Professional Activities
Technical Review
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Cryptography and Communications
Theoretical Computer Science
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications
IEEE Access
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (IEEE ISIT)
The International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA)
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (IEEE ITW)
Research
Research Fellow II. (Promoted), SUTD, Singapore, PI: Professor Kui Cai, Oct 2022 - present
Research Fellow I, SUTD, Singapore, PI: Professor Kui Cai, Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
Research Fellow (promoted from Project Officer), NTU, Singapore, Supervisor: Professor Yeow Meng Chee, Mar 2019 - Sep 2019.
Project Officer, NTU, Singapore, Supervisor: Professor Yeow Meng Chee, Aug 2018 - Mar 2019.
Ph.D. Research Scholar, NTU, Singapore, Supervisor: Professor Yeow Meng Chee & Co-supervisor: Professor Han Mao Kiah, Aug 2014 - Aug 2018.
Project Officer, Division of Mathematical Sciences, NTU, Singapore, Supervisor: Professor Yeow Meng Chee, Feb 2014 - Aug 2014.
Me, giving a lecture on dynamic programming, MH3400 Algorithms for the Real World, NTU 2019.
Teaching & Lectures
University Teaching Assistant
“Algorithms for the Real World" (Undergraduate level), NTU, Singapore, 2017-2019.
“Engineering Mathematics 1" (Undergraduate level), NTU, Singapore 2018.
“Discrete Mathematics" (Undergraduate level), NTU, Singapore, 2018.
Lectures
“Dynamic Programming", MH3400 Algorithms for the Real World (Undergraduate level), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, April 2019.
“Dynamic Programming", MH3400 Algorithms for the Real World (Undergraduate level), NTU, Singapore, April 2016.
“Uncertainty Principle in Discrete Fourier Analysis", School of Physical and Mathematical Science, NTU, Singapore, April 2013.
Conference Talks or Invited Talks
IEEE ISIT, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2023, 2 talks: "On the Design of Codes for DNA Computing: Secondary Structure Avoidance Codes", and "Locally Mitigating Sneak-Path Interference in Resistive Memory Arrays".
IEEE ISIT, Espoo, Finland, June 2022, 2 talks: "Using one redundant bit to construct two-dimensional almost-balanced codes", and "Optimal Single-Chromosome Inversion Correcting Codes for Data Storage in Live DNA".
NVMW, University of California, San Diego, USA, May 2022: "Linear-Time Encoders for Two-Dimensional Bounded-Weight Constrained Codes".
IEEE ISIT, Melbourne, Australia, June 2021, 2 talks: "Efficient Design of Capacity-Approaching Two-Dimensional Weight-Constrained Codes", and "Coding for Segmented Edits with Local Weight Constraints".
NVMW, University of California, San Diego, USA, March 2021: "Single Indel/Edit Correcting Codes: Linear-Time Encoders and Order-Optimality".
IEEE ISIT, LA, USA, June 2020, 2 talks: "Subblock Energy-Constrained Codes: Knuth's Balancing and Sequence Replacement Techniques", and "Constrained Coding with Error Control for DNA-Based Data Storage"
IEEE ICASSP, Barcelona, Spain, May 2020, invited talk: "Efficient Constrained Encoders Correcting a Single Nucleotide Edit in DNA Storage".
IEEE ISIT, Paris, France, July 2019: “Linear-Time Encoders for Codes Correcting a Single Edit for DNA-Based Data Storage".
NVMW, University of California, San Diego, USA, Mar 2019, Memorable Paper Award Finalist, paper award session: “Linear-time encoding/decoding of irreducible words for codes correcting tandem duplications"
IEEE ISIT, Vail, USA, June 2018: “Efficient encoding/decoding of irreducible words for codes correcting tandem duplications".
EEE ISIT, Aachen, Germany, July 2017: “Permutation codes correcting a single burst deletion II: stable deletions".
IEEE ISIT, Barcelona, Spain, July 2016: “Efficient encoding/decoding of capacity-achieving constant-composition ICI-free codes".
*ISIT: International Symposium on Information Theory
*NVMW: Non-Volatile Memories Workshop
*ICASSP: International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Me, my research collaborators Professor Cai Kui, Han Mao Kiah, Kees Immink, and my friends at the 2022 International Symposium on Information Theory conference, the first in-person conference after the Covid-19 pandemic.