Beng Chin Ooi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ooi.

Beng Chin Ooi (Chinese: 黃銘鈞; pinyin: Huáng Míngjūn) is a Singaporean computer scientist, currently a Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University and a professor at the School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University.^[3] Previously, he was the Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor and served as the Dean of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore from 2007 to 2013.^[2][4] He was also an adjunct Chang Jiang Professor at Zhejiang University. Additionally, he is a Visiting Distinguished Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore, a Visiting Chair Professor at Peking University,^[5] and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University.^[6] He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2009,^[7] Association for Computing Machinery 2011,^[8] China Computer Federation 2024,^[9] Singapore National Academy of Science 2016,^[10] and Singapore Academy of Engineering 2023.^[11] He is a foreign member of Academia Europaea 2022,^[12] and Chinese Academy of Sciences 2023.^[13] He did his BSc (1985) and PhD (1989) at Monash University.^[2]

Beng Chin Ooi
Nationality	Singaporean
Academic background
Alma mater	Monash University
Thesis	Efficient query processing in a geographic information system[1]
Academic work
Institutions	Zhejiang University National University of Singapore
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	黃銘鈞
Simplified Chinese	黄铭钧[2]
Hanyu Pinyin	Huáng Míngjūn
Hokkien POJ	Ûiⁿ Bêngkin

Beng Chin was the recipient of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD Contributions award,^[14] 2020 ACM SIGMOD EF Codd Innovations Award,^[15] 2024 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award,^[16] and a co-recipient of the 2011 Singapore President's Science Award.^[17] He was also the recipient of 2012 IEEE Computer Society Kanai award,^[18] 2014 IEEE TCDE CSEE (Computer Science, Engineering and Education) Impact Award,^[19] and 2016 China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Contributions Award.^[20]