Beng Chin Ooi - Curriculum Vitae#
EDUCATION:
- 1985 B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- 1989 Ph.D. (Computer Science) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, website: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ooibc
WORKING EXPERIENCE
- 1989 - 1991 Institute of Systems Science, Singapore
- Research Associate (Project Leader)
- Research Associate (Project Leader)
- 1991 National University of Singapore (NUS)
- Lecturer, 1991 - 1994
- Senior Lecturer, 1994 - 1998
- Associate Professor, 1998 - 2000
- Professor, 2000
- Distinguished Professor, 2013 - 2021
- Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor, 2021
- Lecturer, 1991 - 1994
- 2007 - 2013 (June) Dean, School of Computing (SoC)
- 2011 - 2021 (July) Director, Smart Systems Institute
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- 2009 Elected Fellow of IEEE (for leadership in data management technology)
- 2009 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award ( for his sustained and selfless contributions to the database community in promoting and pursuing high standards of database research at both the international and regional level)
- 2011 Singapore President’s Science Award (for outstanding contributions to database systems research for managing “big data” in large-scale parallel and distributed systems)
- 2011 Elected Fellow of ACM (for contributions to spatio-temporal and distributed data management)
- 2012 IEEE Computer Society Kanai Award (For pioneering research in distributed database management and peer-to-peer based enterprise quality management)
- 2013 NUS Outstanding Researcher Award
- 2013 Singapore National Day’s Public Administration Medal (PPA) (Silver)
- 2014 IEEE TCDE CSEE Impacts Award (For sustained contributions to Computer Science in the engineering of parallel and distributed database systems)
- 2016 Fellow of Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS)
- 2016 China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Contributions Award (for contributions to promoting quality research and collaboration)
- 2020 ACM SIGMOD E.F. Codd Innovations Award (for his innovative research and for devising and deploying innovative large-scale systems to manage and analyze data)
- 2020 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award (for his work on provenance query processing on blockchain)
- 2021 NUS Research Outstanding Award