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INFORMATIONSYSTEMSTECHNOLOGYAND DESIGN(ISTD)

EXCELLENTFACULTY

NURTURINGPLACE

ACHIEVEMENTS

RELEVANTRESEARCH

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Dear PhD Applicants,

Faculty in ISTD are actively engagedin cutting-edge research in audioengineering, cyber security, graphics andvisualisation, human-computer interaction,image processing, information retrieval,machine learning, natural languageprocessing, networks, signal processing,software engineering, and wirelessand sensor networks. ISTD encouragesinterdisciplinary and collaborative research.Research projects grow out of real-world

problems and are aimed at making socialimpact. ISTD believes in involving bothundergraduate and graduate students inresearch. Doing so has helped ISTD facultyin creating diverse and vibrant researchgroups.

ISTD is the host for several SUTD-wideinterdisciplinary research centres. Theseinclude Project GREaT for research andeducation in the area of gaming, and iTRUSTthat focuses on security of cyber physicalsystems. A Centre for Information Systemsfor Decision Making is in the process ofbeing established and will focus on cybersecurity of enterprise systems. All centresinvolve faculty and students from multiplepillars and engage in cutting-edge, impactfulresearch.

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HEAD OF PILLAR

INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY

AND DESIGN (ISTD)

PROFESSOR ADITYA MATHUR



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INFORMATIONSYSTEMSTECHNOLOGYAND DESIGN(ISTD)

Course Overview

The PhD Programme in ISTD offers cross-disciplinary education and researchopportunities in the fields of computer science, computer engineering andinformation systems.

The ISTD PhD programme aims to

• Train students to independently conduct quality scientific research

• Enable students to initiate their research programme as early as possible• Graduate students with an in-depth knowledge in at least one area of

their choice• Graduate students who have been exposed to at least one

interdisciplinary area

Programme Highlights

• Strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and collaborative research• Participation in an innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem• World-class faculty with co-supervision flexibility• Opportunities for industry internships and overseas research attachments• Multi-disciplinary design experience• Professional development programme and teaching experience

Careers

• Research/Teaching Positions• Software Designer/ Architect, Software/ System Manager Consultant

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Programme Structure

The residency period is between 3 to 5 years, and a typical 4 and 5-yearISTD PhD Programme will follow this structure:

5-Year Programme

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

4-Year Programme

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

4 Courses + Seminar

4 Courses + Seminar

2 Courses + Seminar + Qualifying Exam

2 Courses + Seminar + Qualifying Exam

Research

International Attachment + Preliminary Exam

Research + Thesis Defence

Research + Thesis Defence

Research + Preliminary Exam

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EXCELLENTFACULTY

PhD, University of Minnesota

Research Interests:• Cyber physical systems• Mobile computing• Energy/battery management

from embedded systems to smart grid

• System security

ASSISTANT PROFESSORYU (JASON) GU

• Best Paper Award, The IEEEWireless Communicationsand Networking Conference2013 (WCNC’13), 2013

• Best Paper Award, The 7thInternational Conference onMobile Ad-hoc and SensorNetworks (MSN’11), 2011

ACHIEVEMENTS:

PhD, University of Washington

Research Interests:• Multi-modal information

retrieval • Machine learning and artificial

intelligence• Audio analysis• Natural language processing

ASSISTANT PROFESSORSTANLEY KOK

• Markov Logic Networkssubject matter expert

ACHIEVEMENTS:

PhD, Dublin City University

Research Interests:• Human-computer interaction• Interaction design• Emerging interactivity • Usability engineering• Lifelogging

ASSISTANT PROFESSORHYOWON LEE

• Passionate designer ofapplications leveragingemerging computational andinteraction technologies

• Designer of shakeable mobiledevices for a theme parkto guide guests to achievemaximum rides with the leastwaiting time

ACHIEVEMENTS:

PhD, University of SouthernCalifornia

Research Interests:• Image/video processing and

analysis, image recognition• Signal processing• Multimedia coding and streaming

• Mobile image processingand analysis for medicalapplications

• Signal processing for cyber security

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

NGAI-MAN(MAN) CHEUNG

• ACM Multimedia Open SourceCompetition - HonourableMention 2011

• 7 U.S. patents granted in imageand video processing

ACHIEVEMENTS:

PhD, University of California,Berkeley

Research Interests:• Economics of networks and of

Internet technologies• Pricing, regulation policy in

telecommunications• Game theory • Networking

PROFESSOR

COSTASCOURCOUBETIS

• IST project Trilogy - FutureInternet Award by EU

ACHIEVEMENTS:

PhD, National University of

SingaporeResearch Interests:• Formal methods• Software engineering• Program analysis• System verification• System security

ASSISTANT PROFESSORJUN SUN

• Co-developed a softwaretoolkit PAT which has attractedthousands of registeredusers and has been used bymultiple industrial companies

ACHIEVEMENTS:

PROFESSORDAVID YAU

PhD, University of Texas, Austin

Research Interests:• Network security and privacy • Cyber physical system security and privacy

• Networking and wireless sensor networks

• Smart grid and demandresponse

• Best Paper finalist (one ofthree), IEEE InternationalConference on Cyber PhysicalSystems, Networks, andApplications (CPSNA), 2013

• Mark Weiser Best Paperfinalist (one of three), IEEEInternational Conference onPervasive Computing andCommunications (PerCom),2013

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ASSISTANT PROFESSORSAI-KIT YEUNG

PhD, The Hong Kong Universityof Science and Technology

Research Interests:• Computer vision• Computer graphics• Image/video processing• Fabrication• Medical imaging• Computational photography • Human computer interaction

• Make it Home and DressUp! -Patented

• DressUp! - Patented

ACHIEVEMENTS:

PROFESSORYUE ZHANG

PhD, University of Oxford

Research Interests:• Machine learning• Natural language processing• Machine translation• Information retrieval • Artificial intelligence

• Natural language processingand machine learning subjectmatter expert

• Leading journals reviewerfor Cambridge University Press

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PhD, National University ofSingapore

Research Interests:• Natural language processing• Machine learning• Semantic processing• Computational linguistics• Text and data mining• Artificial intelligence

ASSISTANT PROFESSORWEI LU

• Inventor of the ‘Hybrid Tree’framework for connectinglanguage and formal

semantics• Winner of the only Best Paper

Award at EMNLP 2011

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Author of top selling book“Foundations of SoftwareTesting, 2nd edition”, and“Start Concurrent: AnIntroduction to ProblemSolving in Java with a Focuson Concurrency, 2013 Edition”

• Software testing, reliability andsecurity subject matter expert

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PhD, Birla Institute of Technologyand Science, Pilani, India

Research Interests:• Information security in cyber physical systems

• Software testing, reliabilityand security

HEAD OF PILLAR ANDPROFESSOR

ADITYA MATHUR

PhD, The Hong Kong University

of Science and TechnologyResearch Interests:• Audio information retrieval • Audio style retargeting• Audio discrimination• Computer music• Mobile music• Speech processing

ASSISTANT PROFESSORSIMON LUI

• Marie Curie Fellow 2011

• Several #1 best sellingiPhone/iPad applications inHong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia,Indonesia and Canada, 2010-2011

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PhD, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

Research Interests:• Networking• Resource allocation• Signal processing• Wireless communications• Network science

ASSISTANT PROFESSORTONY QUEK

• The IEEE CommunicationsSociety 2012 William R.Bennett Prize in the Field ofCommunications Networking

• Lead editor of a book entitled“Small Cell Networks:Deployment, PHY Techniques,and Resource Allocation,”Cambridge University Press,May 2013

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iTRUST is a multidisciplinary research centre fundedby Singapore’s Ministry of Defence. The focus ofiTRUST is on cyber security. Systems of interest includelarge infrastructure of national importance as wellas cyber devices used in health care. Examples ofinfrastructure systems include the power grid, watertreatment, and oil refineries. Examples of cyber devicesinclude pacemakers, defibrillators, insulin pumps, andVNS implants.

iTRUST researchers are drawn from across SUTD.A strong collaboration with MIT enriches the depth,breadth, and quality of research.

iTRUST researchers focus on the development ofadvanced tools and methods to ensure security andsafety of current and future cyber physical systems.

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The IDC intends to become the world’s premier scholarly hub for technologicallyintensive design. The IDC is built upon the development of the following foundations:

• Innovations for societal needs• Intellectual merit• Leaders for an innovation-based economy

SUTD-MIT INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CENTRE (IDC)

RELEVANTRESEARCH

COSTAS COURCOUBETIS

• Economics and pricing of sensor networks,security economics in cyber physical systems

JASON (YU) GU

• Cyber physical system protection

• Demand focused smart energy managementin end user environments for sustainable cities

• Personalised and continuous rehabilitationvia serious gaming

• Pervasive sensing-based social network study

• Principles and foundations of wireless energydistribution sensor networks

• Unleashing the power of social networks forthe next generation of cyber physical systems

• Low duty cycle communication in wirelesssensor networks

Smartphone-based medical image analysisfor cancer diagnosis, in collaboration withNational Skin Centre - Singapore and StanfordUniversity Medical School.

NGAI-MAN (MAN) CHEUNG

• “Medical Image Analysis using Smartphones”

• “Multiplayer Mobile Cloud Gaming”

• 3D Video Processing / Streaming Research

Next generation multiplayer mobile cloudgaming, in collaboration with NanyangTechnological University (NTU), ZhejiangUniversity (ZJU), The Hong Kong Universityof Science & Technology (HKUST).

Collaboration with National Institute ofInformatics, Japan, HKUST, ZJU, Universityof Science and Technology of China (USTC),University of Southern California (USC).

An activity to record all your day-to-day lifein a digital way. There are many interestingnovel application areas for lifelogging.

To research, explore and design future-orientedapplications to support Lifelogging activities.

HYOWON LEE

• Lifelogging

• Future-oriented Applications

Highly challenging. Often regarded as theholy grail of natural language processing oreven artificial intelligence research.

Address the challenging problem of largescale knowledge inference that automaticallydiscovers new knowledge from existing ones.

WEI LU

• “How to Uncover Underlying Meaning fromTexts”

• “Robust Knowledge Inference”

SIMON LUI

• “Combining Music Therapeutic Knowledgeand the Science of Recovery In Game Designfor Stroke Rehabilitation”

• “Audio Aid Design for the Disabled People”

TONY QUEK

• Current research topics include cooperativenetworks, heterogeneous networks, greencommunications, smart grid, wireless security,compressed sensing, big data processing,and cognitive radio.

ADITYA MATHUR

• What principles govern the design of a safeand secured cyber physical system?

• How to automate the generation of attackvectors for complex cyber physical systems?

JUN SUN

• Research interests in developing scalable,reliable program testing/verification toolswhich could greatly reduce software bugsand security vulnerabilities.

A unified approach for high-quality 3Dreconstruction

Rendering for next generation multiplayermobile cloud gaming

SAI-KIT YEUNG

• “High Quality 3-Dimension ImageReconstruction”

• “Multiplayer Mobile Cloud Gaming”

• “Furniture & Fashion Designing”

• “Medical Imaging for Human Brain”

• “Applications of Human-Computer Interaction(HCI)”

A learning optimisation paradigm for designprocesses

Accurate hemodynamic data assimilationwith MRA/CBV imaging

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI):Applications to vision, graphics andcomputational photography

Research goal is for computers to understandhuman languages with high reliability. It isbased on the project ZPar and included deeperstudies of syntactic and semantic analysis.

This is to explore new architecture insupporting machine translation.

YUE ZHANG

• Deep Language Understanding

• Machine Translation

• High Level Applications

How to apply theories in enhancing ourlifestyle. Some interesting research topics arestock market prediction based on Internettexts, new event detection from social mediaand the analysis of literature.

SUTD is building Asia’s leading game design researchand training programme that will meet industryneeds, nurture entrepreneurs and grow a robust andsustainable pipeline of innovative games that will helpto grow Singapore’s game industry. SUTD does thisby pioneering a unique model of Game Research,Education, and Training that will propel the Singaporegame R&D landscape to new heights.

• ResearchSUTD is focusing on three areas of research ingames. These are: (a) massive multiplayer cloudgaming on mobile devices, (b) gaming to enhancerehabilitation of stroke victims, and (c) futuristicgaming. Faculty across the SUTD pillars participatein these research projects. All research is conductedin collaboration with selected faculty from NanyangTechnological University (NTU) and experts in thearea of rehabilitation for stroke victims.

• SUTD Game LaboratoryA key element of Project GREaT is the SUTD Game

Lab, which began in October 2012 when SUTD waspicked by the Singapore government to be theuniversity to continue the work of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab (GAMBIT). It aims to buildon the success of GAMBIT to create opportunitiesto seed new innovators, entrepreneurs andinnovations for Singapore, the region, and possiblyeven the world.

PROJECT GREaT

The LKY CIC is established to stimulate thinking and research on thecritical issues of cities and urbanisation, and to provide breakthrough

urban solutions. It is one of the first university centres to focus on theintegrated use of technology and design to derive solutions for urbanplanning, design, development and management. The Centre will studythe confluence of governance, social management frameworks andtechnology and design innovations.

LKY CIC’s research will be pursued on three levels. Firstly, it will investigateurban issues and solutions which are of national concern. Secondly, asSingapore is a pace setter in many fields, and what is relevant in Singaporewill likely have regional significance in the Asia-Pacific, it will examineurban issues of regional application. Thirdly, it will investigate urban issuesof global concern.

LEE KUAN YEW CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE CITIES

(LKY CIC)

Sustainable Built Environment

Design with the Developing World

ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living E x p e r i m e n t a l D e s i g n

D e s i g n C o m p u t a t i o n

F o s t e r i n g C r e a t i v i t y

D e c i s i o n M a k i n g

G l o b a l C o l l a b o r a t i o n

V i s u a l i s a t i o n a n d

P r o t o t y p i n g

Design “Grand Challenges”

D e s i g n R e s e a r c h T h r u s t s

Temasek Laboratories is a centre for excellence indefence-related research. It specialises in systemsdesign and integration - such as unmannedsystems, information systems, soldier systemsand engineering systems.

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ACHIEVEMENTS

• IEEE SPAWC 2013 Best Student Paper Award

• A*STAR PhD Scholars Best Poster Award, 3rdPrize

1st Singapore faculty member to have wonthis award that was awarded to student,Matthias Wildemeersch, University of Twente,Netherlands.

Co-supervised researcher, Liang-Ze Wong,Institute for Infocomm Research, had won thisaward.

TONY QUEK

• Enhancing Reliability of Cyber Physical Systems

• A Formal Method for Quality Assessment ofLarge Scale Software Systems

• CPSVerif: a Verifier and Synthesiser for SecureCyber Physical Systems.

• Program Analysis through Testing, Learningand Verification.

(Staff - Dr. Yongzheng Wu, Dr. Shaojie Zhang)

(Staff - Dr. Tian Huat Tan)

This project aims to improve reliability of CyberPhysical Systems like smart home, wirelesssensor networks, etc.

This project aims to improve reliability of CyberPhysical Systems like smart home, wirelesssensor networks, etc.

This project aims to develop a software toolkitwhich is capable of not only identifying securityvulnerabilities in Cyber Physical Systems butalso guiding the designer in fixing them.

This project aims to develop a software toolkitwhich integrates state-of-the-art testing,learning and verification techniques for thepurpose of systematic bug finding.

JUN SUN

• Supervised numerous research projectsconducted under iTRUST and ProjectGREaT.

ADITYA MATHUR• Supervised Varun Badrinath Krishna who

• Supervised Hoang Hai Nguyen who is

• Supervised Cheng Cheng who is an

is a key developer for ADSC’s energymonitoring and analytics middleware. Varunalso contributed to the paper on the stabilityof smart grid real-time pricing under integrityand delay attacks. The paper got into 2013ACM CCS, a top international conference insystems security.

another key contributor to ADSC’s energymonitoring and analytics middleware. Aquick and meticulous learner, he developedexpertise in power system simulations(PowerWorld) as well. His results contributedto a paper on profit-optimal load curtailmentsthat appeared in IEEE TSG, a flagship publicationvenue for smart grid research.

ambitious and high-power systems builderwho likes extreme coding challengesincluding hacking kernels. VMWare wants himso badly that Cheng is constantly jugglingbetween industry and academia, with noverdict yet who will win in the end.

DAVID YAU

• Together with Professor Demetri Terzopoulos,co-supervised student Lap-Fai Yu at University

of California, Los Angeles (from 2010).• Led collaborative projects with Microsoft

Research Asia

SAI-KIT YEUNG

• Supervised students, Yang Liu, University ofCambridge, and Muhua Zhu and MeishanZhang, had published their works in topconferences such as ACL and COLING.

YUE ZHANG

• Supervised student Fang Lu (HKUST)

• Supervised student Hossein Nejati (NUS)

• Supervised researcher Mohammad Rostami,who joined the University of Pennsylvania

who joined the USTC faculty and becamea member of China C9 League, top 9universities in China.

who joined the MIT Department of Brainand Cognitive Sciences under the SUTD-MITpostdoctoral programme.

with a full PhD scholarship. He wasconcurrently offered a full PhD scholarshipby Imperial College London.

NGAI-MAN (MAN) CHEUNG

• “DaEnhanced Calendar iPhone Applicationfor University Students”

• “Showroom”

Supervised SUTD undergraduate studentsWeilong Liu, Tian Xia, Lu Xu and Bolun Wangdeveloped a unified platform for all students toview their schedule and receive push notificationof what is happening in school. It had greatlybenefitted all students in the school.

Supervised SUTD undergraduate studentsEdward Tiong, Olivia Seow and Yong ChengToh of research Singapore-MIT Alliancefor Research and Technology (SMART)developed a system allowing lecturers tointeract with students by offering a drawablePowerPoint presentation, with student Q&Afunctionality. It had greatly enhanced theentire learning experience.

SIMON LUI

• Led the Machine Reading project at Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

• Co-supervised student Quang Do, Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and assistedhim in publishing a paper for EMNLP 2012- ‘Joint Inference for Event Timeline Construction’.

He developed 1st Model to construct a globallycoherent timeline for all events appeared in acomplete document.

WEI LU

• Supervised MS/PhD students from networkresearch group spin-off a company namedFORTHnet, which is currently the 3rd largestISP in Greece.

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SUTD President’s Graduate Fellowship

Contact Us

This bond-free fellowship (up to 5 years) is open to allnationalities, and is awarded on a competitive basis tooutstanding full-time PhD Programme applicants (e.g.those with a Bachelor’s Degree 1st Class Honours orequivalent). The fellowship supports:

20 Dover Drive, Singapore 138682Phone: +65 6303 6600E-Mail: [email protected]: http://istd.sutd.edu.sg

• Full tuition fees

• Monthly stipend of S$3,000 for each awarded

scholar and up to 10% additional stipend forSingapore Citizens and Permanent Residents

• Annual conference funding

• Opportunities for overseas research attachmentsand/or industry internships

• Transcripts and certificates for any academic degrees

earned or currently in progress.• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or

International English Language Testing System(IELTS) score report, if the medium of instruction atyour undergraduate institution was not English.

• Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) score report(optional).

• Letters of recommendation from at least 3 references.

• A Statement of Objectives of about 3,000 words.

How to Apply

Applicants should possess at least a Bachelor’s degreewith excellent academic standing.

Submit your online application athttps://admissions.sutd.edu.sg/phd with the following.

Shortlisted applicants may be asked to attend Skypeinterviews or in some cases, face-to-face or telephoneinterviews may be arranged. Please refer tohttp://www.sutd.edu.sg/phd_application.aspx for details.

Information is correct as of November 2013.

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