1. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Research Opportunities Presented by Stéphane Bressan

2. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Have You Visited Singapore Recently?

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4. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Testimony Hanna graduated with a bachelor in computer science from UI. She joined SoC’s graduate research program 5 years ago. She has now submitted her PhD thesis in the field of motion planning. “I am happy to have joined NUS and SoC because I can be at the forefront of my research area!”

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6. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Fact Sheet From a modest medical school founded in 1905, the National University of Singapore (NUS) has evolved into Singapore's global university with distinctive strengths in education and research and an entrepreneurial dimension. It has an enrolment of 23,500 undergraduate and over 9,000 graduate students from 88 countries.

7. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Fact Sheet A growing university, NUS aims to build a cohesive NUS community across its three sprawling campus locations. The 150- hectare Kent Ridge campus houses 12 faculties which offer courses ranging from medicine to architecture to music. The Faculty of Law is located at the Bukit Timah campus, while the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore at the Outram campus aims to groom a new breed of physician-scientists for the biomedical sciences sector.

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9. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Fact Sheet NUS is strongly committed to advancing knowledge, educating students and nurturing talent in the service of country and society. It also actively fosters a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation so as to promote creative enterprise university- wide.

10. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Fact Sheet Students (AY 2006-07) Undergraduate Students: 23,469 Graduate Students : 9,075 Class of 2006 Bachelor's Degrees conferred: 5,791 Graduate Diplomas awarded: 306 Master's Degrees conferred: 2,058 Doctoral Degrees conferred: 360 Faculty and Staff (as at Nov 2006) Faculty Members: 1,913 Research Staff: 1,347 Administrative and Professional Staff: 1,044 General Staff: 2,463

11. School of Computing, National University of Singapore World's Top 20 Universities 1.Harvard University 2.University of Cambridge 3.University of Oxford 4.Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.Yale University 6.Stanford University 7.California Institute of Technology 8.University of California, Berkeley 9.Imperial College London 10.Princeton University 11.University of Chicago 12.Columbia University 13.Duke University 14.Beijing University 15.Cornell University 16.Australian National University 17.London School of Economics and Political Science 18.Ecole Normale Supérieure 19.National University of Singapore 20.University of Tokyo

12. School of Computing, National University of Singapore World's Top 20 Technology Universities 1.Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2.University of California, Berkeley 3.Indian Institutes of Technology 4.Imperial College London 5.Stanford University 6.Cambridge University 7.Tokyo University 8.National University of Singapore 9.California Institute of Technology 10.Carnegie Mellon University 11.Oxford University 12.ETH Zurich 13.Delft University of Technology 14.Tsing Hua University 15.Nanyang Technological University 16.Melbourne University 17.Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 18.Tokyo Institute of Technology 19.University of New South Wales 20.Beijing University

13. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Fact Sheet The University's 14 faculties offer a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment. It also enjoys a close teaching-research nexus with 13 national-level, 12 university-level and 80 faculty-based research institutes and centres.

14. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Faculties and Schools Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences School of Business School of Computing Faculty of Dentistry School of Design and Environment Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Law Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Faculty of Science University Scholars Programme

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16. School of Computing, National University of Singapore School of Computing Established July 1998 (formerly DISCS within FoS) Departments: Computer Science Information Systems Staff strength: ~ 200 from leading universities worldwide Student Population ~ 2,100 (75% undergraduates, 25% graduates)

17. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Job Prospects in Computing Source: IDA’s Annual Survey on Infocomm Manpower for 2005

18. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Wide Variety of Computing Jobs Source: IDA’s Annual Survey on Infocomm Manpower for 2005

19. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Need for High-level Training Source: IDA’s Annual Survey on Infocomm Manpower for 2005

20. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Publications in Computer Science Source: ISI Science Citation Index August 2006 24th in World Ranking against US universities Total Citations Count 7 th in World Ranking against US universities Total Publications Count

21. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Publications in Computer Science 10th in World Ranking against US universities Articles published per author Source: “An Evaluation of Publication Productivity in Information Systems: 1999 to 2003” by HH Huang and JSC Hsu, Communications of the Association for Information Systems (Volume 15, 2005), 555-564.

22. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Teaching Emphasis Emphasis on computing fundamentals, where learning of abstraction and logic is central Construction of models that are limited only by imagination and computability Discipline that requires the knowledge of science, the discipline of engineering, and the creativity of arts

23. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Undergraduate Degree Programmes B.Comp. (Hons.) in Computer Science B.Comp. (Hons.) in Information Systems B.Comp. (Hons.) in Computer Engineering B.Comp. (Hons.) in Electronic Commerce B.Comp. (Hons.) in Communications and Media B.Comp. (Hons) in Computational Biology

24. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Master of Computing (Coursework) Targeted at candidates who wish to pursue studies with the aim of advancing their career. Modules are based on the latest research findings, both applied and fundamental. Sufficient flexibility and depth to prepare the students for advanced industry work. Strategic specialisation provide added value to our MComp degree.

25. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Master of Computing (Coursework) Areas of Specialisation Computer Science Infocomm Security Information Technology Project Management (ITPM)

26. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Master of Computing (Coursework) Admission Criteria (A) good honours degree in computing; or (B) A good honours degree in a related discipline with 2 years IT industry experience; or (C) A good bachelor's degree in computing with 2 years IT industry experience; or (D) A good bachelor's or honours degree in business related discipline with 2 years IT industry experience.

27. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Master of Computing (Coursework) Degree Requirements 10 modules. At least SEVEN modules from a single specialisation. Remaining modules from either SoC level 4000 to 6000 or CFM 5000-6000. At most 2 level 4000 SoC modules. At most 2 CFM modules which must be level 5000 or 6000.

28. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Graduate Degree by Research Algorithms and Theory Artificial Intelligence Biomedical Computing Database Management Systems Information Security Media, Graphics and HCI Programming/Software Engineering Systems and Networking Culture and Information Systems Economics of Information Technology Electronic Commerce Electronic Government Group Support Systems Negotiation Support Systems Information Privacy User-Database Interaction

29. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Database Management Systems XML Data management Spatio-Temporal Data Mining Publish/Subscribe Systems Data Streams and Time Series Information Integration

30. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Media Multimedia Information Processing Multimedia Analysis and Synthesis Content Audio Processing Computer Vision Computer Graphics and Computational Geometry Multimedia Security Natural Language Processing Question Answering

31. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Systems and Networking Computer Architecture Parallel Processing, clusters and Grid Embedded Computing Systems TCP performance Cross Layer Architecture for IP Mobility Sensor Networks Context Aware Pervasive Computing Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Quality of Service

32. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Software Engineering Program Analysis and Transformation Parallel Distributed Programming Type Systems Formal Methods

33. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Decision Support Computational Logistics Document Analysis Digital Libraries

34. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Computational Biology Indexing Data Structure for DNA sequences Remote Homolog Detection Pathway Informatics Gene Data Mining Protein Structure Comparison and Classification

35. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Graduate Degree by Research 3 PG Modules Research + 2 PG Modules Research Pre-submission presentation Thesis Defence M.Sc. FAIL 2 PG Modules + M.Sc. thesis Sem1Sem2Sem3Sem4 Sem5Sem6Sem7Sem8 Sem3 Qualifying Examination Graduate Research Paper Thesis Proposal

36. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Graduate Degree by Research Admission Criteria The normal minimum entry qualifications for admission to the programme by research are a good relevant bachelor's degree/master's degree. Candidates applying for Research Scholarships must have obtained at least a bachelor's degree with good honours, or its equivalent in Computing or related discipline. Candidates should have the ability to pursue research in the candidate's proposed field of advanced study. Candidates with relevant Master's degree may be admitted into the PhD programme.

37. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Graduate Degree by Research Degree Requirements Pass 8 courses must be level 5000 & above (max of two level 4000 modules allowed) PhD Qualifying Exam (end of 1st sem) Must obtain B average grade PhD Thesis Proposal + Doctoral Seminar (end 3rd year) Defence (typically in 4th year)

38. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Graduate Degree by Research Financial Support Research Scholarship (Fee + Monthly Stipend $1,500) PhD Top-up ($500) President’s Graduate Fellowship ($700/mth for a year) Dean’s Graduate Award ($500) Conference Trips for Rank 1 and 2 papers Teaching Assistantships available

39. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Internship Opportunities? Submit an on-line application at: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/research/internship.html. Short-listed candidates will be notified via email twelve weeks prior to the commencement of the internship. Queries, Email to: res-office@comp.nus.edu.sg

40. School of Computing, National University of Singapore SoC Incubation Centre TenCube

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42. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Want to know more? Visit: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/prospective_students Or email: grad-info@comp.nus.edu.sg mcomp-info@comp.nus.edu.sg

43. School of Computing, National University of Singapore Credits Music and Clipart courtesy of Microsoft Video-postcards have been prepared by SoC AV Tech team Special thanks to Hanna, Vivi, Sufriato and Derry Copyright © 2007 by Stéphane Bressan