ABOUT
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems & Analytics, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. I am also an Honorary Professor at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) at the University of Auckland (UoA). Before joining NUS, I served as an Associate Professor at ABI, UoA, appointed by invitation under strategic entrepreneurial universities scheme. Prior to that I was an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab. I received my PhD in 2010 and BEng in 2005 from the National University of Singapore. In 2011, I founded the “Augmented Human Lab” to explore ways of designing intelligent human-computer interfaces that extend the limits of our perceptual and cognitive capabilities. For the totality and breadth of achievements, I have won many awards including young inventor under 35 (TR35 award) in the Asia Pacific region by MIT TechReview, Outstanding Young Persons of Sri Lanka (TOYP), and INK Fellowship 2016.
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2005 2009SINGAPORE
PHD in ELETRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Research Attachment: Music Computation and Cognition (MuCoaCo)Laboratory, University of Southern California. Advisor: Prof. Elaine Chew
Thesis: Enhancing Musical Experience for the Hearing-impaired using Visual and Haptic Feedback. Advisors: Dr. Elizabeth Taylor, Prof Lonce Wyse, Prof Ong Sim Heng -
2001 2005SINGAPORE
B.ENG in ELETRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING (1st CLASS)
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Student Exchange Program: University of Birmingham, UK.