Adrian David Cheok, PhD, University of Adelaide

•  Jan 2010 
  Profiled in Marquis Who’s Who of the World 2010 under "Distinguished professors, scholars" category
•  Jan 2009 
  NOKIA Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2009: Babbage Cabbage Empathetic Living Media was one of three prize w
•  Jan 2009 
  [Award for my PhD students] YoungCT Prize (Young Creative Technology prize) where best graduate stud
•  Jan 2009 
  C4C- Como for Children Competition: Winner of top 3 interaction designs for ‚Interaction at pre-scho
•  Jan 2009 
  Laval Revolution Award, France 2009, Accepted Class ‚Welcome, (Given for Best Virtual Reality Invent
•  Dec 2008 
  First Prize Winner of Awards “Creativity of Warm”, 8th International University Creative-in-Action C
•  Jan 2008 
  Awarded Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. This honour is bestowed each year by t
•  Jan 2007 
  MobileHCI 2007 Demo Category Third Prize Winner
•  Jan 2007 
  Winner of The Integrated Art Competition. Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA). $50,000 prize
•  Jan 2005 
  Winner of Microsoft Research Asia Award for Gaming and Graphics, USD $ 10,000, 2005
•  Jan 2005 
  Art & Artificial Life International Competition Vida 8.0 competition in Madrid, MENCIONES ESPECIALES
•  Oct 2004 
  Award of Fellow in Education, World Technology Network. Awarded October 8, 2004, in San Francisco, a
•  Jan 2004 
  Associate of the Arts Award, a prestigious national award, awarded by the National Arts Council, Awa
•  Jan 2004 
  Young Professional of the Year 2004, a prestigious national award, awarded by the Singapore Computer
•  Jan 2004 
  Honorary Mention Best Artistic Projects Prize. Cyberart 04. Bilbao.
•  Jan 2004 
  TKK Science Award for Research: Human Pacman
•  Jan 2004 
  TKK Science Award for Research: 3d-Live
•  Jan 2003 
  Singapore National Young Scientist Award 2003 Winner. This prestigious award is organised by the Sin
•  Jan 2003 
  Certificate of Appreciation Award from National Heritage Board 2003
•  Jan 2003 
  Winner of Hitachi Research Fellowship. Three months fully funded visiting Professorship to Japan. 20
•  Jan 2002 
  Awarded International Touring Award, National Arts Council, 2002

He has previously worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded computing in Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Osaka, Japan). He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics. He has successfully obtained funding for externally funded projects in the area of wearable computers and mixed reality from Nike, National Oilwell Varco, Defense Science Technology Agency, Ministry of Communications and Arts, National Arts Council, Singapore Science Center, Hougang Primary School. The research output has included numerous high quality academic journal papers, research awards, keynote speeches, international exhibitions, numerous government demonstrations including to the President and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, broadcast television worldwide broadcasts on his research (such as CNN/CNBC/ABC/Discovery/National Geographic etc.), and hundreds of international press media articles.

In the Mixed Reality Lab, he leads a team of over 20 researchers and students. He has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous international conferences and events. He was invited to exhibit for two years in the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, launching in the Ars Electronica Festival 2003. His works "Human Pacman", "Magic Land", and "Metazoa Ludens", were each selected as one of the worlds top inventions by Wired and invited to be exhibited in Wired NextFest 2005 and 2007. He was awarded the Hitachi Fellowship 2003, the A-STAR Young Scientist of the Year Award 2003, and the SCS Singapore Young Professional of the Year Award 2004. In 2004 he was invited to be the Singapore representative of the United Nations body IFIP SG 16 on Entertainment Computing and the founding and present Chairman of the Singapore Computer Society Special Interest Group on Entertainment Computing. Also in 2004, he was awarded an Associate of the Arts award by the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore. He was awarded as Fellow in Education, World Technology Network in 2004. In 2005 he was awarded a Microsoft Research Award for Gaming and Graphics. He was awarded Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. This honour is bestowed each year by the World Ecomonic Forum to recognize and acknowledge the top young leaders from around the world for the professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.

He is Editor/Associate Editor of the following academic journals: Transactions on Edutainment (Springer), ACM Computers in Entertainment, Advances in Human Computer Interaction, International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART), Journal of Recent Patents on Computer Science, The Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal, Advances in Human Computer Interaction, International Journal of Entertainment Technology and Management (IJEntTM), Virtual Reality (Springer-Verlag), International Journal of Virtual Reality, and The Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting.