| Working experience | Publications |
| Honours/Awards | Extra-Curricular Activities (ECAs) in University |
| Education | Personal Data |
June 2000 to Present: Software Engineer, 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:
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.
| Honour/Award/Nomination | Description | Date |
| United States Patent (6,339,651) | Robust identification code recognition system. | Jan 2002 |
| European Patent (98301467.1-2201) | Robust identification code recognition system. | May 1998 |
| Nominated for the National Technology Award | Nominated for contribution to the QCCNRS system. | May 1996 |
| NTU Alumni Prize | Awarded for excellence in both academic performance and ECA. | Jul 1994 |
| Championship in NTU Inter-school Computer Quiz | Computer Quiz | Oct 1993 |
| Tan Sri Dr Runme Shaw Scholarship | Awarded for academic excellence. | Oct 1992 |
| Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor's Award | Project: Computerized Carpark Monitoring System. | Jan 1988 |
| 2nd Prize in the NUS Computron | Computer Quiz. | Dec 1987 |
| Championship in the National Software Competition (Students Section) | Speed programming competition for secondary and Junior College students. | Aug 1987 |
| 3rd prize in the National Software Competition (Open Section) | Project: The Dungeon of Challenges. (An educational game) | Aug 1987 |
| Championship in the Science Fair '86 | Project: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. | Jun 1986 |
| Championship in the RVCC Programming Competition | Project: The Man with the Golden Wand (An educational game). | Dec 1985 |
| Other awards | Numerous smaller awards, prizes, commendations etc. | 1985 - 1988 |
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.
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
| Activity/Organization | Description/Position | Date |
| NTU Computer Society | Project Secretary (concurrently Chairman of Special Projects), 2 consecutive terms. | 1991-93 |
| Ren Ci Counselling Centre | Volunteer Counsellor. | 1993-94 |
| SAS School Magazine. | Writer. | 1992-93 |
| Mensa (Singapore) | Member. | 1992- |
| NTU Buddhist Youth Camp | Dharma I/C. | 1993 |
| NTU Buddhist Society | Fellowship Leader | 1993-94 |
| Hall 7 Publicity Committee. | Committee Member. | 1991-92 |
| School Orientation | Group Mentor (2 consecutive terms). | 1992,93 |
| Inter-school Chess | Inter-school player. | 1991,92 |
| Name: | Tan, Chade-Meng |
| WWW Homepage: | http://www.serve.com/cmtan/Meng |
| Electronic Mail: | cmtan@serve.com |