People

PhD Supervisors & Advisers:

Prof. Kee Chaing (KC) Chua received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1990 and joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a Lecturer.  He is now a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at NUS.  He served as the Faculty of Engineering’s Vice Dean for Research twice, from 2003 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2009.  From 1995 to 2000, he was seconded to the Centre for Wireless Communications (now the Institute for Infocomm Research), a national telecommunication R&D centre funded by the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research as its Deputy Director.  From 2001 to 2003, he was on leave of absence from NUS to work at Siemens Singapore where he was the Founding Head of the Mobile Core R&D Department funded by Siemens’ ICM Group.  From 2006 to 2008, he was seconded to the National Research Foundation as a Director.  He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at NUS in July 2014, after serving as Head of its Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering since November 2009.  He chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Robotics and Smart Devices in 2011 and spoke on the role of robotics and smart devices in shaping new models of development at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2012.  He is a recipient of an IEEE 3rd Millennium Medal, a Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.

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Assoc. Prof. Wee Seng Soh received the B.Eng. (Hons) and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1996 and 1998, respectively. In 1998, he was awarded the Overseas Graduate Scholarship by the National University of Singapore to study at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, where he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2003. Since 2004, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Prior to joining NUS, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has served on the Technical Program Committees (TPC) of over 20 conferences, and has also served as a TPC co-chair for the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUnderNet), and the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON). He is currently serving as an Area Editor of Computer Communications (Elsevier), and also, Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier). His current research interests are in wireless networks, underwater networks, indoor tracking/localization techniques, and satellite systems.

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M.Sc. Supervisors:

Assist. Prof. Mostafa Derakhtian was born in Iran, in 1974. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1996, 1998, and 2007, respectively, all in communication systems. Since 2007, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His main research interests are wireless communications, statistical signal processing, active and passive radar signal processing, detection theory, and array signal processing.

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Prof. Mohammad-Ali Masnadi-Shirazi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in

electrical engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, in 1974 and 1984, respectively, and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1990. He has taught at Shiraz College of Electronics from 1974 to 1984 and was a teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico from 1986 to 1990. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego from 1990 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Shiraz University where he is now a professor. Dr. Masnadi-Shirazi was a visiting associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Texas at Arlington from 2001 to 2003. His research interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing, adaptive and optimal digital filtering.