WAN Chunru
Assistant Professor of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Division of Information Engineering

Phone: 6790 6027, Fax: 6792 0415
Office: S2-B2b-52 
Email: ecrwan@ntu.edu.sg
Personal WebSite: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ecrwan

Biography

Dr. Wan Chunru received his B.Eng. and M.Eng degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, respectively in 1985 and 1988. He obtained his PhD degree in computer studies from Loughborough University, UK in 1996. From 1988 to 1990, he was a researcher in Institute of Acoustic Engineering, College of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University. From 1990-1992, he was associated with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Loughborough University. From 1992 to 1993, he was with the Department of Computer Studies of Loughborough University to pursue his PhD. From 1993-1998, he worked in DSO National Laboratories as a Senior Engineer. From 1998, Dr. Wan is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Nanyang Technological University while remaining an Adjunct Principal Member of Technical Staff in DSO National Laboratories. His research interests are in signal processing, sonars, communications, parallel computing, underwater acoustics and computational mathematics. Dr. Wan is a m ember of Editorial Board of the journal, Soft Computing. Dr. Wan is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.


Research Interest

Signal processing
Sonars
Communications
Parallel computing
Underwater acoustics
Computational mathematics


Selected Research Projects

  • Principle Investigator, DSO & NTU co-funded, Advanced Signal Processing for Active Sonar Systems, 2002-2004, Funding from DSO: S$77,000, Funding from NTU: S$77,000
  • Principle Investigator, DSTA funded, Study & Development of Advanced Detection & Localization Algorithms for a Randomly Distributed Acoustic Sensor Network, 2004-2006. Funding from DSTA: S$100,000.


Selected Publications

  • Anmin Kong and Chunru Wan, “A Novel Blind Space-Time Multiuser Detector for DS-CDMA System”, Accepted by IEEE Communication Letters, 2006
  • Qing Wang and C.R. Wan , “A Novel CFAR Tonal Detector Using Phase Compensation”, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 900-911, Vol 30, No 4, October 2005
  • M. Liu, C. Wan, L. Wang, “Content-based audio classification and retrieval using a fuzzy logic system: towards multimedia search engines”, Soft Computing, Vol 6, No. 5, pp 357-364, 2002
  • C.R. Wan, J.T. Goh and H.T. Chee, “Optimal Tonal Detectors Based on Power Spectrum”, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 4 , pp 540 –552, October 2000
  • C.R. Wan and D.J. Evans, " Nineteen Ways of Systolic Matrix Multiplication", Intern. J. Computer Math., Vol. 68, pp 39-69, 1998