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Service to Professional Organizations:

· NTU IEEE Student Branch Counselor – Dec. 2006 – Nov. 2009

· The IEEE Singapore Section – Student Activities Chair – Dec. 2006 – Nov. 2008

· The IEEE Singapore Section – Professional Activities Chair – Dec. 2005 – Nov. 2006

Recent Journal & Conference Activities:

Guest Editor:

· Springer LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security (DHMS) – Special issue on Content Protection and Multimedia Forensics – 2010

· IGI Global International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics – Special issue on Intelligent Multimedia and Forensics – 2010

Reviewer for Journal:

· ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal

· IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

· IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

· IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

· IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

· IET Computer Vision

· Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal (Springer)

· International Journal of Network Management (IJNM) (Wiley)

· International Journal of IT (IJIT)

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair:

· IEEE Tencon 2009

Workshop Organizer:

· Content Protection and Forensics - IEEE, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2010

Special Session Organizer:

· IEEE, Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2009

· IEEE, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP) 2009

· Multimedia Forensics - IEEE, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2007

Technical Program/Organizing Committee Member/Reviewer:

· IEEE, International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC) 2010

· IEEE, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2010

· International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW) 2010

· International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2010

· IEEE Tencon 2009

· IEEE, Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2009

· IEEE, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2009

· IEEE, International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC) 2009

· IEEE, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP) 2009

· IEEE, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS) 2009

· The IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and
Applications (EuroIMSA) 2009

· National Conference on Communications (NCC) 2009

List of Papers:

1. A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Context Based Watermarking of Secure JPEG-LS Images”, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, SIGMAP, 2011, Seville, Spain.

2. L. L. Win, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “A Privacy Preserving Content Distribution Mechanism without Trusted Third Parties”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

3. A. Sachan and S. Emmanuel, “DRM Violations Detection Using Consumer Logs”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo – Content Protection and Forensics Workshop, ICME - CPAF, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

4. A. Sachan and S. Emmanuel, “Rights Violation Detection in Multi-level Digital Rights Management System”, Elsevier Computers and Security, May 2011. à In Press

5. A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Aggregate Licenses Validation for Digital Rights Violation Detection”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Application (TOMCCAP), March 2011. à In Press

6. L. L. Win, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “Secure Interoperable Digital Content Distribution Mechanisms in a Multi-domain Architecture”, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, April 2011. à In Press

7. A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Robust Watermarking of Compressed JPEG Images in Encrypted Domain”, Springer Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Systems, April 2011. à In Press

8. S. Liang and S. Emmanuel, “Mobile Agent Protection with Function Level Self-Modifying Code Obfuscation”, Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Nov. 2010.

9. Peng Zhang, Sabu Emmanuel and Mohan Kankanhalli, “Pedestrian Tracking based on Hidden-Latent Temporal Markov Chain,” International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM, 2011, Taipei Taiwan.

10. Peng Zhang, Sabu Emmanuel, Yanning Zhang and Cheng Fu, “Auto-scaled ISL Tracking for Region based Rate Control Infrastructure and Applications in Video Surveillance,” International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Accepted for Publishing in 2011.

11. Peng Zhang and Sabu Emmanuel, “Moving People Segmentation from Zoomed Dynamic Scene Containing a Door,” Journal of New Generation Computing, Springer, 2010.

12. P. Zhang,T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, M. S. Kankanhalli, Privacy Preserving Video Surveillance Using a Pedestrian Tracking Mechanism, MiFor 10, ACM Multimedia 2010, Oct 2010,Firenze, Italy.

13. P. Zhang,T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, M. S. Kankanhalli, Privacy Preserving Video Surveillance Using a Pedestrian Tracking Mechanism, MiFor 10, ACM Multimedia 2010, Oct 2010,Firenze, Italy.

14. T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, P. Zhang, M. S. Kankanhalli, An Authentication Mechanism Using Chinese Remainder Theorem for Efficient Surveillance Video Transmission, AVSS 2010, 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, Aug-Sep 2010, Boston, USA.

15. A. V. Subramanyam, Sabu Emmanuel, Mohan S. Kankanhalli: Compressed-encrypted domain JPEG2000 image watermarking. ICME 2010:1315-1320.

16. A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel, and M. S. Kankanhalli, A Geometric Approah for Efficient Licenses Validation in DRM, 7th VLDB workshop on secure data management(SDM'10), Singapore.

17. A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel, and M. S. Kankanhalli, An Efficient Access Control Method for Multimedia Social Networks, ACM MM Workshop on social media. WSM '10, Firenze.

18. Sachan, S. Emmanuel, and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Efficient Aggregate Licenses Validation in DRM”, 15th Database Systems for Advanced Application, DASFAA, 2010, Tsukuba, Japan.

19. M. Narwaria, W. Lin, I. V. McLoughlin, S. Emmanuel and L. T. Chia, “Non-intrusive Speech Quality Assessment with Support Vector Regression”, International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling, MMM, 2010, 325-335.

20. T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, A. V. Subramanyam and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Joint Watermarking Scheme for Multitiparty Multilevel DRM Architecture”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), 4(4), 2009, 758 – 767.

21. P. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “Moving People Segmentation from Zoomed Dynamic Scene Containing a Door”, Journal of New Generation Computing, 2009.

22. Arie Hans Nasution, Peng Zhang and Sabu Emmanuel, “Video Surveillance for Elderly Monitoring and Safety,” IEEE TENCON Conference, 2009, Singapore.

23. Sachan, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Efficient License Validation in MPML DRM Architecture”, ACM CCS Workshop on Digital Rights Management, DRM, 2009, Chicago.

24. P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel, Y. Zhang and X. Jing, “Auto-scaled Incremental Tensor Subspace Learning for Region based Rate Control Application”, Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV, 2009, Xian, China.

25. S. Liang and S. Emmanuel, “Protection of DRM Agent Codes”, The IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.

26. L. L. Win, T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Secure Domain Architecture for Interoperable Content Distribution”, The IEEE Pacific Rim Conference, PCM, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 1313 – 1318.

27. H. Nasution, P. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “Video Surveillance for Elderly Monitoring and Safety”, The IEEE TENCON, 2009, Singapore.

28. S. B. Guest, P. K. Atrey and S. Emmanuel, “PEER: An Effective and Efficient Personal Website”, The IEEE TENCON, 2009, Singapore.

29. T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, A. Das and M. S. Kankanhalli, “A CRT Based Watermark for Multiparty Multilevel DRM Architecture”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME, Cancun, Mexico, June/July, 2009.

30. T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, A. Das and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Secure Multimedia Content Delivery with Multiparty Multilevel DRM Architecture”, The 19th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, NOSSDAV, Williamsburg, USA, June, 2009.

31. P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel, P. K. Atrey and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Latent Semantic Cues for Moving People Tracking”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Taipei, Taiwan, April, 2009.

32. Sachan, S. Emmanuel, A. Das and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Privacy Preserving Multiparty Multilevel DRM Architecture”, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC, Digital Rights Management workshop, Las Vegas, USA, January, 2009.

33. Y. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, "Creatorship Protection for Digital Images in Collaborative Environment", Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, Vol 2, 2008.  Accepted

34. G. Venkataraman, S. Emmanuel and T. Srikanthan, “Energy-Efficient Cluster-Based Scheme for Failure Management in Sensor Networks”, IET Communications, Vol 2, Issue 4, April 2008, pp. 528 – 537.

35. S. Emmanuel, P. Zhang and A. Sugama, “Spatial and Temporal Sampling Control for Visual Surveillance Application”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC, Singapore, October, 2008.

36. P. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “Zoomed Object Segmentation from Dynamic Scene Containing a Door”, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication, HPCC ADIP Workshop, Dalian, China, September, 2008.

37. P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Latent Topic Discovery for Moving People Detection in Visual Surveillance”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN, IMAP Workshop, St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, August, 2008.

38. R. Dutta, S. Mukhopadhyay, A. Das and S. Emmanuel, “Generalized Self-Healing Key Distribution using Vector Space Access Structure”, International Conference on Networking, IFIP Networking, May, 2008.

39. R. Dutta, S. Mukhopadhyay and S. Emmanuel, “Low Bandwidth Self-Healing Key Distribution for Broadcast Encryption”, International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, AMS, May, 2008.

40. J. L. Koh, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Quality-Aware GSM Speech Watermarking”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS, Seattle, May, 2008.

41. T. V. Nguyen, J. C. Patra and S. Emmanuel, ''gpICA: A Novel Nonlinear ICA Algorithm Using Geometric Linearization'', Journal of Applied Signal Processing, Vol 2007, Issue 1, pp. 82 - 94.

42. G. Venkataraman, S. Emmanuel and T. Srikanthan, “Size Restricted Cluster formation and Cluster Maintenance Technique for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks", International Journal of Network Management, Wiley InterScience, 2007, 17: 171-194.

43. G. Venkataraman, S. Emmanuel and T. Srikanthan, “A Cluster-based Approach to Fault Detection and Fault Recovery in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, ISWCS, Trondheim, Norway, October, 2007.

44. H. Nasution and S. Emmanuel, “Intelligent Video Surveillance for Monitoring Elderly in Home Environments”, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, IEEE MMSP, Crete, Greece, October, 2007.

45. L. T. Van, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Identifying Source Cell Phone Using Chromatic Aberration”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME, 2007.

46. L. T. Van, K. C. Chong, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “A Survey on Digital Camera Image Forensic Methods”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME, 2007.

47. S. Emmanuel, A. P. Vinod, D. Rajan and C. K. Heng, "An Authentication Watermarking Scheme with Transaction Tracking Enabled", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, Cairns, Australia, February, 2007.

48. S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Mask-Based Finger Printing Scheme for Digital Video Broadcasting”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Oct. 2006.

49. Q-J. B. Loh and S. Emmanuel, “ELM for the Classification of Music Genres”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, IEEE Xplore, Singapore, 2006.

50. Y. Q. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “A Novel Framework for Multiple Creatorship Protection of Digital Movies”, Springer LNCS 3919, Digital Rights Management Technologies, Issues, Challenges and Systems, 2006.

51. P. Vinod and S. Emmanuel, ''Implementation of Low Power and High-Speed Higher Order Channel Filters for Software Radio Receivers'', 17th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland, September 2006.

52. Willis, G. Venkataraman, S. Emmanuel and A. Das, “FPGA Implementation of Cluster Formation Algorithms in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks”, International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, ISSNIP, IEEE Xplore, Melbourne, Australia, 2005.

53. S. G. Gopalan, G. Venkataraman and S. Emmanuel, “FPGA Implementation and Analyses of Cluster Maintenance Algorithms in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks”, Springer LNCS 3740, Advances in Computer Systems Architecture, 2005.

54. Y. Q. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “A Novel Watermarking Framework for Joint-Creatorship Protection”, Proceedings of International conference on Cyberworlds, CW, IEEE Xplore, Singapore, 2005.

55. Y. Q. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “A Novel Framework for Object-Based Video Multiple Creatorship Protection”, Fourth International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA, Zagreb, 2005.

56. G. Venkataraman, S. Emmanuel and T. Srikanthan, “DASCA: A Degree and Size based Clustering Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks”, The IEEE International Symposium of Wireless Communication Systems, ISWCS, Sienna, 2005.

57. Sugama, S. Emmanuel and A. P. Vinod, “2D Dimension, Location and Speed Descriptors From Surveillance Video”, The Eighth International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, ISSPA, IEEE Xplore, Sydney, Australia, 2005.

58. P. Vinod, E. M-K. Lai and S. Emmanuel, “Complexity Reduction of Software Defined Radio Channelizers Using Filter Coefficient-Partitioning”, The Eighth International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, ISSPA, IEEE Xplore, Sydney, Australia, 2005.

59. Z. Li, A. Das and S. Emmanuel, “Model Redundancy vs. Intrusion Detection”, Springer LNCS 3439, Information Security Practice and Experience, 2005.

60. G. Venkataraman and S. Emmanuel, “Size and Hop Restricted Cluster Formation in Mobile Ad-hoc Network", Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems, NCS, Krabi, Thailand, 2005.

61. S. Emmanuel, H. C. Kiang and A. Das, “A Reversible Watermarking Scheme for JPEG-2000 Compressed Images”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005.

62. H. C. Kiang and S.Emmanuel, “A Finite State Transition-Based Fragile Watermarking Scheme for JPEG-2000 Compressed Images”, 9th IASTED-International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA), 2005.

63. G. Venkataraman, S. Emmanuel and T. Srikanthan, ''A Novel Distributed Cluster Maintenance Technique for High Mobility Ad-hoc Networks'', The First IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, ISWCS, 2004.

64. G. Venkataraman, S. Emmanuel and T. Srikanthan, ''A Size-limited Cluster Maintenance Technique for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks'', Proceedings of Fourth International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP, 2004.

65. K. K. L. Terence and S. Emmanuel, ''Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems'', UROP Congress, 2004.

66. T. N. B. Anh, R. Sowmya and S. Emmanuel, ''Watermarking of MPEG-4 Streaming Video'', UROP Congress, 2004.

67. S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, ''A Digital Rights Management Scheme for Broadcast Video'', ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, 2003, Vol 8, No. 6, pp. 444 – 458.

68. S. Arora and S. Emmanuel, ''Real-Time Adaptive Speech Watermarking Scheme for Mobile Applications'', IEEE Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia, 2003.

69. S. Arora and S. Emmanuel, ''Adaptive Spread Spectrum Based Watermarking of Speech'', NUROP Congress, Singapore, 2003.

70. S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, ''Copyright Protection for MPEG-2 Compressed Broadcast Video'', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME, 2001.

71. S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, ''Mask Based Interactive Watermarking Protocol for Video'', Proc. SPIE International Symposium on the Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications (ITCOM), 2001.

72. S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, ''A System for Security and Copyright Protection in Broadcast Video'', Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT), 2001.

73. S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, ''Security and Copyright Protection for Broadcast Video'', Proceedings of the Multimedia Modeling (MMM), 2000.

74. M. S. Kankanhalli, K. F. Hau and S. Emmanuel, ''Copyright Protection for Electronic Teaching Material'', Proc. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Symposium, 2000.

Papers under Review:

1. T. Thomas, P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel, Z. Tang,A Mechanism for Authentication of Object Based Surveillance Videos, , Submitted to Wiley Inter Science, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

2. P. Zhang, T. Thomas, S.Emmanuel Privacy Enabled Video Surveillance Using a Two State Markov Tracking Algorithm,Submitted to Springer Multimedia Systems Journal.

3. A.V. Subramanyam, S. Emmanuel, Robust Watermarking of Compressed and Encrypted JPEG2000 Images, submitted in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

4. A. Sachan and S. Emmanuel, “Computation Time Efficient Approach for DRM Licenses Validation”, submitted to the Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications journal.

5. L. Wang, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Blind Audio Watermarking Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition, Psychoacoustic Model and Filterbank Analysis”, submitted to the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Application (TOMCCAP) journal.

6. P. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “Pedestrian Tracking based on MMHL with Incremental Subspace Learning”, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology journal.

7. V. Balachandran and S. Emmanuel, “Software Code Obfuscation by Hiding Control Flow Information in Stack”, submitted to the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS, 2011.

List of Book Chapter:

1. A. Sachan, and S. Emmanuel, Efficient Access Control in Multimedia Social Networks, Social Media Modelling and Computing, Springer, 2011. /span>

2. Peng Zhang, Sabu Emmanuel and Cheng Fu, “Efficient Surveillance Video Storage in Green Computing,” Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2011.< Invited>

3. S Emmanuel and M S. Kankanhalli, ''Digital Rights Management Issues for Video'', Multimedia Security Handbook, CRC Press LLC, USA, 2004, pp. 749 – 778.

Research Grants:

· Digital Rights Violation Detection for Digital Asset Management – A*SERC (PI)

· Software Code Protection Through Software Obfuscation – MINDEF-NTU (PI)

· Audiovisual Quality Evaluation Model for Multimedia Communications – AcRF Tier 1 (CoPI)

· Low power reconfigurable receiver architectures for migrating software defined radio technology from base stations to handsets – AcRF Tier 1 (Completed, CoPI)

· Universal Multimedia Access Over 4G Wireless Networks – A*SERC (Completed, CoPI)

Research Projects:

· Digital Rights Violation Detection

· Compressed Encrypted Domain Processing

· Software Code Protection through Software Obfuscation

· Visual Home Surveillance

· Digital Rights Management for Multimedia in a Collaborative Environmen

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Sabu Emmanuel
Assistant Professor - Division of Computer Communications
School of Computer Engineering

Research Interests

    • Multimedia & Software Security
    • Digital Watermarking
    • Digital Rights Management
    • Multimedia Forensics
    • Surveillance Video Processing

Project Demos

• Digital Rights Management Demo
• Visual Surveillance

Teaching Award:

· Most Popular Lecturer Award 2009

Undergraduates Courses:

· Computer Architecture (Lecture)

· Wireless Networks & Mobile Computing (Lecture)

· Digital Communication (Tutorial)

· Microprocessor Systems Design (Tutorial)

· Electronics II (Tutorial)

Graduates Courses:

· Computer & Network Security (Lecture)

Contact Details:

Phone : (65)6790 6092; Fax: (65) 6792 6559(pp)
E-mail : ASEMMANUEL{at}ntu.edu.sg

Office               : N4-02c-95
                        School of Computer Engineering
                        Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

Office   :   N4-02c-95
                School of Computer Engineering
                Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
Phone :   (65) 6790 6092
Fax      :   (65) 6792 6559(pp)
E-mail :   asemmanuel{at}ntu.edu.sg

Research Staff:

Tony Thomas (Research Fellow)

Wang Liang(Research Fellow)

Lei Lei Win (Research Associate)

Ajith Joseph (Research Associate)

Research Students:

PhD:

Zhang Peng (Visual Home Surveillance)
Amit Sachan (Digital Rights Violation Detection)
A.V. Subramanyam (Compressed Encrypted Domain Processing)

Gayathri Venkataraman (PhD) (Wireless Sensor Networks)

Masters:

Shan Liang (MS Research) (Software Code Protection)

Yuquan Zhang (MS Research) (Collaborative Creatorship Protection)

Samantha Santhanam (MSc DMT)

Elizabeth (MSc DMT)

Kaung Htet Myint (MSc DMT)

Under grads (Final Year Projects):

Wong Junxiong

Sim Jing Jie Melvin

Sen Qiong Ju Diana

Tok De Fang

Nguyen Hung Phuong

Chia Victor

Hendy Sutomo Sow

Muhammad Jufri Bin Ramli

Ang Wei Sheng Raymond

Koh Boon Hui

Kwek Kim Huat

Ho Wee Kim Eric

Koe David Kurniawan

Huang Shichun

Chong Loo Tong, Andrew

Ow Yong Weng Fai

Tan Kok Song

Fu Chuanyan

Lin Yihui Sharon

Koh Jun-Li Christabel

Tan Chun Kiat

Zhuo Peishan

Truong Minh Nhat