SERVICE TO INDUSTRIES/PUBLIC ENGINEERING SECTOR/PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTES/EDUCATION INSTITUTES

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(1)    Recognition

 

·               Distinguished Service as Chairman of IEE Singapore Branch (31 May, 2002 – 29 May, 2004)

 

Since I was elected Chairman of IEE Singapore Branch on 31 May, 2002, the Management Committee and myself had worked tirelessly to organise numerous activities with the mission of adding values to the membership of IEE Singapore members so to enhance their professional competence and welfare. A total of 63 activities were organized for members over a period of two years (May 2002 - May 2004).  Under my leadership, the IEE Singapore Branch has achieved great successes and the membership growth for the IEE Singapore Branch has been more than 20 %.. The most notable success is the setup of IEE NTU Student Section in 2003 whose current membership strength is 200. Please refer to the website http://www.iee.org.sg for more details of the activities organised for IEE Singapore Members. In recognition of my outstanding contributions to the IEE Singapore Branch, I was presented a Token of Appreciation in recognition of my distinguished service during the AGM held on 29 May, 2004.

 

(2)    Service to Professional Bodies

 

·               Member of IES Manufacturing Engineering Technical Committee (July, 1993 – June, 2001).

·               Chairman of Continuing Education Sub-Committee of IEEE Control Chapter (January 1993 – December 2003).

·               Honorary Secretary of IEEE Singapore Section (January, 1994 – March, 1997).

·               Editor of the IES Journal on Electronic and Computer Engineering (July, 1995 – April, 2004).

·               Member of IES Publication Committee (July, 1995 – April, 2004).

·               Advisor of IEEE NTU Student Branch (February, 1997 – June, 2001).

·               Vice-Chairman of IEEE Singapore Section (March, 1998 – December, 1999).

·               Chairman of Continuing Education Sub-Committee cum Chairman of Student Activities, IEEE Singapore Section (March, 1998 – December, 1999).

·               Member of IES Innovators Club (March, 1999 – present).

·               Assistant Honorary Secretary, IEE Singapore Centre (26 May, 2000 – 25 May, 2001).

·               Vice-President of Singapore Institute of Engineering Technologists (7 October, 2000 – present).

·               Editor-in-Chief of SIET Journal (7 October, 2000 – present).

·               Member of Board of Directors of World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (1 March, 2002-present).

·               Chairman of IEE Singapore Branch (31 May, 2002 – 29 May, 2004).

·               Ordinary Member of the IEE Council (14 April, 2003-30 Sept 2006).

·               Invited to serve as a member of the IEE International Strategy Working Committee comprising of  Professor Brian Mellitt, Dr. Stan Jones, Dr. Alf Roberts and Dr. Vincent Considine (4 April, 2003 – present).

·               Chairman of IES Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technical Committee 2004/05 and 2005/06 (29 April, 2004 – May 2006).

·               Assistant Honorary Treasurer of IES Council 2004/05 (29 April, 2004 – 13 May, 2005).

·               Advisor of IEE Singapore Branch Management Committee 2004/05 (16 July, 2004 – 20 May, 2005).

·               Member of IES External Affairs Task Force Committee (July, 2006 – present).

·               Vice Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Standards Committee (February 2007 – present).

·               Chairman of IES Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technical Committee 2008/09 (28 March, 2008-present).

·               Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Chapter (November, 2007- present)

 

 

(3)    Public Service

 

·                Member of IES Community Service Committee (July, 1994 – June, 2001).

·               Member of 12th Management Council, Greenlodge Condominium Strata Title 985 (24 October, 1998 – 24 April, 1999).

·               Member of Action Group on Youth, Educational Institutions and Uniform Groups, Public Education Committee chaired by Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, MCDS. (28 October, 2000 – 15 April, 2002).

·               Member of Review of JC/Upper Secondary Education Steering Committee chaired by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry  & Education (25 June, 2002 – 13 September, 2002).

·                Member of the PSB Academy Board (14 May, 2003 – present).

 

 

(4)    Service to Society/Local Industry

 

·               Evaluator of research projects submitted for 1998 National Science Talent Search Award organised by National Science and Technology Board (20 January, 1998).

·               Consultant to Growth Venture Pte Ltd (March, 1999 – May, 2000).

·               Member of National Science and Technology Board Mentor Database of Prominent Researchers (1 March, 1999 – present).

·               Evaluator of research projects submitted for 2000 National Science Talent Search Award organised by National Science and Technology Board (18 January, 2000).

·               Judge for the 2001 Singapore Science and Engineering Fair and evaluator of research projects submitted for 2001 National Science Talent Search Award organised by National Science and Technology Board (15 March, 2001).

·               Consultant to Abbott Laboratories (Singapore) Pte Ltd (10 September, 2003 – 2005).

·               Member of the PSB Academy Board (14 May, 2003 – present).

·               Advisor of two Technical Committees (Industry Relations Committee and Program Review Committee and Quality Assurance Committee),  PSB Academy Board (February, 2007 – present).

·               Consultant to Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd (March, 2008 – present).

 

 

(5) Session Chairman / Organizer of Conferences

 

·               Chairman of Technical Session on Control Applications in IEEE Region 10 Conference on Computers, Communications, Control and Power Engineering (TENCON’93).

·               Chairman of Technical Session on Fuzzy Logic/Neural Networks in TENCON’94 (26 August, 1994).

·               Chairman of Technical Session on Factory Automation for International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing (ICCIM’95) (13 July, 1995).

·               Member of International Scientific Committee, Second International Conference on “Circuits, Systems and Computers” (CSC’98) (28 January, 1998 – 28 October, 1998).

·               Member of International Scientific Committee, Second International Conference on “Circuits, Systems,  Computers and Communications” (CSC’99) (1 February, 1999 – 31 October, 1999)

·               Member of International Scientific Committee, 2001 WSES International Conference on  Neural Networks and Applications, 2001 WSES International Conference on  Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Systems and 2001 WSES International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (April, 2000 – February, 2001).

·               General Chair of International Conference on Robotics, Distance Learning and Intelligent Communication Systems (RODLICS’2001) organized by WSES and co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society held from 1-6 September, 2001 in Malta.

·               General Chair of International Conference on Speech, Signal and Image Processing 2001 (SSIP’2001) organized by WSES held from 1-6 September, 2001 in Malta.

·               General Chair of International Conference on Multimedia, Internet and Video Technologies (MIV’2001) organized by WSES held from 1-6 September, 2001 in Malta.

·               General Chair of International Conference on Simulation (SIM’2001) organized by WSES held from 1-6 September, 2001 in Malta.

·               Member of International Program Committee, International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2001) held from 28-30 November 2001 in Singapore.

·               Co-Chair of Keynotes/Workshops Sub-Committee, Fourth Asian Control Conference 2002 (ASCC’2002) held from 23-26 September, 2002 in Singapore.

·               Co-Chair of International Conference on Speech, Signal and Image Processing 2002  (ICOSSIP’2002) organized by WSEAS held from 25-28 September, 2002 in Skiathos Island, Greece.

·               Co-Chair of International Conference on Multimedia, Internet, Video Technologies (ICOMIV’2002) organized by WSEAS held from 25-28 September, 2002 in Skiathos Island, Greece.

·               Co-Chair of International Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Optimization (ICOSMO’2002)  organised by WSEAS held from 25-28 September, 2002 in Skiathos Island, Greece.

·               General Chair of International Conference on Electronics, Control and Signal Processing (ECS) organised by WSEAS held from 9-12 December, 2002 in Singapore.

·               General Chair of International Conference on E-activities organised by WSEAS held from 9-12 December, 2002 in Singapore.

·               Member of Program Committee of International Conference on Robotics and Automation held from 14 – 19 September, 2003 in Taipei, Taiwan.

·               Co-Chair of Second WSEAS International Conference on Electronics, Control and Signal Processing (ICECS '03) organised by WSEAS held from 5-7 December, 2003 in Singapore.

·               Member of Second International Program Committee, International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2003) held from 15-18 December, 2003.

·               Member of International Program Committee and Publicity Co-Chair of International Symposium on Neural Networks 2004  (ISNN’2004) held from 19-21 August, 2004.

·               Member of   International Program Committee of International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain 2005.

·               Member of International Program Committee of Seventh IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications.

·               Member of International Program Committee of International Symposium on Neural Networks 2005 (ISNN’2005).

·               Organiser of an invited session entitled “Recent Developments and Futuristic Trends in Machine Learning,” ISNN’2005.

·               Chairman of the technical session entitled “Machine Learning”, ISNN’2005.

·               Member of International Program Committee of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications (CA2005) held in  Cancun, Mexico from 18 to 20 May, 2005.

·               Member of International Program Committee of International Symposium on Neural Networks 2006 (ISNN’2006).

·               Member  of the Program Committee of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2006).

·               Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Emerging Technical Technology-Macro to Nano (EMTM2N-2007).

·               Member of the Program Committee of Natural Computing and Applications Workshop (NCA’06).

·               Member of International Program Committee of International Symposium on Neural Networks 2007 (ISNN’2007).

·               Organiser of an invited session entitled “Advances in Adaptive Learning Control” for ISNN’2007.

·               Member of International Program Committee of International Joint Conference on Neural Netwokrs 2007 (IJCNN’2007).

·               Orgainser of an invited session entitled “Advanced in Intelligent Control” for IEEE Multi- conference on Systems and Control (MSC) 2007.

·               Member of International Program Committee of IEEE MSC 2007.

·               Member of International Program Committee of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2008 (IJCNN’2008).

·               Member of International Program Committee of International Conference on Fuzzy Sytems (IEEE FUZZ 2008).

·               Member of International Program Committee of International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC), IEEE MSC 2008.

·               Co-organiser of WCCI’2008 Workshop on Machine Learning in Cognitive Networks.

·               Member of International Program Committee of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications (CA2008) held in  Quebec, Canada from 26 to 28 May, 2008.

·               Member of International Program Committee of Asia Modelling Symposium (AMS2008) to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 13 to 15 May, 2008.

·               Member of International Program Committee of the International Workshop on Modelling and Applied Simulation (MAS 2008) which will be held in Briatico, South Italy, 17-19 September, 2008.

·               Member of the International Program Committee of the Fifth  International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2008) to be held in Shanghai, China, 15-18 September 2008.

·               International Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications (NCA) 2008 to be held in the framework of the Tenth Symposium of Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing in Timisoara, Romania from 26 to 29 September, 2008.

·               Co-Chair of IFAC Session entitled “Informationally Structured Environments for Robotics”.

·               Co-Chair of IFAC Session entitled “Methods in Optimal Control Design”.

·               Member of International Program Committee, The Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambience Intelligent, to be held from 20 to 22 November in Seoul, Korea.

·               Member of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automatio (CICA 2009), one of the Symposiums within IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2009) to be held in Nashville, TN, USA from 30 March to 2 April, 2009.

·               Member of International Program Committee, KES-2009.

·               Member of International Program Committee, IEEE 2009 Workshop on "Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS)".  The ESDIS is part of the 2009 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009.

·               Member of International Symposium on Neural Networks 2009 (ISNN’2009).

·               Area Chair in Control and Robotics of International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) World Congress cum European Society of Fuzzy Systems and Technology (EUSFLAT) Conference to be held from 20 to 24 July in Libson, Portugal.

·               Member of IPC of Asia Modelling Symposium 2009 (AMS2009

·               Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) for the IASTED International Conference on Identification, Control and Applications (ICA 2009), which is to take place in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from August 17, 2009 to August 19, 2009.

·               Member of the 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 14-19 June, 2009 Atlanta, GA.

·               Council Member of the RoboCup Singapore National Committee 2009-2010.

·               Member of International Program Committee for Brno International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation 2009 (CSSim2009).


 

(6)    Service as a Reviewer

 

I have served as a reviewer of numerous refereed international journal and conferences as well as some national awards and research grant and some monographs. They are

 

·             IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

·             IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

·             IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

·             IEEE Transactions. on Control Systems Technology

·             IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B and Part C.

·             IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

·             IEEE Transactions on Robotics

·             IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

·             IEEE Transactions on Vehicle Technology

·             Fuzzy Sets and Systems

·             Automatica

·             Mechatronics

·             IEE Proceeding-Part D Control Theory and Applications.

·             International Journal of Control

·             International Journal of Systems Science.

·             International Journal of Robotics Systems

·             International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

·             International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

·             Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurements and Control

·             International Journal of Computer Application in Technology

·             Information Sciences

·             Mircroprocessors and Microsystems

·             Conference on Decision and Control

·             American Control Conference

·             European Control Conference

·             International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

·             International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Automation

·             International Symposium on Intelligent Control

·             International Symposium on Neural Networks

·             International Work Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks

·             City University of Hong Kong Research Grant

·             A*  National Technology Award

·             Singapore Polytechnic R & D Award

·             A book entitled “Control Systems : Principles and Design“ to be published by Tata McGraw-Hill

·             A book entitled “Engineering Mathematics” to be published by Tata McGraw Hill