Faculty
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Dr Lim Meng Hiot,
PhD, MSc, BSc |
Associate Professor |
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Division of Circuits and Systems
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School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
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Dr. Meng-Hiot Lim joined the faculty at the School of Electrical &
Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in 1989 and is
currently an Associate Professor. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD from
the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the university, he worked
as a Reliability Engineer for International Rectifier. This company is based
in California and specializes in power MOSFETS. During 1999-2000, he was on
a sabbatical with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Missouri - Rolla as a Visiting Associate Professor.
He is holding a concurrent appointment of Deputy Director of the Centre for
Financial Engineering, a multi-disciplinary research centre anchored at the
Nanyang Business School. The Centre, besides promoting multi-disciplinary
research, oversees the highly regarded M.Sc. in Financial Engineering
program. As one of the founding directors of the Centre, Dr. Lim has played
a significant role in the planning and formulation of the curriculum of this
program.
At the moment, his major funded project is with ST Engineering where he is
involved in the development of an integrated problem solving environment and
the development of algorithms for application in unmanned aerial vehicles.
Before that, in 1990, he initiated the School of EEE's first National
Science and Technology Board (now known as A*Star) funded project. As the
principal investigator of the funded project in collaboration with Seiko
Instruments Inc., he developed an on-line fuzzy-neural diagnostic system to
help improve on the overall productivity of a critical process in the
manufacture of crystal quartz resonators. In 1996, he won first prize in the
AI Challenge Trophy competition organized by the Singapore Computer Society
with his winning program, an evolutionary algorithm producing the best
outcome for an operational research problem.
During his tenure with NTU, he has offered technical consultancy for
companies and delivered specialized short courses. In 1997, he was engaged
by SingTel Yellow Pages to undertake the development of a large-scale
computerized resource allocation system. Within a pressing schedule of 6
months, he single-handedly implemented the turnkey system based on a
multi-stage computational intelligence techniques tailored specifically for
the problem. The system was successfully deployed and commissioned on the
Company's mainframe machine. The solution replaced the tedious and
time-consuming manual chore of balancing resources, which earlier required a
significant number of personnel. Recently, he has been playing an active
role in nurturing and supporting an internet startup to commercialize
proprietary IP, both as principal investigator of collaborative R&D projects
and as an advisor to the company.
Dr Lim is a regular participant/organizer of major international conferences
and publishes his works regularly in technical journals. He is an Associate
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man an Cybernetics – Part C, since
2004. He was the Local Arrangement Chair of the highly successful ICONIP/SEAL/FSKD-2002
held in Singapore. More recently, he has served as Asian Liaison in the
organizing committee of IJCNN-03, held on July 2003 in Portland, Oregon. For
the past few years, he has been cited in the Marquis Who's Who in the World,
Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who’s Who in Science & Engineering, and
Asia Pacific Who's Who. He is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi and
previously held executive committee positions with IEEE Singapore Section
and IEEE Computer Chapter. He is a firm believer of the educational paradigm
that veers towards empowering students to explore and challenge norms beyond
classroom reality.
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