TECHNICAL Track DETAILS
Session: Digital Media Chair: Lai Kok Sen (3dsense Media School) Biodata Since then, Sen has been actively involved in the CG industry. His career spans across various companies, from Hewlett Packard, to Electronic Arts and eventually NTU as a Research Officer. In 2003, Sen founded 3dsense Media School. 3dsense now leads the industry with the core mission to aid the growth of the Singapore CG industry through nurturing CG talents with their highly acclaimed industry immersion programmes. 3dsense attracts students both locally and internationally, and her alumni are now CG Artists both domestically in renowned studios like Infinite Frameworks, KOEI, EA, Lucasfilm, and internationally in studios like Polygon Pictures (Japan), Boonty Games (Beijing), Softstar (Taiwan) and etc. In March 2007, 3dsense Media School was recently touted by industry critics and publications as the top 10 schools for computer animation studies outside of UK and USA. Sen also co-founded Visual Communication Order Private Limited in 2005, which initiated various large scale CG events. From the organization of Computer Animation Festivals in Chengdu, China (3D Passion Chengdu), to CG Overdrive 2006 (Asia's largest computer graphics event) in which Sen was the conference director. Visual Communication Order continues to birth major initiatives and events that strive to contribute to the vibrancy and growth of the Singapore CG Industry. Besides his industry involvements, Sen is also a beta-tester for Autodesk new release of 3dsmax. He was also involved in the development of a Crowd Simulation tool in Germany. He had also given CG related talks and seminars to various international institutions including NTU (Singapore), Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. . . . "Rendering
Using an Enterprise Grid" Abstract Biodata . . . "Case Study for Using Secured
Public Grids for Rendering" Abstract Biodata . . . "AE @ SG Digital Media Portal" Abstract Biodata . . . "Utility Services for Animation
Rendering" Abstract Biodata
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___________________________________________________________________________ Session: Grid Security Chair: Prof. Robert Deng (Singapore Management University) Biodata He has 26 patents and more than 200 technical publications in international conferences and journals in the areas of computer networks, network security and information security. He served as general chair, program committee chair and member of numerous international conferences, including PC co-chair of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security. He received the University Outstanding Researcher Award from the National University of Singapore in 1999 and the Lee Kuan Yew Fellow for Research Excellence from the Singapore Management University in 2006. . . . "Security
in Grid Services" Abstract Biodata . . . "IGTF: Authentication Profiles & Level
of Assurance" Abstract For each AP different stipulations regarding identity management, operational requirements, and site security may be in effect. The IGTF has approved two authentication profiles, Classic X.509 CAs Secured Infrastructure (Classic AP) and Short Lived Credential Services (SLCS AP), and the other two authentication profiles, Member Integrated Credential Services (MICS AP) and the Portal-based Credential Services (POCS AP) are under review. For relying parties, it is important to clarify the levels of assurance of these authentication profiles, which is the one of missions of Levels of Assurance Research Group (LoA RG), a new research group in the Open Grid Forum. This talk introduces the Authentication Profiles maintained by the IGTF and the activities of the LoA RG. Biodata . . . "Protecting Grid Resources:
Is there a Difference from Conventional Security
Measures" Abstract Biodata . . . "Experiences
in Deploying Grid Security for APAC" Abstract The talk will cover the the plans for the immediate future as the very Grid centric activities of the Certificate Authority are integrated into the AAF, the Australian Access Federation, a new organisation charged with providing authentication and authorisation services to all of Australia's Higher Education and Research sectors. While the AAF will ultimately be based around Shibboleth, limitations placed by technology will lead to a hybrid system that's likely to be in use for a year or two. Biodata
___________________________________________________________________________ Session: Access Grid Chair: Ng Wan Sin (Infocomm Development Authority) Biodata . . . "Introduction to AG and Multicast
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___________________________________________________________________________ Session: PC Grids "PC Grid Technology for Enterprise
Grid Computing Development" Abstract Biodata . . . "Experience
of Grid Enabling the Application: DOX" Abstract STEE worked on grid-enabling a docking application known as DOX from InhiBox on the open-source grid platform BOINC. This talk will present the tools and methods used in the grid-enabling process and share the experiences gained. Biodata . . . "PC-Grids:
Do the benefits outweigh the challenges?" Biodata ___________________________________________________________________________ Session: Sensor Grids
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Sen
Lai is the Media Education Director of 3dsense
Media School, which he founded in 2003. Prior to
3dsense, Sen had the privilege of attending school
at the Nanyang Technological University(NTU) in Singapore,
which he graduated with a Degree in Computer Engineering,
majoring in computer graphics (CG) technologies and
subsequently pursued his interest in Animation
in Vancouver Film School, Canada. 
Mr.
Alfred Lie has over 18 years experience in the IT
industry, and is Deputy Director for the Media, Communication & Entertainment
(MCE) Industry at Frontline Technologies Pte Ltd.
In his current role, he is responsible for the business
and development of commercial products and services
for the Media, Telco and Entertainment Industry.
Prior to joining Frontline Technologies, he was the
Deputy CEO at MC3 and ASP Centre, technology competency
centres set up by Sun Microsystems, Infocomm Development
Authority and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
He also held various management and technical appointments
at the Defence Science and Technology Agency. Mr
Lie graduated from NTU with a Bachelors degree in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Chi Sim founded Omens Studios together with Hock,
and is responsible primarily for business planning,
business development, sales and marketing, and investor
relations. Chi Sim also executive produces the studio's
original IP and co-production projects.
Before joining the animation industry, Chi Sim
co-founded and ran earth9.com Pte Ltd, one of Singapore's
most successful midsized interactive marketing
agencies. He developed deep relationships with
a blue chip clientele as well as partnerships with
large global agencies, resulting in many large
scale interactive projects around the world. His
other career experience includes a stint at the
National Computer Board (now Infocomm Development
Authority of Singapore) and then at Microsoft Singapore.
Chi Sim graduated with
a Bachelor's degree (with Merit) in Computer Science
on an accelerated program majoring in Artificial
Intelligence from the National University of Singapore,
where he was also part of the prestigious National
Science and Research programme. He owns one patent
in the area of collaborative information management.
A/Prof. Bu-Sung Lee received his B.Sc. (Hons) and
PhD from the Electrical and Electronics Department,
Loughborough University of Technology, UK in 1982
and 1987 respectively. He is currently an Associate
Professor with the Nanyang Technological University
and Associate Chair (Research), School of Computer
Engineering. He is the invited lecturer to Osaka
University, under the Pacific Rim International UniverSity
program in 2005 and 2006.
He is an active member of
Pacific Rim Middleware and Application Association(PRAGMA).
In 2005, he and his team have successfully deployed
the Multi-organisation Grid Accounting System(MOGAS)
software, which they developed, across the PRAGMA
grid test-bed covering over 10 sites in the region.
Jon Lau
Khee Erng, Assistant Director at the National Grid
Office, is also technical manager of the National
Grid Pilot Platform and leads the Access Grid initiative
in Singapore. Jon Lau obtained his Bachelors of
Science (Information Systems & Computer Science)
and his Masters of Technology (Knowledge Engineering)
from National University of Singapore. 
Bertil Schmidt is Associate Professor of Computer
Science and Engineering at University of New South
Wales. Prior to that he was a faculty member at the
School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological
University (NTU). At NTU he also held appointments
as Programme Director of M.Sc. in Bioinformatics
and as Deputy Director of the Biomedical Engineering
Research Centre. Before coming to Singapore, he held
research appointments at the University of Karlsruhe
(TH), TU Braunschweig and RWTH Aachen. Associate
Professor Schmidt has been involved in the design
and implementation of parallel algorithms and architectures
for over a decade. He has worked extensively with
fine-grained (GPUs, SIMD, FPGAs, Cell BE), coarse-grained
(clusters, grids) and hybrid parallel architectures.
He has successfully applied these parallel computing
technologies to various domains including bioinformatics,
image processing, multimedia video compression, and
cryptography. He has published in journals such as
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Concurrency
and Computation: Practice and Experience, Bioinformatics,
and Autoimmunity.
Lin
Feng is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University.
He holds the degrees of B.Eng (1983),
M.Eng (1986) and Ph.D (1996) in computer
science. He has been active in the
research projects of bioinformatics,
biomedical imaging, scientific visualization,
and high performance computing, and
he has published about ninety papers
in these areas. He was the Lab Manager
of NTU Bioinformatics Research Centre
and led the development of a cluster
of HPC nodes for computational biology.
Dr
Thomas Joseph did
his PhD in Jadavpur University in India in the field
of pharmaceutical sciences - in particular in QSAR,
in 2006. He has joined the Bioinformatics Institute
in the group of Bimolecular Modelling & Design
and leads the effort on drug docking to target proteins.
Wolfgang Muller-Wittig is the Director
of the Centre for Advanced Media
Technology (CAMTech) since January
2001. CAMTech is a joint venture
between the Fraunhofer Institute
for Computer Graphics (Fraunhofer-IGD),
Darmstadt (Germany), and Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
Furthermore, he is an Associate Professor
at the NTU School of Computer Engineering.
Prior to joining CAMTech, he worked
first as a scientist in the "Visualization & Virtual
Reality" Department at Fraunhofer-IGD,
and then as the head of the "Visualization
Group". His research interests
include real time rendering, Virtual
Reality, Augmented Reality, and GPGPU
computation. He received his university
degree (Dipl.-Inform.) as well as
his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) in
Computer Science from the Darmstadt
University of Technology (Germany). 
Robert
H. Deng received his Bachelor from National University
of Defense Technology, China, his MSc and PhD from
the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. He has
been with the Singapore Management University
since 2004, and is currently Professor, Associate
Dean for Faculty & Research, School
of Information Systems. Prior to this, he was
Principal Scientist and Manager of Infocomm Security
Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
Mr R Rajeshkumar is the Dy. CEO, Netrust Pte Ltd.
Netrust was established in May 1997 as the first
Certification Authority (CA) in Southeast Asia. It
provides individuals, businesses and government organisations
with a complete online identification and security
infrastructure to enable secure electronic transactions
via the Internet and other wireless media. Mr Rajeshkumar
is responsible for growing Netrust's business in
new geographies and new verticals. He holds a bachelors
degree in Electronics and Communications (Digital
Communication and Fibre Optics) and an MBA from Imperial
College in International Business and Finance.
Dr.
Yoshio Tanaka received his B.E. in 1987, his M.E.
in 1989 and his Ph.D.(Eng.) degree in 1995 all
in mathematics from Keio University. He was working
at Real World Computing Partnership from 1996 to
1999. He is currently a principle research scientist
and a team leader of Grid Infraware Team at Grid
Technology Research Center, National Institute
of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
He is the chair of the International Grid Trust
Federation and the Asia Pacific Grid Policy Management
Authority. His current research interests include
Grid programming tools, developments and managements
of Grid Testbed, and Grid security.
Mr.
Robin Liao is Fortinet's Systems
Engineer for Singapore and Emerging Markets. Prior
to joining Fortinet, Mr. Liao was the Product Manager
for Cisco at Comstor Singapore with responsibilities
for technical marketing and presales activities.
Mr. Liao also brings with him considerable technical
experience from his 10 years of extensive career
in networking and security environments. He has also
previous experience with products such as Packeteer,
F5 and Netscreen. Mr Liao is a graduate of RMIT
in Melbourne, Australia. He majored in Applied
Science for I.T.
David Bannon
is the manager of the Systems Group at the Victorian
Partnership for Advance Computing, which supports
a range of HPC systems for Universities and Industry
use. He is also the CI Manager of the APACGrid Project
with team members and systems around Australia. 
Wan Sin joined
the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Singapore,
in 2003 to track and initiate emerging technology
programmes that bring together industry, Institutes
of Higher Learning and research institutes such as
grid computing, remote collaboration technologies
and soa-based healthcare technologies. Currently
in the Cluster Transformation and Standards Team,
she is now working on emerging technologies in the
healthcare cluster. Prior to joining IDA, Wan Sin
had experiences in IT consulting for telecommunication
companies and R&D in wafer fabrication technologies.
Napat
is a Senior Systems Specialist at Singapore Computer
Systems Ltd. His responsibilities in this position
include supporting customer and delivery the system
they required he also works on project management,
consultation, customer coordinate as well as application
development. Napat has been supporting National
Grid Office for 3 years. Besides supporting on
system infrastructure side, he also conducts grid-related
training courses and help grid-enable applications
under the National Grid Competency Centre. Napat
graduated with a Bachelors Degree of Computer Engineering
from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand and
worked at High Performance Computing and Networking
Center, before joining SCS.
Chan Hoong Maeng is currently a Ph.D. candidate
at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(ECE) of the National University of Singapore (NUS).
He is also a senior research engineer cum team leader
within the Advanced Computing Programme at the Institute
of High Performance Computing, Singapore. He has
worked on the framework for grid deployment and set
up one of Singapore's earliest Access Grid (AG) node.
He has also been active in helping the Access Grid
community in Singapore to set up their own AG nodes.
His research interests are in grid middleware,
virtualization technologies and grid-enabled applications.
Hoong Maeng obtained his M.Tech. degree in Software
Engineering from NUS and his B.Eng. (1st class
honours) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
from UMIST, UK.
Francis Nai is a Consultant in the Technology and
Planning Group in the Infocomm Development Authority
of Singapore (iDA). Prior to that, he is a faculty
member in the University of Wollongong and Temasek
Polytechnic. His PhD research involves the application
of computational techniques, high throughput and
high performance computing to the biomedical domain.
He has worked extensively in the distributed systems
and bio-computing space.
Jerry
is a key member of the inSORS sales and business
development team, having been with inSORS since its
first release of the inSORS Grid ("IG") version 1
in 2002. Due to inSORS small and agile size, Jerry
participates in all of inSORS' major customer markets-
universities/research, government/military, and commercial.
Prior to joining inSORS in 2002, Jerry worked in
sales and product management roles for telecommunications
companies such as Dynegy and trade organizations
such as the IEC.
Chee Chiang has been working as an IT professional
since 1991. His interest in research and high performance
computing began when he joint the National University
of Singapore in 1993. He helped in implementing and
introducing the first Cray Vector supercomputer on
campus in 1995. Since then, he has been playing a
major role in introducing various other new HPC technologies
and services to the research community, which include
the remote visualisation system, the HPC Portal,
the server and PC Grid, the Access Grid, and the
InfiniBand based HPC blade clusters. The PC Grid
project has been honoured with the CIO Asia awards
by the CIO Magazine in 2006.
Balasubramanian Narasiman is System Specialist at
ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems), where he
works with enterprise customers deploying open source
based HPC/Grid computing, application development
and porting. Bala started using Linux and open source
software since 1999. He is Red Hat certified Engineer
and Sun certified Java programmer, actively participate
in open source community mailing lists, received
is Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science
from Madras University, India.
Dr.
Lim Hock Beng is program director of the
Intelligent Systems Centre at Nanyang Technological
University. He received his BS in Computer
Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering,
and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and an MS in Management Science and Engineering
from Stanford University. His research interests
include sensor networks and grids, parallel
and distributed computing, wireless and mobile
networks, embedded systems, computer architecture,
performance evaluation, and information security.
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