Mun Choon Chan

Education

• Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY)
• M.Phil. (Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY)
• M.S. (Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY)
• B.S. (Computer & Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)

Mun Choon graduated with a BS in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University with highest distinction in 1990, MSEE in 1993 and Ph.D. in 1997, both from Columbia University. In Columbia, he was a member of the comet group and worked under the supervision of Prof. Aurel A. Lazar on large scale network emulation, network management and programmable network. From 1997 to 2003, he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Networking Research Laboratory, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. In Bell Labs, he worked on network management and wireless data transport over cellular network. His work in Bell Labs includes highly cited work on TCP/IP performance over 3G wireless links (MobiCom 2012) and a US patent on cache-based compaction technique that has more than 210 patent citations (US Patent 6,178,461).

He joined NUS in 2004 and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computing. He is a member of the Communication and Internet Research Lab, and his research areas cover sensor network protocols, mobile sensing and software defined networking. Some highlights of his work include routing and incentive protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks (MobTorrent(INFOCOM 2009), Mobicent(INFOCOM 20100), Plankton(SECON 2013)), wireless sensor network protocols (Splash(NSDI 2013), P3(IPSN 2014), Oppcast(IPSN 2016), Codecast(IPSN 2018)), sensor network testbed (Indriya) and mobile sensing (Tone-Counting(Sensys 2012), Socialweaver(Sensys 2013), PiLoc(IPSN 2014), barometer based context detection(Sensys 2014)). He has graduated 16 PhD students, served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, published more than 100 conference/journal papers and has been awarded 7 US patents.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Computer Networking
• Mobile Computing
• Software Defined Networking
• Wireless Data Networking
• Network Management
• Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking
• Cyber-Physical Systems

AWARDS & HONOURS

• Best in session presentation (INFOCOM 2017)
• Best Paper in ICDCN 2016 networking track
• Best Demo in IPSN 2016
• Top 100 (out of 600) reviewer in INFOCOM 2016
• Best Demo - Runner Up in IPSN 2014
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (2010-2015)
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University, NY (1991 - 1997)
• Tan Kah Kee Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship (1991 - 1993)
• Singapore Technologies Overseas Scholarship for undergraduate studies (1987-1990)