Wee Siong Ng (Ph.D)

Ng Wee Siong (Ph.D)

Urban Systems Lab Head

Data Analytics Department

The Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)

Homepage:

https://wsiong.github.io

SUMMARY

Wee Siong, Ng is the Urban Systems Lab Head of the Data Analytics Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Principal Investigator of the A*STAR Data Analytics Exchange Platform (“A*DAX”) project. He was also the Head of Data Management Lab, Co-Director of I2R-LTA Joint Lab and Co-Director of I2R-URA Joint Lab. Wee Siong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 2004. Prior to joining A*STAR, he served as the Chief System Architect of a local start-up IT firm (Singapore), which is specialized in Content Management and Multimedia Processing (i.e., text, images, video and audio), where he held various responsibilities including systems architecting, solutions consulting, project management and sale management. Wee Siong has published 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conference and he has received a Best Paper Award on privacy preservation in streaming data. His current research focuses on Big Data Processing, Urban Logistics, Data Analytics, Stream Processing, Data Privacy, Data Management and Distributed Systems.

Wee Siong has more than 15 years of working experience in the IT, computer science sector. He has received more than $5 million accumulated research grants over the years. He also in charge of developing software product roadmaps, systems development & deployment. He has solid track records on state-of-the-art research in the areas of Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Urban Logistics, Big Data processing, Data Management and practical software development and deployment. He led a team to develop the Data Analytics Exchange Platform had attracted great attention and successfully commercialized.

EDUCATION

· National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ph.D. in Computer Science Jun 2004
Thesis title: Adaptive P2P Platform for Data Sharing.
Supervisor: Professor Beng Chin, Ooi

· University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Bachelor of Information Technology [Honour], August 1998.
Thesis title: Online Handwriting Recognition.

· Scholarship
Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore (1999 – 2001)

· Academic Awards

o Deans Graduate Award, National University of Singapore (2002).

o Dean List, University Malaysia Sarawak (1998).

RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY

Wee Siong’s research philosophy is fairly simple – he believes that research should always be about building and evaluating working prototype systems that address problems encountered by practitioners. His research interests lie on the practical side where the results are there to be seen and can have an immediate impact.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Wee Siong's major research interests include Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Big Data Management, Peer-to-Peer data management, Data Privacy and Smart Cities Applications.

GRANT

'Hippocratic Data Stream Cloud for Secure, Privacy-preserving Data Analytics Services (HipCloudS)'. This project is a joint effort between the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR (NG Wee Siong [Principal Investigator, PI, for this project] and the National University of Singapore (TAN Kian-Lee [Co-PI] and Stephane Bressan [Co-PI]). Funding comes from the Science and Engineering Research Council, A*STAR, Singapore (SERC Grant No: 102-158-0037) and has been granted from Aug 2010 to Jul 2013.

PUBLICATIONS

Wee Siong has published over 50 papers in international conferences and journals. Some of these have appeared in prestigious conferences and journals such as SIGMOD, KDD, VLDB, ICDE, IS and WWW.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

· Program Chair of The First Workshop on Data Mining for Smart Cities (DMCities 2015) held in conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) on 14th Nov 2015, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.

· Program Committee of The FTRA International Symposium on Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications, 2014

· Program Committee of The 2013 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, 2013

· Program Committee of the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics, 2013

· Reviewer for the Journal of Computer Science and Technology 2013

· Program Committee of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, 2012

· Co-Chair for organising a "Personal Data Protection Bill Discussion" forum on 29 May 2012.

· Program Committee of The 3rd FTRA International Conference on Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing, 2011

· Track chair (Service Oriented Architecture and Applications track) of The 25^th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2011.

· PC Member of the 2010 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference.

· Reviewer for the Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, the Journal of Transactions on Services Computing and DASFAA 2011.

· External reviewer for ER 2008.

· Reviewer for Journal of Information Sciences

· Reviewer for ICC 2005 Wireless Networking.

· PC-member of The International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2004 and DBISP2P 2005)

· PC-member of The International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM 2004), USA, 2004.

· Reviewer for The IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2004), Singapore, 2004.

· Reviewer for JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

TEACHING RECORD

· Object-Oriented programming, Republic Polytechnic, 2007

CERTIFICATION

· Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer (CCHD)

· Cloudera Certified Hadoop Administrator (CCHA)

· CITI Export Controls Certificate

· CITI Responsible Conduct of Research Certificate

· WSQ Statement of Attainment (SOA) Certificate for the following competencies -IT-PM-03: Manage Project Schedule
-IT-PM-04: Manage Project Cost
-IT-PM-05: Manage Project Risk
-IT-PM-07: Manage Project Procurement
-IT-PM-08: Manage Project Team
-IT-PM-09: Manage Project Team
-IT-PM-09: Manage Project Communications

· Certificate of Participation for the completion of Research Commercialisation Bootcamp

· Certificate of Participation for the completion of Architecting Enterprise Software workshop

SKILLS

· Data Analytics, Big data processing

· Hadoop administration and developing.

· Data management Oracle RDBMS, MySQL.

· Mobile application development, such as Android.

· Programming – Java, Python, Tensorflow, Visual Basic, Java script, Excel Macro.

· Hadoop administration and developing.

· Mobile application development, such as Android.

· Functional Analyst – Oracle SOA, Business Process Manager, BPEL.

· Project Coordination, Testing Coordination, Functional Design

· Research interests include database performance issues, indexing techniques, XML, P2P/grid/parallel systems and advanced applications. Distributed System.

· Multi-tier, Web Application Development, Client Server Application Development, Distributed Computing Development, Object Oriented and Component Based technologies, MVC/Model1 and MVC/Model2 (Struts) design patterns, educational system and B2B applications experience.

· Project Management, Requirement Analysis, UML and designing Functional Specification experience.

· Fluent spoken/written English, Chinese, Malay.

WORK EXPERIENCES

· Urban Systems Lab Head, Institute for Infocomm Research. (Sep 2016 – present)

· Deputy Department Head, Institute for Infocomm Research. (Sep 2013 – 2016)

· Co-Director, I2R-URA Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research. (Nov 2015 – present)

· Co-Director, I2R-LTA Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research. (Oct 2013 – Oct 2015)

· Chief System Architect, Thothe Technologies. (August 2004 – August 2007)

· Research Fellow, The Singapore-MIT Alliance, (May 2003 – August 2004)

· Research Assistant, National University of Singapore (Sep 2000 – May 2003).
Participated in a variety of research projects in distributed database, query processing, p2p systems design & development, and web applications. Managing and administration of five research servers (UNIX -SUN Solaris, MySQL database) to database team mem­bers. Serve as primary research member for BestPeer P2P Project. (see http://xena1.ddns. comp.edu.sg/p2p). BestPeer is now a NUS spin off commercial company.

(http://www.bestpeer.com/).

· Lead Consultant, Geofoto Pte. Ltd., Singapore (1999).
As a co-rollout member of the development team, contributed to a major software engi­neering effort in PHP, MSVB, C, HTML, Java to create online image management, sharing and purchasing systems. Primary developer for FotoWiz -a fast image viewer, file browser and image manipulation system for MS-Window, and Digital Print Ordering System. (see http://www.geofoto.com). Serve as core consultant for web server and network administra­tion.

· Analyst Programmer, Nikko Computer Systems Pte. Ltd., Singapore (1998-1999).
Designed and developed e-commerce applications using ASP, HTML, MSSQL, and Adobe Photoshop. The clients were usually small/medium-size businesses ranging from retail stores to nationwide distributors of electronic products.

· Laboratory advisor, University Malaysia Sarawak (1997-1998). Conducting the laboratory sessions to a class of 20 students. Assisted students using assembly level coding for 8088-microprocessor.