Adrian David Cheok (www.adriancheok.info) is Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He became Full Professor in Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design from April 2008.

He has previously worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded computing in Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Osaka, Japan). He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics. He has successfully obtained funding for externally funded projects in the area of wearable computers and mixed reality from Nike, National Oilwell Varco, Defense Science Technology Agency, Ministry of Communications and Arts, National Arts Council, Singapore Science Center, Hougang Primary School. The research output has included numerous high quality academic journal papers, research awards, keynote speeches, international exhibitions, numerous government demonstrations including to the President and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, broadcast television worldwide broadcasts on his research (such as CNN/CNBC/ABC/Discovery/National Geographic etc.), and hundreds of international press media articles.

In the Mixed Reality Lab, he leads a team of over 30 researchers and students. He has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous international conferences and events. He was invited to exhibit for two years in the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, launching in the Ars Electronica Festival 2003. His works “Human Pacman”, “Magic Land”, and “Metazoa Ludens”, were each selected as one of the worlds top inventions by Wired and invited to be exhibited in Wired NextFest 2005 and 2007.

He was awarded the Hitachi Fellowship, the A-STAR Young Scientist of the Year Award, and the SCS Singapore Young Professional of the Year Award. He was invited to be the Singapore representative of the United Nations body IFIP SG 16 on Entertainment Computing and the founding and present Chairman of the Singapore Computer Society Special Interest Group on Entertainment Computing. He was awarded an Associate of the Arts award by the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore. He was awarded as Fellow in Education, World Technology Network. He was awarded a Microsoft Research Award for Gaming and Graphics. He received the C4C Children Competition Prize for best interaction media for children, the Integrated Art Competition Prize by the Singapore Land Transport Authority, Creativity in Action Award, and the Nokia Mindtrek Award. He was awarded Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. This honour is bestowed each year by the World Ecomonic Forum to recognize and acknowledge the top young leaders from around the world for the professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.

He is Editor/Associate Editor of the following academic journals: Transactions on Edutainment (Springer), ACM Computers in Entertainment, Advances in Human Computer Interaction, International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART), Journal of Recent Patents on Computer Science, The Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal, International Journal of Entertainment Technology and Management (IJEntTM), Virtual Reality (Springer-Verlag), International Journal of Virtual Reality, and The Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting.

Adrian David Cheok, who was born and raised in Adelaide Australia, graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) with First Class Honors in 1992 and an Engineering PhD in 1998.

Some Selected Representative Publications

[1] Cheok, A. D., Yan Qiu, Ke Xu, and Krishnamoorthy Ganesh Kumar , “Combined Wireless Hardware and Real-Time Computer Vision Interface for Tangible Mixed Reality”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol 54, no.4, Aug. 2007.

[2] Cheok, A. D., Anuroop Sreekumar, Lei, C., Thang, L.N., “Capture the flag: Mixed-reality social gaming with smart phones”, IEEE Pervasive Comput., vol. 5, iss. 2, pp. 62-69, Apr – Jun. 2006.

[3] Lee, S.P., Cheok, A.D., Teh, K.S.J., Goh, P.L.D., Chio, W.J., Wang, C., and Farbiz, F., “A mobile pet wearable computer and mixed reality system for human poultry interaction through the internet”, Personal Ubiquitous Comput., vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 301-317, Aug. 2006.

[4] Cheok, A. D., Teh, K. S., Nguyen, T. H., Qui, T. C., Lee, S. P., Liu, W., Li, C. C., Diaz, D., and Boj, “Social and Physical Interactive Paradigms for Mixed-Reality Entertainment”, ACM Comput. Entertainment (CIE), vol.4, iss. 2, Apr-Jun 2006

[5] Ta Huynh Duy Nguyen, Tran Cong Thien Qui; Ke Xu; Cheok, A.D., Sze Lee Teo, ZhiYing Zhou, Mallawaarachchi, A., Shang Ping Lee, Wei Liu, Hui Siang Teo, Le Nam Thang, Yu Li, Kato, H, “Real-Time 3D Human Capture System for Mixed-Reality Art and Entertainment”, IEEE Trans. Visual Comput. Graphics, vol. 11, iss. 6, pp. 706-721, Nov-Dec. 2005

[6] Farbiz, F., Cheok, A.D., Liu Wei, Zhou ZhiYing, Xu Ke, Prince, S., Billinghurst, M., Kato, H., “Live three-dimensional content for augmented reality”, IEEE Multimedia, vol. 7, iss. 3, pp 514-523, Jun. 2005

[7] Adrian David Cheok, Wang Weihua, Xubo Yang, Mark Billinghurst, Hirokazu Kato, “Touch-Space: Mixed Reality Game Space Based on Ubiquitous, Tangible, and Social Computing”, Pers. Ubiquitous Comput., vol. 6, iss. 5-6, pp. 430-442, Dec. 2002

[8] Simon Prince, Adrian David Cheok, Todd Williamson, Nik Johnson, Mark Billinghurst, Hirokazu Kato, Farzam Farbiz , “3D Live: Real Time Captured Content for Mixed Reality”, IEEE/ACM Int. Symp., pp. 7-17, Sep. – Oct. 2002

Adrian David Cheok is a member of Electrical and Electronic Engineering on Mendeley.

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