Lim Hock Beng

Director, Research & Development

Intelligent Systems Centre
Nanyang Technological University
Research Techno Plaza, BorderX Block, 7th Storey
50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637553
Republic of Singapore

Phone: +65-6514-1005
Fax: +65-6316-4480
Email: limhb@ntu.edu.sg

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• B.S. (summa cum laude) in Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
  

Research

Research Interests

• Sensor networks, sensor grids, ambient intelligence
• Cyber-physical systems, cyber-sensor infrastructure
• Parallel, distributed, grid and cloud computing
• Wireless and mobile networks
• Computer architecture, embedded systems, performance evaluation
• E-Science cyberinfrastructure, high-performance computing

Research Collaborations

• Collaborator, Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM), Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)
• Affiliate, Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
• Collaborator, Future Urban Mobility (FM), Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)
• Principal Research Affiliate, Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
• Affiliated Faculty, Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC)
• Collaborator, Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics (BEST), Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS)

Research Programs

• Sensor Networks and Cyber-Physical Systems
• Smart Cyberinfrastructure and Cyberenvironments
• Pervasive and Mobile Media
• Smart, Sustainable and Safe Cities

Research Projects

• The National Weather Sensor Grid
• SensorMap for the National Weather Study Project, in collaboration with Microsoft Research
• Middleware Design for Wireless Sensor Networks, in collaboration with Ministry of Defense, Singapore
• Coverage Control and Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems, in collaboration with SMART CENSAM and Public Utilities Board, Singapore
• Cyberinfrastructure for CENSAM, in collaboration with SMART CENSAM
• Mobile Sensor Database Synchronization and Query Processing in Dynamic Environments, in collaboration with School of Computing, NUS
• Asia-Pacific Environmental Sensor Grid, in collaboration with National Grid Office, Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore
• Sensor Grid for GPS Data Processing
• Solar Radiation Data Analysis and Data Mining, in collaboration with Water & Energy Research Lab, School of EEE, NTU
• Enhancing Education in Environmental Awareness: A Game-based Approach to Ambient Learning
• An Integrated Framework for Vehicular and Urban Sensing
• A Semantics-based and Service-oriented Framework for the Virtualization of Sensor Networks
• Mosquito as a Vector of Disease, in collaboration with Genome Institute of Singapore and Institute of High Performance Computing
• SmartCloud : Smart Service Delivery over Cloud
• Comprehensive Health Monitoring System for Military Applications, in collaboration with Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC
• Data as a Service (DaaS), in collaboration with National Grid Office, Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore and Singtel Alatum
• pCloud: Privacy in Data Value Chains using Peer-to-Peer Primitives, in collaboration with School of Computer Engineering, NTU
• An Integrated Wireless Sensing Platform for Decision Support in Water Distribution Systems, in collaboration with SMART CENSAM
• A Smart Traffic Cloud for Intelligent Transportation Applications, in collaboration with National Grid Office, Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore and Singtel Alatum
• Cooperative Perception for Vehicular Situational Awareness, Control and Coordination, in collaboration with SMART Future Urban Mobility (FM)
• Network-enabled Data Collection for SimMobility, in collaboration with SMART Future Urban Mobility (FM) and Land Transport Authority, Singapore
• Monitoring, Automation and Adaptive Control of Low Exergy Buildings, in collaboration with SEC Future Cities Laboratory (FCL)
• An Application Programming Interface for Sensor Network Virtualization
• A Universal Wireless Personal Area Network Gateway

Applications, Systems and Research Demos

• The National Weather Sensor Grid
• Asia-Pacific Environmental Sensor Grid
• Sensor Grid for GPS Data Processing
• WaterWiSe@SG: Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems
• Future Mobility Survey

Research Team

• Research team members

Publications

• Recent publications

News and Presentations

Recent News

• IntelliSys has been awarded a research program grant entitled "Intelligent Systems, Cyber-physical Infrastructures and Human Assistive Technologies" by Singapore Technologies Engineering and co-funded by Nanyang Technological University, 1 Oct 2012.
• "Hotter days ahead, says weatherman," The Straits Times, 26 Jun 2012.
• The Future Mobility Survey system, developed in collaboration with SMART, MIT and University of Coimbra (Portugal), will be used to support the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) Travel Survey 2012. Channel News Asia, AsiaOne, 21 Jun 2012.
• IntelliSys has been awarded a research and development grant by Singapore Technologies Engineering for the project entitled "A Universal Wireless Personal Area Network Gateway", 1 May 2012.
• Some of the research projects on Intelligent Transportation and Urban Mobility at IntelliSys were highlighted in the Daimler Technicity magazine. "Singapore - A City in Motion", Interview, Issue 02/2011, Nov 2011.
• IntelliSys has been awarded a Proof-of-Concept (POC) Grant by the NTU Nanyang Innovation & Enterprise Office (NIEO) for the project entitled "An Application Programming Interface for Sensor Network Virtualization", 3 May 2011.
• IntelliSys has been awarded a research grant by the NRF through the SMART Future Urban Mobility (FM) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) for the project entitled "Network-enabled Data Collection for SimMobility", 1 Mar 2011.
• In the speech by Dr. Tony Tan, chairman of the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF), during the topping out ceremony of the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), our WaterWiSe@SG project in collaboration with SMART and PUB was mentioned as one of the notable research results that have come out of SMART. The Straits Times, National Research Foundation Press Release, 5 Jan 2011.
• "Singapore road tests smart traffic cloud," FutureGov Asia Pacific, 9 Dec 2010.
• "WaterWiSe@SG - a huge step towards the Water Smart Grid," Water Simulation, 3 Dec 2010.
• "System plugs gap in water network," The Straits Times, 6 Nov 2010.
• IntelliSys has been awarded a research grant by the NRF through the SMART Future Urban Mobility (FM) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) for the project entitled "Cooperative Perception for Vehicular Situational Awareness, Control and Coordination", 1 Nov 2010.
• IntelliSys has been awarded a cloud services grant under the IDA's Open Call for Cloud Computing Proposals for the project entitled "A Smart Traffic Cloud for Intelligent Transportation Applications". Infocomm Development Authority Announcement, 30 Sep 2010.
• CENSAM and IntelliSys have been awarded the SMART Innovation Grant for the project entitled "An Integrated Wireless Sensing Platform for Decision Support in Water Distribution Systems", 20 Aug 2010.
• "WaterWiSe@SG: Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," NTU School of Computer Engineering Research Report 2009, Aug 2010.
• NTU's School of Computer Engineering and IntelliSys have been awarded a research grant under the A*STAR Thematic Strategic Research Programme (TSRP) on "Data Value Chain as a Service" for the project entitled "pCloud: Privacy in Data Value Chains using Peer-to-Peer Primitives", 16 Jun 2010.
• "Sixteen Technology Commercialisation Projects Receive S$4 Million Proof-of-Concept Grant From NRF," National Research Foundation Press Release, 21 Aug 2009.
• "Six NTU Projects Awarded NRF Grants," Nanyang Technological University News Release, Fact Sheet, 21 Aug 2009.
• IntelliSys has been awarded a research grant under the NRF's Second Proof-of-Concept (POC) grant call for the project entitled "A Semantics-based and Service-oriented Framework for the Virtualization of Sensor Networks", 21 Aug 2009.
• The National Weather Sensor Grid project was highlighted by Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corporation, in his keynote speech during the Computing in the 21st Century Conference organized by Microsoft Research Asia, 7 Nov 2008.
• IntelliSys collaborates with the Water & Energy Research Lab in the NTU School of EEE, to participate in the NRF-funded Competitive Research Programme (CRP) on "Combined-Cycle Solar Energy Self-Sustaining Membrane Distillation (MD) and Membrane Distillation Bioreactor (MDBR) Water Production and Recycling System", 1 Nov 2008.
• IntelliSys has been awarded a research grant under the NRF's R&D Programme on IDM in Education for the project entitled "Enhancing Education in Environmental Awareness: A Game-based Approach to Ambient Learning". This project leverages the core sensor grid infrastructure developed by the National Weather Sensor Grid project. National Research Foundation Announcement, 24 Sep 2008.
• "The National Weather Sensor Grid," NTU Research Spotlight and NTU Research Report 2007, May 2008.
• IntelliSys has been awarded a research grant by the NRF through the SMART Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) for the projects entitled "Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems" and "Cyberinfrastructure for CENSAM", 1 Apr 2008.
• IntelliSys collaborates with the Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM) under the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). National Research Foundation Press Release, 23 Jan 2008.
• "NTU's ground-breaking research projects," The Straits Times, 8 May 2007.
• "NTU research project wins Microsoft grant," Lianhe Zaobao, 20 Apr 2007.
• "NTU's sensor map clinches Microsoft research grant," Channel NewsAsia Online, 19 Apr 2007.
• "NTU researcher wins $100,000 grant for virtual weather map," The Straits Times, 18 Apr 2007.
• "NTU researchers clinch prestigious grant from Microsoft," Nanyang Technological University News Release, 19 Apr 2007.
• "Support From Microsoft Helps Researchers Merge Digital and Physical Worlds," Microsoft Press Release, 5 Apr 2007.
• "Embracing Real Life in Virtual Earth," Microsoft Press Release, 5 Apr 2007.
• "SensorMap: Browsing the Physical World in Real-Time 2007 RFP Awards," Microsoft Research External Research & Programs, Apr 2007.
• "Singapore to set up central depository for data on weather," Channel NewsAsia Online, 16 Nov 2006.

Recent Talks, Presentations and Demos

• "Towards Smart, Sustainable and Safe Cities," Presentation, ST Electronics Technology Seminar 2013, Singapore, 8 Mar 2013.
• "Future Mobility Survey : System Design and Scalability," Presentation, Future Mobility Survey Workshop, Singapore, 17 Jul 2012.
• "M2M and Cloud Converge to Create the Internet of Things," Panel Discussion, CloudAsia 2012, Singapore, 15 May 2012.
• "Transportation Activity Analysis using Smartphones," Seminar, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, 20 Apr 2012.
• "Towards Accurate and Practical Cooperative Vehicular Localization," Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 18 Apr 2012.
• "EcoSense : A Service-Oriented, Semantics-Driven and Virtualized Cyberinfrastructure for Smart Buildings," Poster Exhibit, SinBerBEST Workshop, Singapore, 11-13 Jan 2012.
• "Future Mobility Survey : System Design," Presentation, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 12 Jan 2012.
• "Future Mobility Survey : Data Analysis," Poster Exhibit, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 11-12 Jan 2012.
• "Future Mobility Survey : Survey Design," Poster Exhibit, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 11-12 Jan 2012.
• "Future Mobility Survey : System Design," Poster Exhibit, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 11-12 Jan 2012.
• "Future Mobility Survey : Overview," Poster Exhibit, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 11-12 Jan 2012.
• "Vehicular Communication Infrastructure for Autonomy and Situational Awareness," Poster Exhibit, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 11-12 Jan 2012.
• "Cooperative Vehicular Localization via GPS Pseudorange Based Distance Measurement," Poster Exhibit, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 11-12 Jan 2012.
• "Localization for Underwater Sensor Networks," Invited Talk, The 6th Workshop on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 19 Aug 2011.
• "EcoSense: A Service-Oriented, Semantics-Driven and Virtualized Cyberinfrastructure for Smart Buildings," Invited Talk, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 30 Jun 2011.
• "Burst Event Detection and Localization in Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 21 Apr 2011.
• "Burst Event Detection and Localization in Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, 18 Apr 2011.
• "An Integrated Framework for Vehicular and Urban Sensing," Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 15 Apr 2011.
• "WaterWiSe@SG: Applications and Experimentation," Research Exhibit, CENSAM Annual Workshop, Singapore, 17-18 Jan 2011.
• "An Overview of WaterWiSe@SG: Phase 2," Research Exhibit, CENSAM Annual Workshop, Singapore, 17-18 Jan 2011.
• "A Data-as-a-Service Paradigm for Data Sharing in a Cyberinfrastructure Cloud," Poster Exhibit, CENSAM Annual Workshop, Singapore, 17-18 Jan 2011.
• "Network-enabled Data Collection for SimMobility," Presentation, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 12 Jan 2011.
• "Cooperative Perception for Vehicular Situational Awareness, Control and Coordination," Poster Exhibit, Future Urban Mobility Annual Workshop, Singapore, 12-13 Jan 2011.
• "EcoSense: A Service-oriented, Semantics-driven and Virtualized Cyberinfrastructure for Smart Grids," Invited talk, Symposium on Information Technology for Smart Grid Systems, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore, 9 Dec 2010.
• "Sensor Data Management on the Cloud using the Data as a Service Paradigm," Invited talk, SEAIP 2010 and 6th PRAGMA Institute, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taichung, Taiwan, 6 Dec 2010.
• "Burst Event Detection and Localization in Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 Dec 2010.
• "An Integrated Framework for Vehicular and Urban Sensing," Seminar, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2 Dec 2010.
• "Sensor Data Management on the Cloud using the Data as a Service Paradigm," Invited Talk, IQPC Cloud Computing 2010, Singapore, 24 Nov 2010.
• "Sensor Data Management on the Cloud using the Data as a Service Paradigm," Invited Talk, FutureGov Forum Philippines 2010, Manila, Philippines, 15 Nov 2010.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, The Stanford Information Networks Group, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, 28 Sep 2010.
• "EcoSense: A Context and Semantics Driven Framework for Eco-Aware Virtualized Ambient Environments," Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 24 Sep 2010.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, 20 Sep 2010.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Invited Talk, International High Speed Intelligent Communication (HSIC) Forum, Singapore, 13 May 2010.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, School of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 19 Apr 2010.
• "Ontology and Data Management for CENSAM Cyberinfrastructure," Research Exhibit, CENSAM Annual Workshop, Singapore, 19 Jan 2010.
• "Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems : Progress Report of WaterWiSe@SG Project," Research Exhibit, CENSAM Annual Workshop, Singapore, 19 Jan 2010.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 12 Jan 2010.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA, USA, 12 Jan 2010.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2 Dec 2009.
• "Addressing the Environmental Challenges in Asia-Pacific using the Sensor Cloud," Invited talk, SEAIP 2009 and 5th PRAGMA Institute, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taichung, Taiwan, 30 Nov 2009.
• "Addressing the Environmental Challenges in Asia-Pacific using the Sensor Cloud," Invited Talk, Government Cloud Forum, Singapore, 20 Nov 2009.
• "A Smart e-Science Cyberinfrastructure for Cross-Disciplinary Scientific Collaborations," Seminar, Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 11 Sep 2009.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 10 Sep 2009.
• "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Joint Advanced Digital Science Center (ADSC) and Intelligent Systems Centre (IntelliSys) Seminar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 17 Aug 2009.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure" and "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Coordinated Science Labs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, 20 Apr 2009.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure" and "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 17 Apr 2009.
• "A Framework for the Integration of Distributed and Heterogeneous Sensor Data Sources," Research Exhibit, Grid Showcase, The 39th Meeting of the APECTEL Working Group (APECTEL 39), Singapore, 16 Apr 2009.
• "A Framework for the Integration of Distributed and Heterogeneous Sensor Data Sources," Invited Talk, The 39th Meeting of the APECTEL Working Group (APECTEL 39), Singapore, 15 Apr 2009.
• "Sensor Cloud: Towards Sensor-Enabled Cloud Services," Invited Talk, Cloud@SG Summit, GridAsia 2009, Singapore, 13 Apr 2009.
• "A Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Data Integration and Management," Research Exhibit, CENSAM Annual Workshop, Singapore, 19 Jan 2009.
• "Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems - Software and Applications," Research Exhibit, CENSAM Annual Workshop, Singapore, 19 Jan 2009.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure" and "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, 13 Jan 2009.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure" and "A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," Seminar, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 8 Jan 2009.
• "A Semantics-based Data Exchange Protocol for Large-scale e-Science Collaborations," Invited talk, SEAIP 2008 and 4th PRAGMA Institute, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taichung, Taiwan, 3 Dec 2008.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure," Seminar, Electrical & Electronic Engineering Dept, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 27 Nov 2008.
• "From e-Science to Smart e-Science for Environmental Monitoring," Invited Talk, GridAsia 2008, Singapore, 16 Sep 2008.
• "Asia-Pacific Environmental Sensor Grid," Research Exhibit, GridAsia 2008, Singapore, 15-19 Sep 2008.
• "The National Weather Study Project Central Data Depository," Presentation, Official Launch of the National Weather Study Project Competition 2009, Singapore Science Centre, Singapore, 24 Jul 2008.
• "Education in an Era of Change: Engaging Globalization," Panel Discussion, Educational Methodologies Sharing 2008, Jurong Junior College, Singapore, 18 Jul 2008.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure," Seminar, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, 23 Jun 2008.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure," Seminar, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 25 Apr 2008.
• "The National Weather Sensor Grid," Invited Talk, Grid Computing and GEOGrid Meeting, Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization, Tokyo, Japan, 23 Jan 2008.
• "Intelligent and Pervasive Sensing: Island-wide Weather Monitoring System," Invited Talk, ControlAsia and InstrumentAsia 2007, Singapore, 27 Nov 2007.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure," CS Seminar, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia, 7 Nov 2007.
• "Sensor Grid and Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Monitoring," Research Demo, Discover Europe @NTU, Singapore, 10 Oct 2007.
• "Towards Sensornet 2.0," Panel Session, Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007, Redmond, WA, USA, 17 Jul 2007.
• "Sensor Grid: Next Generation Cyber-Sensor Infrastructure," Invited Talk, GridAsia 2007, Singapore, 8 Jun 2007.
• "The National Weather Sensor Grid," Research Exhibit, GridAsia 2007, Singapore, 5-8 Jun 2007.
• "Central Data Depository for the National Weather Study Project," Invited Talk, ICAAS-UIAAS Innovation Symposium, Singapore, 21 Apr 2007.
• "Sensors Sensors Everywhere: A Peek into the Next IT Revolution," Invited Talk, Grid Computing Seminar Series, Singapore, 10 Nov 2006.