Prof Tay Yong Chiang

Prof. Tay, a Computer Science professor at NUS, earned his BSc from the University of Singapore and PhD from Harvard. His research spans performance modeling—covering caching systems, wireless protocols, and database transactions—and database systems, including synthetic data generation and concurrency control.

He has a long-standing interest in the use of local time in distributed computing. His work is widely published in top journals and conferences. Prof. Tay has held roles at Sequoia Systems, Microsoft, Intel, and VMware, and completed sabbaticals at Princeton, MIT, UCLA, and NTU.

He has served on editorial boards and program committees for major conferences. He’s received multiple teaching awards and authored two books on performance modeling and database locking.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Analytical Performance Modeling
• Application-Specific Benchmarking
• Caching Systems
• Computer Network Performance
• Local Time in Distributed Systems