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Principal Investigators at MIT and Collaborators in Singapore:

MIT	Singapore
Andrew J. Whittle: Lead PI E. Eric Adams George Barbastathis Elfatih A. B. Eltahir Dara Entekhabi Charles F. Harvey V. Judson Harward Harold F. Hemond Franz S. Hover John Leonard Steven R. Lerman Ole S. Madsen Leslie Norford Nicholas M. Patrikalakis Paola Rizzoli Peter Shanahan Michael S. Triantafyllou	Adams, Martin David Chan, Eng Soon Cheong, Hin Fatt Chitre, Mandar A. Chua, Hock Chye Lloyd Koh, Tieh-Yong Law, Wing-Keung Adrian Lim, Hock Beng Lo, Yat-Man Edmond Miao, Jianmin Mueller-Wittig, Karl Wolfgang Roth, Matthias Seah, Harry Shuy, Eng Ban Wijesoma, Wijerupage Sardha Wittkopf, Stephen K. Wong, Nyuk Hien

Senior Staff and Postdocs:

MIT	Singapore
Research Scientists: Wonjoon Cho Lewis Girod Research Associates: Jun Wei Postdoctoral Associates: Sai Ravela Alfred Tan ... to be added ...	Program Manager: David Burke Research Engineers: Chee Wee Tan Ruoqian Wang Postdoctoral Associates: Tirtha Bandyopadhyay Alex Cobb Peifeng Ma Ami Preis ... to be added ...

Graduate Students:

MIT	Singapore
Charlie Ambler Julie Chalfant Jose A. Dominguez-Caballero Vicente Fernandez Terianne Hall Stephen Hou Satoshi Takahashi Laura Waller ... to be added ...	Rebecca Gianotti Kam Shing Leung Rebecca Neumann ... to be added ...

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Chan, Eng Soon

Head, Department of Civil Engineering, NUS
1 Engineering Drive 2, E1A 07-03, Singapore 117576
Tel: (65)6516-2275/2148, E-mail: cvehead@nus.edu.sg

Academic Preparation:

• ScD (1986), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MEng (1982), BEng Hons. 1st (1980), National University of Singapore

Appointments:

• Head, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore
• Director, Tropical Marine Science Institute
• Executive Director, Centre for Offshore Research & Engineering (CORE)

Honors:

• MSc (Construction Engineering) Class of 1977 Silver Medal, 1980
• NUS-Overseas Graduate Scholarship, 1981
• Arthur Ippen Fellowship, 1984
• Teaching Excellence Award, 1995, 1997, 1998
• Teaching Honours List, 1996

Four Recent Publications:

• Sannasiraj, S.A., V Babovic and E S Chan, "Wave data assimilation using ensemble error covariances for operational wave forecast". OCEAN MODELLING, 14 (2006): 102-121 (United Kingdom)
• Islam, MD. MONIRUL, E S Chan and KIMITERU Sado, "Analysis of Satellite Derived Sea Surface Temperature Data for South China Sea and Java Sea". Asian Journal of Geoinformatics, 5, no. 3 (2005) (Thailand)
• Sannasiraj, S A, V Babovic and E S Chan, "Local model approximation in the real time wave forecasting". COASTAL ENGINEERING, 52, no. 3 (2005): 221-236. (Netherlands)
• Babovic, V, S A Sannasiraj and E S Chan, "Error correction of a predictive ocean wave model using local linear approximation". JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS, 53, no. 1-4 (2005): 1-17. (Netherlands)

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