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Associate Professor

Ian THNG

Programme Director, TUM BSc Electrical Engineering & Information Technology
Associate Professor
PhD Electronics Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Cluster:
Engineering
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SIT Appointments

  • Associate Professor
    – Present
  • Programme Director, TUM BSc Electrical Engineering & Information Technology
    – Present
  • Assistant Professor
    –

Education

  • PhD Electronics Engineering
    Curtin University of Technology , Australia
  • BEng (Hons) Electronics
    University of Western Australia , Australia

Achievements

  • Commonwealth Government of Australia APRA (Australian Post-Graduate Award), PhD in Robust and Optimal Signal Processing (Awarded by University of Western Australia, transferred to Curtin University later)
    –
  • UWA HECS Exemption Scholarship

Professional Memberships

  • Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    –

Corporate Experience

  • Fellow collaborator with the following companies: WigetWorks Pte Ltd (Wing on Ground Effect craft)
  • Fellow collaborator with the following companies: Tritech SysEng Pte Ltd (Environmental Monitoring)
  • Fellow collaborator with the following companies: Yenom Industrial Pte Ltd (Adhesives and Labels)
  • Fellow collaborator with the following companies: GrenZone Pte Ltd (Solar Energy Total Solution)
  • Fellow collaborator with the following companies: Wavex Technologies Pte Ltd (RF/RFID and Library Automation)
  • Fellow collaborator with the following companies: Kenetics Innovations Pte Ltd (RF/RFID readers and technologies)

Research Interests

  • Image processing
  • Sensor technology
  • 3D printing
  • RF/RFID

Journal Papers

  • Caroline HE Chin, Yuqin Mong, Xiaosong TANG, Ian L Thng and Hailong Li, “A FSLE-based transceiver for combined synchronization and equalization in partial response systems,” WSEAS Trans. on Systems, issue 2, vol. 5, ISSN:1109-2777, pp. 368-373, Feb 2006.

  • Hailong Li, Ian Li-Jin Thng, “Fairness Issue and Monitor-based Algorithm In Optical Burst Switching Networks”, Accepted for publication in Computer Networks- The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking.

  • Wai Teng Tang, Rick Siow Mong Goh, and Ian Li-Jin Thng, “Ladder Queue: An O(1) Priority Queue Structure for Large-scale Discrete Event Simulation,” Accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Aug 2005.

  • Hailong Li and Ian Li- Jin Thng, "Performance Analysis of a Limited number of Wavelength Converters in an Optical Switching Node", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 1130-1132.

  • Hailong Li and Ian Li-Jin Thng, “Cost Saving Two-Layer Wavelength Conversion in Optical Switching Network,” Accepted for publication in IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Sep 2005.

  • Rick SM Goh and I L-J Thng, “Twol-Amalgamated Priority Queues, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, vol. 9, no. 1.6, pp. 1-45, April 2005.

  • Yu Xiang, I L-J Thng, Yuming Jiang and Chunming Qiao, “Queuing Processes in GPS and PGPS with LRD Traffic Inputs,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1-14, June 2005.

  • Tang Xiaosong and I L-J Thng, “A NS Frequency Domain Approach for Analog Design of CAP or ICOM Waveforms”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 2154- 2164, Dec 2004.

  • Hailong Li, Kim Hui Ling, Ian Li- Jin Thng, "Dual Control Packets in Optical Burst Switching Networks", Journal of Optical Networking, pp. 787-801, vol 3., no. 11, Nov 2004.

  • Rick SM Goh and I L-J Thng, “An Improved Dynamic MList for the Pending Event Set Problem”, International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology, vol. 5, no. 3-4, pp. 26-36, Sep 2004.

  • Luo Xiaoyuan and I L-J Thng, “A Robust M/M/1/K scheme for providing Handoff Dropping QoS in Multi-service Mobile Networks,” ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal, vol. 10, pp. 301-309, May 2004.

  • Kian Jui Tan, Li-Jin Ian Thng, and Hailong Li, "Absolute Priority Just-Enough-Time Scheme For Absolute Quality of Service in Optical-Burst-Switching Networks", Journal of Optical Networking, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 573-588, Aug 2004.

  • Rick SM Goh, Wai Teng Tang, Ian Li- Jin Thng and Marie Therese Robles Quieta, “The Demarcate Construction: A New Form of Tree-based Priority Queues,” Informatica: An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 277-287, Nov 2004.

  • Xiaosong Tang, I L-J Thng and Li Xinrong, “A New Digital Approach to Design 3D CAP Waveforms”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 1, Jan 2003, pp. 12-16.

  • Rick SM Goh and I L-J Thng , “MList: An Efficient Pending Event Set Structure For Discrete Event Simulation”, International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology, vol. 4, no. 5-6, pp. 66-77, Dec 2003.

  • Zhang Shutao and I L-J Thng, “Robust Pre-Steering Derivative Constraints for Broadband Antenna Arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 1, Jan 2002, pp. 1- 10.

  • TCK Hui and I L-J Thng, “FELT - A Far Future Event List Structure Optimized for Calendar Queues”, SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, vol. 78, issue 6, 2002, pp. 343- 395.

  • Luo Xiaoyuan, Bo Li, I Li- Jin Thng, Yi-Bing Lin and Imrich Chlamtac, “An Adaptive Measured-based Pre-Assignment Scheme with Connection-level QoS Support for Mobile Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 1, no. 3, July 2002, pp. 521-530.

  • Li Guoyi, I L-J Thng and WC Wong, “ABR Services for Overcoming Misbehaving Sources in a Heterogeneous Environment,” Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 24, Academic Press, ISSN: 1084-8045, 2001, pp. 125- 149.

  • KL Tan, I L-J Thng and HY Mak, “ROCQ: Reduced Operations Calendar Queue Structure for High Speed Large Scale Simulations,” Submitted to Informs Journal of Computing, June 01.

  • I L-J Thng, A. Cantoni and YH Leung, “Low Timing Sensitivity Receiver Structures for CAP,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 48, no. 3, Mar 2000, pp. 396- 399.

  • I L-J Thng, A Cantoni and YH Leung, “Analytical Solutions to the Optimisation of a Quadratic Cost Function Subject to Quadratic Equality Constraints,” Applied Mathematics and Optimization, vol. 34, 1996, pp. 161-182.

  • I L-J Thng, A Cantoni and YH Leung, “Constraints for Maximally Flat Optimum Broadband Antenna Array Processors,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 43, no. 6, 1 June 1995, pp. 1334-1347.

  • I L-J Thng, A Cantoni and YH Leung, “Derivative Constrained Optimum Broadband Antenna Arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 41, no. 7, 1 July 1993, pp. 2376-2388.

  • I L-J Thng and Tang Xiaosong, “New 2-D Continuous Time Orthogonally Multiplexed Pulses for VDSL copper transmission,” IEEE Transactions on Communications.

  • Xiaosong Tang, CW Lok and I L-J Thng, “Combined equalization and timing recovery method using fractionally spaced linear equalizer,” IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Conferences

  • Caroline HE Chin, Yuqin Mong, Xiaosong TANG, Ian L Thng and Hailong Li, “A new combined equalization/synchronization technique for partial response systems (Invited paper),” Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Electronics, Control and Signal Processing (ICECS ’05), Miami, Florida, USA, November 17-19, 2005, pp. 126-131.

  • Rick SM Goh and Ian Li- Jin Thng., “MultiQ - A Multi-Tier Multi-List Based Priority Queue Structure For Stochastic Discrete Event Simulation,” Proceedings 15th IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Marina del Rey, California, USA, March 1-3, 2004.

  • Rick SM Goh and Ian Li- Jin Thng, “Dynamic Cost-Based Multi-Tier Linked List,” Proceedings of the IASTED Applied Simulation and Modelling (ASM) 2004, Rhodes, Greece, June 28-30, 2004.

  • Rick SM Goh and Ian Li- Jin Thng, “DSplay: An Efficient Dynamic Priority Queue Structure For Discrete Event Simulation,” Proceedings Simulation Technology Training (SimTecT) 2004 Conference, Canberra, Australia, May 24-27, 2004.

  • Hailong Li, Malvin Wei Liak Tan, Ian Li-Jin Thng, Xiaorong Li, "Fiber Delay Line-Random Early Detection QoS Scheme for Optical Burst Switching Networks", Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications HSNMC'04, Hotel Mercure Atria, Toulouse, France, pp. 761-765, June 30 - July 2 2004, Springer.

  • Rick SM Goh, Wai Teng Tang, Ian Li- Jin Thng and Marie Therese Robles Quieta, “A New Form of Tree-based Priority Queues for Discrete Event Simulation,”, Proceedings of the 2004 High Performance Computing & Simulation in conjunction with the 18th European Simulation Multi-conference 2004, Herrenkrug Park Hotel , Magdeburg, Germany, June 13-16, 2004.

  • Hailong Li, Malvin Wei Liak Tan, Ian Li-Jin Thng, "A Distributed Monitoring-based Fairness Algorithm In Optical Burst Switching Networks", Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communication 2004, Hotel New York at Disneyland, Paris, France, vol. 3, pp. 1564- 1568, June 20- 24, 2004.

  • Hailong Li, Han Meng Neo, Ian Li- Jin Thng, "Performance of the Implementation of a pipeline buffering system In Optical Burst Switching Networks", Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2003 (IEEE GLOBECOM '03), vol. 5, pp. 2503 – 2507, 1-5 Dec. 2003.

  • VS Pok, S See and I L-J Thng, “Use of Rate Control and Historical Data to Improve Performance of Servers”, Proceedings 16th European Simulation Multiconference, Fachhochsschule Darmstadt– University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany, 3-5 June 2002.

  • I L-J Thng and Yee Hong Leung, “Constraints for Digitally Implemented Maximally Flat Optimum Broadband Beamformers,” Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON ’01), Star Cruise Virgo (Phuket Island, Langkawi Island, Singapore), 19- 22 August 2001, pp. 156-159.

  • Yu Xiang, I L-J Thng and Yuming Jiang, “Effects of Bursts in Effective Bandwidth Estimation,” Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Asynchronous Transmission Mode (ICATM ‘01), 25 April 2001, Olympic ParkTel, Seoul, Korea, pp. 290-294.

  • S Zhang and I L-J Thng, “Pre-Steering Derivative Constraints For Robust Broadband Antenna Arrays”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP 2001), Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 7-11 May 2001.

  • Yu Xiang, I L-J Thng and Yuming Jiang, “Generalized Processor Sharing with Long-Range Dependent Traffic,” Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2001 (MASCOTS ‘01), August 15-18, 2001, Kingsgate Marriott Conference Center and Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

  • Yu Xiang, I L-J Thng and Yuming Jiang, “Measurement Based Effective Bandwidth Estimation for Long-range Dependent Traffic, ” Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON ’01), Star Cruise Virgo (Phuket Island, Langkawi Island, Singapore), 19- 22 August 2001, pp. 359-365.

  • Yu Xiang, I L-J Thng, Yuming Jiang and C Qiao, “Generalized Processor Sharing with Long Range Dependent Traffic,” Proceedings GlobeCom 2001 Conference, Nov 25-29, 2001, Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

  • KL Tan and I L-J Thng, “SNOOPy Calendar Queue,” Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, Wyndham Palace Resort and Spa, Orlando, Florida, USA, Dec. 10-13 2000, pp. 487-495.

  • KL Tan, I L-J Thng and CC Ko, “SNOOPy: A New Calendar Queue Structure,” Proceedings of the 2000 Summer Simulation Conference, Coast Plaza Suite Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Jul. 16-20 2000, pp. 122-128.

  • Xiaoyuan Luo, , I L-J Thng, Bo Li, Shengming Jiang and Li Yin, “A Dynamic Measurement-Based Bandwidth Allocation Scheme with QoS Guarantee for Mobile Wireless Networks,” Proceedings IEEE WCNC 2000 , 23-28 Sep 2000, Chicago, USA.

  • I L-J Thng, Xiaosong Tang and Quek Yang Boon, “A New 2D CAP system,” Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2000), Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 5-8, 2000, pp. 957-962.

  • Xiaoyuan Luo, I L-J THNG and S. M. Jiang, “Measurement-Based Pre-Assignment Scheme With Connection-Level QOS Support For Multiservice Mobile Networks”, Proceedings Networking 2000 Conference, May 14-19, 2000, Cite Des Sciences, La Villette, May 2000.

  • I L-J Thng, Li Xinrong and CC Ko, “A New 3D CAP System”, Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON 99), Cheju, Korea, 15- 17 September 1999, pp. 309-312.

  • Luo Xiaoyuan, I L-J Thng and Shengming Jiang, “A Simplified Distributed Call Admission Control Scheme for Mobile Cellular Networks”, Proceedings of the IEE International Conference on Telecommunications, Cheju, Korea, 15-18 Jun 1999.

  • L Xinrong, I L-J Thng and CC Ko, “An Improved Design of 3-D CAP Signature Waveforms Against Quantisation Noise”, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC’ 99, Jul 6-8 1999, Sharm El Sheikh, Red Sea, Egypt, pp. 369- 374.

  • Li Guoyi, I L-J Thng and WC Wong, “Performance of TCP/IP over heterogeneous ABR switches,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information, Communication and Signal Processing, Mandarin Singapore Hotel, Singapore, pp. 3A4.7.1-3A4.7.5, Nanyang Technological University, Dec. 1999.

  • Luo Xiaoyuan., I L-J Thng and Wei Zhuang, “A Dynamic Channel Pre-reservation Scheme for Handoffs with GoS Guarantee in Mobile Networks”, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC’ 99, Jul 6-8 1999, Sharm El Sheikh, Red Sea, Egypt, pp. 404- 408.

  • I L-J Thng and YS Gan, “Unknown Frame Forwarding in LANE (LAN Emulation)”, Proceedings International Computer Symposium, National Cheng Kung University, Dec 17-19 1998, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC, pp.274-281

  • J Tuthill, YH Leung and I L-J Thng, “Adaptive RLS Filters with Linear and Quadratic Constraints,” Proceedings IEEE ICASSP ’95, vol. IV, 1 April 1995, Detroit, United States, pp. 1424 - 1427.

  • I L-J Thng, A Cantoni and YH Leung, “New Set of Constraints for Maximally Flat Optimum Broadband Antenna Arrays,” Proceedings IEEE ICASSP ’94, vol. IV, April 1994, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, pp. IV.533 - IV.536.

  • Xin Guan, Ian Li-Jin Thng, Yuming Jiang, and Hailong Li, “Providing Absolute QoS through Virtual Channel Reservation in Optical Burst Switching Networks”, Accepted for publication in Computer Communications, Elsevier, UK.

Past

  • University of Glasgow, BEng (Hons) Aerospace Systems - Electromagnetic Compatibility 3
  • University of Glasgow, BSc (Hons) Computer Science - Network Systems 3
  • Technical University of Munich, BSc in Chemical Engineering - Physics CE and Physics EI
  • Technical University of Munich, BSc in Electrical Engineering & Information Technology - Circuit Theory 1 and Circuit Theory 2
  • Technical University of Munich, Lab Course Advanced Digital Circuit Design (EI 3104)
  • DigiPen Institute of Technology, BSc in Computer Science in Real-Time Interactive Simulation - Precalculus with Discrete Mathematics