Mian-Guan Lim
KITC Co-ordinator (Canterbury & Medway)
Responsibilities
There are 4 versions of Me:
- KITC Coordinator: I run the Kent IT Clinic (KITC) both Canterbury and Medway campus at University of Kent, School of Computing. Kent IT Clinic provides Laptop / Hardware services to staff and students. KITC also provides consultation work to external companies. I work closely with Angela Doe, Bob Kiem, John Crawford, and Andrew Runnells.
- Teaching: I help in delivering part of the lectures of (Co846) Cloud Computing and help assist (Co880) MSc Projects. I work with Frank Wang, Yang Xiao, Lee.
- Research: I carry out research in Future Computing Group.
- International : I help advise in international relationships particularly in Asia Region. I work with Peter Kenny
Teaching
- Co846 - Cloud Computing
- Co847 - Green Computing
- Co535 / Co645 / Co650 / Co843: KITC Practical Modules
Publications / Conferences
- "Delayed switching could revolutionise memory design", Oral Paper(Speaker), 55th MMM Conference Atlanta USA (2010) (Sub Author)
- "Personal Storage Grid Architecture: Consuming Cloud Data Space Resources." International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, Vol 2, No. 3 (2010) (Main Author)
- "Delayed switching in memristors and memristive systems." IEEE Electron Device Letters 31 (7) art. no. 5482202 pp.755-757 (2010) (Sub Author)
- "A Wireless Online Communication System for Small-Medium Enterprises." ICWI 2002: 665-668 (2002) (Sub Author)
Research
I run a main project FRUBO (File Relationship and User Behaviour Ontology) System
Project Website at
http://www.mirageglobe.com/wp/projects/afro-track/
- Mostly Machine Learning (BPNN & DTree Hybrid methods)
- User Behaviour (Desktop Interfaces in HCI, Pattern Recognition)
- Data mining / warehousing (Efficient applied lightweight databases / Mobile Databases)
- Interior and Space studies (Including cultural sciences such as Iching / Feng Shui - Ruan Tou/LiQi methods)
- Memristor based MRRAM design and Applications with the Memristors team
General background
- BBC (not the one who issues TV license).
- Lived in Singapore most my life.
- Hates football, and general ball games (why is everyone after the one ball, just give them one each)
- General tinkering with gadgets (involving taking them apart and breaking them ultimately)
- Guinness book of records for longest “Paper chain event 1999/2000/2001” Delusional after 3 days without sleep
- Taekwando (Black 1st Dan)
- Chinese Hong Quan
- More can be found at : http://www.mirageglobe.com/wp/index.php/about/mglim/
Work Experience
- Quacquarelli Symonds LTD, (University Ranking / Times Higher) for 7 years as Senior Developer and Project Manager
- MirageGlobe.com, Web Developer and Consultant
- Nanyang Academic of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts as Consultant
- Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Research & Development as Developer
- Ministry of Education Singapore, Foreign Pupils Placement Department as Student Placement Advisor
Skills
- Php / Php based Frameworks
- Python for desktop apps and webframeworks
- LightCMS and Databases (SQLite)
- C Sharp.Net + MSSQL (sold an application to Sciences Po so i think i can safely say i know)