German and European institutions.
Since 1997 Hannes Rall has built a strong reputation for adapting literature successfully
in his animated short films:
“The Raven“ (1999) and ”The Erl-King“(2003) , adapted from the famous poems by E.A. Poe and J.W. von Goethe respectively, have been screened in over 120 film festivals
world wide and won multiple awards.
His work was shown in group-and solo-shows in galleries in 20 countries worldwide since 2004.
-Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
-National Museum Singapore
-State Gallery of the Arts Stuttgart, Germany
-Bangkok International Film Festival
-Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut
-Egyptian Opera House, Metrogalerie, Kairo
-Cinematheque. Tel Aviv
-Goethe-Institut Damaskus
-Goethe-Institut Ramallah
-Seika Art Academy, Kyoto
-Osaka European Film Festival
-Auckland University of Technology, NZ
-Pataka Museum Wellington, NZ
-Muzium dan Galeri Seni Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
"Tradigital Mythmaking":
-Goethe-Institut Singapore/Singapore International Film-Festival
-Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur/Univesrsiti Teknologi Mara Kuala Lumpur
Asst/Prof. Rall was awarded a 86 000,- SD tier 1 research grant by NTU in 2006.
“Tradigital Mythmaking-Singaporean-Animation for the 21st Century” :
In this project Prof. Rall explores the development of genuinely Southeast Asian animation styles, which are not derived from Western or Japanese concepts.
His book “Tradigital Mythmaking” was published in Singapore in 2009.
In 2010 he was awarded a second tier 1 research grant in the amount of SD 150 000,- to
continue and expand his research in “Tradigital Mythmaking-The Next level”:
In close cooperation with the Co-PI Prof. Seah Hock Soon from the School of Computer Engineering,
Asst/Prof. Rall is exploring the development of digital tools for the adaptation of Asian
mythological stories in local art styles.
External research funding
2007 Film production funding by the Film Funding Board of Baden Württemberg (MFG Filmförderung) for the film “The Cold Heart”
2004 Script-development funding by the MFG Baden-Württemberg for the animated shortfilm „THE COLD HEART“.
2003 Reference-filmfunding for the film ”The Erl-King“ by the FFA Berlin.
2000 Production-funding for „The Erl-King“ MFG Baden-Württemberg
2000 Production-funding for “The Erl-King”by the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film.
2000 Reference-funding for “The Raven”by FFA, Berlin
1997 Production-funding for the short film “The Raven”by the MFG Baden-Württemberg
1994 Script-development funding for animated series „Dicki“ by MEDIA-program
Research areas:
-Exploring Asian culture and history to develop unique and original animation styles, which are not derived from Western concepts.
(Current research project: “Tradigital Mythmaking”)
-Development and application of new digital technology to visualize Asian art styles in animation (Current research project: “The Living Line” Co-PI: Prof. Seah Hock Soon SCE,
10 000,-SD mini seed grant by Institute for Media Innovation NTU)
-The adaptation of literature for animation
(Current research project: “The Cold Heart”, 25 minute animated short film
adapted from the novel by Wilhelm Hauff, 90 000,- Euro film-funding grant
by MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg).
-Marketing animated short films in the 21st century (URECA research project)
-History of German animation
-History of Southeast Asian Animation |
| Dr Heng Kok Hui, John Gerard | Current Research:
Automated physio-neuro rehabilitation platform for recovery of hand function after stroke (Smart)
Automated Neuro-Motor Stroke Rehabilitation Device - A Platform for Functional Recovery of Paralyzed Hand after Stroke (POC- NRF)
Wheel chair Gap Crossing mechanism (TRD – NRF)
Unified Platform for acceleration functional return with EMG orthosis for accelerated stroke rehabilitation. (NMRC)
SEMG/EEG driven orthosis for accelerated rehabilitation for stroke patients
Multi Level Haptics Systems
Assistive Technology
Rehabilitation Systems
Other Research Interest Areas:
Exoskeleton Systems
Teleoperation/Telepresence Systems
Legged vehicles, Autonnomous Vehicles
Mechanical and Mechatronics System Design |
| Prof Huang Guangbin | Extreme Learning Machine, Neuroscience, machine learning theories and algorithms, human-computer interface, data analytics, video analytics, robotics. |
| Assoc Prof Hui Siu Cheung | Assoc Prof Hui Siu Cheung's areas of expertise are data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, natural language processing, mathematical data mining, intelligent tutoring systems and Semantic Web. His current research works focus on information retrieval, text mining, natural query processing and Semantic Web. |
| Assoc Prof Ina Conradi Chavez | Area of research:
-Public Art
-Fine Art
-Procedural Interactive Installation
-Computer Generated Animation
-Digital experimental animation
- Stereoscopic 3D
- Interactive Media
-360 Immersive Media Displays
The research delves into an exploration of trandisciplinary visual art media, researching and integrating emotive and subjective abstract image making in digital, traditional and non-traditional forms. Drawing on the ideas of the merging of digital painting, avant-garde film-making and sound cultures, current work aims to craft immersive, interactive and 3D animated installation using digital image, seeking innovative convergence of art and technology to transform spaces into novel experiences.
11.2011-10.2017 MOE AcRF Tier 1 “Immersive Animated Canvas: Merging New Media Art and Technology for Immersive Cinema and Visualization Experiences", PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof), Co-Pi Ben Alvin Shedd, (Professor) NTU ADM
1.3.2011-28.02.2014 MOE AcRF Tier 1 RG 55/10 (M52090031) "3D Stereo Animated Pictorial Space: Towards New Aesthetics in Contemporary Painting" PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof), Co-Pi Dr Xiao Wei Sun, EEE (Assoc Prof) NTU
15.8.2011--31.12.2013 IMI Seed Grant, (M4080760.B40) "Unframed", PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof), Co-Pi Mark Chavez (Asst Prof) NTU ADM
01.01.2008-28.2.2010 MOE (AcRF) Tier 1 RG105/10 (M52090000) “Digital Imaging in Singapore", PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof) NTU ADM
02/2009-02/2011 MOE (AcRF) Tier 1 “Exploring kinetoaudiovisual parameter mapping strategies for virtual instrument performance and interactive installation,” PI Per Magnus Lindborg, Co-PI Ina Conradi Chavez (Asst Prof), NTU ADM (5% Involvement)
01.10.2010-30.11.2011 IMI Seed Grant, (M4080629.B40) "Stereo Pictorial Spaces", PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof) Co-Pi Dr Xiao Wei Sun, EEE (Assoc Prof), NTU ADM
01.12.2010-31. 05.2012 IMI Seed Grant: “EEG-based Immersion and 3D Interaction: E-learning, Art, and Medical Application”, PI Olga Sourina Co-PI Ina Conradi (10%) NTU ADM |
| Assoc Prof James Patrick Williams | Professor Williams is trained in the symbolic interactionist tradition of sociology, a social-psychological perspective that foregrounds language and meaning as key dimensions of understanding the everyday life.
Prof Williams' research focuses on youth cultures and subcultures, self and identity, digital media, and games. Much of Prof Williams' publications has centered on the construction of subcultural selves/identities among young people who feel in some way separate from mainstream society. His main contributions to sociology have been theorizing (1) the role new media technologies play in facilitating the development and diffusion of subcultures and subcultural identities and (2) theorizing the social construction of subcultural authenticity. His second interest relates to the increasing salience of fantasy and digital games in everyday life. |
| Mr Jeffrey Hong Yan Jack | Transportation Vehicle Design
Wearable Technology
Interaction Design - interactive objects, environments, and experiences.
Form exploration using Generative Modeling techniques.
3D Laser scanning and reverse engineering.
Human perception, spatial cognition, and interaction within Virtual Environments.
Simulation and presentation of real-life phenomena through the use of computer graphics software. |
| Assoc Prof Jiang Xudong | Xudong Jiang's areas of expertise are pattern recognition, computer vision, biometrics, signal and image processing. His current research works focus on statistical pattern classification, feature extraction from image, fingerprint recognition, human face detection and recognition, multimodal biometric fusion, and visual object detection and recognition. |
| Assoc Prof Jung Younbo | Dr. Jung has published research on the use of new interactive technologies in medical interventions (e.g., virtual reality and haptics-enhanced systems for learning motor functions in stroke rehabilitation; and patient/clinician distribution platform with tele-rehabilitation application), the Internet and computer training for seniors to cross the digital divide, the effects of social robots' embodiment on their meaningful social interactions with humans, and the use of videogames and social TV for seniors' subjective well-being and intergenerational bonding. His work has appeared in International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, ,Computers in Human Behavior, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, and proceedings of CHI and IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops. Currently, Dr. Jung examines the development and assessment of VR/AR programs for the well-being and vocational training of the elderly in Singapore, funded by SkillsFuture Singapore. |
| Assoc Prof Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher | Chris Khoo's current research projects are:
- Digital intelligence (WKWSCI Academic Research Cluster funding)
- Automatic multidocument summarization of research articles
- Autmatic extraction of treatment information from a medical database
- Automatic sentiment analysis of multiple Web genres
- Human categorization behaviour
- Integrated clinical decision support system for wound care management
- Knowledge organization of websites, portals & learning object repositories |
| Prof Kot Chichung, Alex | signal processing for communication, biometrics, image forensics and information security |
| Asst Prof Kristy H.A. Kang | Dr. Kang's research interests include urban studies, histories and theories of digital media arts, urban media art and digital placemaking, and ethnic studies in the U.S. and Asia. |
| Dr Kym Campbell | Mobile media and communication
Digital media communication and performance
Technology, media production and culture |
| Assoc Prof Laura Miotto | My research interests span the areas of:
• theories, methods and design processes used in exhibitions design and spatial narratives in the context of museums and public places
• understanding Exhibition Design historically and in relation to the new socioeconomic realities of Singapore and other modern Asian societies |
| Assoc Prof Law Choi Look | Dr. Choi Look LAW's areas of expertise are microwave circuits and wireless systems. His research interests are digital beam forming array antenna, ultra-wideband microwave circuits, wideband channel characterization and modeling, radio frequency identification, wireless networking and positioning systems.His current research work focus on high linearity high efficiency microwave power amplifiers for OFDM sytems and scalable precision positioning systems using ultra-wideband impulse radio. |
| Prof Lee Kwan Min | See Biography |
| Assoc Prof Lee Yong Tsui | His research interests lie mainly in computer related areas, such as computer graphics, geometric modeling, computer-aided design and manufacturing, and related applications. More specifically, he current focus is in computer-aided conceptual design, looking at the problem of converting design sketches into 3D models, which can then be ?beautified? to become CAD models. He is also studying the simulation of vehicle collisions, as an impartial assistant to judicial litigation on road accident cases. |
| Asst Prof Li Junting Benjamin | • Cross-modal experience of food in virtual environments
• Health communication through digital technology
• Influence of human-computer interaction on everyday life
• Presence and immersion in virtual reality
• Associations between head movements in virtual reality and affect
• Impact of augmented reality and 360 degree immersive videos on society |
| Assoc Prof Lin Feng | Dr Lin's research interest includes biomedical informatics, biomedical imaging and visualization, computer graphics, and high-performance computing. Currently active funded projects include: AcRF - Nonrigid graphics shaders for GPU, AcRF - Physiologically-Based Modelling and Visualization of a Beating Heart, AcRF - Properties and Interactions of Functional Modules of the Human Brain Across the Life Span, AcRF - Computational Optical Precision Measurement, AcRF - Elucidate Novel Roles of Unliganded Progesterone Receptor in Breast Cancer, National Science Foundation - Size Detector of Bio-nanoparticles Integratable to Microfluidics, AcRF - In Silico Modelling of Ageing and Stem Cell Based Rejuvenation on Waddington’s Epigenetic Landscape. Completed projects include: AcRF - Full Field Optical Measurement for Transient Phenomena, A-Star/BMRC - Creating an In Vivo Navigational Cellular Fluorescence Imaging System with Dynamically Optimized Endomicroscopy, AcRF - Real-time Diagnostic Endomicroscopy, A-Star/SERC - Collaborative Creation and Application of Interactive Digital Media over the Internet, AcRF - Cellular Fluorescence Imaging with Endomicroscopy, AcRF - Dynamically Adaptable Neurocomputer and Its Application to Recognition of Steroid Hormone Response Elements, SingHealth Foundation Development of a Real-time Fluorescence Endoscopy Diagnostic System for the Early Detection of Oral and Bladder Cancers, NTU/BPE Cluster SEED Funding - Gene Expression Profiling with Oligonucleotide Microarray Technology, SCE ER Lab Research Programme Grant DNA Chip Design Programme, BMRC&NMRC Joint Research Fund - Elucidation of Expression Profiles of Genes in Alpha-fetoprotein Positive and Alpha-fetoprotein Negative Hepatocellular Carcinoma by cDNA Microarray Analysis, AcRF - Design and Simulation of Artificial Bone Implantation, NMRC Research Fund -Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: 3D Imaging for Staging and Treatment Planning, AcRF - Design and Development of Bio-medical Devices Using Rapid Prototyping (RP) Techniques, AcRF - Real-time Dynamic Simulation, MOH & Singapore Totalisator Research Fund - Transforming Medical Ultrasound Scanning into 3-Dimensional Real-time Organ Imaging to Aid Clinical Diagnosis. |
| Dr Loke Yuan Ren | Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Embedded Vision System |
| Assoc Prof Louis-Philippe Demers | To investigate Design, Digital Media and Media Arts from the interactive and embodied media perspectives.
To investigate Artistic, Aesthetic and Technological impact of digital media on humans under the following paradigm: As digital media, pervasive and ubiquitous computing are increasingly being part of our every day life, the researches focus on the human - the role of the body - at various levels
of the digital domain experience. Beyond the sole paradigm of Human Computer Interfaces (HCI), these researches will analyze and implement projects across the spectrum of Art & Design while correlating those to the spectrum of being close to the body -objects-, to a broader sphere -space- and finally to a
global container -culture-.
Keywords:
Social and Emotive Robotics, Entertainment Robotic, Robotic Toys, Hybrid Media, Interactive Media, Interaction Design, User Experience, Intelligent Objects, Wearable, Physical Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Kinetic Architecture, Public Space, Public Art, Tangible Media, Haptic Devices, Multi-Touch, Surface Computing, Multi-User Environments, Theatre, Stage Design, Lighting Design, Live Performance Technologies, Augmented and Mixed Realities. |
| Assoc Prof Ma Maode | Wireless Networking, Wireless Network Security, MAC layer Protocol Design, Performance Evaluation of Computer Networks |
| Assoc Prof Mao Kezhi | Machine Learning, Deep Learning for Big Data, Information Fusion, Image/Video Analytics and Scene Understanding, Knowledge Extraction and Discovery |
| Asst Prof Marc Gloede | Marc's research interests include:
- Development of Curatorial Practices
- Curating time-based media
- The relation of images, technology, space, and the body
- The dynamics / interferences between fields such as art/architecture, art/film, and film/architecture
- Expanded Cinema
- Perception of color in film and art
- The impact of digital dynamics on film and art practices
- Re-thinking Abstraction |
| Asst Prof Mariana Andrade | Mariana Andrade’s research interests span four main areas: Data analytics, complex networks, IT business value, and competitive dynamics. She is especially interested on exploring the granular mechanisms through which IT and other technologies influence firm performance and ultimately firm survival. Her research thrives to analyze overlooked and emergent phenomena that have relevant impact on corporations, such as technological innovation in emergent economies and interfirm linkages in hypercompetitive environments. Within these domains, she is currently involved in various multi-disciplinary projects that investigate the role of IS in business performance and innovation in both developed and developing world contexts.
Her research has been published in Information Systems Research (ISR), Research Policy, Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), the Academy of Management Proceedings and the Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems and presented in leading international conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, International Conference of Information Systems, Americas Conference of Information Systems, and Strategic Management Society Conference. Her work has received several Best Paper Awards from premier international conferences. Moreover, she has received several awards and scholarships, including a fellowship from the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Reaching Out Award from the HKSAR Government, and The University of Hong Kong postgraduate fellowship. Her research has also received founding from several institutions.
Mariana maintains strong links with both firms and governments. She has been invited to present her work in multinational corporations and government bodies across different countries. |
| Dr Mark Alan Cenite | My work focuses on constitutional law and the law and policy issues raised by new communication technologies, including artificial intelligence. |
| Prof May Oo Lwin | May O. Lwin's research interests are mainly in strategic and health communication. In the area of health, she examines how communication can influence food intake, exercise, and communicable diseases and cardiovascular health.
Her work on infectious diseases involves the development and design of digital surveillance systems (e.g. Mobuzz for dengue, FluMob & FluTAC for influenza) as well as health information seeking and misinformation issues on social and online media.
Her research in the area of cyberwellness looks at how family and parental communication influences children and adolescents' user behavior.
In the area of food and nutrition, she uses sensory and culture-specific risk communication approaches to examine food behaviors.
For more details, please go to:
https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/mayolwin/ |
| Prof Miao Chun Yan | Dr. Jaclyn, Chunyan Miao's area of expertise are Agent, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE), Semantic Web/Grid, Agent Augmented Interactive Media/gaming/storytelling, Agent Mediated e-services?mobile agents for wireless communications. Her current research works focus on infusing intelligent agents into interactive new media (virtual, mixed, mobile and pervasive media) to create novel experiences and dimensions in game design, interactive narrative and other real world agent systems. |
| Prof Michael John Kirk Walsh | My research falls under the umbrella term 'Conflict and Culture' and can be subdivided into three main categories:
1. British (and imperial) cultural production in the first two decades of the 20th century (especially in relation to the Great War)
2. Heritage in Conflict and Post-conflict Zones: Famagusta, Cyprus.
3. Twentieth century music history |
| Asst Prof Michael Stanley-Baker | Chinese Medicine
Chinese Religions
Digital Humanities
Medical Anthropology
Chinese Literature and History
Asian Medicines |
| Assoc Prof Mohammed Yakoob Siyal | Computer vision
Image processing
Medical image processing
Biometric-bases security
E-commerce
Watermarking
Computer architecture
IT |
| Ms Nicole Midori Woodford | Nicole’s works and research seek to explore the myriad parallels between people in Asia and Southeast Asia using cinema as well as the space between the mundane and the profane.
As a filmmaker, she manipulates the day to day gestures of characters within her films and ritualises them while juxtaposing them alongside the uncanny. Her perspective focuses on the female psyche and how trauma is translated to the cinematic form featuring female protagonists. Nicole is also interested in traits of the horror genre to translate the psychological journeys of her characters.
In her feature film project, cyclical nature of trauma simultaneously transforms into a discourse and catharsis for characters based on accounts of surviving victims of the Great Tohoku disaster in 2011. |
| Dr Owen Noel Newton Fernando | Crowdsourcing & Social Computing
Mobile Augmented Reality
Multimodal Interfaces and Interactive Systems
Human-Computer Interaction |
| Assoc Prof Pina Marziliano | - Digital signal and image processing
- Sampling theory and applications
- Biomedical signal and image processing
- Watermarking and information security
- Perceptual quality metrics for multimedia |
| Assoc Prof Qian Kemao | Dr Qian's areas of expertise are optical metrology, image processing and computer animation. |
| Assoc Prof Qiu Lin | Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Media Psychology, Cyberpsychology |
| Prof Seah Hock Soon | Prof Seah Hock Soon has more than 20 years experience in Computer Graphics and Imaging research. His current research areas are in geometric modeling, image sequence analysis with applications to digital film effects, automatic in-between frame generation from hand-drawn sketches, augmented reality, and advanced medical visualization. |
| Assoc Prof Ser Wee | Prof Ser's expertise areas are sensor array signal processing and signal classification techniques.
His current research works focus on robust beamforming and DOA estimation techniques for microphone array, location estimatin techinques for ambient intelligence, detection and classification techniques for sound based as well as radiowave based healthcare and surveillance applciations, integrated audio-video signal processing, audio scene analysis and speech emotion analysis for natural human-computer interaction, as well as EEG brain signal analysis. |
| Dr Shen Zhiqi | Dr. Shen's areas of expertise are Artificial Intelligence, Software Agents, Multi-agent Systems (MAS); Goal Oriented Modeling, Agent Oriented Software Engineering; Agent Mediated Semantic Web/Grid, e-Learning, Bio-informatics and Bio-manufacturing; Agent Augmented Interactive Media, Game Design, and Interactive Story Telling. His current research works focus on Multi-agent Systems, Agent Augmented Interactive Media, Game Design, Interactive Story Telling, and e-Learning. |
| Assoc Prof Soong Boon Hee | Research interests in the area of Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensors Networks, Mobility Management, Network Planning and Capacity Optimisation, and Adaptive Video Rate Control. |
| Assoc Prof Sun Aixin | Information Retrieval; Text/Web Mining; Social Computing; Multimedia |
| Prof Tan Ah Hwee | Prof Tan's research areas include intelligent agents, cognitive and neural systems, machine learning, knowledge discovery and text mining.
His current projects focus on Silver Assistants for Ageing in Place (with UBC-NTU Research Centre of Excellence for Active Living of Elderly - LILY), Learning and Memory (with DSO National Laboratories), and Joint Situation Awareness Modelling and Collaborative Reinforcement Learning (with STE-NTU Corp Lab). |
| Prof Tan Yap Peng | Image and Video Processing; Multimedia Computing; Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Machine Learning; Data Analytics. |
| Assoc Prof Teh Kah Chan | Dr. Teh Kah Chan's areas of expertise and research interests are as follows:
1. Signal Processing for Communications
2. Performance Analyses for Wireless Communication Systems
3. Cognitive Radio and Cooperative Systems
4. Radar Signal Processing
5. Cybersecurity |
| Prof Theng Yin Leng | Theng's research interests are mainly in user-centred design, interaction design and usability engineering. She has participated in varying capacities as principal investigator, co-investigator and collaborator in numerous research projects in the United Kingdom and Singapore since 1998. In the area of research, Dr.Theng’s philosophy is about doing worthwhile, scientifically-based experimental Human-Computer Interaction in understanding users and their interactions, especially for Information Systems, in her earlier research on the World Wide Web and Digital Libraries, and with recent focus on interactive systems/devices for Healthcare and Education. Her main research interest is to develop innovative tools, techniques, methods and models to assist in the design and evaluation of interactive systems/devices, making research relevant and impacting society. From 2003 to 2015, as a PI, she has garnered a total of slightly over S$3M as PI and about S$2M as Co-PI and Collaborator. Dr. Theng has more than 200 papers and publishes widely in top-tiered international journals and conferences. Recent interests include applying user issues to elderly & technologies, games for health, health informatics, smart nation & metrics. |
| Assoc Prof Tung Lai Lai | My current research interest includes examining the cognitive and behavioral issues of participants in virtual communities. Another separate research track looks at website effectiveness from the dual-perspective of web-designers and users. |
| Assoc Prof W. K. Ng | Machine learning / Artificial intelligence
Privacy-preserving data analytical techniques
Encrypted databases
Enterprise blockchain systems
Data security |
| Ms Wong Pei Wen | Pei Wen Wong's research interests are mainly in the areas of strategic communication, marketing, digital and social communication and international public relations. |
| Assoc Prof Xie Ming | Intelligent Vehicle, Humanoid Robot, Machine Intelligence. |
| Assoc Prof Yap Kim Hui | Dr. Yap's main research interests include image/video processing, media content analysis, computer vision, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence. |
| Assoc Prof Yeo Chai Kiat | Her research focus is on Anomaly Detection, Data Analytics, Predictive Maintenance, Neural networks, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks. |
| Assoc Prof Yeo Puay Hwa Jesvin | Interdisciplinary Design Research – exploring design in different fields/industries (such as media, retailer, banking and financial services, healthcare and pharmaceutical) to integrate functional, emotional and social aspects that are based on actual need.
Intangible and Tangible Heritage Studies – innovation through culture and tradition.
Design and Visual Research Methods – theoretical and practical influences on creative concept development in the design-visual communication processes.
Visual Research – Material Culture; Asian Cultural Identity; Experimental Typography; Inclusive and Innovative Packaging Design; Knowledge Visualization.
Digital Humanities – Cultural Analytics; Visualization and Data Design. |
| Assoc Prof Yeo Song Huat | Dr. Yeo's areas of expertise are in robotics and mechanisms. His current research works focus on cable-driven mechanisms, motion capture system, and modular robots. |
| Asst Prof Zhang Hanwang | 1. Multimodal Graph Construction and Inference
2. Learning Compositional Structures in Vision and Language.
3. Multimodal Machine Reasoning |
| Assoc Prof Zheng Jianmin | Dr Zheng's areas of expertise are computer aided geometric design, reality computing, computer graphics, applied geometry, and 3D digital geometry processing. His current research work focuses on T-spline technology and its applications in isogeometric processing, reality computing and 3D capturing, intelligent 3D printing, visualization for AI, and virtual/augmented reality . |
