Short Bio

Hwee-Pink TAN is currently a Scientist-III (Research Scientist) in the Networking Protocols Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. Prior to joining I2R in March 2008, he was a Research Fellow at Center for Telecommunications Value-chain Research (CTVR) in the Emerging Networks (EN) strand, led by Dr. Linda Doyle.Between December 2004 and June 2006, he was a post-doctoral researcher at EURANDOM in the research group, Queueing and Performance Analysis (QPA), under the guidance of Prof.dr Onno Boxma and Dr. Ivo Adan. He also visited the Telecommunications Group at the University of Ferrara from September-October 2004 and was hosted by Prof. Michele Zorzi, who is Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.

He is currently involved in the following projects:

• October 2010 - September 2012 : Exploiting Ambient Energy Harvesting and Wireless Multihop Technologies for Open Car Park Monitoring (Principal Investigator);
• April 2009 - September 2011 : Robust Multihop Underwater Network to Support Long-Range Sensing Applications (Principal Investigator);
• August 2007 - August 2011 : Underwater Sensor Networks for Intelligent Deepwater Mooring Systems (Principal Investigator wef 1 October 2009);
• January 2008 - December 2010 : MAMI-MANET and Mesh Interconnectivity in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (Principal Investigator wef 1 October 2009).

Education

• Oct 2000 - Sep 2004 : Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology;
• July 1996 - June 2000 : M.Sc (EE) Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore;
• July 1990 - June 1994 : B.Eng (EE) (1st class honours) Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Professional Experience

• July 2006 - March 2008 : Research Fellow, CTVR, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
• December 2004 - June 2006 : Post-doctoral Researcher, EURANDOM, The Netherlands.
• May 1995 - July 2000 : Senior Member of Technical Staff, Defence Science Organization National Laboratory, Singapore.

Prizes / Awards

• April 2011: I2R Excellent Team Player Award 2010;
• April 2010: I2R Good Team Player Award 2009;
• March 2009: I2R Best Research Paper Award 2008;
• March 2008: Highly-Commended Paper Award (22nd IEEE AINA, Okinawa, Japan);
• 2005-2008: A-STAR International Fellowship (Post-Doctoral Research);
• 2001-2004: Faculty Scholarship (Ph.D. Studies);
• 2000-2001: Lady Davis Fellowship (Ph.D. Studies);
• 1993-1994: Placement on Dean's List for Outstanding Academic Performance (B.Eng. Studies);
• 1990-1994: Public Service Commission Local Merit Scholarship (B.Eng. Studies).