Biography
I am a PhD Student at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University, under the supervision of Prof. Lam Siew Kei. I am affiliated with the EIAS Lab.
My research interests are broadly in Spatial AI - specifically on 3D reconstruction, mapping and visual navigation.
I previously completed my BEng (Highest Distinction) at NTU in 2025.
News
- Jun 2026 Spectral GS-SLAM has been accepted to IROS 2026 🎉
- Aug 2025 I've started my PhD at NTU 🎓
Featured Work
- Spectral GS-SLAM Real-Time Observability-Aware, Degeneracy-Robust Tracking for Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM Paper
- Learning to Navigate Efficiently with Only 0.58M Trainable Parameters Decomposed visual navigation policy with 0.58M parameters. Paper
- ViT Token Pruning for Embedded SLAM Dynamic token pruning and ViT-based feature extraction. Paper
Publications
2026
- Learning to Navigate Efficiently with Only 0.58M Trainable Parameters Preprint E. B. W. Tan and S. K. Lam · Under review
- Spectral GS-SLAM: Observability-Aware, Degeneracy-Robust Tracking for Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM Conference Paper E. B. W. Tan, S. K. Lam, and D. Zhang · IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026
- Structural Interpretations of Protein Language Model Representations via Differentiable Graph Partitioning Preprint S. Dutta, E. B. W. Tan, S. Sarker, P. Gunawardane, and J. C. Rajapakse · Under review
2025
- Real-time visual SLAM for embedded systems Undergraduate Thesis E. B. W. Tan · DR-NTU
2024
- Vision Transformers for Violence Detection on the Edge Misc. E. B. W. Tan · Proceedings of the URECA@NTU
Awards
Academic
- 2025 NTU Scholarship (PhD)
- 2024/25, 2022/23 NTU Dean's List (top 5%)
- 2024-25 NTU President Research Scholar
- 2020 Global Foundries Prize
- 2017-20 SP Director's List (top 5%)
Project
- 2019 Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award
- 2019 IES Innovation Challenge
Services
Reviewer
- 2026 ACM/IEEE ICCAD
Teaching & Mentorship
- AY 2025/26 S2 Teaching AssistantSC2103: Digital Systems Design
- AY 2025/26 S1-2 Research MentorUG Final Year Project (Efficient Visual Localization on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms)
- AY 2025/26 S1-2 Research MentorUG Final Year Project (Development of a Wearable for Human-Virtual Robot Interaction)
Projects
- ot-IPR mmWave radar sensor for indoor occupancy detection
- Project Nixie Nixie tube clock with ESP32 and 3D printed case
- CO2SN Photoacoustic NDIR CO2 sensor with PV energy harvesting
- Violence Detection on the Edge Edge deployable spatio-temporal violence detector using transformers
- ot-HS 10-year battery life OpenThread temp/RH sensor
- GasSentinel Gas leak detector utilising low-power neural networks and sensor fusion
- DINOv2 Ensemble FGVC DINOv2-based Multi-scale Ensemble Voting for FGVC
- Edge TPU Multi Object Tracking
- Firebase CoAP Bridge CoAP <-> Firebase bridge for IPv6 IoT devices
- tVOC-AI MOx TVOC sensor
Contact
Officialed0001ai [at] e.ntu.edu.sg
Personaledward.62740 [at] gmail.com