Nanyang Technology University

Academic Profile
Assoc Prof Tan Hee Beng Kuan

Associate Professor 
Division of Information Engineering 
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering 
College of Engineering 



Email: IBKTAN@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 5631 
Office: S2-B2c-109 
Education
  • PhD National University of Singapore 1996
  • MSc National University of Singapore 1988
  • BSc(Hons) Nanyang University 1974
Biography
Dr. Tan Hee Beng Kuan received his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Mathematics in 1974 from the Nanyang University (Singapore). He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore in 1989 and 1996 respectively. He has thirteen years of experience in IT industry before moving to academic. His IT experiences include design and development of software systems, and management of software development projects. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS) in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. Prior to joining ICIS, he was lecturing in the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science in the National University of Singapore. His research interest is in Software Engineering. Currently, his main research focus is on Software Testing and Analysis, Software Security and Software Size Estimation. Dr Tan has published in premier international software engineering journals and conferences including ACM Transactions on Software Engineering (TOSEM), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).
Research Interests
Software Security; Software Testing and Analysis; Software Size Estimation.
Research Grant
  • MINDEF-NTU Joint Applied R&D Co-operation Programme (JPP) (2012-2014) [by Ministry of Defense (MINDEF), Nanyang Technological University]
  • MINDEF-NTU Joint Applied R&D Co-operation Programme (JPP) (2013-2014) [by Nanyang Technological University, Ministry of Defense (MINDEF)]
  • Ministry of Defense (2010-2014) [by Ministry of Defense (MINDEF)]
Current Projects
  • Auditing Input Validation from Assembly Code for Security Defence, Verification and Testing.
  • Detection of Security Vulnerabilities from Executable Code Through Hybrid Static-Dynamic Program Analysis and Attach Pattern Modelling
  • Malware Detection and Clustering Using Both Dynamic ande Static Analysis
Selected Publications
  • Tan Hee Beng Kuan, Zhao Yuan and Zhang Hongyu. (2009). Conceptual Data Model Based Software Size Estimation for Information System. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, .
  • Ngo, M. N., Tan, H.B.K. (2007). Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering: Detecting large number of infeasible paths through recognizing their patterns.
  • Tan, H. B. K., Yang, Y., Bian, L. (2006). Systematic transformation of functional analysis model into OO design and implementation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 32(2), 111-35.
  • Tan, H B K, Zhao, Y, and Zhang, H. (2006). Estimating LOC for information systems from their conceptual models. 28th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006) (pp. 321-330).
  • Tan, Hee Beng Kuan, Thein, Ni Lar. (2004). Recovery of PTUIE handling from source codes through recognizing its probable properties. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16(10), 1217-1231.
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