NUS appoints new Deans for Computing as well as Design and Environment
The National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced the appointment of two new Deans for its Schools of Computing as well as Design and Environment.
With effect from 1 July 2016, Professor Mohan Kankanhalli will take over from Professor David S. Rosenblum as the seventh Dean of NUS School of Computing. Professor Lam Khee Poh will take over from Professor Heng Chye Kiang in helming the NUS School of Design and Environment as its sixth Dean on 18 July 2016.
NUS President Professor Tan Chorh Chuan said, "On behalf of the University, I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to Professor David S. Rosenblum and Professor Heng Chye Kiang for their dedication and strong stewardship in leading the NUS School of Computing and NUS School of Design and Environment respectively. Under their visionary leadership, the two schools have produced outstanding work, expanded collaborations with industry and further strengthened their high international reputations."
"Professor Mohan Kankanhalli has done an outstanding job as Vice Provost of Graduate Education, and we are pleased to welcome Prof Lam back to Singapore to contribute towards the development of Singapore's higher education sector. Both of them will bring to their new appointments, vast experience in spearheading innovative education initiatives, basic and applied research as well as administration. I am confident that they will bring fresh energy and ideas that will help take the two schools to the next level of excellence."
Prof Kankanhalli is currently Vice Provost (Graduate Education) at NUS, where he is responsible for matters relating to Masters and PhD programmes including funding, curriculum, strategy and policy matters. He is the Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the NUS School of Computing. His research interests are in Multimedia Computing, Information Security, Image/Video Processing and Social Media Analysis. A world renowned expert in his field, he has made many contributions in the area of multimedia content processing – image and video retrieval, data fusion, visual saliency, computational media aesthetics as well as in multimedia security – multi-camera surveillance, content authentication and privacy. Prof Kankanhalli first joined NUS in 1990, after which he became a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore between 1997 and 1998 before returning to NUS in May 1998.
Prof Lam has been a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) School of Architecture since 2003. Prior to joining CMU, Prof Lam was an academic staff at NUS' Department of Architecture between 1984 and 1999 and then held a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Building between 2000 and 2003. Prof Lam specialises in life-cycle building information modeling and computational design support systems for total building performance analysis and building diagnostics. His work has been widely published, and he has served as the building performance consultant for several major award winning projects in the private and public sectors in Singapore, China and the US. Prof Lam is a recipient of the 2013 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation from the US National Science Foundation in recognition of his exemplary research contribution to technology innovation and positive impact on technology, industry and the society as a whole.
Please refer to the Annex for biographies of Professor Mohan Kankanhalli and Professor Lam Khee Poh.
