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Curriculum Vitae
Ian Chai
(updated 4 April 2014)

Mail address:  Faculty of Computing and Informatics
Multimedia University
Cyberjaya, 63100 Selangor
Malaysia
Tel: 60-13-342-1752
E-mail address: ianchai@mmu.edu.my
Date of birth: August 20, 1966.

Education

Fall 1992-Fall 1999
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, Department of Computer Science.
Ph.D. in Computer Science. (Submitted in December 1999, officially awarded May 2000)
1991-Spring 1992:
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Department of Computer Science.
Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science.
[Incomplete because the department fell apart due to political infighting.]
1988-1990 (Except for time in Germany):
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Department of Computer Science.
M.Sc., Computer Science.
G.P.A. 4.0/4.0
1984-1988:
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Department of Computer Science.
B.Sc., Computer Science.
G.P.A. 3.56/4.0

Awards/Scholarships

2012:
Multimedia University Excellent Teaching Award.
1996:
Department of Computer Science Excellent Teaching Assistant Award (awarded May 2 1997 for work done in 1996).
1990 - present:
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
Fall 1984, Spring 1986:
Honor Roll.
1985-86:
Teagle Foundation Scholar.
1985-86:
Mitchell Honor Scholarship.

Publications

Book: Structuring Data, Building Algorithms: An ANSI-C based approach
Papers: Since this is constantly growing, please refer to the list on my professional website, http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~ianchai/writing/.

Work Experience

March 2014-present
Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Multimedia Unviersity, Cyberjaya, 63100 Selangor, Malaysia
February 2004-December 2013
Programme Coordinator for Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Electronics majoring in Computer, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia Unviersity, Cyberjaya, 63100 Selangor, Malaysia
April 1999-March 2014
Lecturer, and subsequently Senior Lecturer, then Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, 63100 Selangor, Malaysia
Spring 1997-Fall 1998
Research assistant for the Habanero Project, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois.
Fall 1996:
Research assistant for Dr. Ralph Johnson, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois.
Spring 1996:
CS 125 Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Science,University of Illinois.
Fall 1995:
Research assistant for Dr. Ralph Johnson, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois.
Spring 1995:
Research assistant for Dr. Ralph Johnson, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, but assigned as a consultant Technical Writer to assist ITT Hartford Insurance Company's object-oriented software division document their framework.
Fall 1994:
CS 110 Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois.
Spring 1994:
CS 101 Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois.
Fall 1992 - Fall 1993:
Research assistant for Dr. Eric Golin, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois.
Summer 1989, Spring & Fall 1990:
Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissenverarbeitung an der Universität Ulm (FAW - Research Instititute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Ulm, Germany). Research Assistant Programmer. Wrote tools in C/UNIX for a multispectral raster satellite image processing system.
Spring 1988 - Spring 1989, Fall 1989, Spring 1990 - Spring 1992
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Department of Computer Science.
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Lab G.T.A. for Compiler Construction (CS 665).
1986-1987:
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, University Relations.
Technical Assistant.
Set up and maintained a BBS (Bulletin Board System) as an alternative means of distributing press releases to newspapers.

Languages

English (native fluency)
Malay (non-native fluency)
German (able to converse and read)
Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese (able to converse)

References

Dr. Ralph Johnson <johnson@cs.uiuc.edu>
Department of Computer Science
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
USA

Dr. Wolf-Fritz Riekert <riekert@faw.uni-ulm.de>
Professor of Information Technolgy
Stuttgart Media University
Straßburgweg 2, D-89077 Ulm
Germany
(Formerly Senior Scientist Environmental Information Systems
FAW - Research Instititute for Applied Knowledge Processing
Helmholtzstraße 16, 89081 Ulm
Germany)


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