Tat-Jen Cham

Tat-Jen is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and Director of the Centre for Multimedia & Network Technology (CeMNet). He received his BA in Engineering with triple first class honours in 1993 and his PhD in 1996, both from the University of Cambridge, during which he was awarded the Loke Cheng-Kim Foundation Scholarship, the Alexandria Prize, the Engineering Members’ Prize as well as the St Catharine’s College Senior and Research Scholarships. Tat-Jen was subsequently conferred a Jesus College Research Fellowship in Science in 1996-97. From 1998 to 2001, he was a research scientist at DEC/Compaq CRL in Cambridge, MA, USA, where his experience included technology transfer to product groups and showcasing research work to Hollywood studios. After joining NTU in 2002, he was concurrently a Faculty Fellow in the Singapore-MIT Alliance Computer Science Program in 2003-2006. Tat-Jen’s research interests are broadly in computer