SER Wee
Associate Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Division of Communication Engineering
Director of Centre for Signal Processing



Phone: 6790 5951 , Fax: 6791 2383
Office: S2-B4b-07
Email: ewser@ntu.edu.sg

Biography

Dr. Ser received his B.Sc. (Hon) and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from the Loughborough University, UK, in 1978 and 1982 respectively. He joined the Defence Science Organization (DSO), Singapore in 1982 and became the Head of the Communications Research Division in 1993. In 1997, he joined the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as an associate professor and has since been appointed as the Director of the Centre for Signal Processing at NTU. Dr. Ser was a recipient of the Colombo Plan scholarship (undergraduate studies) and the PSC postgraduate scholarship. He was awarded the IEE Prize during his studies in UK. While in DSO, he was a recipient of the prestigious Defence Technology (Individual) Prize in 1991 and the DSO Excellent Award in 1992. He is a senior member of the IEEE and is listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World. He has served in several boards, advisory and technical committees, both internationally as well as at the national level in Singapore. He has also served in the editorial board of the International Journal of Signal Processing. He is a reviewer in several journals including IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications, etc. He has published more than 70 papers in international journals and conferences. He holds five patents and has one pending patent.

 

Research Interest

Sensor Array Signal Processing, Channel Estimation and Equalization, Signal Classification, UWB based Detection, EEG Brain Signal Analysis, Emotion Analysis.

Selected Research Projects

  • Principal Investigator, "Smart Space enabled by Sentient Computing", $1.2m, 2006-2009, Funded by A*STAR-SERC Thematic Strategic Research Program on UWB-SC.
  • Principal Investigator, "Embedded Microphone Array for Healthcare Monitoring", $0.5m, 2006-2009, Funded by A*STAR-SERC Thematic Strategic Research Program on Embedded Systems.
  • Principal Investigator, "Smart Audio Surveillance", $0.5m, 2005-2008, Funded by I2R.

Selected Publications

  • L Qu, W Ser, Z Shao and M Fujise, "An Efficient Adaptive Beamforming with Pattern Control Ability", VTC2006 Fall, 64th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, Canada, 25-28 September 2006.
  • ZL Yu and W Ser, "Kalman Smoother and its Application in Analysis of Snoring Sounds for the Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea", WC2006, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, Korea, 27 August – 1 September 2006.
  • P Wang and W Ser, "Performance Optimization for Kernel Error Monitoring", WSEAS Transactions on Communications, Vol. 4, No. 9, September 2005, pp. 858-856.
  • W Ser, S Rahardja and Z Lin, "Autocorrelation Properties of Unified Complex Hadamard Transform Sequences", IEICE Trans. On Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E85-A, No. 10, October 2002, pp. 2280-2282.
  • W Ser, K C Tan and K C Ho, "A New Method for Determining "Unknown" Worst Case Channels for Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation", IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 46, NO. 2, February 1998, pp. 164-168.