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Glassgow East - 108
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California 93943
gsingh@nps.edu
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P e r s o n a l P
r o f i l e
Gurminder Singh is a Professor of Computer Science and
Director of the Center for the Study of Mobile
Devices and Communications at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS),
CA. His primary area of focus is wireless and handheld device technology.
He is currently involved in research in Mobile Devices and Wireless Sensor
Networks. Prior to NPS, he was the President and CEO of NewsTakes, Inc., a
company specializing in repurposing of multimedia content for delivery to
wireless networks and devices. He has been involved in this area for the
last 10 years. Prior to NewsTakes, Dr. Singh was Director at the Kent Ridge
Digital Lab (now I2R)
where his responsibilities included strategic directions for research,
management of research staff, and commercialization of intellectual
property. He led an R&D lab focused on a variety of research themes
including video and audio processing, PDAs for students, and online
learning communities for children. His lab contributed significantly to the
formation of the MPEG-7 standard. As a senior researcher in the lab, he was
deeply involved with research in networked media, user interface software,
and networked virtual worlds.
Dr. Singh has helped mentor
and spin-off several start-ups in wireless, internet and multimedia in
recent years. He has been on the management and advisory boards of start-up
companies, and has advised companies and VCs on business plans,
intellectual property issues, and management teams.
Dr. Singh has been involved with ACM and
IEEE for many years in organizing
conferences, editing special issues of journals, and publishing in their
journals. He has published extensively and edited special issues of the
Communications of ACM, ACM Transactions on CHI, IEEE Multimedia and ACM
Multimedia Systems etc. Prof. Singh founded the ACM Virtual Reality
Software and Technology Conference in 1994 and co-chaired VRST 2005. He
received his Ph.D. in Computing
Science from the University of Alberta,
Canada.
Dr. Singh will be at the
Stanford University’s H-STAR Instutute until Sept 2010.
C o u r s e s
Fall 2010 (tentative)
cs4130 - Wireless Mobile Computing
cs4135 - Mobile Devices
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