Assoc Prof. Bu Sung LEE, Francis

Co-Investigator of Powering the City

Bu-Sung Lee, is an academic with a colourful mix of exposure/contribution to industry and society.

He was involved in the set-up of HP Lab in Singapore and was the Director, Service Platform Lab, HP Labs(Singapore) 2010-2012. During this period he build up the research team that made major impact in the community. Some of the achievements/projects are Trust Cloud, sentiment analysis of social media.

He currently holds the position as Director, International Networks at National SuperComputing Center(Singapore). He is the mentor and advisor to the NTU student teams that has won various awards at Student Cluster Competitions, eg. Overall Champion and Highest Linpack at SC’17.

He is the founding president of SingAREN, and was instrumental in the developing and operation of SingAREN Open Exchange, which is a major research and education network point of presence in the region. He also plays a prominent role in the regional and global research and education community, eg. Asi@connect project, TransPAC5.

Research Interests

High Performance computing
Grid/Cloud, and Network.
Bridging the Gap between Remote sensing and Tree modeling with Data Science

Awards

Overall Champion and Highest LInPack award, Student Cluster Competition at SC17. Advisor. (The successive NTU team has won multiple award at ISC and SC under his leadership)
Best Paper Award at ZINC 2017, with Zhaomin Chin, Chai Kiat Yeo, Bu-Sung Lee, Chiew Tong Lau
Best Paper Award at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing technology and Science. 2013. Bristol. UK. 2-5 Dec 2013, with Abhishek Gupta, Laxmikant V. Kale, Verdi March, Chun Hui Suen, Bu-Sung Lee, Richard Kaufmann, Dejan Milojicic, “The Who, What, Why and How of High Performance Computing in the Cloud”
1st Prize Winner of the Scalable Computing challenge at 6th IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2013) held in conjunction with the 13th IEEE International symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing(CcGrid 2013) at Delft, Netherland. 13-16 May 2013, with Henry Kasim, Terence Hung, Erika Fille Tupas Legara, Kee Khoon Lee, Xiaorong Li, Bu-Sung Lee, Vicknesh Selvam, Sifei Lu, Long Wang, Christopher Monterola, and Vasundhara Jayaraman, “Scalable Complex System Modeling for Sustainable City”.

Education

PhD, Electrical and Electronics Department, Loughborough University of Technology, UK, 1987
B.Sc. (Hons) Electrical and Electronics Department, Loughborough University of Technology, UK, 1982

Affliation:

NTU