Zhiyong Huang

Zhiyong is Associate Professor (Practice), Assistant Dean (Industry Relations), Director (C-TReND) and Deputy Director (NUS BAC). He teaches modules in 3D modeling and animation and programming methodology. He had been working as a Senior Scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR since 2007, where he had served various roles including Senior Manager, Strategic Capability Development and Industry Development, Co-Principal Investigator, SERC Industrial Robotics Programme, Department Head, Computer Graphics and Interface, and Programme Manager of SERC Human Factor Engineering. Zhiyong is a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE, and a Pioneer Member of ACM SIGGRAPH and Chair of Singapore ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter.

RESEARCH AREAS

• Media

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Computer Graphics and Multimedia
• Human Computer/Robot Interface
• Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) (1992 — 1997)
• Master of Engineering - MComp Tsinghua University (1986.09 — 1988.12)
• Master Degree of Engineering (MEng) Tsinghua University (1986 — 1988)
• Bachelor of Engineering - BE Tsinghua University (1981.09 — 1986.07)
• Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Tsinghua University (1981 — 1986)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Li R., Huang Z., Kurniawan E., Ho C. K., AuRoSS: an Autonomous Robotic Shelf Scanning System, Regular Paper, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS, 2015.
• Tee K. P., Yan R., Chua Y.W., Huang Z., and Liemhetcharat S., Gesture-Based Attention Direction for a Telepresence Robot: Design and Experimental Study, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS, 2014.
• Gao M.C., Thanh T C., Nanjappa A., Tan S T., Huang Z.: gHull: A GPU algorithm for 3D convex hull. ACM Trans. Math. Softw. 401: 3 2013.
• Gupta R., Chia A. Y. S. Rajan D., Ng E.S., Huang Z., Image Colorization Using Similar Images, 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia, ACM Mulmedia 2012, pp. 369-378.
• Huang Z., Jensen C. S., Lu H., andOoiB. C., Skyline queries against mobile lightweight devices in MANETs,The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE 2006:66.
• Zhang H., Huang W., Huang Z., Li L., Affine Object Tracking with Kernel-based Spatial-Color Representation , IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR 2005, I, pp. 293-300.
• Shou L., Huang Z., Tan K.-L., The Hierarchical Degree-of-Visibility Tree , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE CS, Vol. 16, No. 11, Nov. 2004, pp. 1357-1369.
• Li X., Woon T. W., Tan T. S., and Huang Z., Decomposing Polygon Meshes for Interactive Applications. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games i3D, 2013, pp.35-42, pp. 243.

AWARDS & HONOURS

• FINALIST of World Technology Summit & Awards (Entertainment), 2010.
• Bronze, National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1992.
• Tsinghua 12.9 Distinguished Young Teacher Award, 1989.