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core research is focused on devising intelligent machines
capable of learning, understanding and reasoning about past
actions, so as to provide creative solutions to real-world
complex problems.
Research Areas
• Cognitive and Neuro Systems
• Decision Support Systems & Optimization
• Evolutionary, Memetic and Statistical Learning
• Fuzzy Systems
• Intelligent Multi-Agents
• Intelligent Systems and Devices
• Machine Learning
• Nature-Inspired Systems
Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems
(CHiPES)
Director: Professor Thambipillai Srikanthan
Mission
• Undertake use-inspired basic research into novel algorithms
and their architectural translations to create Intellectual
Property (IP) for order-of-magnitude improvement in next
generation embedded computing systems
• Undertake basic research into Design Methodologies for
next generation embedded systems that demand stringent
design constraints, shorter Time-To-Market (TTM) and lower
Non-Recurring Engineering costs (NRE)
• Rely on its state-of-the-art knowledge base and research
expertise to serve as a knowledge base to facilitate
world-class training in Embedded Systems Engineering
• Contribute to the development and refinement of curricula at
both undergraduate and graduate levels based so as to
maintain industry relevance in this strategic
area
of
importance to Singapore.
Research
CHiPES carries out use-inspired research, development and
timely training in embedded systems engineering using
state-of-the-art tools and technologies to spur next-generation
innovation and to enable an order-of-magnitude improvement
in developer productivity. It relies on its state-of-the-art
knowledge base to facilitate world-class training in Embedded
Systems Engineering.
Research Areas
• Algorithms to Architectures
• Computer Arithmetic and Security
• Design Methodologies
• Embedded Signal Processing
• Embedded Software
• Human Computer Interaction
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Vision Enabled Sensing
Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (CHFE)
Director: Assistant Professor Qu Xingda
Mission
• To develop a world class centre and strive to achieve
leadership in niche areas of Human Factors and Ergonomics
research
• To train and develop expertise that is vital for Singapore to
advance successfully to the next lap of economic
development and competition against developed first world
economies
• To advance human-centered design to facilitate and
empower ‘human-ware’ effectively
• To lead the design of jobs, systems and products that
address both work and family needs
• To extend the effectiveness and socioeconomic
contributions of an ageing population, and mediate the
social cost of economic demands characteristic of the
knowledge economy, i.e. an increasingly distributed
(geographically) mobile workforce
Objective
• To address emerging requirements of a knowledge economy
• To train and develop expertise that is key for a successful
advance into the next lap of Singapore’s economic
development
• To advance human-centered design that is needed to realise
in full, the vast potential of our state-of-the-art national
infrastructures
• To design jobs, systems and products that address both
work and family needs. These initiatives extend and
enhance respectively the socio-economic contribution of an
ageing population and an increasingly distributed (regionally
and globally) workforce. Systems should also be designed to
mediate the social cost of such economic demands. It should
be noted that products and systems targeted at these
concerns have vast commercial potential, since these
demographic and mobility trends are emerging pervasively
worldwide
Research Activities
CHFE is an inter-school entity, involving staff from the School
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and the
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
(WKWSCI). It is well positioned to address the entire
spectrum of design concerns, extending highly desirable
art-to-part capabilities to encompass ideation/concept
definition,
art/virtual,
design,
computer
aided
design/simulation, and finally the production of a first physical
prototype.
Interest areas are wide-ranging, covering industrial
automation and systems, consumer products and military
systems. Specific topics include user interface design, virtual
reality systems, computer supported co-operative work,
mobile computers and infocomm devices, teamwork, safety
engineering, human vision, product design, affective and
cross cultural design, usability engineering, system analysis,
occupational health and safety, work systems, rehabilitation
engineering, industrial and environmental ergonomics, human
error, job/task design and analysis, designing for the elderly
and people with special needs, workstation/workspace design
and evaluation, process control, office ergonomics and
transport ergonomics.
Members of the Centre, in collaboration with Linköping
University (Sweden), also launched the world’s first Dual
Masters executive programme in Human Factors
Engineering.
Some of the research collaborators include Defence Medical
and Environmental Research Institute (DMERI), DSO
National Laboratories (DSO), MINDEF, US Air Force, Asian
Office of Aerospace Research and Development/ Air Force
Research Lab (AOARD/AFRL), Honeywell Inc., Aeromedical
Centre, Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), St Luke’s
Hospital for the Elderly, National Library Board, Java Wireless
Competency Centre, University of Waikato (New Zealand),
University College London (UK), Linköping University of
Technology (Sweden), University of Technology in Compiègne
(France).