Short Bio

Hwee-Pink TAN is currently Associate Professor of Information Systems (Practice) as well as Academic Director of the TCS-SMU iCity Lab at the Singapore Management University. Prior to joining SMU in March 2015, he was the SERC Programme Manager of the A*STAR Sense and Sense-abilities Program, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. Before returning to Singapore to join I2R in March 2008, he was a Research Fellow at Center for Telecommunications Value-chain Research (CTVR) in the Emerging Networks (EN) strand, led by Dr. Linda Doyle.Between December 2004 and June 2006, he was a post-doctoral researcher at EURANDOM in the research group, Queueing and Performance Analysis (QPA), under the guidance of Prof.dr Onno Boxma and Dr. Ivo Adan. He also visited the Telecommunications Group at the University of Ferrara from September-October 2004 and was hosted by Prof. Michele Zorzi, who is Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.

He is currently the lead PI of the L2 NIC funded ShineSeniors project, in collaboration with Dr Liang Huiguang (Co-PI, A*STAR Sense and Sense-abilities) and Dr. Eugene Shum (Co-PI, Eastern Health Alliance). In his capacity as the Head of the A*STAR Sense and Sense-abilities programme, he was involved in the following projects:

• August 2013 - August 2016 : Generalized Participatory Sensing (Co-Principal Investigator);
• June 2013 - June 2015 : Urban Sensing for Ads Networks (Principal Investigator);
• April 2013 - October 2014 : A Dense, Rural & Large Scale Deployment of S&S Technologies for Vertical Farming (Principal Investigator);
• Sep 2012 - Mar 2014 : Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-time and Continuous Ambient Noise Mapping (Principal Investigator);
• May 2012 - May 2015 : A Unified Sensing and Transport Architecture for Large Scale and Heterogeneous Sensor and Actuator Networks (Principal Investigator);
• October 2010 - September 2012 : Exploiting Ambient Energy Harvesting and Wireless Multihop Technologies for Open Car Park Monitoring (Principal Investigator);
• April 2009 - September 2011 : Robust Multihop Underwater Network to Support Long-Range Sensing Applications (Principal Investigator);
• August 2007 - August 2011 : Underwater Sensor Networks for Intelligent Deepwater Mooring Systems (Principal Investigator wef 1 October 2009);
• January 2008 - December 2010 : MAMI-MANET and Mesh Interconnectivity in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (Principal Investigator wef 1 October 2009).

Education

• Oct 2000 - Sep 2004 : Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology;
• July 1996 - June 2000 : M.Sc (EE) Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore;
• July 1990 - June 1994 : B.Eng (EE) (1st class honours) Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Professional Experience

• July 2006 - March 2008 : Research Fellow, CTVR, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
• December 2004 - June 2006 : Post-doctoral Researcher, EURANDOM, The Netherlands.
• May 1995 - July 2000 : Senior Member of Technical Staff, Defence Science Organization National Laboratory, Singapore.

Prizes / Awards

• August 2014: A*STAR Sponsorship (Part-time MBA);
• May 2014: I2R Long Service Award (5 years);
• April 2014: A*STAR Most Inspiring Mentor Award;
• April 2014: A*STAR's The Award for Leading, Educating & Nurturing Talent (TALENT);
• April 2014: A*STAR Borderless Award;
• October 2012: Best Paper Award, ICTC 2012;
• April 2013: I2R Role Model Award 2012;
• April 2012: I2R Role Model Award 2011;
• April 2011: I2R Excellent Team Player Award 2010;
• April 2010: I2R Good Team Player Award 2009;
• March 2009: I2R Best Research Paper Award 2008;
• March 2008: Highly-Commended Paper Award (22nd IEEE AINA, Okinawa, Japan);
• 2005-2008: A-STAR International Fellowship (Post-Doctoral Research);
• 2001-2004: Faculty Scholarship (Ph.D. Studies);
• 2000-2001: Lady Davis Fellowship (Ph.D. Studies);
• 1993-1994: Placement on Dean's List for Outstanding Academic Performance (B.Eng. Studies);
• 1990-1994: Public Service Commission Local Merit Scholarship (B.Eng. Studies).

Current Graduate Students

• Mohammad Abu Alsheikh: Ph.D. Student (Nanyang Technological University), Co-supervised with Shaowei Lin and Dusit Niyato ;
• Tom van den Berg : Graduate Intern (University of Twente), Co-supervised with Hwee Xian TAN

Past Graduate Students

• Pengfei-Zhang : Ph.D. Student (2010-2014, Nanyang Technological University), Co-supervised with Gaoxi Xiao (Currently Research Scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research);
• Huiguang Liang : Ph.D. Student (2009-2015, Carnegie Mellon University), Co-supervised with Wai-Leong Yeow and Hyong Kim (Currently Research Scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research);
• Alvin Valera : Ph.D. Student (2010-2015, National University of Singapore), Co-supervised with Wee-Seng Soh (Currently Research Fellow at SMU-TCS iCity Lab, Singapore Management University);
• Chiekh Mbacke Thiam: Graduate Intern (Francophone Institute for Computer Science)
• Nicholas de Battista : Ph.D. Student (2009-2013, University of Sheffield), Co-supervised with James Brownjohn (Currently Research Associate at Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, University of Cambridge);
• Zhi Ang Eu : Ph.D. Student (2007-2011, National University of Singapore), Co-supervised with Winston Seah (Currently at Intellectual Property Office of Singapore);
• Fu-Yun Tsuo : Graduate Intern (July - Oct 2010, National Taiwan University), Co-supervised with Yong Huat Chew (Currently Software R&D Engineer at MStar Semiconductor);
• Sanam Shirazi Beheshitha: Graduate Intern (Jan - Jun 2012, Amirkabir University of Technology); (Currently Graduate Student at Simon Fraser University);