Professor LIM, Hock, Director, email: tslhead@nus.edu.sg

Background
2008 - present
Director, Research Governance and Enablement, Office of Deputy President (Research and Technology), National University of Singapore

2001 - 2008
Deputy Director, Office of Research, National University of Singapore

2000 - present
Director, Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore

1992 - 2000
Director, Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP), National University of Singapore

1988 - 1992
Director, Laboratory for Image and Signal Processing

1983 - present
Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, National University of Singapore

1970 - 1983
Meteorological Officer, Meteorological Service Singapore

1975
University of Reading, UK

1970
B.Sc. (Hons) First Class, University of Singapore, 1970 Ph.D.

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Institute of Physics Singapore
  
• Member, IEEE
  
• General Chairman, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1997

Research Activities

• Developed remote sensing research programmes in CRISP
  
• Developing research programmes in Temasek Laboratories

Research Interests

• Dynamics of the tropical atmosphere
  
• Image restoration
  
• Synthetic aperture radar data processing
  
• Remote sensing

Awards National Day Awards

• Public Administration Medal (Silver), 1999
  
• Public Service Medal (Community Service), 1992

Other Awards
The Institute of Physics Singapore President's Award, 2007

Defence Technology Prize (Individual, R&D Category), Ministry of Defence, 2003

Chevalier des Palmes Academiques, Ministry of Education, Republic of France, 2002

Meritorious Teaching Award, NUS, 2000

Excellence for Singapore Award (for CRISP), 1999

Meritorious Teaching Award, NUS, 1998

Award for Outstanding Contribution to the MINDEF-NUS Joint R&D Cooperation Programme, 1995

Best Lecturer for Physics, NUS, 1993

G.J. Haltiner Research Chair Professorship, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA, 1989

World Meteorological Organisation Young Scientist Award, 1980