Memberships
- Member, IT Management Association (since 2008, Exco member since 2011)
- Senior Member, Singapore Computer Society (since 2008, member since 1994)
Invited Keynotes, Talks, Lectures, and Tutorials
- Co-Creation – It’s Not Just the Data, Invited Talk for the Government CDO (Chief Data Officer) Network, Singapore, 2011
- A Dose of Reality – the Customers’ Perspective on the Cloud, Invited Talk, IBM Smart Cloud Camp, Singapore, 2011
- There’s No Such Thing as Security in the Cloud, Invited Talk, SITF Cloud Chapter, Singapore, 2011
- Leveraging on Technology to Drive Business, Opening Keynote, SME Internet Summit, Singapore, 2011
- Lessons from a Library for Connected Government, Invited Keynote, FutureGov Forum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 2011
- Government in the Cloud, Opening Keynote, The International Cloud Computing Forum & the Result Presentation of Industrial Technologies of the Taiwan Research Cloud, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2010
- Innovation on a Budget, Invited Keynote, Asia CIO Forum, Singapore, 2010
- Thinking Twice before Going on the Internet, Opening Keynote, SME Internet Summit, Singapore, 2010
- Government in the Cloud: The Future of Information Management, Invited Keynote, FutureGov Forum, Hong Kong, 2010
- Government in the Cloud, Invited Keynote, FutureGov Forum, Singapore 2010
- Cloud Computing: A Data Perspective, Invited Talk, Government Cloud Forum, Singapore, 2009
- Cloud Computing: A User Perspective, Invited Talk, FutureGov Summit, Indonesia, 2009
- Cloud Computing, Invited Talk, SOA Developer’s Day 2009, Singapore, 2009
- Sharpening the Knife, Keynote Speech, Ministry of Education CPDD Sharing Symposium, Singapore, 2009
- Molly: The Mobile Library, Invited Talk, FutureGov Summit, Indonesia, 2008
- The Future of Games for Learning, Keynote Speech, International Conference on Educational Technologies, Singapore, 2007
- The Role of Emerging Technologies for the 21st Century Education, invited lecture at 2nd QS-APPLE Conference: ICT for Learning 21st Century Skills, Singapore 2006
- ICM Technology Trends and their Ramifications on Education, Keynote speech, MOE IT Seminar for Cluster Superintendents & Principals, 2006
- Personalization, and IT Trends, Two invited talks for the Media Development Authority (MDA), Singapore, 2005
- Are Computers Creative? Invited talk at the Creativity Forum, Singapore, 2004
- User Centered Trends: IT in 2004 & Beyond, invited talk to SES top management, 2004
- Are We Still Far Away from Talking about Media Semantics? Keynote speech, International Workshop on Advanced Imaging Techniques (IWAIT 2004), Singapore, 2004
- 1500 Search Engines on the Internet. Which is the right one for me?, Opening Talk in the NLB/ICAAS IT@Orchard Seminar Series, 2001, Singapore
- Patent Data for IR Research and Evaluation, invited talk at the NTCIR-2 Workshops, Panel on Looking Ahead In IR and Summarization Research and Evaluation, 2001, Tokyo, Japan
- Search Engines are not Roadmaps in the Internet, invited talk in Panel on Digital Opportunities and Challenges, SCS Festival, 2001, Singapore
- Trends and their Ramifications for the Evaluation of IR, invited talk at the NTCIR/IREX Workshops, Panel on the Future of the Evaluation Project in Asia, 1999, Tokyo, Japan.
- Trends in Digital Libraries: an idiosyncratic perspective, invited talk at the Library School, Temasek Polytechnic, 1999, Singapore.
- Some very preliminary ideas on the fundamental nature of representation, and their ramifications on information retrieval, invited seminar given at NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan, Feb 1999
- Machine Translation & the Internet, invited tutorial at the Machine Translation (MT) Summit VII, 1999, Singapore.
- The Logic of Visual Representation, invited paper at the CSLI Logic Symposium, Stanford University, 1994
Editorial & Advisory Boards/Committees:
- Member of the Editorial Board, Information Retrieval Journal, Springer, 2007 - 2011
- Member of the School Advisory Committee, Temasek Polytechnic School of IT, Singapore, since 2000
- Member of the Steering Committee, the Singapore Bio-imaging Consortium (SBIC), 2004-2009
- Member of the Steering Committee, the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) Series, 2004-2009
- Member of the Singapore National Library Board (NLB) Digital Library Advisory Board, 2006
- Member of the Editorial Board, Information Processing and Management: An International Journal, Pergamon Press, 1999-2004
- Member of the IT Review Committee, Ministry of Education, Singapore, 2004
- Member of the Steering Committee, the IRAL (Information Retrieval with Asian Languages) Workshops, 1997-2003
- Member of the Standing Program Committee, the NTCIR (NII/NACSIS Test Collection for Information Retrieval) Workshops (organized by the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan), 1999-2002
General, Program & Organizing Chair:
- Organizing Co-Chair, ITMA 17th IT Best Practices Seminar, Singapore, 2011
- General Co-Chair, ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval 2008, Singapore, 2008
- Finance Co-Chair, 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2008), China, 2008
- Technical & Organizing Chair, A*STAR Cognitive Science Workshop Series, 2007
- General Chair, 3rd Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2006), Singapore, 2006
- Organizing Chair, SBIC Workshop on Medical Image Processing, Analysis and Storage
- Posters & Demos Co-Chair, ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval 2006, Seattle, USA, 2006
- Publicity Co-Chair, 2nd Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2005), Jeju, Korea, 2005
- Finance Chair, First Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2004), Beijing, China, 2004
- Program Co-Chair, ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval 2000, Athens, Greece, 2000
- Co-chair, ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval 2002: Workshop on Mobile Personal Information Retrieval, 2002
- Co-chair, ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval 2000: Workshop on Patent Retrieval, 2000
- Program Chair for Technology, 1999 South-East Asian Regional Computer Conference (SEARCC), 1999
- Program and Organizing Chair, IRAL'98 - the 3rd Information Retrieval with Asian Languages Workshop, 1998
- Co-chair, 1998 Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) Joint Workshop on Cross Language Issues in AI & Issues of Cross-Cultural Communication, 1998
- Organizing Committee: IRAL’99, IRAL’2000, IRAL’2003, Digital Libraries Asia 1998, MT Summit VII Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross-language Information Retrieval, etc.
Program Committees:
- ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval (1999-2007, 2009)
- Information Retrieval with Asian Languages IRAL Workshop (1998-2003)
- Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (2004-2008)
- International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (2005)
- International Conference on Computers in Education (2005-2007)
- International Conference on Digital Archives Technology (2004,2005)
- Association for Computational Lingusitics ACL Conference (1999, 2000, 2003)
- String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE) Symposium (2001)
- Asian Digital Libraries Conference (2002)
- International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages ICCPOL (2001)
- International Conference on Chinese Language Computing (2000)
- Australian Document Computing Symposium (1999, 2000, 2001)
- Recherche d’Informations Assistee par Ordinateur (RIAO) Conferences (2000, 2003)
- Etc.
Paper Review for Journals, etc.:
- Information Retrieval Journal
- International Journal of Information Technology
- Information Processing & Management
- Multimedia Systems Journal
- ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- Multimedia Tools and Applications
- IEEE Computer
- Etc.
Miscellaneous:
- Judge, Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors Award (2007-2012)
- Judge, Singapore Science & Engineering Fair (2005-2007)
- Judge, National Junior Robotics Competition, (2002-2005)
- Judge, National Science Talent Search, (2002, 2005,2006)
- Judge, The First Lego League Robotics Competition, 2002, Singapore
- Mentor for ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval (2002,2003)
- Best Paper Awards Committee of ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval 2001
- Patent Mentor and Patent Reviewer, KRDL/LIT/I2R, 1998-2000, 2002-2006
- Member of the Singapore National Information Infrastructure Technical Committee, 1997-1999