Chai Keong Toh

Chai Keong Toh
Dr Toh at IET Awards Ceremony in London.
Born	Singapore
Institutions	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan University of London, UK
Alma mater	Cambridge University, UK Manchester University, UK
Academic advisors	Andy Harter - examiner David Wheeler - mentor Jean Bacon - mentor
Known for	Computer networks, mobile computing, telematics, ITS, analytics
Notable awards	IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award IET Achievement Medals IEEE Fellow AAAS Fellow IET Fellow
Website Official website

Chai Keong "C.K." Toh is a Singapore-born computer scientist, engineer, professor, and Chief Technology Officer. He has performed research on wireless ad hoc networks, mobile computing, , and Multimedia for over two decades.

Born in Singapore, Toh received his university education in the United Kingdom. He subsequently moved to live and work in the United States. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge under a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship, and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, UK in 1996 and his undergraduate EE degrees at the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology in 1991.

Toh had served as Group CTO and Assistant Chief Executive. of Singapore's IDA - Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, the country's telecom regulator, ICT policy maker, and infocomm technology implementor for the country of Singapore. IDA is equivalent to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) coupled with National Institute of Standards and Technology and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Toh is also interested in startups and ventures.

During the time from 2002-2004, he was the Director of Research, Communication Systems, at TRW Systems Corporation (now Northrop Grumman Inc) in Carson, California. After his PhD in 1996, he joined Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. At Hughes, he co-led the DARPA TTO DAMAN (Deployable and Adaptive Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) Program. Earlier on, he worked as an engineer at Advanced Logic Research Computers, Archive Corporation, and served on the technology advisory board of Convergence Corporation (acquired by Amazon ).