Why should I join KRG?

We offer the following:

1. Culture of excellence, as shown by the awards won by our group members:
   • SIGIR student travel grant, Netherlands, 2007
   • SIAM Data Mining Conference student travel grant, Minnesota, U.S.A., 2007
   • Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, Beijing, 2006 (only 2 awarded to Singapore in 2006)
   • ISI Intelligence and Security Best Paper Award, U.S.A., 2005
     • See write-up in The Straits Times, 2007.07.07
   • "Motorola Best Paper Award, U.S.A., 1996":
2. Strong focus on developing practical solutions/technologies that can change the world. Solutions developed by us are immediately deployed into the commercial markets in China to test the water.
3. Close ties to industries in Singapore, China, and Silicon Valley, collaborators include:
   • Lingba Technology, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China
   • ZingMobile Singapore, China, Indonesia
   • Google
4. Close ties to academia in China, Japan, and U.S.A., collaborators include
   • Chong Qing University of Postal and Telecommunications
     • See Zaobao write-up, 2006.04.09 (in Chinese)
   • Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
   • University of Hong Kong, China
   • Tokyo University, Japan
   • Osaka University, Japan
   • University of Texas, U.S.A.
5. Entreprenaural Spirit Strongly encouraged
   • Our vast networks include direct access to angel investors and VCs in Singapore, China, and U.S.A.
   • If you have a strong conviction or idea, I strongly encourage you to go ahead and implement it, and put aside your degree pursuits for the time being. In fact, I would be happy to see you become the next Sergey Brin (Google), Larry Page (Google), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), or David Filo (Yahoo).
6. Open and academically challenging atmosphere
   • We encourage bold and forward thinking students to join us
   • In our group, students are encouraged to question anything or any authority, it is only through this freedom will we all grow
7. Systematic Management of all Research Projects
   • For large projects, we have a professionally organized weekly group meetings, with state-of-the-art online wiki management and issue tracking system.
   • For geeks, we have an open LDAP based secured system complete with subversion SVN control of all documents (papers, reports) and source code. So it will feel exactly like working in the industry.
8. Last but not least, I will personally supervise you, and meet you at least once a week to check on your progress

If you find any or all of the above appealing, we welcome you to become one of us!

Kuiyu