Educational Background
1986 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, England
1983 BEng (Electrical Engineering), First Class, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Employment
Jan 00 – Present Associate Professor, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NUS
Jan 98 – Dec 00 Senior Lecturer, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NUS
Sep 94 – Nov 97 Visiting Lecturer, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 92 – Aug 94 Senior Lecturer, Dept of Electrical Engineering, NUS
Dec 89 – Dec 91 Lecturer, Dept of Electrical Engineering, NUS
Aug 87 – Nov 89 Lecturer, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Auckland University, New Zealand
Aug 86 – Aug 87 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Auckland University, New Zealand
Research Interests
Systems & Control, machine learning, in recent days, interested in student attitudes, motivations and engineering education
Personal Interests
Needle crafts, jogging and walking
Selected Research Papers
- Kupscik*, A G, M Deisenroth, J Peters, A P Loh, P Vadakkepat and G Neumann, “Model‑Based Contextual Policy Search for Data‑Efficient Generalization of Robot Skills”. Artificial Intelligence, (2014). (Netherlands) – accepted for publication.
- Pisharady, P K, P Vadakkepat* and A P Loh, “Attention Based Detection and Recognition of Hand Postures Against Complex Backgrounds”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION, 101, no. 3 (2013) : 403-419. (United States)
- Pisharady, P K, P Vadakkepat* and A P Loh, “Hand Posture and Face Recognition using a Fuzzy‑Rough Approach”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANOID ROBOTICS, (2010).
- Ge, S S, F Guan, Y PAN and A P Loh, “Neighborhood Linear Embedding for Intrinsic Structure Discovery”. MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS, 21, no. 3 (2010): 391‑401. (United States).
- LIM, L H I, A P Loh and WW Tan, “On Forced and Subharmonic Oscillations under Relay Feedback”. IET Control Theory & Applications, 2, no. 9 (2008): 829‑840. (United Kingdom).
- WANG, L, A P Loh, Z M Gong and S L Chow, “An Air‑Flow Based Wafer Bake System for Improved Temperature Uniformity”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL, 18, no. 10 (2008): 931‑936. (United Kingdom).
- Tan WW, F Y R Li, A P Loh and W K Ho, “RTD response time estimation in the presence of temperature variations and its application to semiconductor manufacturing”. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, 57, no. 2 (2008): 406‑412. (United States).
- Fong, K F, A P Loh and WW Tan, “A Freqeuency Domain Approach for Fault Detection”. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL, 81, no. 2 (2008): 264‑276. (United Kingdom).
- Tan, KC, R Sathikannan, WW Tan and A P Loh, “Evolutionary design and implementation of a hard disk drive servo control system”. SOFT COMPUTING, 11, no. 2 (2007): 131‑139. (United States).
- Tan, WW, J.C. Tang, A P Loh and A Tay, “In‑situ Measurement of Wafer Temperature Using Two Sensors with Different Dynamical Properties”. MEASUREMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 17, no. 11 (2006): 2957‑2963. (United Kingdom).
- Tan, WW, F Lu, A P Loh and KC Tan, “Modelling and control of a pilot pH plant using genetic algorithm”. ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 18, no. 4 (2005): 485‑494. (United Kingdom).
- Ge, S S, A P Loh and F Guan, “Robust Sound Localization Using Small Number of Microphones”. International Journal of Information Acquisition, 2, no. 1 (2005): 1‑22. (Singapore).