Mohan Kankanhalli

Professor Mohan Kankanhalli is the Dean of NUS School of Computing where he is the Provost’s Chair Professor of Computer Science. Before becoming the Dean in 2016, He was the NUS Vice Provost (Graduate Education) during 2014-2016 and Associate Provost (Graduate Education) during 2011-2013. Earlier, he was the Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs & Graduate Studies at the NUS School of Computing during 2008-2010 and Vice-Dean for Research during 2001-2007.

Prof Kankanhalli’s research interests are in Multimedia Computing, Information Security and Privacy, Image/Video Processing and Social Media Analysis. He has made many contributions in the area of multimedia content processing – image and video understanding, data fusion, visual saliency as well as in multimedia security – content authentication and privacy, multi-camera surveillance. He is actively involved in the Multimedia Systems research community and was the Director of Conferences for ACM SIG Multimedia during 2009-2013. He is on the editorial boards of several journals including ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Springer Multimedia Systems, IEEE Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, and Journal on Big Data. He directs the SeSaMe (Sensor-enhanced Social Media) Centre which does fundamental exploration of social cyber-physical systems which has applications in social sensing, sensor analytics and smart systems. SeSaMe, which has been funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation, works with many industry and academic partners.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1988.06 — 1990.10)
• Master of Science - MS Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1986.08 — 1988.05)
• Bachelor of Technology - BTech Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1982.07 — 1986.05)

Companies

• Dean, School of Computing National University of Singapore (2016)
• Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science National University of Singapore (2016)
• Professor of Computer Science National University of Singapore (2005)
• Vice Provost for Graduate Education National University of Singapore (2014 — 2016)
• Associate Provost for Graduate Education National University of Singapore (2011 — 2013)
• Vice Dean (Academic Affairs & Graduate Studies), School of Computing National University of Singapore (2007 — 2010)
• Vice Dean (Research), School of Computing National University of Singapore (2001 — 2006)
• Associate Professor Of Computer Science National University of Singapore (2000 — 2005)
• Senior Lecturer of Computer Science National University of Singapore (1998 — 2000)