Profile

Publicity

Awards
- Silly 6 Pins is the "Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award" 2001 winner
  and also recognized as "Best Toy of 2000" in Parents Magazine.
  Appeared on TV : CBS Sunday Morning News (15 Dec 2002)
Press
- The Sunday Times (London), 6 December 1998
- USA Today, 29 June 1998
Television
- CNN Science and Technology Week, 8 October 1998
- CBS
- ABC
- Discovery News
- Danish Public TV
Radio
- BBC
Magazines
- ALUMNUS magazines :
  - Oct 1997 issue : Rambling Thoughts from MIT
  - Oct 1996 issue Classnotes
  - Oct 1995 issue Classnotes

Singapore Chicago Connection (SCC)
- Founder and President of SCC, formerly known as SMA (1999)
National University of Singapore Society (NUSS)
- Management Committee Member (1996 - July 1996)
- Membership Subcommittee Member (1994 - July 1996)
- Member (1993)
Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS)
- Life Member (1995)
Audio Engineering Society (AES), U.S.A.
- Member (1994)
National Geographic Society, U.S.A.
- Member (1993)
Photo-Art Association of Singapore
- Member

November 2000 - November 2006
- Architecture/Design/Development Lucent Technologies

1 Sept 1996 - 31 August 1998
- Research Assistant, The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
  Research : Designing of musical instruments & toys, sensors and sensing techniques.

1 Sept 1994 - 19 July 1996
- Research Officer, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore.
  Research : Digital sound analysis, processing & synthesis and Image Processing.

1992 - 1994
- Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore.
  Research : Digital sound analysis & synthesis.

Tertiary
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) :
  - Master of Science (Media Arts and Sciences), 1998
    - Courses
- National University of Singapore, Singapore :
  - Master of Science (Physics), 1993
  - Bachelor of Science with Honours (Physics), 1989
  - Bachelor of Science (Physics), 1988
Secondary, Primary & Kindergarten
- Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia :
  - Chung Hua High School (O Level), 1984
  - Chung Hwa Primary School (No Level !), 1978
  - Seremban Youth Club Kindergarten (Kid's Stuff !), 1972

"The Squeezables: Toward an Expressive and Interdependent Multi-player Musical Instrument,"
Computer Music Journal MIT Press, Volume 25 Issue 2 (Summer 2001), pp.37-45.
Authors : Gil WEINBERG, and Seum-Lim GAN
"The BabySense Environment : Enriching and monitoring infants' experiences and communication,"
CHI (Computer Human Intercation) Conference 1998, April 1998 Los Angeles
Authors : Gil WEINBERG, Richard FLETCHER and Seum-Lim GAN
"Real-Time Implemnetation of Double Frequency Modulation (DFM) Synthesis,"
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp.918-926 (1994 November).
Authors : Bernard TAN, Seum-Lim GAN, Soh Min LIM, Sing Hai THANG
"Real-Time Implementation of Asymmetrical Frequency Modulation Synthesis,"
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp.357-363 (1993 May).
Authors : Bernard TAN, Seum-Lim GAN

Eating ! Yes, I love food very much ! My Reviews
Photography
Adventuring in Mother Nature
Electronic Music
Audio & Video Recording
Electronics
Computer Hacking and low level programming
- Apple Macintosh
- Silicon Graphics Workstation
- IBM and Compatible PCs
Repairing things
Hardware and Tools
Day Dreaming !

You can also drop me an e-mail at gan@media.mit.edu

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