Resume of Chade Meng Tan

(Seriously incomplete and outdated)

WORK EXPERIENCE

June 2000 to 2015: Jolly Good Fellow, Google Inc.

Summer 1999: Summer Intern, IBM Almaden Research Centre.
Designed and built infrastructure for automated management of Network Attached Storage systems.

April 1994 to 1999: Senior Engineer, Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories (KRDL, formerly the Institute of Systems Science), Singapore’s premier national computing lab. Appointments include:

• Tech Lead, Project CORE
  Managed this project and designed its system architecture. CORE is an object-oriented, run-time configurable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) pipeline that serves as the central engine for all our industrial OCR products.  It is written in C++. CORE is the main engine in GLIMPSE, KRDL’s flagship vision product.
• Project Lead, ID Recognition System (IDRS) Library
  Led this project to consolidate a library of reusable low-level OCR modules.
• Lead Deployment Engineer, License-Plate Recognition System (LPRS)
  Took charge of the first industrial deployment of KRDL’s LPRS. The system is currently known as IMPS.
• Software Engineer, Quay-Crane Container Number Recognition System (QCCNRS)
  Member of the team that built and deployed the world’s first quay-crane container number recognition system.

HONOURS / AWARDS

EDUCATION

University of California at Santa Barbara (1998-2000)
Graduated in April 2000 with Masters of Science (Computer Science). Cumulative GPA = 4.0. (Unofficial transcript).  Thesis: “Finding and using high quality word-pairs for enhanced text classification”.

Nanyang Technological University (1991-95)
Graduated in May 1995 with Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Engineering) with Second Class Honours (Upper Division). Results: 1 Distinction, 21 ‘A’s and 11 ‘B’s. GPA = 3.72 (for CE subjects).
(The Distinction I earned was for Artificial Intelligence. I was the first person in the school’s history to earn that grade for that subject).

Hwa Chong Junior College (1987-88)
Completed JC with GCE ‘A’ Levels, with 4 ‘A’ Level subjects passes with straight ‘A’s and ‘B’s, one ‘S’ paper pass in Computer Science, and passes in GP and CL2.

Catholic High School (1983-86)
Completed High School with GCE ‘O’ Levels, with 9 passes including 5 distinctions.

PUBLICATIONS

The Use of BiGrams to Enhance Text Categorization.
Tan C M, Wang W F, and Lee C D.
Information Processing & Management (2002), Volume 38 (4), pp 529 – 546.

Finding and Using High Quality Word-pairs for Enhanced Text Classification.
Tan C M.
Masters Thesis, University of California at Santa Barbara.  (2000)

Time Series Forecasting with Neural Networks: A Comparative Study.
Patterson D W, Chan K H and Tan C M.
NNASP ’93.  (1993)

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IN UNIVERSITY