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Name	Research Interests
Asst Prof Alexander Robertson Coupe	Alexander Coupe's major contributions to linguistic research have focused upon aspects of the grammar of Ao; more recently he has turned his attention to other Tibeto-Burman languages of north-east India, including Chang, Khiamniungan, Lotha, and Yimchungru, and he has investigated evidence of their contact and convergence with Indic languages. This fieldwork-based research is driven by a desire to record and analyse the grammars of these poorly understood Tibeto-Burman languages, to determine their genetic relationships, and to document them for posterity. The output of this work feeds another research goal: to seek functional and diachronic explanations for the structural diversity and commonalities found in Tibeto-Burman languages and in human language more generally, and to advance knowledge in the field of linguistic typology. Specific areas of research interest include the analysis of tone systems, phonetics and phonology, the role of pragmatics in grammar, case marking systems, morphosyntax, clause linkage, nominalization, grammaticalization and language contact.
Asst Prof Andrew Corey Yerkes	Professor Yerkes's areas of interest are nineteenth and twentieth century American literature and culture, realism, naturalism, modernism, postmodernism, narratology, sociological theories the novel, philosophical determinism, and ideological critique.
Asst Prof Anil Laxman Pathak	My research expertise in the following areas. Most of my publications relate to these areas. - Training and education related to Communication Skills development - Online learning platforms More specifically, my current publications deal with - Use and analysis of discourse in communication - Use of Learner narratives in Syllabus design - Instructional design for open learning
Asst Prof Bradley C Freeman	His research interests include community and campus radio, popular culture, political communication, media credibility, and sound design. He is a strong advocate for students studying abroad during their academic career. ? He has contributed articles and conference papers on a wide variety of topics, and has been a source for numerous media stories throughout the United States. He appeared several times on New York City's Fox 5 "Good Day New York" program, speaking on new media technologies and radio. He has supervised research projects on religion in the media, Asian-American representation, and political internet blogs. He has served as Editorial Assistant for the research publication Communication Research.
Asst Prof Chen Hsueh-hua	Her research interests include communication beaviors and culture in digital games, the impact of digital games, intercultural communication, culturla identity, cultural diversity, and virtual culture.
Prof Chiu Chi-Yue	Professor Chiu's current research focuses on cultures as knowledge traditions and the social, cognitive, and motivational processes that mediate the construction and evolution of social consensus. He is also interested in the dynamic interactions of cultural identification and cultural knowledge traditions and their implications for cultural competence and intercultural relations.
Asst Prof Danne Ojeda Hernandez	Her current research is devoted to the disciplinary redefinitions of Graphic Design and its implications in contemporary visual culture. It analyses antithetical aspects within the evolution of graphic design, like its communicative and allegoric nature, autonomy and social commitment, and expressivity and new media standards. The theoretical basis of this research includes binary concepts like natural/artificial, original/copy, public/private, and physical/virtual. The research is methodologically structured upon close readings of a variety of visual objects from the perspective of graphic design. These objects are discusses in connection with different sorts of conceptual platforms, like manifestos, (un)realized projects, curatorial proposals and critical reviews among others sources within today's dominant orientations in graphic design.
Assoc Prof Derwin Scott Hessels	The merging of cinema with new technologies to create new forms of media experiences
Asst Prof Francesco Paolo Cavallaro	Francesco Cavallaro is primarily a sociolinguist, but also conduct research in applied linguistics, specifically, those that explore issues related to language teaching. His training in analysing linguistics issues in multilingual communities has been put to use in the fertile context of Singapore where bilingualism is a norm and multilingualism influences every aspect of the society. Hence, his current research direction involves exploring language attitudes, identity and language shift in this multilingual context.
Assoc Prof Francis Charles Bond	Francis Bond's areas of interest are: Machine Translation, Deep Parsing, Word Sense Disambiguation, Computational Lexicography and the linguistic phenomena of Definiteness, Number, Countability and Numeral classifiers. His current research work focuses on parsing English, Japanese and Korean with head-driven phrase structure grammars; word sense disambiguation with WordNet; constructing a Japanese WordNet and other lexicons.
Asst Prof Goh Geok Yian	Assistant Professor Goh Geok Yian's areas of expertise are: early history of Burma and Southeast Asia, modern Southeast Asian history, China-Southeast Asia relations, early Buddhist networks in mainland and island Southeast Asia, and Burmese historical chronicles and novels. Her current research focuses on the study of Buddhist architecture and mural paintings of Bagan, a medieval Burmese kingdom. Her other research work includes the study of early urbanization and cities in Burma, particularly on comparison made with other contemporary Southeast Asian polities and the applicability of theoretical models. She is also working on an English translation of a 20th-century Burmese novel by a well-known author, Ma Sandar.
Prof (Adj) Goh Nguen Wah	Dr. Goh's areas of interests include: government and politics of Singapore, government's media, education and language policies, language planning; the rise of China and the global Chinese language fever, the prospects of Chinese language in a globalized world, cross-cultural studies, journalism of the West and the East.
Assoc Prof Ho Mian Lian	Her research interests are Business Communication, Business English, Varieties of English, Singaporean English, and Discourse Analysis.
Assoc Prof Ian Vince McLoughlin	Embedded systems Speech and audio Computer architecture Satellite and high-reliability computation Wireless communications for embedded systems Future cities - technology and social aspects Earth observation - remote sensing (hardware and software for), high reliability earth observation hardware, communications of EO data Refer to: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mcloughlin for Research Interest and up-to date Research Grant listing
Asst Prof Koo-Cheah Swit Ling, Diane	Assistant Professor Koo Swit Ling's research interest is in the acquisition of second language, with particular focus on interlanguage variability. She is currently also looking into the different approaches to classroom learning and how that can be enhanced, especially in the context of
Asst Prof Kwan Sze Pui Uganda	20th Century Chinese literature; The history of translation in the 20th century China; Comparative literature on Japanese literature and Chinese literature in the late 19th to early 20 century; Hong Kong literature and culture.
Dr Lai Phooi Ching	Editing Intercultural communication Intensive English language programs
Assoc Prof Lee Chun Wah	Research Areas: Advertising Management, Brand Communication, Public Communication Current Focus: Managing the business operations and account-servicing of Advertising Agencies
Assoc Prof Lee Guan Kin	Dr. Lee Guan Kin's areas of expertise are Lim Boon Keng, Singapore Chinese intellectuals, History of Nanyang University, Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, and Southeast Asian Chinese and modern China. She is currently working on two research projects, the first, "The History of Nanyang University", funded by the NTU Academic Research Fund, and the other, "Cultural Transplant and the Construction of Chinese Communities: A Project of Documents & Research on Singapore Chinese Communities", sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.
Prof Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy	Interaction between tone and intonation; Prosody in Conversational Interaction; Conversation Analysis; English and Chinese grammar; Chinese Linguistics; History and structure of Cantonese; Language and Cognitive Neuroscience; Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing
Asst Prof Michael Donald Patterson	My research interests are in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. More specifically, I focus on working memory. In one project, I am examining how binding between items in working memory can be affected by semantic knowledge held in long-term memory. In another project, I am looking at the biases and flexibility in selecting to encode in working memory a limited amount of visual information from a complex visual environment. In a third project, I am examining the use of working memory during the performance of actions. I am interested in the cognitive and neural substrates of behaviors.
Assoc Prof Ng Bee Chin	Ng Bee Chin works in the area of child language acquisition and semantics. Her primary area of research is in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics aspects of language acquisition in multilingual contexts. Topics which she has worked on include bilingual acquisition, language identity and attitudes, semantic and conceptual acquisition, interpretation and translation, language and gender, speech pathology in multilingual settings. Given the multilingual context she works in, she is interested in any aspect of language enquiry which explores the interaction between the speaker and the enviroment.
Asst Prof Olwen Anna Bedford	Research Interests +Moral emotions, Chinese face, guanxi, filial obligation +Conflict resolution +Organizational culture and ethics Selected Publications Bedford, O. & Hwang, S. (in press). Flower drinking and masculinity in Taiwan. Journal of Sex Research. Huang, Y.H. & Bedford, O. (in press). The role of cross-cultural factors in integrative conflict resolution and crisis communication: The Hainan incident as a case. American Behavioral Scientist. Yeh, Y.K., Bedford, O., & Yang, Y. J. (2007). A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Coexistence and Domain-Superiority of Individuating and Relating Autonomy. International Journal of Psychology. Bedford, O. & Hwang, K. K. (2006). Taiwanese Identity and Democracy: The Social Psychology of Taiwan's 2004 Elections. Palgrave-MacMillan, New York: New York. Bedford, O. (2004). The individual experience of guilt and shame in Chinese culture. Culture and Psychology, 10(1), 123-146. Bedford, O. & Hwang, K.K. (2003). Guilt and shame in Chinese culture: A Cross-cultural framework from the perspective of morality and identity. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 33(2), 127-144. Hwang, Shu-Ling & Bedford, O. (2004). Juveniles' motivations for remaining in prostitution. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28(2), 136-146. Yeh, Kuang-hui & Bedford, O. (2003). Filial piety: A test of the dual model. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 6(3), 215-228. Hwang, S. & Bedford, O. (2003). Precursors and pathways to juvenile prostitution in Taiwan. Journal of Sex Research, 40(2), 201-210.
Prof Paul Kohl	Prof Kohl's areas of expertise are photography, both digital and analog, ink-jet printing, and web page design. His current research work focuses on fine art printing using the ink-jet printer and high quality papers.
Asst Prof PerMagnus Lindborg	Lindborg's main research interests are CAAC (Computer-Assisted Analysis and Composition), interactive audiovisual performance, rhetoric as a metaphor for composition, and the speaking-singing voice. Peer-reviewed articles/chapters have been published by a.o. LNCS-Springer Verlag and Ircam-Delatour. Tier 1: PerMagnus Lindborg (PI) Ina Conradi, Mark Chavez (ADM, NTU). Exploring kinetoaudiovisual parameter mapping in virtual instrument performance and interactive installation. Tier1 grant #200604393R, $50,000 SGD, Academic Research Fund, Singapore. March 2009 -- February 2011.
Vg Assoc Prof Peter van de Kamp	Anglo-Irish Literature (specialising in 19th and early 20th century--Mangan, Yeats, Joyce, et al) English Literature (particularly 19th and early 20th century). Language Philosophy Pragmatics and Stylistics Contemporary world fiction and poetry Scholasticism and esthetics (from Aristotle to Husserl) Translation of Poetry
Asst Prof Qu Li	development of executive function, theory of mind, emotion regulation, and bilingualism; the impacts of emotion, language, social interaction, and culture on cognitive development; inhibitory control; task switching; brain development; circadian rhythm on cognition and emotion regulation.
Assoc Prof Tan Joo Seng	Prof Tan's research interests are in global leadership, cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural negotiation, international human resource management, and organizational safety
Asst Prof Tan Ying Ying	Tan Ying Ying is trained as a phonetician. Her research in phonetics has focused largely on the prosody (stress, intonation, rhythm) of Singapore English and other languages in Singapore, with particular attention to social-indexical variation, ethnic differentiation and substrate influence. Her current research inquiry concerns the constitution of the Singaporean accent. Besides Singapore English, she is also interested in the tonology of Southern Min languages such as Teochew and Hokkien. A firm believer in interdisciplinarity, she is engaged in understanding and analyzing language policy and planning through the lenses of cultural theory and contemporary thought. She has published in areas as phonetics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and cultural theory.
Asst Prof Wong Liang Chun Jaymz	Assistant Professor Jaymz Wong's areas of expertise are film directing, film writing, and film producing. His current research works focus on film psychology, film semiotics, film form and the future of Cinema.
Asst Prof Xu Xiaoge	Dr. Xu's research interests include online journalism, citizen journalism, development journalism, comparative press systems, media literacy, and media in China. Currently, he is conducting projects on modeling journalism differences, development journalism, online journalism, foreign TV news, citizen journalism, newsroom communication, news production, media education, and media in China.
Asst Prof Yeoh Kok Cheow	Dr Yeoh's area of research is mainly in instructional methods to improve and enhance visual learning. His professional projects include, but are not limited to brand consulting, development of visual identity systems, package designs, advertising campaigns, store interior layout design and planning, and a wide range of promotional, printed and multimedia designs.

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