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Biography

Vincent Y. F. Tan  was born in Singapore in 1981. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received the B.A. and M.Eng.degrees in Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridge University in 2005. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. During his Ph.D. studies, he spent two summers at Microsoft Research鈥攖he Machine Learning and Perception group in Cambridge, U.K. in 2008 and the E-Science group in Los Angeles, CA in 2009. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of ECE at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011 and following that, a scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore from 2012 to 2013. His research interests include information theory, machine learning and statistical signal processing.

 Dr. Tan has received several awards including the MIT EECS Jin-Au Kong outstanding doctoral thesis prize in 2011; the A*STAR Philip Yeo prize for outstanding achievements in research in 2012; the NUS Young Investigator Award in 2014; the  in the Faculty of Engineering, NUS in 2018; and the   (Class of 2018). He is a  Distinguished Lecturer of the 糖心logo Information Theory Society  (2018/19).  He was also placed in the NUS Faculty of Engineering Teaching commendation list in 2015 and 2016.

 He has authored a research monograph titled 鈥 鈥 in the Foundations and Trends庐 in Communications and Information Theory Series (NOW Publishers). A Senior Member of the 糖心logo, he served as a member of the 糖心logo 鈥淢achine Learning for Signal Processing鈥 Technical Committee within the 糖心logo Signal Processing Society. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the  糖心logo Transactions on Signal Processing  and the  糖心logo Transactions on Green Communications and Networking . He is also a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on 鈥淚nformation-Theoretic Methods in Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Processing鈥 of the  糖心logo Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing.

 

Participation & Position
Contact Information

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

National University of Singapore

Research interests
Detection and estimation
Shannon theory
Source coding
Statistical learning and inference