Hwee Tou Ng, Associate Professor, National University of Signapore
Dr. Hwee Tou NG is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, Program Co-chair (Computer Science Program) of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and a Senior Faculty Member at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, USA in 1992. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval. He has published papers in premier journals and conferences including Computational Linguistics, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI. He is the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), and an editorial board member of Natural Language Engineering journal. He has also served as an editorial board member of Computational Linguistics journal (2004 - 2006). He is an elected member of the ACL executive committee (2008 - 2010) and a steering committee member and former secretary of ACL SIGNLL. He is program co-chair of EMNLP 2008 conference, was program co-chair of ACL-2005 and CoNLL-2004 conferences, and has served on the program committees of many past conferences including ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI.
