ER Meng Hwa
Associate Provost of NTU
Professor of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Division of Information Engineering

Phone: 6790 5926, Fax: 6795 1567
Office: S2.1-B2-24 
Email: emher@ntu.edu.sg
Personal WebSite: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/emher

Biography

Er. Dr. Er Meng Hwa was born in Singapore in 1956. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree with First Class Honours from National University of Singapore in 1981 and his PhD degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1986. He joined the Nanyang Technological Institute, the predecessor of NTU in 1985 as a lecturer and has risen to hold several key management and leadership positions at the University. He was founding Director of the Centre for Signal Processing from 1995 to 1997, Dean of the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering from 1996 to 2005, Dean of College of Engineering from 2001 to 2004 and Deputy President 2 from 1998 to 2006. As Acting Provost since April 2006, he helps to provide academic leadership on matters relating to academic programmes and faculty, and to advance and support excellence in teaching and learning, research and academic engagements within the University.

In 2005, Prof Er was conferred the prestigious title of Honorary Fellow by the London-based Institution of Electrical Engineers in recognition of his outstanding contribution to engineering research, education and public service. He is the first Singaporean to receive the award.


Research Interest

    Array Signal Processing
    Image Processing and Computer Vision
    Satellite Communications
    Optimization Techniques
    DSP Applications & Implementations


Selected Research Projects

  • Centre for Signal Processing, Aug 95 – Mar 98, $12.891 millions. Funded by NSTB.
  • Development of Core Capabilities in Satellite Communication Technology, Jan 96 – Dec 99, $4.645 millions. Funded by NSTB.
  • Audio Beam Loudspeakers, Jan 01 – Dec 03, $1.234 millions. Funded by NSTB/MOE/TI.

Secured and completed a total of 24 research projects with an accumulative grant of $20,873,595.


Selected Publications

  • M H Er and A Cantoni, "Derivative Constraints for Broadband Element Space Antenna Array Processors", IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, USA , Vol. ASSP-31, No. 6, pp. 1378-1393, December 1983.
  • M H Er and A Cantoni, "A New Set of Linear Constraints for Broadband Time Domain Element Space Processors", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Special Issue on Adaptive Processing Antenna Systems, USA, Vol. AP-34, No. 3, pp. 320-329, March 1986.
  • M H Er and A Cantoni, "A Unified Approach to the Design of Robust Narrowband Antenna Array Processors", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, USA, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 17-23, January 1990.
  • Z L Yu and M H Er, “An Improved Array Steering Vector Estimation Method and Its Application in Speech Enhancement”, Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2005, No. 18, pp. 2930-2937, Oct 2005.
  • Y M Li and M H Er, “Theoretical Analysis of Gain and Phase Errors Calibration with Optimal Implementation for Linear Equi-spaced Array,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 2, February 2006.
  • W S Gan, J Yang, K S Tan, M H Er, “A Digital Beamsteerer for Difference Frequency in Parametric Array”, IEEE Transaction on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol 14, No.3, May 2006, pp 1018 – 1025.