He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1983 and 1988, respectively. Since 1993 he is an academic staff of NTU. His research interests are in function-based shape modeling, shared virtual environments, web visualization and visualization on the Grid, cybermedicine, and scientific visualization. He is one of the pioneers of electronic education in Singapore. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM SIGGRAPH. He has over 100 publications. He wrote a book "Computer graphics. From a Small Formula to Cyberworlds" (Prentice Hall) which is adopted for teaching by several universities. He is a coordinator of the International Conferences on Cyberworlds. He was a Program Chair of CW2003 and CW2005, International Program Chair of CW2004 and General Co-Chair of CW2006.