Gurminder Singh, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Director, Center for the Study of Mobile Device and Communications
Glassgow
East - 108
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California 93943
gsingh@nps.edu
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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.
C o u r s e s
Fall 2012
cs4533 - Wireless Mobile Computing
cs4535 - Mobile Devices
Winter 2013 (Planned)
cs4537 - Wireless Mobile Computing
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