The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is organizing an Institute Colloquium on September 4, 2024.

The details of the lecture are provided below: 

Title: My Personal Research Experience and Research Pathway

Speaker: Dr. Tony Q.S. Quek, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore, Cheng Tsang Man Chair  Professor, ST Engineering Distinguished Professor, Director, Future Comms R&D Programme, Head of ISTD Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design

About the Speaker:
Dr. Tony Q.S. Quek received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, respectively. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently, he is the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and ST Engineering Distinguished Professor. He also serves as the Director of the Future Communications R&D Programme, the Head of ISTD Pillar, and the AI on RAN Working Group Chair in AI-RAN Alliance. His current research topics include wireless communications and networking, network intelligence, non-terrestrial networks, open radio access network, and 6G.

Dr. Quek has been actively involved in organizing and chairing sessions and has served as a TPC member in numerous international conferences. He is currently serving as an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He was honored with the 2008 Philip Yeo Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Research, the 2012 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, the 2015 SUTD Outstanding Education Awards -- Excellence in Research, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2017 CTTC Early Achievement Award, the 2017 IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2020 Nokia Visiting Professor, the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and the 2024 IIT Bombay International Award For Excellence in Research in Engineering and Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.

Abstract:
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – A quote by a well-known author named Alan Cohen. This has been my driving force in my life to guide me in many decisions making in life. In this talk, I will share my personal education experience, my research experience as a graduate student at MIT, my career as a scientist in A*STAR, my faculty experience at SUTD, and my recent directorship for Future Communications R&D Programme. Hopefully, this can serve as learning lesson, especially in the world of uncertainties now.