Profile of M.G Lim Jimmy

Background

Jimmy Mian-Guan Lim was born in London, United Kingdom in 1980s. He is an avid researcher in oriental cultures and traditions, and a devote believer in simplicity. Jimmy has worked for a number of well known corporations including Ministry of Education Singapore, Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd London, University of Kent (KITC), Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. He founded of MirageGlobe.com in 2001 which specialises in small applications and design work.

Commercially Jimmy worked closely with China Embassy (UK), RackSpace UK, Cisco, and IBM.

Research

Jimmy attained Masters in Advance Computer Science (University of London, Queen Mary) and is currently pursuing a PhD research (EPSRC Scholarship Award) in “Automated Classification of Digital Documents by User Behavior” (University of Kent). He is working with Professor Frank Wang to create and deliver one of the first Cloud Computing and Green Computing modules in the country at  University of Kent. Jimmy has also mentored numerous MSc and BSc students who are now working in leading companies such as Morgan Stanley, Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, and Google.

Projects

  • FRUBO – File Relationship User Behaviour Ontology [Active]
  • TaoVilla – The Cultural Environment Research Initiative [Active]
  • AllDayCity – Virtual Environment [Active]
  • QS Scorecard (http://www.topmba.com/scorecard), [Complete]
  • QS MBA School Profiles [Complete]
  • The Global-Workplace (http://www.qs.com/globalworkplace). [Complete]

Awards

  • “Big Ideas Round One Finalist”. UoK 2011
  • EPSRC Research Award. Europe 2008
  • “Jian Nan Temple National Photographic Competition”. Runner-Up. 2003
  • “Longest Paper Clip Chain”. Guinness Book of Records 1998, 1999, 2000

Publications

  • Automatic Association of Documents on the Cloud. UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
  • Memristive Systems. UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
  • Mobile HBase. UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
  • Delayed switching in memristors and memristive systems. IEEE Atlanta USA Speaker (2011)
  • Personal Storage Grid Architecture: Consuming Cloud Data Space Resources. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, Vol 2, No. 3 (2010)
  • Delayed switching in memristors and memristive systems. IEEE Electron Device Letters 31 (7) art. no. 5482202 pp.755-757 (2010)
  • A Wireless Online Communication System for Small-Medium Enterprises. ICWI 2002: 665-668 (2002)

Interested Research Areas

  • Developing formal methods on observing evolving usage pattern
  • User behaviour tracing techniques (Location aware / User Input tracking)
  • Managing growing personal files on distributed (cloud) storage
  • Search tool input methods by images or sounds
  • Applied machine learning paradigms on hardware components such as memristors

General Interest / Hobbies

  • History of the world (Particular Interest ASEAN)
  • Gu Qin, and Classical Music (Orchestra / Piano)
  • Japanese anime (Selective)
  • Architecture and interior designs
  • Collecting sake, chinese liquor, alcohol
  • Collecting coins / stamps
  • Cultivating indoor plants
  • Web Development (Scripting)