He is one of the deputy director of the Biomedical Engineering Research Centre. He is also the Programme Director of the Master of Science in Bioinformatics in NTU. He received his B.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering 1987 and 1991, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Imperial College, University of London in 1995. His research interests include medical image processing, learning from data, graphic and visualization in enhancing medical assisted devices and systems.