Grants Received

Research Funding Agencies

• Alibaba Cloud (Singapore)

• HTX Singapore

• Ministry of Education, Singapore

• Ministry of National Development (Land and Liveability National Innovation Challenge)

• Municipal Services Office

• National Environment Agency

• National Research Foundation (Smart Nation TRANS Lab)

• National Research Foundation (Proof-of-Concept)

• National Research Foundation (Interactive Digital Media)

• National Healthcare Group

• Singapore Millennium Foundation 

Recent Research and Industry Grants

2024-2025
Comfortable ANC
By Smart Technologies Lab (PI)

2023
Inter-floor Noise Measurements
By Municipal Services Office/MND (PI)

2023-2024
Audio Cue for Spatial Warning
By HTX, Singapore (PI)

2022-2025
Deep Ear for Hearables (DEHE): Applying Deep Learning Techniques for Hearing Devices
By MoE Tier 2 (PI)

2016-2024
Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Smart Nation TRANS Lab
By SNDGO/NRF (co-Lead PI)

2021-2022

Unified Unsupervised Self-adaptive End-to-end Neural Speech Enhancement System for Echo Cancellation and Noise Reduction

By Alibaba Cloud (Singapore) Pte Ltd (PI)

2021-2023

Assessing Cities: A Score (Societal Comprehensive Reflective Estimate) Methodology

By NRF/MND City-of-Tomorrow R&D Programme (Co-PI)

2020-2022

Active Noise Mitigation of Construction Machinery Noise

By Kay Lim and CCD (PI)

2020-2023

Augmenting Urban Soundscape Enhancement System and Evaluation of the Urban Sound Environment

By NRF/MND City-of-Tomorrow R&D Programme (PI)

2019–2022

Active Noise Cancellation of Aircraft Noise through Open Windows

By NRF/MND City-of-Tomorrow R&D Programme (PI)

2018–2020

Audio Intelligence Monitoring at the Edge (AI-ME)

By National Research Foundation (IAF)/ Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial intelligence Joint Grant (PI)

2018-2021

Immersive 3D Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications

By Ministry of Education/MoE Tier 2 (PI)

2018-2019

Intelligent Edge Analytics for Noise Sensing

By National Research Foundation / Smart Nation TRANS Grant (PI)

Sep 2016 – Aug 2019

Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial intelligence Joint Grant

By Industrial Alignment Funding - ICP (co-PI)

2018

Use of Sensor Analytics To Develop and Improve Home Fire Alarm Devices (HFAD)

By National Research Foundation / Smart Nation Trans Grant (co-PI)

Sep 2016 – Aug 2019

Smart Nation TRANS Lab Grant

By National Research Foundation / Smart Nation Program Office (co-PI)

July 2016 – Jun 2019

Augmenting Urban Soundscape (AUS): Using Augmented Reality Tool to Design and Evaluate Urban Sound Environment

By Ministry of National Development / National Research Foundation L2NIC (MND) (PI)

Dec 2014 - Nov 2017

Abating urban noise through a holistic approach of noise monitoring, analytics and control (MAC)

By Ministry of National Development (MND) (PI)

Oct 2014 - Sept 2016

Online Tutor for Engineering Students (ONTEN)

By Singapore Millennium Foundation (PI)

Apr 2014 - Mar 2017

Experimentation of a novel sound system to enhance listening for hearing impaired and elderly [RCA - 14/330]

By NHG Ageing Research Grant'14 (PI)

Dec 2012 - Dec 2014

Noisy Vehicular Surveillance Camera System [RCA - 14/330]

By National Environmental Agency (NEA) Research Agreement (PI)

Jan 2012 - Jan 2013

Perspective Audio: Creating 3D Sound Ready for Prime Time [NRF2011NRF-POC001-033]

By National Research Foundation (NRF) Proof-of- Concept Grant (PI)

Jun 2011- May 2014

Next-Generation 3D Sound System for 3D TV: Theory, Experiments, and Applications [MOE2010-T2-2-040 (ARC 6/11)]

By Ministry of Education/MoE Tier 2 (PI)

Dec 2010 – Oct 2013

3D Audio for Home Theatre System [RCA-10/110]

By Philips Electronics Singapore-NTU Joint R&D (PI)

Nov 2010 – Nov 2011

Immersive 3D Audio System for 3D Media [NRF2010NRF-POC001-026]

By National Research Foundation (NRF) Proof-of- Concept Grant (co-PI)

Mar 2010 – Feb 2013

Creation of Personal Sound Spot System (S3): Theory and Implementation [RG 20/08]

By ACRF Tier 1 (PI)

Nov 2008 - Nov 2011

Speech, Touch, Acoustic Tangible Interface for Next Generation Application (STANINA) : 2nd IDM(NRF Grant)[NRF2008IDM-IDM004-010]

By National Research Foundation (NRF) Proof-of- Concept Grant (co-PI)

Dec 2007 - Jun 2011

Next-Generation Directional Sound Beam with Bass Enhancement and Beamsteering to Support New IDM Applications.(1st Interactive Digital Media R&D(NRF)Grant) [NRF2007IDM-IDM002-086]

By National Research Foundation (NRF) Proof-of- Concept Grant (PI)

Oct 2007 - Oct 2009

ADI-NTU Joint R&D [Analog Devices-NTU University Program

By Analog Devices Research funding (PI)

Aug 2007 - Jul 2008

Scalable Perceptual Image Coder[Texas Instruments-NTU]

By Texas Instruments Research funding (PI)

Jan 2007 - Dec 2007

Digital Media Technology (DMT) Projects [Xilinx-NTU]

By Xilinx (PI) In donation of tools and software

Mar 2006 - Mar 2007

Multi-Channel Audio Beam System For Homeland Security [RG 97/05 (SEP)]

By NTU Supplementary Equipment Project (PI)

Apr 2005 - Jun 2005

Short-distant messaging for kiosk

By NTU Supplementary Equipment Project (PI)

Jan 2005 - Jun 2005

Long-distant directional Messaging [ST Kinetics-NTU]

By Singapore Technology Kinetics (PI)