To celebrate the coming of Chinese New Year, the Year of Rabbit, PREMIA is holding its Members’ Night on the 14th day of the Chinese New Year, i.e. on 16 February 2011 (Wednesday), in Seminar Room 2&3, Level 2, NUS Shaw Foundation Alumni House, 11 Kent Ridge Drive (Singapore 119244). The registration desk will open at 6:00pm and the buffet dinner will start at 6:30pm. Please click here to view the venue on map. We promise that this is going to be an exciting night for our members. 

We will have a talk by Dr Gang WANG on “How does the internet benefit computer vision?”. Details of the talk is attached in this email. Dr. WANG is a Research Scientist at the Advanced Digital Science Center and an Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Technological University. He received his Bachelor's degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2005, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning, specifically on high level image and video understanding. He is a recipient of the Harriett & Robert Perry fellowship and the CS/AI award at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

There will be a buffet meal for the night, and the speaker, Dr WANG will stay on with us for more interaction. We will include some vegetarian food in the buffet. On top of the excitement, each participant (member or non-member) will have a chance in the sure-win Hong Bao Lucky Draw. Each Hong Bao contains $10 cash and a POPULAR voucher ranging from $10 to $50. There is however, a registration fee of $10 for each member. Each member may also bring one non-member guest by paying a $30 registration for the guest. We will also announce the winners of the 2010 Best Student Paper Awards at the Members’ Night.

Please note that the number of participants for the night is limited to 60 due to the space constraint. So please register and pay the registration fee early to avoid disappointment. The online registration will close on 13 Feb. 2011. However, the registration may close earlier if the quota of registration is reached. 

Please register online (PREMIA homepage www.premia-sg.org -> login -> Events and Activities -> PREMIA Members' Night 2011) and provide your member’s id (which you may find from the Member's Area after logging in using your web account). If you wish to bring a guest, please register on your guest’s behalf and put your name in the Affiliation box. You may pay the registration fee ($10 for members and $30 for guests) in one of the following ways: 

(1) By cheque: please make the cheque payable to PREMIA and post it to:

Dr. Lu Shijian
REF: PREMIA Payment 
Institute for Infocomm Research
1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01 Connexis, Singapore 138632

Please email to Dr. Lu <slu@i2r.a-star.edu.sg> for payment confirmation after you send the cheque.

(2) By internet banking transfer: email to Dr. Lu <slu@i2r.a-star.edu.sg> for PREMIA bank account’s details;

(3) By cash: pay to one of the following representatives if you are in NUS, NTU, Fusionopolis or Biopolis: 

NUS: Prof. Tan Chew Lim (tancl@comp.nus.edu.sg), School of Computing, NUS. Computing 1, 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417. Phone: 6516 2900.

NTU: Prof. Andrzej Sluzek (assluzek@ntu.edu.sg), School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. Phone: 6790 4592

Fusionopolis: Dr. Zhou Jiayin (jzhou@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, #10-088, Connexis (South Tower), 1 Fusionopolis Way. Phone: 6408 2497.

Biopolis: Dr. Lee Hwee Kuan (leehk@bii.a-star.edu.sg), Bioinformatics Institute, 30 Biopolis Street, #07-01 Matrix, Singapore 138671. Phone: 9737 8178 or 6478 8267.

Electronic receipt will be issued for all payments. If your membership expired in August 2010, please renew (by paying annual fee - $20 for regular member and $10 for student member) in order to enjoy the above privilege. If your membership expired before 1 Sep 2009, you need to pay both membership entrance fee ($15 for regular member and $10 for student member) and annual fee in order to renew. If you have any problem with the registration or your PREMIA web account, please contact Miss Zhang Xiaoyan at email address ZHAN0292@e.ntu.edu.sg.