Imagination to Reality

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Imagination to Reality Limsoon Wong Institute
for Infocomm Research
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To Potential I2R Postgraduates

• Why do we want to do research?
• What is life like as a researcher?
• Who is I2R?
• Whats I2Rs environment like?
• How to apply to I2Rs PhD program?

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Realising Dreams

• Why do we want to do research?

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To appreciate the splendourof computing

• Given 99 green beans and 59 red beans.
• Repeat this as many times as you can
• take 2 beans
• if 2 red, discard both
• if 2 green, discard 1, return 1
• if 1 green and 1 red, discard green, return red
• At the end, there will be exactly 1 red bean
  left.
• Why?

Great fundamental invariant to be discovered and
enjoyed!
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To make home video more fun

• Select video frames
• Cut to music
• Decide on transitions

Turn home video into high quality MTV
automatically
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To make computers easier to use
Search photo by visual keywords
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To benefit children

• Childhood leukaemia is a heterogeneous disease
• Treatment is based on subtype
• 4 different tests and 3 different experts are
  needed for diagnosis
• Curable in USA,
• fatal in Indonesia

A single platform diagnosis based on gene
expression
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To watch video any where, any time, on any device!
Wireless Network

And improve quality at the same time!
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To increase competitivenessof the Singapore port
Reduce time-at-port from 3 days to 1 afternoon
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Having Fun

• Whats life like as a researcher?

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Creating companies
And a dozen more!
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Giving talks
in a classroom
in a conference
at the Istana
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Solving problems
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Visiting places
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Receiving awards
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Making while having fun!

• Indicative remuneration after first degree
• Years Position Monthly Salary
• 0 - 4 PG Student 1,500 - 3,000
• 3 - 6 Fresh PhD 3,500 - 5,000
• 5 - 9 Associate 5,000 - 8,000
• 7 - 12 Member 7,000 - 10,000
• 9 - 15 Senior 9,000 - 15,000
• 10- 25 Directors 12,000-20,000
• In RD, results and impacts carry more weight
  than years of experience!

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Advancing Infocomm Technology to benefit humanity

• Who is I2R?

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A National Research Institute

• mission Advance Infocomm Technology to benefit
  humanity and create prosperity for Spore
• core values Passion for excellence, desire for
  innovation, integrity respect
• funding 60M p.a.
• size 350 RSEs
• performance 1 paper a day, 1 patent a week, 1
  technology a month, 1 breakthru a year

SERC
BMRC
IMRE
IME
DSI
IHPC
ICES
SIMTECH
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The FIELD Strategy

• Focus build clusters of protectable assets
• Innovate first-to-arrive, no me-toos aim at
  10x improvement
• Engage build up domain market knowledge work
  with industry
• Leverage work with partners world RD leaders
• Deploy build robust technologies for best
  deployment possibility

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Desire for Innovation

• Pioneer in video indexing parsing systems
• Pioneer in model-enhanced neuro-radiology
• Pioneer in Asian language processing
• Pioneer in immunoinformatics
• Created the 1st robust container number
  recognition system for the worlds busiest port
• Created the first video music analysis system
  for automatic production of high-quality MTV

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Passion for Excellence

• Best Technological Innovation Award, Biometrics
  2002
• IEE Hartree Premium Award, 2002
• Best Paper Award, ICMMT 2002
• TEC Innovator Award, 2002
• TEC Innovator Incubator Award, 2002
• National Infocomm Award, 2002
• National Technology Award, 2001

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Our Research Areas
Information Security
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Our Researchers
Singaporean Chinese Malaysian
Indians Others
Multi-national, multi-cultural,
multi-disciplinary.
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Impact of our People

• Companies with new Singapore RD centres led and
  staffed by I2R alumni
• Sybase Asian Development Centre
• Ericsson Cyberlab
• InfoTalk (National Infocomm Award winner)
• Companies with CEO/CTOs who are I2R alumni
• Alcatel, SurfGold, BEX, Ecquaria, ...

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Our Technology Beneficiaries
Govt-related CAAS CSO LTA MHA PSA
PLEs/SMEs AsiaSoft CET Technologies DBS
GroupSense Internet Appliances NCS NETS ST
Aerospace ST Electronics Stratech Transparity
MNCs Apple Computer Assoc. Ericsson HP IBM NSC NT
T DoCoMo Panasonic Labs. Siemens ST
Microelectronics
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Our Research Partners
IBM, Apple, Johns Hopkins, NSC, Rutgers U.,
Santa Clara U. U. of Illinois, Chicago
Real World Computing, NTT DoCoMo
Ericsson
HP Labs (Bristol)
CNRS
Siemens
Institute of Acoustic, Chinese Academy of
Sciences
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Our Students (FY 2001)
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Pursuing Knowledge for the Prosperity of Singapore
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Building a Future, Building a Team

• Whats I2Rs environment like?

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I2R Building
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La Tasca, a Place for Relaxation
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Kopitiams around the corner
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Typical Office Lab
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Some Lab Outings
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Some I2R Functions
Starlit nite 02
Gongxiraya 00
Deepavali 02
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Joining us...

• How to apply to our PhD program?

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National University of SingaporeNanyang
Technological University Research Scholarship

• Offered to graduates/postgraduates with
  outstanding academic records
• Successful candidates will register with NUS/NTU
  and will attach to I2R to pursue higher degree
  studies by research on a full-time basis
• Jointly supervised by a I2R researcher and an
  academic staff from NUS/NTU
• Degrees awarded by NUS/NTU

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National University of SingaporeNanyang
Technological University Research Scholarship

• Period of candidature
• MSc 1 to 3 years
• PhD 2 to 5 years
• Intake period
• Jul 2003
• Jan 2004

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Selection Criteria

• Meet NUS/NTUs admission requirements for MSc/PhD
  programs by research
• Good bachelors degree in the relevant discipline
• Applicants having degrees from institutions where
  English is not the main medium of communication
  are required to send in TOEFL scores (min. 580
  600)
• Unless exempted, all applicants are required to
  submit GRE scores (min. 1800 2000)
• Ability to pursue research on full-time basis in
  specified research areas available in I2R

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What does the Scholarship offer?
Monthly Stipend (S1,400 S2,000)

Sponsorship of Research/Tuition Fees
S1 RM2.14
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How to Apply

• Submit CV with transcripts, if available
• Attend Interview
• - Date 10 Dec 2002
• Venue Shangri-La Hotel
• Time 9.00am
• Successful applicants will be notified after the
  interview
• I2R HR Dept will contact you subsequently for
  course admission
• OR

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How to Apply

• Send a softcopy of your CV, in MS Word format,
• to postgrad_at_i2r.a-star.edu.sg
• before 15 Dec 2002 for Jul 2003 intake
• Download Application Form www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg
• (click Human Capital Development)
• Send completed application forms supporting
  documents to
• Institute for Infocomm Research
• Human Resource Department (Attn Ms Heather Lee)
• 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
• Singapore 119613
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. In
  your application, please indicate clearly the
  research area(s) you are interested in and the
  source of advertisement

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• For more information about I2R and its RD
  programs, please visit www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg
• For more information about NUS Research
  Scholarship, please visit www.nus.edu.sg/registrar
  /prospective/graduate.html
• For more information about NTU Research
  Scholarship, please visit www.ntu.edu.sg/registrar
  /grad_research.html

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Thank You for Coming!