The IDM Network provides a virtual communication to link all the NUS IDM research communities round the clock. It organises face-to-face meetings, seminars, demos, etc for physical, personal networking to promote research collaboration in the NUS campus.

Additionally the IDM Center will develop exhibitions of the technologies that showcase the elements of the creative industries.  It will also promote the development of creative tools and sponsor projects that integrate creative arts into the technology development process. We also intend to provide opportunities for talented developers to showcase their work and present a wide portfolio of talented candidates for local operators.

The IDM Center will supply Singapore with the technologies that will be at the digital heart of many of Singapore's emerging sectors including Digital Exchange, Digital Entertainment and Digital Media, Digital Culture as well as adding value to Biomedical and Biotechnology initiatives.  In the nexus of interactions between biological systems and machines heralded by many world scientific leaders as the next major Digital Disruption the IDM Center will provide an early stage technological advantage to Singapore by exploring the key enablers and early commercial applications of the emerging Bio-intelligence Age.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a multi-campus university of global standing, with distinctive strengths in education and research and an entrepreneurial dimension. A growing university, NUS now spans three locations - its principal 150-hectare Kent Ridge campus, Bukit Timah campus and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. It has an enrolment of 22,000 undergraduate and more than 6,000 graduate students from 80 countries.

NUS offers a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment. There are 13 faculties offering courses from architecture to medicine to music. A special feature of NUS education is the global dimension of its courses in partnership with some of the world's best institutions. NUS also enjoys a close teaching-research association with 13 national-level, 11 university-level and 80 faculty-based research institutes and centres. Research activities are strategic and robust, and a 'no walls' collaborative culture forms the bedrock of NUS' research-intensive vibrancy.   A spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation promotes creative enterprise university-wide. This is aided by a venture support eco-system that helps students, staff and alumni nurture the development of start-ups into regional and global companies.  

NUS plays an active role in international academic networks such as the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). It is ranked amongst the best universities in the world, and is well-regarded for disciplines such as Technology, Biomedicine and the Social Sciences.

Since April 2006, Professor Hang Chang Chieh has been appointed as the Chairman of Interactive & Digital Media Steering Committee of NUS. He has helped NUS transform to a research-intensive university, especially in the field of engineering.

Professor Hang Chang Chieh received the Ph.D degree in Control Engineering from the University of Warwick, England, in 1973. From 1974 to 1977, he worked as a Computer and Systems Technologist in the Shell Eastern Petroleum Company (Singapore) and the Shell International Petroleum Company (The Netherlands). Since 1977, he has been with the National University of Singapore, serving in various positions including being the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering.

From 1994 to 2000, he served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of research. From 2001 to 2003, he was seconded to Agency for Science, Technology and Research as its Deputy Chairman. Since 2004, he has been appointed Director, Centre for Management of Science & Technology of the National University of Singapore.  

Prof Hang was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1998 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK in 2000. He has served as the founding Chairman of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) since 2001. He also serves as non-executive Chairman of four high-tech companies.

Adrian David Cheok is Director of the IDM Network and the Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

He has previously worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded computing in Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Osaka, Japan) and NUS. He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interaction, wearable computers and smart spaces, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics, and multi-modal recognition. He has successfully obtained funding for four externally funded projects in the area of wearable computers and mixed reality from the Defense Science Technology Agency Singapore. The research output has included numerous high quality academic journal papers, research prototype deliverables to DSTA, numerous demonstrations including to the President and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, CNN / CNBC television worldwide broadcasts on his research, and international invited new media exhibits such as Ars Electronica.

He is currently an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore where he leads a team of over 20 researchers and students. He has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous international and local conferences and events. He is invited to exhibit for two years in the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, launching in the Ars Electronica Festival 2003. He was IEEE Singapore Section Chairman 2003, and is presently ACM SIGCHI Chapter President. He was awarded the Hitachi Fellowship 2003, the A-STAR Young Scientist of the Year Award 2003, and the SCS Singapore Young Professional of the Year Award 2004. In 2004 he was invited to be the Singapore representative of the United Nations body IFIP SG 16 on Entertainment Computing and the founding and present Chairman of the Singapore Computer Society Special Interest Group on Entertainment Computing. Also in 2004, he was awarded an Associate of the Arts award by the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore.

Tim Marsh is an Assistant Professor in the Communications and New Media Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has a Ph.D in Computer Science specializing in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from the HCI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK. Before joining NUS he worked in the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and the InfoLab at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Tim’s work focuses on developing new approaches to analyze and design for experiential use of technological products, devices and digital interactive media (e.g. computer games, virtual and mixed reality). His research is informed in particular from film and activity theory. By extending film theory and cinematography and editing techniques, he has shown it’s possible to create more complex interactive media that provides a more stimulating experience and encourages people to stay connected.

Using his work in film together with concepts from activity theory, he developed an approach to support design of narrative and scenario, model and trace human behavior and experience, and identify artifact and activity interruption. He teaches on the modules: Introduction To Interactive Media and Creating Interactive Media. He is a member of ACM SIGCHI.

E-mail: tmarsh@nus.edu.sg | Website: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmmt | Tel: (+65) 9026 1093

Stephen Wittkopf is member of the IDM network contributing aspects on Architectural Design and Technology Transfer. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and PI of the Digital Space Lab. He was Fellow of the University Scholar Programme and taught the multidisciplinary seminar 'Virtual Reality and Immersive Visualization'. His research interests include application review and developments to support generation, visualization, simulation and communication of design.

He was Visting Professor for Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) at Munich University of Applied Science (Germany 2000-2001) before he joined NUS in 2001. He obtained a Doctorate Degree (Dr.-Ing.) in Architecture from Darmstadt University of Technology on 'An IDM supported learning systems to design with light' (Germany, 2001), obtained a graduate Diploma certificate from the Chair for CAAD at ETH Zurich (Switzerland, 1996) on 'Development of a web-based front-end for photorealistic simulation software' and graduated in Architecture (Dipl.-Ing.) from Technical University of Aachen (1994, Germany).

From 1994-1999 he was also working as research and teaching fellow at the new Chair for CAAD at Darmstadt University of Technology, leading and supporting various projects on virtual re-construction and visualization of heritage architecture. From 1997-1999 he joined ERCO and developed virtual luminaires which are distributed with 3D Studio Max and have been used by many lighting designers.