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List of Approved Sole and Co-Supervisors for AGS (L) Scholars Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) 1 S/N Name Research Cluster Detailed Research Area Co/ Sole Year approved Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt) University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others) 1 GAO Yonggui Biological Sciences Structural Biology & Biochemistry Co 2014 [email protected] Joint NTU 2 LIN Chengqi Discovery Research Division Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology Co 2014 [email protected] Nil Nil 3 Kenneth BAN Hon Kim Cancer Genetics Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology Co 2014 [email protected] Joint NUS 4 John CONNOLLY Horizontal program in infectious diseases Infectious diseases Co 2014 [email protected] star.edu.sg Nil Nil 5 Professor Stephen COHEN Animal Models of Development and Disease miRNA Models of Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disease Sole 2011 [email protected] On secondment from NUS NUS 6 A/Professor MANSER Edward Structural Biology and Drug Discovery Small G-protein Signalling and Kinases Sole 2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg No appointment Nil 7 Professor Philip William INGHAM Animal Models of Development and Disease Developmental and Biomedical Genetics Sole 2011 [email protected] star.edu.sg Joint appointment Adjunct appointment NTU NUS 8 Dr Ernesto GUCCIONE Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics Methyltransferases in Development and Disease Sole 2011 [email protected] star.edu.sg Adjunct appointment NUS 9 Asst/Professor BULAVIN Dmitry Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics Cell Cycle Control & Tumorigenesis Sole 2014 [email protected] star.edu.sg Adjunct appointment NUS 10 Professor HONG Wanjin Cell Biology in Health and Disease Protein Trafficking and Cancer Cell Biology Sole 2014 [email protected] star.edu.sg Tenured appointment NUS 11 Professor HUNZIKER Walter Cell Biology in Health and Disease Epithelial Cell Polarity Sole 2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg Adjunct appointment NUS 12 A/Professor Philipp KALDIS Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics Cell Division and Cancer Research Sole 2007 [email protected] Adjunct appointment NUS 13 Asst/Professor KORZH Vladimir Animal Models of Development and Disease Zebrafish Translational Unit Sole 2004 [email protected] Adjunct appointment NUS 14 A/Professor ROY Sudipto Animal Models of Development and Disease Genes, Development and Disease Sole 2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg Adjunct appointment NUS

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List of Approved Sole and Co-Supervisors for AGS (L) Scholars

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB)

1

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no

appointment (if supervisor

has more than one

appt, please provide

details of all types of

appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1 GAO Yonggui Biological Sciences

Structural Biology & Biochemistry

Co 2014 [email protected] Joint NTU

2

LIN Chengqi

Discovery Research Division

Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology

Co

2014

[email protected]

Nil

Nil

3 Kenneth BAN Hon Kim

Cancer Genetics

Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology

Co

2014

[email protected]

Joint

NUS

4

John CONNOLLY

Horizontal program in infectious diseases

Infectious diseases

Co

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Nil

Nil

5 Professor Stephen COHEN

Animal Models of Development and Disease

miRNA Models of Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disease

Sole

2011

[email protected] On

secondment from NUS

NUS

6 A/Professor MANSER Edward

Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

Small G-protein Signalling and Kinases

Sole

2004

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No

appointment

Nil

7 Professor Philip William INGHAM

Animal Models of Development and Disease

Developmental and Biomedical Genetics

Sole

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint appointment

Adjunct appointment

NTU NUS

8

Dr Ernesto GUCCIONE

Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

Methyltransferases in Development and Disease

Sole

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

9

Asst/Professor BULAVIN Dmitry

Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

Cell Cycle Control & Tumorigenesis

Sole

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

10

Professor HONG Wanjin

Cell Biology in Health and Disease

Protein Trafficking and Cancer Cell Biology

Sole

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Tenured appointment

NUS

11 Professor HUNZIKER Walter

Cell Biology in Health and Disease

Epithelial Cell Polarity

Sole

2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

12

A/Professor Philipp KALDIS

Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

Cell Division and Cancer Research

Sole

2007

[email protected]

Adjunct appointment

NUS

13 Asst/Professor KORZH Vladimir

Animal Models of Development and Disease

Zebrafish Translational Unit

Sole

2004

[email protected]

Adjunct appointment

NUS

14

A/Professor ROY Sudipto

Animal Models of Development and Disease

Genes, Development and Disease

Sole

2004

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

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Professor SONG Haiwei

Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

Medical Structural Biology

Sole

2004

[email protected]

Adjunct appointment

NUS

16 Professor SURANA Uttam

Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

Regulation of the Cell Division Cycle

Sole No record

in database [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

17 Professor VENKATESH Byrappa

Animal Models of Development and Disease

Comparative and Medical Genomics

Sole

2004

[email protected]

Adjunct

appointment

NUS

18

Professor WANG Yue

Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

Candida albicans Biology

Sole

2004

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

19 Professor ZHANG Lianhui

Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

Microbial Quorum Sensing

Sole

2004

[email protected]

Adjunct appointment

NUS

20 A/Professor ZENG Qi

Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

PRL-3 Phosphatase & Cancer Therapy

Sole

2006 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

21 Professor ROBINSON Robert

Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

Structural Bases of Pathogenicity and Disease

Sole

2006

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

22

A/Professor TERGAONKAR Vinay

Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

NFκB Signaling in Human Ailments

Sole

2006

[email protected]

Adjunct appointment

NUS

23 A/Professor Frederic BARD

Cell Biology in Health and Disease

Regulation of Membrane Traffic

Sole

2009

[email protected] Adjunct

appointment

NUS

24

Dr Suresh JESUTHASAN

Animal Models of Development and Disease

Neural circuitry and behavior

Sole

2010

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No

appointment

Nil

25 Dr TAN Nguan Soon Andrew

Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

Metabolic Syndrome and Cancer Risk

Sole

2013

[email protected] Joint

appointment

NTU

26 Dr William BURKHOLDER

Cell Biology in Health and Disease

Microfluidics Systems Biology

Sole Transferred from SERC

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

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Dr CHU Jang Hann Justin

Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

RNA virology and antiviral strategies

Sole

2013

[email protected]

Joint

appointment

NUS

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TAN Yee Joo

Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

Viral-host interactions in hepatitis virus and influenza virus infections / Monoclonal antibodies for research, diagnostic and therapeutic applications

Sole

2006

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint appointment

NUS

29 George AUGUSTINE

Cell Biology in Health and

Synaptic Mechanisms and

Sole 2011 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint appointment

NTU

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Disease Circuits Laboratory

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Adam CLARIDGE- CHANG

Cell Biology in Health and Disease

1.Molecular mechanisms regulating cell-fate reprogramming and reversal

2. Modelling degenerative diseases using iPSCs from reprogrammed patient specific cells

Sole

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint appointment

NUS

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Adrian TEO Cell Biology in Health and Disease

Stem Cells and Diabetes

Co

2014

[email protected] Adjunct

appointment

NTU

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Jonathan LOH Cell Biology in Health and Disease

Epigenetics and Cell Fate

Co

2014

[email protected] Joint

appointment

NUS

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Dr Tom CARNEY

Animal Models of Development and Disease

Developmental and Biomedical Genetics

Co

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No

appointment

Nil

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Dr Jayantha GUNARATNE

Structural Biology and Drug Discovery

Mass Spectrometry- based Quantitative Proteomics

Co

2012

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct

appointment

NTU &

NUS

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Dr CHEN Qingfeng

Animal Models of Development and Disease

Humanised mouse models for cancer and infectious disease

Co

2013

[email protected]

Adjunct

appointment

NUS

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Dr GUO Huili Cell Biology in Health and Disease

RNA Biology

Co

2013

[email protected] Adjunct

appointment NTU NUS

37 Ajay Sriram

Mathuru Neuroscience

Sole & Co

2016 [email protected] Assistant Professor

Yale-NUS College

38 Soh Boon Seng ITTD Cardiopulmonary Co 2016 [email protected] Nil Nil

39 Daniel Martin

Messerschmidt

Epigenetics, Development

Sole & Co

2016 [email protected] NUS

40 Ng Shi Yan

Neurotherapeutics; Modeling human

neurodegeneration; Brain rejuvenation

Co 2016 [email protected] Adjunct

appointment NUS

(pending)

41 Loh Yuin-Han Cell Biology in

Health and Disease

Molecular mechanisms;

degenerative diseases Sole 2016 [email protected]

Joint Appointment

NUS

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Genome Institute Singapore (GIS)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approve

d

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment

(if supervisor has more than

one appt, please provide details of all types of

appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1

Dr HIBBERD Martin Lloyd

Genomics and Genetics

Immunity and Meningococcal Disease

Sole

2004

[email protected]

Adjunct Professor

Saw See Hock School of Public Health - NUS

2

Dr LIM Bing

Stem Cell Biology

Haematology & Oncology

Sole

2004

[email protected]

Adjunct Associate Professor

DBS, NUS

3

A/Prof LIU Jianjun

Genomics and Genetics

Population Genetics

Sole

2005

[email protected]

Adjunct Professor

Saw See Hock School of Public Health - NUS

4

Dr NG Huck Hui

Genomics and Genetics

DNA Methylation

Sole

2004

[email protected]

Adjunct Associate Prof Adjunct Prof

DBS, NUS School of Biological Sciences NTU

5 A/Prof STANTON Lawrence

Stem cell Biology

Embryonic Stem Cells

Sole

2004

[email protected] Adjunct Professor

DBS, NUS

6

Dr SUNG Wing Kin, Ken

Genomics and Genetics

Bioinformatics, phylogenetics reconstruction, protein function prediction

Sole

2004

[email protected]

Joint Appointment with GIS

NUS

7

Dr TAN Patrick

Genomics and Genetics

Microarrays and cancer

Sole

2006

[email protected]

Joint Appointment with GIS

Duke/NUS

8

Dr YU Qiang Genomics and Genetics

Cancer Therapeutics

Sole

No record on database

[email protected]

Adjunct Professor

Duke/NUS

9

Dr Axel HILLMER

Genomics and Genetics

Population genomic variations & genetics of hairloss disorders

Sole

2012

[email protected]

Nil

Nil

10

Dr Swaine CHEN

Genomics and Genetics

Evolutionary approach to studying virulence factors affecting infections caused by E. coli

Sole

2012

[email protected]

Adjunct Appointment with GIS

NUS

11

Dr Roger FOO

Genomics, computatio nal biology

Cardiac genome and epigenome in health and

Sole

2012

[email protected]

Adjunct Appointment with GIS

NUS

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and cell biology

disease

12

Ramanuj DASGUPTA

Genomics and Genetics

Cancer Therapeutics and Stratified Oncology; Wnt signaling pathway

Co

2014

[email protected]

No appointment

Nil

13 TAN Meng How

Genomics and Genetics

Stem Cells and Developmental Biology

Co

2014

[email protected] Joint appointment

NTU

14

WAN Yue

Stem Cell and Developme nt

RNA Genomics

Co

2014

[email protected]

No appointment

Nil

15

Dr Niranjan NAGARAJAN

Computatio nal and Mathemati cal biology

Computational Biology

Co

2010

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Dept of Computer Science, NUS

16

Dr KHOR Chiea Chuen

Human genetics

Association between genetic variation and disease phenotype (i.e. dengue, TB and eye disorders)

Co

2013

[email protected]

Adjunct Assistant Professor Adjunct Clinician Scientist

Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS SERI

17

Dr ZHAI Weiwei

Human genetics

Evolutionary biology, cancer genomics, population genetics and genome-wide association studies

Co

2013

[email protected]

Nil

Nil

18 Nagarajan NIRANJAN

BMRC Integrative Omics, Microbiome Studies

Sole

2015 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

NUS

19

Paul CHOI

Synthetic Biology

Re-engineering cellular immunity with genome- scale approaches for basic discovery and applications; developing synthetic biology tools for enginnering mammalian cells

Co

2015

[email protected]

Adjunc Assistant Professor in Dept of Biological Sciences Adjunct Position at Dept of Biochem

NUS YLL School of Medicine, NUS

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Shyam PRABHAKAR

Genomics

Computational and Systems Biology

Co

2015

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Nil

Nil

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Wai Leong TAM

Cancer and Stem Cell Biology

Cancer Stem Cells, Metabolomics, Cancer Therapeutics

Co

2015

[email protected]

Joint Junior Principal Investigator at Cancer Science Institute of Singapore; Adjunct Assistant Professor at Department of Biochemistry, NUS (Pending)

NUS

22 Anders Jacobsen

Skanderup Genomics

Computational Biology

Co 2016

[email protected]

star.edu.sg

Adjunct Asst. Prof., School of

Computing, NUS (pending)

NUS

23 Jonathan Goke Computational

and Systems Biology

Transcriptomics, Machine Learning

Co 2016 [email protected] Nil Nil

24 Pauline Ng Computational

and Systems Biology

Co 2016 [email protected] Adjunct (pending) NUS

Medicine

25 Ng Shyh Chang Stem Cell and Regenerative

Biology

Stem Cells, Metabolism

Co 2016 [email protected]

Nil Nil

26 Torsten Wustefeld Stem Cell and Regenerative

Biology Liver Regeneration Co 2016 [email protected] Nil Nil

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Institute of Medical Biology (IMB)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if

supervisor has more than one appt, please provide

details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1 Prof LANE Birgitte

Molecular and Cell Biology

Skin Disorders Sole 2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Professor NUS & NUHS

2 Dr COOL Simon

Stem Cell Biology

Bone Development

Sole 2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Research Associate Professor

YLLSoM, NUS

3

A/Professor NURCOMBE Victor

Stem Cell Biology

Bone Development

Sole

2004

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Professor (Honorary)

LKCSOM, NTU

4 Dr LIM Sai Kiang

Stem Cell Biology

Stem cell differentiation

Sole 2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Research Associate Professor

NUS

5

Dr Bruno REVERSADE

Human Embryology & Genetics

Genetic basis of rare human diseases

Sole

2013

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

NUS

6

Dr Colin STEWART

Developmental & Regenerative Biology

Nuclear architecture in mammalian development, epigenetics & disease

Sole

2013

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Professor

NTU

7

Dr Prabha SAMPATH

Stem Cell Biology

Post- transcriptional Regulation in Stem Cells

Sole

2009

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

YLLSoM, NUS Duke-NUS

8

Paul BIGLIARDI

Developmental & Regenerative Biology

Allergology, Wound Healing and Skin Research

Sole

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint Appointment

NUS

9

Ray DUNN

Endodermal Development and Differentiation

Pancreatic Development; Stem Cells, both Human Embryonic and Human Induced Pluripotent; Rare Genetic Diseases; Mouse Molecular Genetics; TGFbeta Related Signalling

Sole

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Appointment

NTU

10

LIM Chin Yan

Skin Research Group

Epigenetic Regulation of Embryonic Epidermal Development

Co

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No Appointment

Nil

11 Dr Nicholas BARKER

Stem Cell Biology

Self-renewal and Cancer

Co 2012 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

NUS

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12 Dr Leah VARDY

Institute of Medical Biology

Stem Cell and Epidermal Biology

Co

2014 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct

NTU

13

Dr. Giulia RANCATI

Institute of Medical Biology

Genome instability and cancer evolution

Sole

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct

NUS

14 Lim Xinhong Institute of

Medical Biology Skin stem cells Co 2016

[email protected]

Adjunct Assistant Professor

NTU; Duke-NUS (In

progress)

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Bioinformatics Institute (BII)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one

appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1

A/Prof VERMA Chandra Shekhar

Bioinformatic s

Computational Biology

Sole

2004

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Professor

NUS NTU

2

Dr EISENHABER Frank

Bioinformatic s

Biomolecular Function Discovery, Protein Sequence Analysis

Sole

2009

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Professor

NUS NTU

3

Dr KUZNETSOV Vladimir

Bioinformatic s

Genome and gene expression data analysis

Sole

2009

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Professor

NUS NTU

4

Dr TANAVDE Vivek Madhukar

Bioinformatic s

Expression and Signaling in Mesenchymal and Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Sole

2009

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

5

Peter BOND

Biomolecular Modelling and Design Devision

Multiscale Simulation, Modelling and Design in Biological Chemistry

Sole

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

6

Dr LEE Hwee Kuan

Bioinformatic s

Computer vision and pattern discovery

Sole

2009

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

NUS

7 Dr LOO Lit Hsin

Bioinformatic s

Imaging Informatics

Sole 2010 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

NUS

8

Dr Cheng LI

Bioinformatic s

Imaging Informatics: Machine Learning for Bioimage Analysis Group

Sole

2012

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

NUS

9

Dr CHIAM Keng Hwee

Bioinformatic s

Development of theories and models to problems in mechanobiology , biological physics, systems biology and biological fluid mechanics

Sole

Transferre d from SERC

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Co- supervising NUS PhD students

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10 Dr Sebastian MAURER- STROH

Bioinformatic s

Biomolecular Function Discovery

Co

2011 sebastianms@bii .a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

NTU

11

Dr Hao FAN

Biomolecular Modelling and Design Division

Structure-based Ligand Discovery and Design

Co

2015

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

NUS

12

Dr Igor BEREZOVS KY

Biomolecular Modelling and Design Division

Physics and Evolution of Biological Macromolecules

Sole

2015

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

NUS

13

Dr Samuel GAN

Translational Research Division

Antibody engineering, viral mutation prediction, smartphone apps

Co

2015

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Sessional Lecturer

JCUS

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Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no

appointment (if supervisor

has more than one appt,

please provide details of all

types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1

A/Profes sor REN Ee Chee

Genomics and Genetics

Molecular modeling of peptide-MHC complex of development of peptide vaccines

Sole

2004

[email protected] -star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

YLLSOM, NUS SBS, NTU

2

Dr NG Fong Poh, Lisa

Molecular Virology

Vector-borne infectious diseases

Sole

2010

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

YLLSOM, NUS

3

Dr BISWAS Subhra Kumar

Cellular Immunology

Characterizatio n of monocyte and macrophage phenotypes

Sole

2006

Subhra_Biswas@immunol. a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

Adjunct Associate Professor

4

Dr Florent GINHOU X

DC Immunity

DC precursors and their contribution to DC subsets in inflammation

Sole

2010

Florent_Ginhoux@immun ol.a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

YLLSOM, NUS LKCSoM, NTU GMS, DUKE- NUS

5 Dr Olaf ROTZSCH KE

Immunology Malaria Immunobiolog y

Sole

2011 Olaf_Rotzschke@immunol .a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

YLLSOM, NUS SBS, NTU

6 Dr Katja FINK

Immunology Dengue Virus Immunity

Sole

2011 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

SBS, NTU

7

Dr Renia LAURENT

Immunology

Malaria Immunobiolog y

Sole

2011

Renia_Laurent@immunol. a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor Adjunct Professor

YLLSOM, NUS SBS, NTU

8

Dr Maria LAFAILLE

Immunology

Allergy and Inflammation

Sole

2011

[email protected] -star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

YLLSOM, NUS

9

Dr WONG Siew Cheng

Innate Immunity

Role of monocytes and macrophages in health and diseases settings

Co

2010

Wong_Siew_Cheng@imm unol.a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

YLLSOM, NUS

10 Dr NG Lai Guan

Immunology Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Co

2010 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

SBS, NTU

11 Dr Norman PAVELKA

Immunology

Adaptive and innate immune system; gastrointestina

Co

2013

Norman_Pavelka@immun ol.a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

SBS, NTU

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l microbiota

12

Dr Evan NEWELL

Immunology

Development and application of multiplexed assays for identifying and characterizing antigen specific T cells in human disease

Co

2013

[email protected] star.edu.sg

In process

YLLSOM, NUS

13

Dr. Michael POIDING ER

Bioinformati cs

Bioinformatics

Co No record in database

michael_poidinger@immu nol.a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

YLLSOM, NUS

14

Dr Anis LARBI

Immunology

Immunity in ageing

Co

2013

[email protected] star.edu.sg

In process In process - Adjunct Assistant Professor

YLLSOM, NUS SBS, NTU

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Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN)

S/N Name Research Cluster Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approv

ed

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if

supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all

types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1

Professor YING Jackie

Bioengineering

Nanotechnology

Sole

2004

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Professor

NUS Chemistry NTU School of Chemical and Biomedica l Engineeri ng

2

Dr. YANG Yi Yan

Drug Delivery

Drug/gene delivery, polymeric carriers for islet implantation

Sole

2009

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

NUS Pharmacy

3

Dr Hanry YU

Tissue Engineering

Cell and Tissue Engineering

Sole

No record in databas e

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint Professor

NUS Physiolog y of Medicine, NGS and MB

4 Dr WANG Shu

Drug delivery Delivery of Drugs, Proteins and Genes

Sole

2007 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Associate Professor NUS (Biological Sciences)

5 Dr Andrew WAN

Tissue Engineering Cell and Tissue Engineering

Sole 2007 [email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment Nil

6

Dr Motoichi KURISAWA

Drug delivery

Delivery of Drugs, Proteins and Genes

Co

2007

mkurisawa@ibn. a-star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

7 Dr Su Seong LEE

Nanobiotechnolog y

Medical and Biological Devices

Co 2007 [email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment Nil

8

Dr ZHANG Yugen

Nanobiotechnolog y

Nanobiotechnolog y and Pharmaceuticals Synthesis

Co

2007

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

9

Dr Nandanan ERATHODI YIL

Nanobiotechnolog y

Pharmaceuticals Synthesis and Nanobiotechnolog y

Co

2010

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

10 Dr Daniele ZINK

Tissue Engineering Cell & Tissue Enginerering

Co 2013 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Nil Nil

11

Dr TAN Min-Han

Biodevices and Diagnostics

Systems Medicine, Pharmacogenomic s

Co

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health; Duke-NUS School of Medicine

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Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

12 Dr William SUN

Cell and Tissue Engineering

Stem Cells and Reprogramming

Sole 2014 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct NUS

13 Dr. Huaquiang Zeng

Biodevices and Dianostics, Green Chemistry and Energy

Medical Diagnostics, Imaging and Therapeutics

Co

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

None

None

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Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if

supervisor has more than one appt, please provide

details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1 Dr CHAO Jimmy

Bioprocessing Expression Engineering

Sole 2005 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

2 Dr CHOO Andre

Bioprocessing Stem Cell Sole 2005 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

3 Dr OH Steve Bioprocessing Stem Cell Sole 2005 [email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment Nil

4 Dr SONG Zhiwei

Bioprocessing Expression Engineering

Sole 2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

5 Dr LEE Dong Yup

Bioprocessing Bioinformatics Sole 2006 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint appointment NUS

6 Professor LAM Kong Peng

Bioprocessing

Immunology

Sole

2004 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint appointment Adjunct appointment

NUS NTU

7 Dr XU Shengli Bioprocessing Immunology Co 2012 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

8 Dr NG Say Kong

Bioprocessing Animal Cell Technology

Co 2012 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NUS

9 Dr YANG Yuansheng

Bioprocessing Animal Cell Technology

Co 2012 [email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment Nil

10 Dr HO Ying Swan

Bioprocessing “-Omics” Technologies

Co 2012 [email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment Nil

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Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no

appointment (if supervisor

has more than one

appt, please provide

details of all types of

appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1

Dr BERTOLETTI Antonio

T-cell immunity

Virology

Sole

2006

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint Appointment

DUKE- NUS

2

Dr Ravi KAMBADUR

Growth, Development and Metabolism

Muscle and Fat Biology

Sole

2011

[email protected]

Joint Appointment

NTU

3 Dr Makoto YAWATA

Infection & Immunity

Natural killer (NK) cell

Sole 2011 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint Appointment

NUS

4

Dr LEE Yung Seng

Growth, Development and Metabolism

Appetite regulation, obesity, metabolic disorders & growth

Sole

2013

[email protected]

Joint Appointment

NUS

5

Dr XU Feng

Growth, Development and Metabolism

Growth & Metabolism, Muscle and Fat Biology

Co

2011

[email protected]

Adjunct Appointment

NUS

6

Dr Joanna HOLBROOK

Growth, Development and Metabolism

Bioinformatics & Biostatistics

Co

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

7

Dr Walter STUNKEL

Growth, Development and Metabolism Prog

Molecular Epigenetic Analysis

Co

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

8

Dr Melvin LEOW

Growth, Development and Metabolism Prog

Clinical Research

Co

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

9

Dr Craig McFARLANE

Growth, Development and Metabolism Prog

Ageing in muscle stem cells and translational research in Type II diabetes

Co

2012

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

10 Dr Lynette SHEK

Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology

Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology

Sole

2014

[email protected]

Full

NUS

11 Dr Birit BROEKMAN

GUSTO Neurodevelopment Co 2014 [email protected] Joint NUS

12

Dr Nobuyo YAWATA

Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences

Ocular immunology

Co

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint

Duke- NUS

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13

Dr Neerja KARNANI

Growth, Development and Metabolism Programme

Epigenetic modulations

Co

2014

[email protected] star.edu-sg

NA

NA

14 Dr Clara CHEONG

Genomics and Epignenomics

Metabolic diseases Co 2014 [email protected] NA NA

15

Dr Mary Foong- Foong CHONG

Clinical Nutrition Centre

Dietary intervention

Co

2014

[email protected] star.edu.sg

NA

NA

16 Dr Jan Paul BUSCHDORF

Molecular and cell biology

Genetic diseases Co 2014 [email protected] NA NA

17 Dr Anne RIFKIN- GRABOI

Neurocognitive Development Centre

Maternal mental health and parenting

Co

2014 [email protected] star.edu.sg

NA

NA

18 Ciaran Forde Sensory Science and

food intake Co 2016 [email protected]

Joint Appointment

NUS

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Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if

supervisor has more than one appt, please provide

details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1

Dr HAN Weiping

molecular biology and physiology

diabetes and dementia

Sole

2006

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Associate Professor (Joint) Associate Professor (Joint) Adjunct Investigator

NUS DUKE - NUS SICS

2 Dr Kishore BHAKOO

Regenerative Medicine

In vivo Cell tracking (Neuro and Heart)

Sole

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Professor

NTU

3

Dr Shigeki SUGII

Metabolism and stem cell

Adipose- derived and pluripotent stem cells, metabolic diseases

Sole

2012

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Assistant Professor

DUKE-NUS

4 CHANG Young Tae

Chemistry and Biology

Bioimaging with Florescent Sensor and Probes

Sole

2014

[email protected]

Joint Appointment

NUS

5

Dr Edward ROBINS

Chemistry and Radiochemistry

Radiochemistry method development and novel radiotracer design and synthesis

Co

2011

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Head, PET Chemistry Group

CIRC

6

Dr Sendhil VELAN

Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy

Metabolic Imaging Development of Advanced Imaging Techniques

Co

2012

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Research Scientist (CIRC)/ Head of MRS/MIG (SBIC) Adjunct Assistant Professor

CIRC NUS

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Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if

supervisor has more than one

appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1 Dr Jeffery HILL Translational Research

Protein Biochemistry

Sole 2006 [email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment Nil

2 Dr Thomas Hugo KELLER

Drug Discovery Medicinal Chemistry

Sole 2012 [email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct appointment

NTU

3

Dr KANG Congbao

Structural Biology

Protein-drug interactions and structural determination of proteins

Co

2013

[email protected] star.edu.sg

No appointment

Nil

p53 Laboratory

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approve

d

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one

appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1

Prof Sir David LANE

Translational Research

Regulating the p53 response by Protein Degradation

Sole

No record on databas e

dplane@p53lab .a-star.edu.sg

Adjunct Appointment

NUS, Dept of Medicine

2

Dr CHEOK Chit Fang

Translational Research

Genetic & Functional relationship between p53 and other drug-target pathways

Co

2010

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Appointment

NUS, Dept of Biochemis try NTU, LKCSoM

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Clinical Imaging Research Centre (CIRC)

S/N Name Research Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no

appointmen t (if

supervisor has more than one

appt, please provide

details of all types of

appt)

Universit y (NUS,

NTU; please

specify if others)

1 Ashley Ann WEEKES

BMSI Radiochemestr y

Co 2015 [email protected] star.edu.sg

2 Benjamin Aneurin THOMAS

BMSI Medical image analysis

Co 2015 [email protected] -star.edu.sg

3

John TOTMAN

BMSI

Human Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Co

2015

[email protected] star.edu.sg

4

Joshua SCHAEFFERKOETTE R

BMSI

Co

2015

[email protected]

5

Mary TOWNSEND

BMSI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy in Disease

Co

2015

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Adjunct Research Fellow Department of Medicine

NUS

Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine (TLGM)

S/N Name Researc h Cluster

Detailed Research Area

Co/ Sole

Year approved

Email address Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if

supervisor has more than one appt, please provide

details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU;

please specify if others)

1

Dr. Roshni SINGARAJA

Cardiom etabolic Diseases

Cardiometaboli c Diseases

Co

2014

[email protected] -star.edu.sg

No Appointment

Nil

2

A/Prof Mahmoud POULADI

Neurod egenera -tive Diseases

Neurodegenera tive diseases – Huntington disease

Co

2013

[email protected] star.edu.sg

Joint Appointment

NUS

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Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)

1

S/N Name Research Dept Research

Interest Co/ Sole

Year approv ed

Email address

Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others)

1 Kai Keng ANG Neural & Biomedical Technology Dept

Brain-Machine Interface (BMI)

Sole 2014 rzhang@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NTU

2 Yong Huat CHEW Advanced Communication Technology

Transmissions over wireless, telephone line, hybrid fiber coax and optical networks, Hi- Capacity Hi- Spectral Efficiency Transmission Technologies, Radio Resources Management, Cognitive radio and learning algorithm

Sole 2003 chewyh @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

3 Francois CHIN PO SHIN Wireless Chipset Programme

Signal processing techniques for system capacity enhancement, MIMO/smart antenna systems, Wireless comm system design, engineering and performance evaluation, Future comm systems including cellular systems and Ultrawideband -based hi- speed short range radi

Sole 2010 chinfran cois@i2r .a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

4 Farbiz FARZAM Productivity Programme

Entertainment technologies, Haptics, Mixed reality,

Sole 2010 farbizf@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

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Multimodal interactions

5 Cuntai GUAN Neural & Biomedical Technology Dept

1. Neural and biomedical signal processing, machine learning and pattern recognition 2. Neural and cognitive process, clinical application, and understanding 3. Brain– computer interface algorithms, systems, adaptation, and applications 4. Statistical signal processing and neural image processing 5. Medical system and device research and development

Sole 2013 ctguan@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NTU/ NUS

6 Ya Jun HA Robotics Programme

Embedded system architecture and design methodologies , reconfigurable computing, Ultra low power digital system design and synthesis, VLSI for cryptographic and video applications

Sole 2014 ha- [email protected] star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

7 Zhiyong HUANG Robotics Programme

Animation, rendering, visualization

Sole 2010 zyhuang @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

8 Shonali Priyadarsini KRISHNASWAMY

Data Analytics Mobile and Ubiquitous Data Stream

Sole 2013 spkrishn [email protected] star.edu.

Nil Nil

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Mining, Mobile Semantic Reasoning, Distributed and Parallel Data Stream Mining

sg

9 Xiaoli LI Data Analytics Big Data Analytics, Advanced Machine Learning, Social Network Analysis, Biological Network Analysis, Sensor Data Analytics, Insurance Data Analytics, Activitiy Recognition, Time Series Data Analysis, Machine Heath Monitoring, Drug Discovery, Information Retreival, Text Mining

Sole 2013 xlli@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

10 Haizhou LI Human Language Technology Dept

Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Social Robotics

Sole 2011 hli@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt

NTU/ NUS

11 Ying Chang LIANG Advanced Communication Technology

Wireless Communicatio ns, broadband communicatio ns, information theory, statistical signal processing

Sole 2009 ycliang @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

12 Joo Hwee LIM Visual Computing Dept

Representatio n and Learning in Computer Vision; Multimedia Indexing, Retrieval and Fusion; Patten Recognition

Sole 2010 joohwee @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NTU

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13 See Kiong NG Urban Systems

Programme Office

Enhancement of data throughput with integrated computational methods, biomedical data mining and info extraction beyond single genes into complex interaction networks of proteins and other molecules.

Sole 2005 skng@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

14 Jo Yew THAM Scalable Multimedia Platform Programme

Image and video processing, compression, storage, management, protection, and streaming

Sole 2013 jytham @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

15 Vrizlynn THING Cybercrime & Security Intelligence Dept

Digital (multimedia, mobile device and network) forensics; Systems, information and network security; Security intelligence

Sole 2014 vriz@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS/ SMU

16 Wei Yun YAU Robotics Programme

Computer Vision, Biometrics, Medical image, video analysis, Intelligent systems.

Sole 2010 wyyau@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

17 Chee Wei ANG Intelligent Transport Systems Programme

Wireless mesh routing and MAC layer protocols, reinforcement learning, topology management

Co 2013 angcw@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

18 Kai Keng ANG Neural & Biomedical Technology Dept

Brain-Machine Interface (BMI)

Co 2009 rzhang@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NTU

19 Rafael E. BANCHS Human Language

Machine Translation

Co 2011 rembanc [email protected]

Nil Nil

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Technology Dept

- star.edu. sg

20 Jit BISWAS Neural & Biomedical Technology Dept

Information Quality & Quality of Service, Multi- modal information sensing and fusion, Wireless Sensor Networks, Grid & Cloud Computing, In Network Processing, Distributed and Parallel Computing, Healthcare applications of IT

Co 2010 biswas@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

21 Chin Choy CHAI Smart Grid Programme

Optimization on Smart Grids, Demand-side management, Building energy management, Modulation and signal detection in fading channels, Adaptive power and rate control , Two-way MIMO relay channel, Fading channel modeling in wireless communicatio ns systems.

Co 2010 chaicc@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

22 Nancy CHEN Human Language Technology Dept

Automatic speech recognition, language/diale ct/accent recognition, spoken language processing, spoken term detection,

Co 2013 nfychen @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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keyword search, speech summarization , computer assisted language learning, audio analytics, computational linguistics

23 Jianping CHEN Intelligent Transport Systems Programme

Scalable Multimedia Streaming, Control Theory and Control Engineering

Co 2013 jchen@ii 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

24 Zhihao CHEN Neural & Biomedical Technology Dept

Sensors for biomedical applications

Co 2009 zchen@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

25 Xiaofei CHENG Photonic Switching Programme

Broadband optical access network; High- speed optical communicatio n system; Coherent optical communicatio n system; IP over WDM;Wired and wireless integration, WDM-Passive optical networks, optical fault diagnostics, wavelength tunable lasers

Co 2010 chengxf @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

26 Yeow Khiang CHIA Data Analytics Dept

Wireless communicatio ns, Information Theory, Optimization, Signal processing

Co 2013 chiayk@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

27 Alex CHIA Visual Computing Dept

Computer Vision & Image Processing, in particular image annotation, object detection, image classification, activity

Co 2014 yschia@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

NA Nil

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recognition, cross media retrieval

28 Hon Nian CHUA Data Analytics Dept

Machine Learning, Data Mining, equipment health monitoring, Bioinformatcs

Co 2013 hnchua @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

29 Minghui DONG Human Language Technology Dept

Speech Synthesis, Singing Synthesis, Voice Conversion, Natural Language Processing

Co 2013 mhdong @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

30 Hui DONG RF, Antenna & Optical Department

Fiber optics, polarization optics and THz, distributed fiber optics sensor

Co 2013 hdong@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

31 Sheng GAO Human Language Technology Dept

Machine learning, computer vision, multimedia information retrieval

Co 2009 gaoshen [email protected] star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

32 Yu GE Wireless mesh/ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, human-centric sensing

Co 2013 geyu@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

33 Kwong Huang GOH Scalable Multimedia Platform Programme

Video Processing, Coding and Delivery

Co 2010 khgoh@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

34 Yandong GONG RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

Ultrafast fiber optics, Nonlinear fiber optics, Fiber-optic sensor, Photonics devices and Terahertz fields, Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging,

Co 2008 gongyd @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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photonics, fiber laser

35 Peter John GREEN Reconfigurable Systems Program

Modelling and Simulation of Wireless Communicatio n Systems for implementatio n in Embedded Systems, Space-Time Digital Signal Processing.

Co 2013 pjgreen @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

36 Jianzhong HAO RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

Fiber Optic Sensors, Bio- sensors

Co 2010 haoemil [email protected] star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

37 Matt HENRICKSEN Infocomm Security Dept

Cryptography Co 2014 mhenric ksen@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

NA Nil

38 Chin Keong HO Advanced Communication Technology Dept

Wireless cooperative and adaptive communicatio ns

Co 2009 hock@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

39 Anh Tuan HOANG Intelligent Transport Systems Programme

Wireless Communicatio ns, Control, ITS, Cyber- physical Ssytems

Co 2013 athoang @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

40 Zujun HOU Neural & Biomedical Technology Dept

Computer Vision; Image Analysis; Biometrics; Medical Imaging

Co 2009 zhou@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

41 Juan Juan, Dora HU RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

Fundamental research in photonics and optics. Specifically, optics of photonic crystals, microstructure d optical fiber (MOF) and MOF-based devices for telecommunic ations and sensors applications

Co 2010 jjhu@i2r .a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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42 Dong Yan HUANG Human

Language Technology Dept

Machine learning, pattern recognition, computational optimization, intelligent expressive multimodal diaglog system, paralinguistic analysis and synthesis, voice conversion and transformatio n, singing synthesis, music separation and music information retrieval

Co 2013 huang@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

43 Ridong JIANG Human Language Technology Dept

Spoken and Multimodal Dialog Systems Spoken Language Understanding Natural Language Processing

Co 2013 rjiang@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

44 Wenyu JIANG Signal Processing Dept

High- dimensional data search, hardware- based fuzzy search, multimedia fingerprinting, formerly Voice over IP

Co 2013 wjiang@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

45 Yunye JIN Sense and Sense-abilities Programme

1. Planning, sensing, and signal processing in wireless sensor networks. 2. Tracking and localization framework for IoT

Co 2013 yjin@i2r .a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

46 Rajaraman KANAGASABAI Data Analytics Dept

Semantic Web & Technologies, Semantic Data

Co 2013 kanagas [email protected] star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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Analytics, Ontologies, Text Mining, NLP, Biomedical Data Mining

47 Muhammad Faeyz KARIM RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

RF MEMS devices, Millimeter- Wave Sensing/Imagi ng Applications, RF & Hybrid Energy Harvesting, Tunable & Reconfigurable Filters/ Antenna, Active & Passives Modules & Circuits, and Radio-Over- Fiber Technologies

Co 2013 kfaeyz@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

48 Sivanand KRISHNAN Programme Director’s Office

Ultra wideband Communicatio ns, Indoor Positioning, RFID

Co 2009 sivanand @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

49 Kong Aik LEE Human Language Technology Dept

Speaker recognition, spoken language recognition, speech processing

Co 2013 kalee@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

50 Siu Wa Yvonne LEE Human Language Technology Dept

Singing synthesis, speech synthesis, speech separation, music separation and music information retrieval

Co 2013 swylee@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

51 Zhongding LEI Advanced Communication Technology Dept

Signal processing techniques; Multiple access, modulation and synchronizatio n, system

Co 2006 leizd@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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design/perfor mance evaluation for future communicatio n systems, including 4G cellular systems, cognitive radio system, sensor networks, wireless LAN, and Ultra- wideband

52 Derek LEONG Sense and Sense-abilities Programme

Communicatio n networks, distributed storage systems

Co 2014 dleong@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

NA Nil

53 Cheung Chi LEUNG Human Language Technology Dept

Automatic Speech Recognition, Spoken Document Retrieval, Spoken Language Recognition and Speaker Recognition

Co 2013 ccleung @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

54 Zhengguo LI Signal Processing Dept

Image and video processing and delivery, QoS, switched and impulsive control

Co 2010 ezgli@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

55 Liyuan LI Visual Computing Dept

Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, multimedia, artificial intelligence, cognitive vision, robotics

Co 2014 lyli@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

NA Nil

56 Shaowei LIN Sense and Sense-abilities Programme

Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Sensor Networks

Co 2013 lins@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

57 Jiang LIU Ocular Imaging Programme

Medical Imaging

Co 2008 jliu@i2r. a- star.edu.

Adj Appt NTU NTU

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sg 58 Shijian LU Visual

Computing Dept Image analysis, computer vision, cognitive vision, perception and attention

Co 2012 slu@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NTU NTU

59 Bin LUO RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

Microwave communicatio n, microwave imaging, microwave photonics

Co 2010 luobin@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

60 Tie Tony LUO Sense and Sense-abilities Programme

Incentive and trust in crowdsourcing and partcipatory sensing

Co 2013 luot@i2r .a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

61 Bin MA Human Language Technology Dept

Automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition, spoken language recognition, spoken document retrieval and Computer- aided language learning

Co 2008 mabin@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

62 - NASIMUDDIN RF, Antenna & Optical Department

Antenna, matematerial antenna

Co 2013 nasimud din@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

63 Wee Siong NG Urban Systems Programme Office (URBAN)

Data management, big data processing, stream processing

Co 2013 wsng@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

64 Ee Sin NG Programme Director’s Office

Object matching, activity detection and machine learning

Co 2013 nges@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

65 Tian Tsong NG Situational Awareness Analytics Prog

Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Multimedia Security,

Co 2010 ttng@i2r .a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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Machine Learning

66 Minh Nhut NGUYEN Data Analytics Dept

Machine learning for time series and stream data, activity recognition, fuzzy logic, pattern recognition, and neural networks

Co 2013 mnnguy en@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

67 Ser Wah OH TV White Spaces Programme

TV white space/cognitiv e radio, software defined radio, power line communicatio n and 3G and beyond

Co 2010 swoh@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

68 Ling Chuen ONG RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

Channel characterizatio n at UWB and Millimeter- wave bands; Radio-over- Fiber & Microwave Photonics; Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics and Millimeter- wave Imaging

Co 2006 ongmich ael@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

69 Jaya Shankar PATHMASUNTHARAM

Intelligent Transport Systems Programme

WiFi Localization, Super- resolution techniques, GPS enhancements , Sensor fusion for localization, Intelligent Transport Systems

Co 2013 jshankar @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

70 Xiaoming PENG Satellite Programme

Wireless Communicatio n

Co 2009 pengxm @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

71 Xianming QING RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

Antenna, Applied Electromagnet ics, Materials in Microwave

Co 2013 sujoy@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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Engineering, RF bio-imaging

72 Mark David RICE Visual Computing Dept

Human computer interactions, human factors

Co 2012 mdrice @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

73 Sujoy ROY Robotics Programme

Machine Learning, Computer Vision, User Modeling, Multimedia Analysis and Understanding

Co 2013 sujoy@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

74 Bo SHI Satellite Programme

Design and analysis of analog & RF integrated circuits, transceiver architectures and linearization techniques for wireless communicatio ns.

Co 2003 shibo@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

75 Sian Hui Kelvin SIM Data Analytics Dept

High dimensional clustering, subspace clustering, graph mining, financial data mining

Co 2013 shsim@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

76 Jian SU Baidu-I²R Research Centre

Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining

Co 2006 shibo@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

77 Sumei SUN Advanced Communication Technology Dept

Multiple-input multiple- output (MIMO) technologies, Multi-user communicatio ns, Transmission technologies for interactive digital media (IDM), 5G wireless communicatio ns

Co 2008 sunsm@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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78 Mei SUN RF, Antenna &

Optical Department

Matematerial antenna, MMW/THz antenna, optical antenna

Co 2013 msun@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

79 Hwee Xian TAN Sense and Sense-abilities Programme

wireless networking protocols, wireless sensor networks, energy efficiency in resource constrained networks, mobile crowdsourcing systems

Co 2013 tanhx@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

80 Huajin TANG Human Language Technology Dept

Computational and biological Intelligence (incl. learning, vision, perception and memory), machine learning and neural networks, control and evolutionary optimization

Co 2010 htang@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

81 Keng Peng TEE Robotics Programme

Control theory, robotics, motor learning, brain- computer interface

Co 2010 kptee@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

82 Chee Ming Joseph TEO Sense and Sense-abilities Programme

Trust, Wireless network security, Authentication , Privacy, Key Management, Energy- harvesting/En ergy efficient security, Internet of Things (IoT Security), Smart Grid Security, mobile healthcare, vehicular

Co 2012 cmteo@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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network security, mesh network security, Security Management

83 Vrizlynn THING Cybercrime & Security Intelligence Dept

Digital (multimedia, mobile device and network) forensics; Systems, information and network security; Security intelligence

Co 2013 vriz@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS/ SMU

84 Huy Dat TRAN Human Language Technology Dept

Statistical Signal Processing, Acoustic field modeling, Speech Signal Processing, Speech recognition, Speech enhancement, Machine Learning, Neural Signal Processing, Audio content analysis, and Acoustic surveillance

Co 2008 hdtran@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

85 Kong Wah WAN Robotics Programme

Image/Video retrieval, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition

Co 2014 kongwa [email protected] star.edu. sg

N/A Nil

86 Jiangang WANG Autonomous Vehicle Progamme

Computer vision, Pattern Recognition, Human Computer Interaction, Biometrics

Co 2008 jgwang @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

87 Yixin WANG RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

Optical Modulation, Optical Networks, Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring, Optical Comms and Sensing

Co 2009 wangyx @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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88 Yue WANG Visual

Computing Dept Feature extraction and object detection, object segmentation using deformable mode, 2D contour match.

Co 2011 ywang@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

89 Lawrence Jin Kiat WEE Data Analytics Dept

Machine learning, bioinformatics, cancer biology, drug discovery, biochemistry, translational research

Co 2013 jklwee@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

90 Wing Kee Damon WONG Ocular Imaging Programme

Medical Image Processing, Computer Aided Diagnosis

Co 2011 wkwong @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

91 Yan WU Robotics Programme

Social/assistive robotics and technology, human-robot interaction and robot learning paradigms

Co 2014 wuy@i2r .a- star.edu. sg

N/A Nil

92 Yong Dong WU Infocomm Security Dept

Multimedia security, software security, network and communicatio n security

Co 2014 wydong @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct Associate Professor

SMU

93 Shoulie XIE Neural & Biomedical Technology Dept

Image and video processing, communicatio n

Co 2010 slxie@i2 r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

94 Wei XIONG Visual Computing Dept

signal/image processing, image reconstruction (e.g., computer tomography), deformable object segmentation/ recognition/re gistration, unbiased modeling of objects,

Co 2011 wxiong @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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statistic pattern classification, online learning, acoustical imaging

95 Wenxian YANG Signal Processing Dept

Image and video processing, multiview and 3D video processing

Co 2011 cfachan @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

96 Ghim Eng YAP Data Analytics Dept

Machine Learning, Data Mining, Recommendat ion Systems, Privavy Preserving Data Mining

Co 2013 geyap@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

97 Sze Ling YEO Infocomm Security Dept

Coding Mathematics and Cryptography

Co 2013 slyeo@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NTU

98 Rongshan YU Signal Processing Dept

Audio/speech processing; Multimedia streaming; Signal Processing in green energy

Co 2010 ryu@i2r. a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

99 Miaolong YUAN Robotics Programme

Computer vision and augmented reality, machine learning, computational intelligence

Co 2014 myuan@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

N/A Nil

100 Yonghong ZENG Reconfigurable Systems Programme

Wireless communicatio n, signal processing

Co 2009 yhzeng @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

101 Rui ZHANG Advanced Communication Technology Dept

Communicatio n & Information Theory

Co 2009 kkang@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

102 Jianying ZHOU Infocomm Security Dept

Computer and Network Security, Cyber-Physical Security, Mobile and Wireless Security

Co 2006 jyzhou@ i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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103 Luying ZHOU Photonic

Switching Programme

High-speed networks, WDM optical networks, wireless networks, optical access networks and Grid networking

Co 2006 lzhou@i 2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

104 Xiaoqun ZHOU RF, Antenna & Optical Dept

Optical bio- sensors and optical image processing

Co 2009 zhouxq @i2r.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

105 Ernest Kurniawan Cognitive

Communications Technology

Heterogeneous Networks,

Future Networks

Architecture, 5G, Massive

MIMO, Network

Information Theory, Big

Data for Communicati

ons

Co 2016 [email protected]

star.edu.sg Nil Nil

106 Luis Fernando D’Haro Human Language

Technology

Natural Language Processing

Co 2016 [email protected]

star.edu.sg Nil Nil

107 Huang Weimin Neural and

Biomedical Image Lab

Medical image

processing, analysis,

image guided surgical

planning, intervention,

machine learning, pattern

recognition

Co 2016 [email protected]

star.edu.sg Nil Nil

108 Feng Mengling Data Analytics

Machine learning,

causal inference,

clinical data analytics,

GPU computation

s, big data management and analytics

Co 2016 [email protected]

star.edu.sg Joint

Appointment NUS

109 Liu Bingbing Autonomous

Vehicle

Autonomous Vehicle; mobile

robotics, localization;

SLAM, estimation theory and point cloud perception

Co 2016 [email protected]

Nil Nil

110 Wu Huayu Data Analytics

Data management

and data analytics

Co 2016 [email protected]

Nil Nil

111 Sunil Sivadas Human Language

Technology

Bio-inspired models for automatic

speech recognition in clean and

noisy environment

s; deep learning for speech and

speaker recongition

Co 2016 [email protected]

star.edu.sg Nil Nil

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Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE)

S/N Name Research Dept Research

Interest Co/ Sole

Year approv ed

Email address

Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others)

1 Sing Yang CHIAM Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Oxide interfaces

Sole 2012

2 Goh GREGORY Design & Growth

Hydrothermal epitaxy of ZnO films for spintronic and electronic applications; Growth to TiO2 films for spintronic and photocatalytic applications; Hydrothermal epitaxy of KNbO3 films and nanostructure s for lead-free piezoelectricit y; Hydrothermal growth o

Sole 2006

3 Tamio HAYASHI Synthesis & Integration

Development of new synthet ic reactions catal yzed by transit ion metal com plexes

Sole 2013

4 Xu LI Synthesis & Integration

• Polymer composites and their application • Nanostructure d hybrid materials for energy storage and biomedical application • Supramolecula r hydrogels as controlled release system

Sole 2012

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5 Xian Jun LOH Synthesis and

Integration Biomaterials, hydrogels, drug delivery, tissue engineering, personal care

Sole 2014

6 Akkipeddi RAMAM SERC Nanofabrication and Characterisation

1. InP based Optoelectronic devices and MEMS. 2. GaN based Electronic devices 3. Nanofabricatio n: Formation of nano- features for devices.

Sole 2009

7 Shi Jie WANG Design & Growth

Integration of oxides with semicondcutor s by for application in nanodevices

Sole 2009

8 Jianwei XU Synthesis & Integration

• Functional polymer materials: conjugated polymers for electrochromi c applications; fluorine- containing polymers; phosphazene- based polymers; polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane s (POSS) nanohybrid materials • Liquid crystalline materials and supramolecula r liquid crystalline materials • High temperature synthetic lubricants on various applications

Sole 2011

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9 Kui YAO Design &

Growth Smart Materials, Sensors, actuators, and their integration in micro and nano systems

Sole 2008

10 Jisheng PAN AC Surface nanostructure growth and characterizatio n

Sole 2014 Adjunct Associate Professor

NUS

11 Yen Nee TAN Bioinspired Materials Lab (BML)

Nano- biotechnology, Bioinspired materials, Functional nanoparticles for biomedical applications (sensing, imaging, delivery and therapy)

Sole 2014 Adjunct Associate Professor

NUS

12 Kedar HIPPALGAONKAR PF Nanoscale thermal and thermoelectric transport in nanowires and 2D materials, near-field radiation

Sole 2015 kedarh @imre.a - star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NTU

13 Kuan Eng Johnson GOH SnFPC 2D Materials, Additive Manufacturing , Nanoelectroni cs, Quantum- effect Devices

Sole 2015 gohj@i mre.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

14 Yun ZONG Advanced Energy Storage Lab (AESL); Molecular Materials Lab (MML)

Energy Storage Materials and Devices, Functional Nanomaterials

Sole 2015 y- zong@i mre.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

15 Kambiz ANSARI Patterning & Fabrication

1. Nanofabri cation 2. Micro fluidics 3. Electroch emistry 4. membran e

Co 2013

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16 Maria ANTIPINA Patterning &

Fabrication Microencapsul ation and delivery of actives for food and feed, consumer care and biomedical applications.

Co 2011

17 Shiqiang BAI Synthesis & Integration

Functional nano- materials and molecular materials in catalysis, luminescense & magnetism

Co 2011

18 Lakshmi Kanta BERA Materials Analysis & Characterisation

• Multidisciplina ry research filed such as microfluidic channel/micro assay fabrication for bio sensing applications. Si based chips for circulating tumor cell detection and integration of qPCR, • Si based novel Avalanche Photo Detectors for wide range of applications • High performance transistor and optical device on III-V GaN on Si, SOI based materials. • CMOS Nanotechnolo gy

Co 2012

19 William BIRCH Patterning & Fabrication

Surface modification by molecular grafting, Functional surfaces that direct the fate of cultured cells

Co 2008

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20 Yin Thai CHAN Synthesis &

Integration Synthesis and characterizatio n of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and its applications

Co 2011

21 Karen CHONG Patterning & Fabrication

Bacteria- polymer material interactions via scanning probe microscopy, patterning and fabrication techniques like nanoimprint lithography and its associated applications with emphasis on novel biological applications. Regulating biofilm development through surface engineering techniques. Anti-microbial modulators in polymers.

Co 2012

22 Goutam Kumar DALAPATI Design & Growth

Inorganic photo-voltaic materials, process and devices, Iron- silicide for silicon based opto- electronics and photovoltaics, Advanced CMOS front- end technology, , Nano- electronic- processes, and devices, High- K dielectrics, high mobility channel materials (GaAs, SiGe,

Co 2010

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strained-Si), integration of III-V and Si, advanced gate stack on III- V/Si, Source/Drain engineering Schottky diode.

23 Jie DENG SERC Nanofabrication and Characterisation

Nano- patterning and application, molecular electronics

Co 2009

24 Paul FREE Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Physicochemi stry of nanoparticle surfaces, bio- interactions with nanomaterials, functionalizati on of nanomaterials for sensor applications.

Co 2013

25 Kuan Eng, Johnson GOH Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Nanoelectroni cs, Mesoscopic transport, Scanning probe microscopy and lithography, Quantum computing, High-K dielectrics, Thin-film growth and epitaxy, Delta- doped devices, Atomic-scale technologies

Co 2008

26 Sergey GORELIK Materials Analysis & Characterisation

photophysics, photochemistr y, time- resolved laser spectroscopy and imaging, photovoltaic materials, photochromis m

Co 2011

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27 Chao Bin HE Synthesis &

Integration Polymer Nanocomposit es, Supermolecula r Self- Assembly/Liqu id Crystalline Polymers, Deformation Study of Polymers, X- ray Scattering Study of Polymer Materials

Co 2014 Joint NUS

28 Ying JIANG Design & Growth

Conjugated organic molecules Novel chromophores for optical sensing Supramolecula r assemblies Polymer chemistry

Co 2013

29 Lin KE Analysis and Characterization ; Sensors & Transducers; MCOI

Advanced optical and electrical material and device characterizatio n techniques for nanophotonic and green photonic field. Nanophotonic s, meta- materials, surface plasmonic structures and devices. Organic Green Electronics devices: Organic based photonics devices (OLED, OPV, OTFT, Printed Electronics Devices, Flexible substrate devices) physics and degradation studies.

Co 2014

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30 Maxim KIRYUKHIN Patterning &

Fabrication Polyelectrolyte s in solutions, polyelectrolyte multilayer films, nanoimprintin g, surface patterning

Co 2013

31 Jatin KUMAR Synthesis & Integration

- Complex macromolecul ar architectures - Controlled radical polymerization - ‘Click’ & conjugation chemistries - Stimuli responsive polymeric systems - Polymer/inorg anic hybrid nanoparticles - Drug and gene delivery - Smart materials and nanocomposit es

Co 2013

32 Aung Ko Ko KYAW Conjugated Polymer

Opto- electronics materials and devices for sensing, energy harvesting and healthcare applications

Co 2015 kyawakk @imre.a - star.edu. sg

NTU

33 Wei Lin LEONG Synthesis & Integration

Solar cells, organic photovoltaics, transistors, memory devices, nanoparticle assembly, block copolymer

Co 2013

34 Yew Wei LEONG Synthesis & Integration

Nanocomposit es, Sustainable materials

Co 2011

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35 Jun LI Synthesis &

Integration Biomaterials for drug/gene delivery & tissue engineering, Supramolecula r chemistry/mol ecular recognition, Polymer synthesis and structural studies.

Co 2014 Joint NUS

36 Siew Lay LIM Synthesis & Integration

organic semiconductor s and organic electronic devices; printed electronics

Co 2012

37 Yee Fun LIM Design & Growth

Solar energy harvesting (solar cells and photocatalysts ); Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric materials

Co 2012

38 Ming LIN Materials Analysis & Characterisation

TEM, nanomaterials

Co 2009

39 Hongfei LIU Design & Growth

Optoelectronic Materials

Co 2009

40 Shuhua LIU Synthesis & Integration

Nanomaterials for biomedical and catalysis applications

Co 2011

41 Yanjun LIU Patterning & Fabrication

Active Plasmonics, Plasmonic Metamaterials , Liquid Crystal Photonics

Co 2013

42 Ye LIU Synthesis & Integration

Design, synthesis and properties of well-defined polymers including block copolymers

Co 2008

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and hyperbranche d polymers, Polymer functionalized nanomaterials including carbon nanotubes and other materials,Prep aration and properties of nanostructure d materials such as unimolecular micelles, polymer micelles and vesicles, Applications of nanostructure d polymer materials in microelectroni cs and biotechnology such as for microelectroni c packaging and drug delivery

43 Zhaolin LIU Synthesis & Integration

Membranes and catalysts for fuel cells, Batteries, Photocatalytic TiO2 thin film, New Energy Materials

Co 2008

44 Hong LIU Patterning and Fabrication Group

Super- resolution imaging and optical nanolithograp hy, metamaterials , plasmonics, NEMS & MEMS

Co 2014

45 He-Kuan LUO Design & Growth

catalyst/cataly sis for material synthesis; catalyst for photocatalytic water splitting

Co 2012

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46 Sean O’SHEA AC Atomic Force

Microscopy Nanotechnolo gy and MEMS/NEMS Interfaces in biology and the physical sciences, especially water near surfaces and in nanopores

Co 2014 s- oshea@i mre.a- star.edu. sg

-

47 Kok Haw ONG Synthesis & Integration

Synthesis and characterisatio n of materials for organic transistor and photovoltaic applications

Co 2011

48 Zi-En OOI Synthesis & Integration

Electronic devices based on organic and oxide semiconductor s. Device physics of organic solar cells, light- emitting transistors, characterizatio n techniques and material properties. Numerical modeling.

Co 2011

49 Pramoda Kumari PALLATHADKA

Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Characterizati on of nanocomposit e materials; Liquid crystalline polymers

Co 2006

50 David PARAMELLE Analysis and Characterization

- Nanomaterials for biomedical applications, bioimaging and sensing - Bio-hybrid nanoparticles - Biological probes - Stabilisation and functionalisati on of nanoparticles - Conjugation

Co 2014

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systems

51 In Yee PHANG Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Plasmonic, Biofouling, Superhydroph obic

Co 2013

52 M.S.M SAIFULLAH Patterning & Fabrication

Electron beam nanolithograp hy, nanoimprintin g, sol-gel synthesis and characterizatio n, nanomaterials, molecular electronics.

Co 2008

53 Santiranjan SHANNIGRAHI Design & Growth

Multiferroic thin film single phase and composite, Sol-gel and chemical processing of thick/thin films, Design, fabrication, and characterizatio n of different types of advanced smart materials for microactuator s and microsensors applications

Co 2008

54 Xiaodi SU Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Biomolecular interactions, Chemo- and Biosensors, (Bio)interface characterizatio n

Co 2008

55 Vignesh SURESH PF Nanofabricatio n and patterning of metal & metal oxides towards basic and applied research

Co 2015 sureshv @imre.a - star.edu. sg

NUS

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56 Junhao Shawn TAN Patterning and

Fabrication Group/Plasmoni cs and Semiconductor Nanostructures Lab

Nanoplasmoni cs; DNA-based functionalizati on and assembly;

Co 2014

57 Maureen Janet Beng Hoon TAN

Synthesis & Integration

Synthesis and self-assembly in solution of functional polymers and stimuli- responsive polymers

Co 2012

58 Wui Siew TAN Patterning & Fabrication

1) Control of surface chemistry and patterning of hierarchical structures to achieve high value functionality. 2) Polymer physics and chemistry, molecular level design and customization of processing steps to direct polymer phase behavior/ self assembly for the tuning mechanical properties and to impart smart functionality (e.g. temperature responsive materials) amongst others. 3) Biomedic al devices and bioapplication s of polymeric materials. Fabrication of biomedical devices or diagnostic applications.

Co 2013

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59 Hendrix TANOTO Patterning &

Fabrication • Terahertz technology • Semiconducto r optoelectronic s and nanophotonics • Novel design & growth and characterizatio ns • Advanced lithography or patterning • Metamaterials

Co 2012

60 Jinghua TENG Patterning & Fabrication

Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals, Nano- photonics and integration, Terahertz technology

Co 2003

61 Ee Jin TEO Patterning & Fabrication

Nanophotonic s, plasmonics, fabrication, metamaterials .

Co 2012

62 Nikodem TOMCZAK Synthesis & Integration

Single molecule fluorescence detection

Co 2009

63 Sudhiranjan TRIPATHY Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Compound semiconductor Nano- photonics, Optical and vibrational properties of Semiconducto r nanomaterials, Micro-Raman, photoluminesc ence and near- field characterizatio n of lll-V materials and low- dimensional semiconductor s, Device processing of semiconductor

Co 2006

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64 Cedric TROADEC Materials

Analysis & Characterisation

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Ballistic Emission Microscopy, metal/ (organic)semic onductor interfaces

Co 2009

65 Chellappan VIJILA Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Organic solar cells, Optical and Electrical Characterisati on of conjugated polymers, Transient photoconducti vity, Charge transport studies

Co 2009

66 FuKe WANG Synthesis & Integration

Carbon fibers and carbon films based nanocomposit es; Nano- and bio-assembly materials

Co 2011

67 Ying Min WANG PF Biophotonics, Optical Engineering, Nanofabricatio n, Plasmonics

Co 2014 wangym @imre.a - star.edu. sg

-

68 Xiaobai WANG Synthesis & Integration

Synthesis Inorganic, Organic hybrid materials, which have application in biology, drug delivery, energy transfer and Crystal structure analysis.

Co 2013

69 Xizu WANG Synthesis & Integration

New flexible nano thin film function device: OPV,OLED, OTFT, bio, Chem sensor and optical- electronic device

Co 2013

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70 Zheng Zheng WONG Materials

Analysis & Characterisation

Characterizati on of biomaterials; Biotransport and biofluid mechanics; Multiphase flow and phase change phenomena

Co 2012

71 Weiyin XU Porous Materials Laboratory

Inorganic materials, membranes, soft-surface templating, nucleation and growth kinetics, catalysis

Co 2015 xuwy@i mre.a- star.edu. sg

Georgia Institute of Technology

72 Nikolai Leopoldovich YAKOVLEV

Materials Analysis & Characterisation

Utechnology in ultra-hi vacuum, deposition of thin films, study of their propeties using electron/X-ray diffraction, optical spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, Study of structural properties of epitaxial films/atomic arrangement on surfaces and inte

Co 2003

73 Kwang Wei Joel YANG Patterning & Fabrication

Plasmonics, Nanotechnolo gy, Electron- beam lithography and Self assembled nanostructure s

Co 2011

74 Fung Ling YAP Patterning & Fabrication

- High throughput nanopatternin g and nanofabricatio n via self assembly techniques -

Co 2012

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Nanoimprintin g - Engineering nanostructure s for tailoring surface properties and devices - Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)

75 Jie ZHANG Synthesis & Integration

Printed Electronics: device physics, process, and product design/integra tion

Co 2011

76 Zhongxing ZHANG Synthesis & Integration

Functional polymeric self- assembling systems such as supramolecula r hydrogels, micelles and nanocapsules etc. for biomedical and cosmetic applications; Novel biodegradable and biocompatible block copolymers for gene/drug delivery; Biosensor development etc.

Co 2012

77 Yuangang ZHENG Synthesis & Integration

Engineering multifunctiona l nano- materials for sustainable applications

Co 2011

78 Xiaodong, Donna ZHOU Materials Analysis & Characterisation

MEMS Fabrication on glass substrate, LSPR MEMS, Nanostructure s on glass substrate and electrical simulation,

Co 2008

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Optical sensor detection and simulation

79 Xiaoying ZHU Patterning & Fabrication

Antifouling surfaces Surface chemistry Membrane technology

Co 2013

80 Yun ZONG Synthesis & Integration

Nanomaterials Co 2009

81 Teng Jinghua Patterning & Fabrication

Metamaterials, Plasmonics,

Nanophotonics-optics, Low dimensional

semiconductors, THz technology

Sole 2016 Jh-

[email protected]

Adjunct Appointment NTU

82 Dong Zhaogang Patterning & Fabrication

Light-matter interactions;

Nanoplasmonics, Dielectric

nanostructures; Sub-10-nm fabrication;

Nonlinear nano-optics

Co 2016 [email protected]

star.edu.sg Nil Nil

83 Ge Xiaoming

Synthesis & Integration /

Advanceed Energy Storage Lab

Electrocatalysis, batteries,

electrochemistry, oxide materials

Co 2016 [email protected]

Nil Nil

84 Lim Suo Hon Analysis &

Characterisation

Photocatalytic nanomaterials & crystal structure analysis and high

resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM)

Co 2016 [email protected]

star.edu.sg Nil Nil

85 Liu Songlin Synthesis & Integration

Polymer nanocomposites &

composites; Polymer membranes materials & technology for gas,

liquid separation

Co 2016 [email protected]

Nil Nil

86 Zhang Lei

Design & Growth / Sensors and Transducers Programme

Smart materials & structures, Sensors &

actuators, Piezoelectric materials

Co 2016 [email protected]

star.edu.sg Nil Nil

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87 Chee Wei LEE ACN

Nanolaser, microcavity laser, semiconductor laser, III-V on Silicon,

photonics integration, integrated optics

Co 2014 lee_chee

_wei@d si.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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Institute of Chemical & Engineering Sciences (ICES)

S/N Name Research Dept Research

Interest Co/ Sole

Year approv ed

Email address

Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others)

1 Keith John CARPENTER Director's Office Sole 2003 keith_ca rpenter @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct Prof NUS

2 Paul SHARRATT Process Science & Modelling

1. Process design and development, especially for low tonnage chemicals 2. Sustainable processing

Sole 2009 paul_sha rratt@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Nil

3 Beng Hee Reginald TAN Crystallisation and Particle Science

Crystallisation, micronisation, filtration, Process Analytical Technologies (PAT), supercritical fluids, solids characterisatio n.

Sole 2006 reginald _tan@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Joint Appt NUS

4 Armando BORGNA Heterogeneous Catalysis

Gas-to-Liquids (GTL), Fischer- Tropsch, C1 chemistry; Environmental Catalysis (Air pollution control by catalytic oxidation, Catalysts for Clean Fuels); Molecular sieves; Metal Catalysts, Catalysts Deactivation and Regeneration; Nanostructure d Materials: A

Sole 2006 Armand o_Borgn [email protected] - star.edu. sg

Adjunct A/Prof NUS

5 Christina LL CHAI Organic Chemistry

Synthetic methodologies ; synthesis of bioactive compounds, green

Sole 2005 Christina _Chai@i ces.a- star.edu. sg

Joint Appt NUS

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chemistry, medicinal chemistry

6 Wai Kiong NG Crystallisation & Particle Sciences / Formulation Sciences

- Novel formulations for pharma & specialty chemical products

- Particle technology

- Powder handling processes (e.g. pharmaceutica l secondary manufacturing : milling, fluidisation, drying)

- Mass transfer technologies in oil & gas industry

Sole 2012 ng_wai_ kiong@i ces.a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct Asst Prof NUS

7 Ashwin Murlidhar KHAMBADKONE

Experimental Power Grid Center

Distributed Power Generation, Microgrids, Power system Dynamics and control, Power electronic converter design and control, energy management, fuel cell based system, alternate energy systems,

control of electrical drives, automotive electronics and hybrid electric vehicles. Power management and digital

Sole 2012 ashwinm k@epgc. a- star.edu. sg

Joint Appt NUS

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control of power supplies.

8 Luwei CHEN Heterogeneous Catalysis

Heterogeneou s catalysis and surface chemistry with focus on catalyst (advanced materials) development and reaction mechanism study for renewable energy and chemicals.

Sole 2012 chen_lu wei@ice s.a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct Associate Prof NUS

Adjunct Associate Prof NTU

NUS/ NTU

9 Ziyi ZHONG Catalyst materials synthesis/Heter ogeneous catalysis

Heterogeneou s catalysis, Materials chemistry (synthesis of proporous materials, colloids, electrode materials, etc), Nanoscience and nanotechnolog y, Sonochemistry

Sole 2013 zhong_zi yi@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct Assoc Prof NTU

10 Peili TEO Chemistry department, NUS/ ICES (Neuros)

Organometalli c chemistry, catalyst development for asymmetric synthesis, methodology development

Sole 2013 teo_peili @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

11 Jie BU Process Science and Modelling

Scale-up chemical reaction, safety study, design reactor system & process, Explore catalysts & new functionalized polymer for petro- chem/pharma ceutical,

Co 2005 bu_jie@i ces.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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Explore novel nanoporous/n anoparticle functional materials, Dvlpmt of on- line monitoring techniques (F

12 Yoong Sien, Yvonne CHOW Industrial Biotechnology

Biocatalysis/Bi otransformati on for synthesis of fine chemicals/pha rmaceuticals, Medium engineering & novel media for aqueous/non- aqueous, biocatalysis systems, Solubilisation of enzymes in non-aqueous media.

Co 2005 yvonne_ chow@i ces.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

13 Pui Shan, Ann CHOW Crystallisation and Particle Science

Control of crystal size and morphology Application of PAT in crystallisation processes

Co 2005 Ann_Ch ow@ices .a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

14 Jinchuan WU Industrial Biotechnology

Enzyme modification/i mmobilization, Biotransforma tion in non- conventional media, Enzyme- catalyzed asymmetric synthesis, Enzyme-based chiral separation, Bioprocess engineering, Plant cell culture.

Co 2005 wu_jinc huan@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

15 Anqi CHEN Organic Chemistry

Development of new synthetic methodologies and their applications in

Co 2006 chen_an qi@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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organic synthesis; Process development and medicinal chemistry; Synthesis of natural and unnatural compounds with biological activities and applications

16 Parthiban ANBANANDAM Polymer Functional Polymers, Polymers possessing functionalizabl e backbones, Controlled free radical and step growth polymerization s, Specialty polymers for coating applications, Polymers containing degradable backbones

Co 2008 a_parthi ban@ice s.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

17 Wang DAVID Process Sciences and Modeling

Chemical process modeling, control, optimization, and monitoring

Co 2008 david_w ang@ice s.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

18 Yinghuai ZHU Heterogeneous Catalysis

Design and synthesis of organometallic compounds using as catalysts for olefin polymerization , asymmetric addition, and metathesis reaction, Exploration of novel agents such as smart nanomaterials for catalyst support and drug delivery, Producing chemical and

Co 2008 zhu_ying huai@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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material from biomass.

19 Wee CHEW Process Science and Modelling

1. Infrared and Raman spectroscopy (applied to chemical imaging, process analytics, in situ process and reaction monitoring) 2. Bioimaging of cells and tissues for cellular studies and medical diagnosis 3. Process Analytical Technology (laboratory device/ analytics interface programming, process analytics and chemometrics, continuous processing) 4. Multivariate Chemometrics / Statistical Analysis (curve resolution, calibration, reaction kinetics and thermodynami cs modeling)

Co 2009 chew_w ee@ices .a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

20 Ludger Paul STUBBS Polymer 1. Homogeneous catalysis 2. Olefin polymerization catalysts and copolymers 3. Catalyst immobilization and nanocomposit es 4. Chemicals and polymers

Co 2009 ludger_p aul@ices .a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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from renewable feedstock

21 Seayad ABDUL MAJEED Organic Chemistry

Catalytic methods in organic synthesis, Green Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis

Co 2010 abdul_se ayad@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

22 Brendan Adrian BURKETT Organic Chemistry

Medicinal chemistry (antibiotics), pericyclic reactions, solid phase organic synthesis, total synthesis.

Co 2010 brendan _burkett @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

23 Seayad JAYASREE Organic Chemistry

Organometalli c and organo catalysis for organic synthesis, Synthesis of biologically active molecules, C-1 chemistry, Green and sustainable chemistry

Co 2010 jayasree _seayad @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

24 Yiu Chung LEUNG Organic Chemistry

Synthesis of natural products and bioactive compounds Drug development and design

Co 2010 leung_yi u_chung @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

25 Yan LIU Heterogeneous Catalysis

Research interests include: • Applied Catalysis • Microporous & Mesoporous Materials • Nano Functional Materials • Carbon Materials • C1 Chemistry • Clean fuels • CO2 Capture

Co 2010 liu_yan @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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and Utilization • Advanced in- situ characterizatio n techniques development

26 Jizhong LUO Heterogeneous Catalysis

Carbon credits and markets; CO2 capture and sequestration; Clean energy; H2/fuel cell technologies

Co 2010 luo_jizh ong@ice s.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

27 Martin Karl SCHREYER Process Science & Modelling

X-Ray powder diffraction, crystal structure analysis, crystal chemistry, quantitative phase analysis, materials chemistry, inorganic solid state chemistry

Co 2010 martin_s chreyer @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

28 Shoucang SHEN Crystallisation and Particle Science

Nanostructure d Materials; Functional Excipients, Drug Delivery

Co 2010 shen_sh oucang @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

29 Md. Mahabubur Rahman TALUKDER

Industrial Biotechnology

Enzymatic production of biodiesel and extraction of vitamin-E from vegetable oil Enzyme engineering: lipase modification, pretreatment and immobilization Medium engineering for biocatalysis in organic solvent Enzyme Kinetics

Co 2010 rahman_ talukder @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

30 Hua ZHAO Industrial Biotechnology

Metabolic engineering of microorganism s for biofuels and biochemicals

Co 2010 zhao_hu [email protected] - star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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production

31 Lin HUANG Heterogeneous Catalysis

Heterogenized homogeneous catalysis: Hydroformylat ion

Supported metal catalysis: Hydroformylat ion, C-C coupling, ethanol steam reforming

Co 2010 huang_li n@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

32 Marc Vincent GARLAND Process Science and Modeling

Chemical kinetics, metal- mediated organic synthesis, spectroscopy, chemometrics, process analytics

Co 2010 marc_ga rland@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

33 Martin VAN MEURS Polymer Homogeneous catalysis & organometallic chemistry

Polymerisation and polymer characterisatio n

Conversion of biomass to chemicals

Co 2010 martin_ meurs@ ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

34 Sanggu KIM Crystallisation and particle Sciences

Novel formulations, particularly in designing and developing new nanostructure d formulations for cosmetic and drug delivery systems, crystallization and nanoformulati on technology which includes

Co 2010 Sanggu_ Kim@ice s.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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thermodynami c and kinetic properties of highly supersaturate d submicron- sized particles of biomaterials such as amino acids, peptides and proteins and polymorphic solid phase transformatio n of pharmaceutica ls, microemulsion crystallization and polymerization for nonosized particles and investigation of physiochemica l properties and dehydration behaviors of pseudo- polymorph drugs. Current works are focusing on phase behaviors, biological and physicochemic al properties, and physical stability of biocompatible and biodegradable sugar-based surfactant microemulsion s for potential topical delivery and solid nanoparticle preparation of cosmeceutical s and nutraceuticals

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35 Kwok Wai, Eric TAM Organic

Chemistry Synthesis of designed compounds for biological evaluation, medicinal chemistry

Co 2010 eric_tam @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

36 Charles William JOHANNES Organic Chemistry

• Total Synthesis of natural products • Enantioselecti ve methodologies • Drug Discovery o Medicinal Chemistry o Development of novel and complex small molecular weight compounds as screening collections intended for pharmaceutica l drug discovery o Development of new chemical technologies • Process Research

Co 2010 charles_j ohannes @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

37 Hsien Hui KHOO Process Science and Design (PEAD); Process Science and Modeling

· Life cycle assessment · Carbon footprint · Waste management · Bio- based chemicals and fuels · Energy conversion · CO2 capture and sequestration · Global warming

Co 2012 khoo_hs ien_hui @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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38 Guangjun HAN Crystallization Nucleation

phenomenon in solution; Crystal growth mechanism; Solution thermodynami cs;

Co 2012 han_gua ngjun@i ces.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

39 Feng GAO AREPAC Chemical reaction engineering, in-situ spectroscopic study, BTEM application and DFT calculations

Co 2012 gao_fen [email protected] - star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

40 YUANCAI DONG Scientist II (a) Solubilization and preformulatio n of water- insoluble drugs (b) Nanoparticulat e formulation s for intravenous, oral and pulmonary drug delivery (c) Feasibility

studies of continuous and scalable production of nanoformulati on (d) Polymer

synthesis (e) Mixing and process intensification equipments

Co 2012 dong_yu ancai@i ces.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

41 ZAIQUN YU Scientist II Application of process analytical technology in crystallization of pharmaceutica ls

Co 2012 yu_zaiqu n@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

42 Srinivasulu AITIPAMULA Scientist II Pharmaceutica l Crystallization, Cocrystallizati on, Polymorphism, Supramolecula

Co 2012 srinivasu lu_aitipa mula@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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r Chemistry, Crystal Engineering. Solid-form development

43 SATYASANKAR JANA Scientist II Polymer Science/ Chemistry

Co 2012 satyasan kar_jana @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

44 Soo Khean TEOH Scientist Process development and design, process innovation/int ensification, continuous processing and sustainable development for chemicals and pharmaceutica ls manufacture

Co 2012 teoh_so o_khean @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

45 CUN WANG Scientist II Organic and organometallic synthesis; Catalysis in the polymer formation; Single crystal X-ray diffraction for molecular structure determination; Conversion of biomass to value-added chemicals.

Co 2012 wang_cu n@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

46 Balaji BALAGURUNATHAN Scientist II Metabolic Engineering Bioprocess Development Systems and Synthetic Biology

Co 2012 balaji_b alagurun athan@i ces.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

47 Tuan Minh NGUYEN Neuros Lab/Organic Chemistry Division

Methodology Development for Organic Synthesis; Molecular Switches; Photo- responsive Materials; Materials Chemistry

Co nguyen_ minh@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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48 Sendhil

Kumar POORNACHARY Crystallization and Particle Science/ Crystallization Science and modeling

Crystallization science, effects of impurities and additives on crystal growth, molecular modeling, submicron crystallization, colloids and surfaces.

Co sendhil_ poornac hary@ic es.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

49 Vikrant Arun ADSOOL Organic Chemistry, Helios

Enantioselecti ve organic synthesis Total synthesis of complex natural products Synthesis and exploration of novel bioisosteres Medicinal chemistry and chemical biology (synthesis of molecular probes for protein pull- down studies) Fragment- based drug discovery

Co 2013 vikrant_ adsool@ ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

50 Jean-Alexandre RICHARD OC@Helios Synthesis of dyes and light- emitting materials,Natu ral product and medicinal chemistry, Green chemistry

Co 2013 jean_ale xandre @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

51 Ee Lui ANG MERL Engineering of microorganism s for the production of biobased chemicals. Development of consolidated bioprocess platform for the efficient utilization of biomass. Development of new

Co 2013 ang_ee_ lui@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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computational and experimental approaches for synthetic biology and metabolic engineering applications.

52 Yonghua DU Heterogeneous catalysi

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and its applications in catalyst, energy, environment, life science, material science, etc.;

Synchrotron radiation beamline automatic control;

ScientificInstru mentation development related with XAS;

XAS methodology study including experimental method and data analysis method

Co 2013 du_yong hua@ice s.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

53 Kok Ping CHAN Organic Chemistry

1. Design and synthesis of natural product-based chemical probes for elucidating antiproliferativ e mechanisms in cancer cells

2. Development of bioconjugation methodologies and identification of protein

Co 2013 chan_ko k_ping@ ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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targets of small molecules in biological systems

3. Synthesis of biologically interesting small molecules and peptides

4. Development of novel methodologies in organic synthesis

54 Jie CHANG Heterogeneous catalysis/ Testing

Catalytic technologies, including novel catalyst materials & catalytic processes development, kinetic modeling, and mechanism study, for bulk chemical production, particularly in renewable/gre en feedstock and processes

Co 2013 chang_ji [email protected] - star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

55 Desmond HENG Crystallization and Particle Science/Formul ation Science

Drug delivery, Respiratory medicine, Nanomedicine , Infectious diseases, Natural therapy, Particle technology, Novel particle and powder characterizatio n methods, Aerosol devices

Co 2013 desmon d_heng @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

56 Anh Hung DUONG Organic Chemistry

Iron-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, fluorination transformatio ns and carbon dioxide

Co 2013 duong_h ung@ice s.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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fixation.

57 Zhibin LIU Industrial Biotechnology

Isolation of useful microorganism s; Enzyme engineering; Metabolic engineering for producing chemicals

Co 2013 liu_zhibi n@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

58 Anthony WILLIAM Organic Chemistry

Development of synthetic methodology, Natural product synthesis. Medicinal Chemistry, Drug discovery

Co 2013 anthony _william @ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

59 Liangfeng GUO PSM Chemometrics , Spectroscopy

Co 2013 guo_lian gfeng@i ces.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

60 Bo WANG ICES/Jurong Island

Porous inorganic materials, noble metal nanoparticles, heterogeneou s catalysis, sustainable and green process

Co 2014 wang_b o@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

61 Mingzi ZHANG MERL Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Natural Products

Co 2014 zhang_ mingzi@ ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

62 Qingxin LI IB Biomass conversion to chemicals; Fermentation Engineering; Enzyme Engineering; Bioremediatio n; Microbial enhanced oil recovery; High level

Co 2014 Li_qingx in@ices. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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expression and purification of membrane proteins; Protein structural and dynamic studies for ion channels; Protein folding and enzymatic kinetics.

63 Alexander VAN HERK polymer Emulsion polymerization , copolymerizati on, hybrid nanoparticles, polymerization kinetics, encapsulation and controlled release

Co 2014 alexande r_herk@ ices.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

64 Yee Hwee LIM Organic Chemistry, ICES

Fluorination, Catalysis, Natural Product Synthesis, Total Synthesis, Radiochemistr y

Co 2014 lim_yee _hwee@ ices.a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct NTU LKC Medicine

65 Mohamed Salim SHAIK Process Science Modelling/Proc ess Engineering & Design

Process Safety, Hazard & Risk Assessment, Chemical Reaction Hazards, Dust Explosion, Safety Climate/Cultur e, Occupational Safety & Health

Co 2014 shaik_sal im@ices .a- star.edu. sg

No NIL

66 Balamurugan RAMALINGAM Organic Chemistry

Homogeneous catalysis, Catalytic asymmetric transformatio n, Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Catalytic conversion of biomass to value added chemicals and Flow Chemistry

Co 2014 balamur ugan_ra malinga m@ices. a- star.edu. sg

No NIL

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67 Parijat KANAUJIA Crystallisation &

Particle Science Formulation

of poorly soluble drug, hot melt extrusion, solubilization, encapsulation of flavorus and nutraceuticals

Co 2014 parijat_k anaujia @ices.a- star.edu. sg

No NIL

68 Sudhakar JONNALAGADDA Process Science Modelling/Meta bolic Modelling

Development of engineered biological strains and efficient bioprocesses for conversion of renewable resources to fuels & chemicals. system level modeling & analysis of metabolic networks, transcriptomic data analysis for identifying strategies for strain improvement and genetic engineering microbial strains for production of chemicals from glucose.

Co 2014 sudhaka r_jonnal agadda @ices.a- star.edu. sg

No NIL

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Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech)

S/N Name Research Dept Research

Interest Co/ Sole

Year approv ed

Email address

Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others)

1 Ser Yong LIM Director's Office Optical/Non- Optical measurements technology, associated image processing techniques.

Sole 2003 sylim@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

Nil

2 Wei LIN Mechatronics Group

Robust techniques for miniature device assembly, Hardware-in- the-loop (HIL) for precision system dvlpmt.

Sole 2003 wlin@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

NUS NUS

3 Xianting ZENG Surface Technology Group

Hybrid nano- composite coatings for various functionalities and thin film devices and systems (PVD and CVD, electrochemic al/sol gel deposition, surface structuring with plasma and chemical etching and photolithograp hy).

Sole 2010 xzeng@s imtech.a - star.edu. sg

NA

4 Ying ZHANG Precision Measurements Group

Near-field optics for nano-scale measurements and characterizatio n; High resolution tomography; X-ray phase contrast imaging;

Sole 2005 yzhang @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

NA

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5 Sudesh WIJESINGHE Corrosion /

Materials & Characterisation

Corrosion and corrosion protection

Sole 2015 sudeshw @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

6 Kang Soon WOON Machining Technology

1) Large Format Machining 2) Deep-hole Drilling

Sole 2015 kswoon @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

7 Loke Chong LEE Director's Office Machining Technology and Process Monitoring, Electro- discharge Machining, Production/Te chnology Mgmt

Co 2003 lclee@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

8 Gnian Cher LIM Machining Technology

Development of micro- machining technologies: Laser processing, Mechanical machining

Co 2003 gclim@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

9 Guojun QI Surface Technology

Materials Science & Eng. Related to manufacture of electronic displays (LCD, OLED), Electronics/M EMS packaging, Electrochemic al sencors, Micro- structure fabrication.

Co 2003 gjqi@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

10 Hongyu ZHENG Machining Technology

Laser assisted chemical processing (role of lasers in enhancing/ind ucing chemical reactions in important materials), UV and Ultrashort laser/material interactions, In-process monitoring of

Co 2003 hyzheng @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

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laser materials process

11 Eng Wah LEE Planning & Operations Management

Web Services; Business Process Management; Supply Chain Integration; Adaptive Supply Chain; Supply Chain Planning and Positioning

Co 2006 ewlee@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

12 Bee Yen TAY Forming Technology

Engineering metal and ceremic using powder processing pathways to maufacture parts with different levels of porosity from highly porous to nearly full dense. The particles can be conveyed in a liquid or in a thick suspension and some of the methods which

Co 2006 bytay@s imtech.a - star.edu. sg

13 Zhenfeng WANG Microfluidics Manufacturing

Microfluidic system development for applications in biomedical and other areas. Manufacturing technology development for polymer- based microfluidics.

Co 2006 zfwang @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

14 Jun WEI Joining Technology

Microsystem and nanosystem fabrication; Nanocomposit es; MEMS packaging;

Co 2006 jwei@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

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Wafer/substra te bonding; Thin films and coatings; Electronics packaging; Advanced characterisatio n techniques

15 John YONG Forming Technology

Liquid forging and squeeze casting of non- ferrous material; Magnesium sheet forming and bulk forging; Processing of metal matrix composites and nanostructure d materials; Sustainable Manufacturing

Co 2006 msyong @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

16 Xue Ming YUAN Planning & Operations Management

Manufacturing Logistics Optimization; Operations/Su pply Chain Management; Inventory Network Optimization

Co 2006 xmyuan @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

17 Xiang LI Manufacturing, Execution and Control

Data mining and knowledge discovery, Artificial intelligence, Decision support systems, Knowledge- based systems, Equipment fault diagnosis and failure prognosis

Co 2008 xli@simt ech.a- star.edu. sg

18 Beng Siong LIM Manufacturing, Execution and Control

Knowledge development framework for performance characterisatio n and prediction; degradation detection;

Co 2008 bslim@s imtech.a - star.edu. sg

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authentication and verification of dynamic complex manufacturing system, equipments, tools and processes.

19 Hong LUO Mechatronics Micro force sensing and control, Non- destructive wire bond testing through micro- force measured vibration analysis, Automation of fish egg injection by force-vision control, Multiple-view visualization technology for tasks under microscope

Co 2008 hluo@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

20 Ming LUO Manufacturing, Execution and Control

Network- centric manufacturing system modeling and design, manufacturing event management, dynamic knowledge- based systems, condition- based maintenance, pattern identification for manufacturing system performance degradation modelling, and computational Intelligence for system optimization and auto-

Co 2008 mluo@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

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recovery

21 Sandor NEMETH Surface Technology

Development of organic- inorganic hybrid coatings, Formulation of functional coatings (e.g. decorative, corrosion resistant, high temperature resistant, scratch resistant, electrically conductive, electrically insulating, low surface energy), Characterisati on and modelling of scratch resistant coatings

Co 2008 sandorn @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

22 Kui LIU Machining Technology

Precision Machining

Co 2009 kliu@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

23 Zhiping WANG Microfluidics Manufacturing

Microfluidic device/system design, microfluidics devices manufacturing

Co 2009 zpwang @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

24 Oon Peen GAN Manufacturing, Execution and Control

Intelligent Control, Decision support systems, Artificial Intelligence, RFID middleware, Discrete Event System modeling and control

Co 2010 opgan@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

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25 Jeong Hoon KO Machining

Technology Machining dynamics

Co 2010 jhko@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

26 Xincai WANG Machining Technology

Laser processing

Co 2010 xcwang @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

27 Zhongke WANG Machining Technology

Laser processing

Co 2010 zkwang @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

28 Sum Huan, Gary NG Microfluidics Manufacturing

Microfluidics science. Microfluidics manufacturing . Microfabricati on processes. Chemical mechanical polishing. Abrasive removal processes.

Co 2011 shng@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

29 Xia YU Precision Measurements

Micro-nano structure optics; Plasmonics optics;

Co 2011 xyu@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

30 Guijun BI Joining Technology

1) Laser based additive manufacturing and remanufacturi ng; 2) Development of functionally graded materials and novel materials using laser; 3) Surface modification mechanism and properties characterizatio n

Co 2012 gjbi@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

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31 Beng Wah CHUA Forming

Technology Metal forming and liquid melt processing, microstructure and properties evaluation of advanced structural materials

Co 2012 bwchua @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

32 Zhaohong HUANG Surface Technology

Photo chemical/elect rochemical manufacturing ; Industrial waste treatment and valuable material recovery; Thin film electronics device physics

Co 2012 zhhuang @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

33 Shaw Wei KOK Precision Measurements

1) Sub-surface residual stress measurement; 2) Non- destructive measurement; 3) Mid to far IR optical measurement; 4) Nano measurement

Co 2012 swkok@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

34 Mui Ling, Sharon NAI Joining Technology

1) Metal-metal microjoining technologies and metal- based joining materials; 2) Advanced solder-based materials and their soldering technologies; 3) Electronics packaging; 4) Solid-state diffusion bonding technologies; 5) Carbon- based materials (carbon- nanotubes, graphene)

Co 2012 mlnai@s imtech.a - star.edu. sg

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35 Xuechuan SHAN Large Area

Process 1) Micro- electro- mechanical system (MEMS); 2) Micromachinin g, nano- imprinting, micro embossing, roll-to-roll UV embossing (imprinting) and roll-to-roll thermal embossing (imprinting); 3) Large area processing

Co 2012 xcshan@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

36 Bin SONG Planning & Operations Management

Life Cycle Engineering, Manufacturing Resource Efficiency

Co 2012 bsong@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

37 Puay Siew TAN Planning & Operations Management

Services computing augmented by context- aware, multi- criteria decision making techniques together with cognition for better decision making to support dynamic changes in business-to- business collaboration and supply chain activities. The other is the use of complex systems approaches (including evolutionary algorithm and network theory techniques) for understanding , predicting

Co 2012 pstan@s imtech.a - star.edu. sg

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and mitigating disruptions in a complex networked environment

38 Yong Ling, Linda WU Surface Technology

Chemical synthesis and surface modification of nano- particles including semiconductor quantum dots, oxide and metals, for biomedical applications and Plasmonic Metamaterials ; Surface science, surface treatment, electro- chemical processes, anodising; Chemical formulation of coating materials for multi- functional coatings, sol- gel chemistry and technology, hydrophobic hard coating, anti-reflective coating, coloured decorative coatings for plastics and metals, non- stick, low friction, scratch resistant and abrasion resistant coatings

Co 2012 ylwu@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

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39 Huanming XIA Microfluidics

Manufacturing 1) Microfluidics; 2) Fluid dynamics; 3) Heat transfer; 4) Microfabricati on techniques

Co 2012 hmxia@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

40 Suzhu YU Forming Technology

1) Polymer/biode gradable polymer foams and thin films for green packaging and filtration applications 2) Functional polymer / biodegradable polymer composites / nanocomposit es 3) Continues fibre reinforced thermoplastics

Co 2012 szyu@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

41 Tao LI Forming Technology Group

Powder injection molding of metal and ceramic materials

Co 2013 tli@simt ech.a- star.edu. sg

42 Wern Sze TEO Forming Technology Group

1) Natural fibre reinforced polymer composites 2) composites processing (resin transfer moulding/ vacuum- bagged oven cure) 3) Study of thermo- mechanical and material- process- property interactions, fracture mechanisms

Co 2013 wsteo@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

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43 Wei, Charles WANG Microfluidics

Manufacturing 1) Droplet microfluidics; Multiphase flow; MEMs; Biosensor; 2) Medical device engineering; 3) Flow control; 4) Diagnostic applications

Co 2013 wwang @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

44 Xiaoying QI Joining Technology

My research interest focuses on (a) synthesis of carbon (graphene and CNTs) based materials and their applications in electrodes, transistors, chemical/biolo gical sensors, thermal conductors, and functional membranes; (b) synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials with varies morphologies in 0D, 1D and 2D; (c) advanced characterizatio n techniques of nanomaterials crystal structures using TEM; (d) development of organic- inorganic hybrid materials for performance enhancement; (e) development of photopolymer based composites for 3D manufacturing in aerospace; (f)

Co 2013 xyqi@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

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development of self-healing polymers

45 Szu Hui, Cynthia LIM FTG/Polymer Structure- Co 2014 shlim@s property imtech.a

relationships -

of polymer star.edu.

nanocomposit sg

es and biodegradable polymer nanocomposit es; Fracture toughness and deformation mechanisms analysis of polymer nanocomposit es; Structural and failure analysis of fibre reinforced polymer composites

46 Ju Nie TEY JTG/Polymer Carbon Co 2014 jntey@si nanomaterials mtech.a-

(carbon star.edu.

nanotubes & sg

graphene) development, device fabrication and characterizatio n

47 Junhong ZHOU MEC/ Autonomous Co 2014 jzhou@s and on-line imtech.a

fault diagnosis -

and failure star.edu.

prognosis, sg

multimodal sensing and feature extraction, performance and serviceability optimization, artificial intelligence, and statistical analysis

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48 Xu SONG Forming

Group/SIMTech Finite element simulation, computational fluid dynamics, microforming, micro surface texturing, distortion and residual stresses

Co 2014 xsong@s imtech.a - star.edu. sg

No

49 Silu CHEN Mechatronics/SI MTech

Control of Precision Light-weight Motion Systems

Co 2014 slchen@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

No

50 Xuecheng DONG Surface Technology/ Electrochemical Processing

1) Electrochemic al surface treatment 2) Micro/ nano surface structuring 3) Thin film X- ray/neutron scattering

Co 2015 xcdong @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

NA

51 Patrice GENEVET PMG/Optics Nanopthotonic s, Metamaterials , Metasurfaces

Co 2015 genevet p@simte ch.a- star.edu. sg

Nil

52 Wei HE Surface Technology/ Electrochemical Processing

1) Precision electroforming 2) Nano/ micro structuring 3) Porous material 4) Meta- material 5) Bioengineering and membrane technology

Co 2015 hewei@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

NA

53 Hui HUANG Surface Technology/ Functional Coating

1) Nanomaterials synthesis, functional coatings and devices 2) Printed electrode and wearable devices 3) Thin film solar cells, lithium battery and

Co 2015 hhuang @simtec h.a- star.edu. sg

NA

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supercapacitor s 4) Pritned sensors 5) Energy efficient coating and smart windows 6) Large area coating and roll-to-roll fabrication

54 Tat Joo, Daniel TEO Mechatronics / Precision Mechatronics

1) Advanced mechatronics robotics and systems 2) Precision machine design 3) Compliant mechanisms 4) Parallel- kinematic robotics 5) Magnetic levitation 6) Electromagnet ic actuator 7) Topological optimisation

Co 2015 tjteo@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

NA

55 Yebing TIAN Machining Technology / Abrasive Processes

1) Precision/ Ultraprecision grinding/ finishing of difficult-to- machine materials 2) Design for hard-to-grind material

Co 2015 ybtian@ simtech. a- star.edu. sg

NA

56 Chi XU Planning and Operations Management / Manufacturing System Analysis

1) Performance analysis for supply chain track and trace 2) Text analytics for business applications 3) Complex event modeling and processing

Co 2015 cxu@si mtech.a- star.edu. sg

N. A.

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57 Jonathan Low Sze Choong Sustainability & Life Cycle Management

Decision support systems; sustainability & life cycle analytics; life cycle analysis & management

Co 2016 [email protected]

Nil Nil

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Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC)

S/N Name Research Dept Research

Interest Co/ Sole

Year approv ed

Email address

Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others)

1 Chee Kwan GAN Materials Science & Engineering

Tight-binding and DFT calculations of transport properties

Sole 2010 ganck@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

2 Jing LOU Fluid Dynamics Multiphase flow and mass/heat transfer modeling; Fluid-structure interaction; Coastal pollution and ecosystem modeling; Nonlinear wave-current dynamics; Bio fuid mechanics; CFD applications

Sole 2010 loujing@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

3 Michael Brian SULLIVAN Materials Science & Engineering

Chemistry of Materials, Catalysis, Interfacial Chemistry

Sole 2010 Michael @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

4 Yong-Wei ZHANG Engineering Mechanics

Modelling and simulation of mechanical properties and morphological evolution of nanomaterials, soft materials and biomaterials.

Sole 2010 zhangyw @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

5 Joo Chuan TONG Social & Cognitive Computing Department

Social computing, sentiment analysis, social innovation, biomedical informatics

Sole 2014 tongjc@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

6 Siow Mong, Rick GOH Computing Science

Parallel applications performance prediction, Adaptive parallelism

Co 2008 gohsm@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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and scheduling algorithms for multicore and clusters, Lock- free parallel algorithms, Large-scale discrete event simulation

7 Yi SU Computing Science

Automatic quardrilateral and hexahedral mesh generation; Non-manifold and mixed- dimensional mesh generation; Mesh enrichment and adaptive mesh generation; Computational geometry; Scientific visualization

Co 2006 suyi@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

8 Kee Khoon, Gary LEE Computing Science

Application of Artificial Intelligence in multi- disciplinary problems Machine Learning Layman Analytics

Co 2010 leekk@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

9 Chi Wan, Calvin LIM Computing Science

Computational geometry; surface reconstruction

Co 2010 limcw@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

10 Shyh Hao KUO Computing Science

1. Time Series Analysis for Rare Event Detection 2. Emerging Parallel Programming Techniques for Heterogeneou s Multicore 3. Computational Techniques for Numerical Optimisation

Co 2009 kuosh@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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4. Computational Linear Algebra and Numerical Algorithms

11 Martin SAERBECK Computing Science

Human- machine interaction; robotics; artifical intelligence

Co 2010 Saerbec km@ihp c.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

12 Yuriy AKIMOV Electronics & Photonics

1. Hydrodynamic s 2. Nonlinear wave optics 3. Plasma physics 4. Nano- Photonics and Plasmonics

Co 2009 akimov @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

13 Ravi HEGDE Electronics & Photonics

1. Electromagnet ic metamaterials 2. Nonlinear fiber optics

Co 2009 hegder @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

14 Ping BAI Electronics & Photonics

Computational nanoelectronic s, Nanoelectroni c device modeling, Nanophotonic device modeling

Co 2008 baiping @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

15 Ching Eng, Jason PNG Electronics & Photonics

Silicon Photonics, Integrated optics, Biophotonics

Co 2008 pngce@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

16 Enxiao LIU Electronics & Photonics

Computational Electromagnet ics, High- Speed Interconnect Modeling, Electrical Modeling of Electronic Packaging

Co 2008 liuex@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

17 Soon Thor LIM Electronics & Photonics

Silicon nano- photonics, Nano-photonic biosensors

Co 2008 limst@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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18 Tianfu GUO Engineering

Mechanics Constitutive modeling and numerical simulation of polymeric materials, soft matter and bulk metallic glasses

Co 2010 guotf@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

19 Ping LIU Engineering Mechanics

• Low- dimension quantum structures • Carbon nanotube- based nanodevices • Cell dynamics

Co 2010 liuping@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

20 Viacheslav SORKIN Engineering Mechanics

1. Self- assembly of carbon nano- tubes on quartz substrate surfaces 2. Multi-scale Modeling of Materials 3. Quantum Monte Carlo 4. Phase Transitions 5. Scientific Visualization

Co 2009 sorkinv @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

21 Bharathi Madurai SRINIVASAN

Engineering Mechanics

1. Plastic deformation 2. Dynamic Fracture 3. Pattern formation on surfaces

Co 2009 srinivasa n@ihpc. a- star.edu. sg

NIL

22 Qing Xiang PEI Engineering Mechanics

Modeling and simulation of nanostructure s and nanomaterials, Modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes, Finite element and molecular dynamics simulations, Coupled structural, thermal, and fluid flow

Co 2008 peiqx@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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analysis, Modeling of biomolecular system

23 Evert KLASEBOER Fluid Dynamics Bubble and drop dynamics and how to simulate them using boundry elements methods

Co 2006 evert@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

24 Chang Wei KANG Fluid Dynamics Hydrodynamic study of wastewater treatment process; multiphase flow modelling; thermal and fluid flow modeling for thermal spray process; industrial applications using CFD.

Co 2010 kangcw @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

25 Duc Vinh LE Fluid Dynamics Computational Mechanics; Computational fluid dynamics; Fluid-structure interactions; High Performance Computing; Biophysics; Mechanics of cell membrane; Numerical methods

Co 2010 ledv@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

26 Fong Yew LEONG Fluid Dynamics 1. Bio-fluid mechanics 2. Heat and mass transfer 3. Aerosol science and technology

Co 2009 leongfy @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

27 Cary Kenny TURANGAN Fluid Dynamics Detonation modelling (compressible flow), Cavitation Bubble Collapse, Computational Cancer

Co 2008 cary@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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Mechanics

28 Phuong Khuong ONG Materials Science & Engineering

Ab initio studying of electronic and physical properties of materials; Computational design new materials; Metal- insulator phase transitions / Solid state Physics: electronic, magnetic, optic properties of inorganic materials; Materials science; DFT

Co 2006 / 2010

ongpk@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

29 Kewu BAI Materials Science & Engineering

Computational Material Science

Co 2008 baikw@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

30 Man Fai, Andy NG Materials Science & Engineering

Optical/Electro nic/Electrical properties of nano-scaled materials and large organic molecules

Co 2008 ngmf@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

31 Zhigen YU Engineering Mechanics

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and optoelectronic devices, Semiconducto r thin film technology and process, p -type ZnO fabrication and applications, Molecular modeling for materials

Co 2008 yuzg@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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32 Siu Sin, Jerry QUEK Engineering

Mechanics Dislocation dynamics, Interfacial dynamics, Computational mechanics, Thin film mechanics

Co 2008 quekss @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

33 Kuang Chern Nathaniel NG Materials Science & Engineering

1. Phase Field Models for Microstructura l Evolution 2. Experimental Studies in Ferroelectric Perovskites & Polymers

Co 2009 ngkc@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

34 Ramananrayan HARIHARAPUTRAN

Materials Science & Engineering

1. Mechanics of nanostructure s 2. Physics of surfaces 3. Computational Phase transformatio n

Co 2009 harihara putran@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

35 Pavlo RUTKEVYCH Materials Science & Engineering

1. Plasma physics 2. MD simulation 3. Hydrodynamic s

Co 2009 rutkevyc hp@ihpc .a- star.edu. sg

NIL

36 David WU Materials Science & Engineering

Theory and modelling of nucleation, crystallization and grain growth

Co 2009 davidwu @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

37 Rajeev AHLUWALIA Materials Science & Engineering

Phase Transformatio ns, Ferroelectrics, shape memory alloys. Crack Propagation and Dislocation dynamics, Microstructura l Evolution using Phase Field Modeling

Co 2010 rajeev@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

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38 Alagappan GANDHI Electronics &

Photonics Photonic

Crystals and Quantum Optics

Co 2010 gandhi@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

39 Hongmei JIN Materials Science & Engineering

Surface, interface chemistry

Co 2010 jinhm@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

40 Chiong Teck WONG Materials Science & Engineering

Elucidating reaction mechanisms of organocatalyst -catalyzed reactions

Co 2010 wongct @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

41 Jia ZHANG Materials Science & Engineering

Computational modeling of electronic properties of nanomaterials; Computational modeling of surface and surface catalysis

Co 2010 zhangj@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

42 Jianwei ZHENG Materials Science & Engineering

Photocatalysts , Li-ion battery materials, functionalizati on of nanotube and graphene

Co 2010 zhengjw @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

43 Wee Shing KOH Electronics & Photonics

• Nano- Photonics and Plasmonics • Solar cell design and optoelectronic device physics • Plasma and particle-in-cell simulations • Urban environmental & green building modeling - solar irradiance & daylighting

Co 2008 kohws@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

44 Yinping YANG Social and Cognitive Computing

# E- Negotiation System Design, User Behavior, and Success # The Business

Co 2010 yangyp @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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Model of Cloud Computing # Strategies and Persuasion in Negotiation

45 Wai-Leung YIM Materials Science & Engineering

chemical reactions on surfaces, multiscale modeling, phonon properties in low dimensions

Co 2010 yimwl@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

46 Paulo BRANICIO Materials Science & Engineering

1. Molecular dynamics simulations 2. Materials under extreme conditions 3. Plasticity and mechanical properties 4. Nanostructure d materials, metallic glass, nanoglass

Co 2009 branicio @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

47 Rogerio MANICA Fluid Dynamics 1. Colloid and interfacial science 2. Bubbles and drops interactions 3. Numerical simulations

Co 2009 manicar @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

48 Phung Hyunh HUYNH Computing Science

GPU mapping optimization, hardware/soft ware partitioning, scheduling, large scale data analytics

Co 2011 huynhph @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

49 Eng Huat KHOO Electronics & Photonics

Research interest includes nanophotonics , photonic crystals, plasmonics, passive and active semiconductor devices, quantum mechanics and

Co 2011 khooeh @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

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solid state physics.

50 Hong Son CHU Electronics & Photonics

Plasmonics/na nophotonics and optics components and devices for data communicatio n, sensing and biological application. Computational electromagnet ics for microwave and photonics.

Co 2011 chuhs@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

51 Zhengtong LIU Electronics & Photonics

Photonic and plasmonic nanostructure s, metamaterials , computational electromagnet ics, multiphysics modeling, parallel computing, ellipsometry, graphene

Co 2011 liuz@ihp c.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

52 Chilla Damodara REDDY Engineering Mechanics

Mechanical properties of graphene and carbon nanotubes Mechanical and thermal properties of two- dimensional nanomaterials

Co 2011 reddy@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

53 Junyan GUO Engineering Mechanics

One of my current researches is focused on growth, formation and mechanics of nanostructure s in semiconductor material systems. The influence of

Co 2011 guojy@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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diffusion, growth, and stress on the morphological evolution of nanostructure s in epitaxial thin films is being investigated. I am also interested in numerical modeling and simulations of mechanical response of various engineering structures.

54 Chiang Huay Freda LIM Materials Science & Engineering

Surface reactions, Heterogeneou s Catalysis, Consumer Care

Co 2011 limch@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

55 Gang WU Materials Science & Engineering

Heat conduction and heat controlling in low dimensional systems; Molecular dynamics method and Non- equilibrium Green’s function method; Vibrational properties and Raman spectra of nano- materials; Theoretical investigation of thermoelectric materials; Predict the material properties using density functional theory; Gradient- corrected EAM potentials.

Co 2011 wug@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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56 Tsz Sian Jeremy CHWEE Materials

Science & Engineering

Reduced scaling quantum chemical methods Intermolecular interactions Excited state quantum chemistry

Co 2011 chweetsj @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

57 Ilya FARBER Social and Cognitive Computing

Cognitive neuroscience, neural basis of consciousness, decision- making, philosophy of mind

Co 2012 farberi@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

58 Xiuju FU Computing Science

Data mining/analyti cs, data stream mining, time-series data analysis, com plex network/syste m modeling and simulation

Co 2012 fuxj@ihp c.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

59 Zheng QIN Computing Science

Cloud computing, data analytics, MapReduce/H adoop, parallel and distributed systems

Co 2012 qinz@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

60 Hee Joo POH Fluid Dynamics Computational Fluid Dynamics, Green Buildings, Fuel Cell Renewable Energy, Basic and Application Study in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer

Co 2012 pohhj@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt & Joint Appt NUS

61 Mark Hyunpong JHON Materials Science & Engineering

Structure of flexible nanomaterials, Mechanical properties of nanostructure d materials, in particular biological hard tissues such as

Co 2012 jhonmh @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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bone and seashell, Magnetic properties of nanostructure d materials for data storage

62 Weng Kin Adrian Matthew MAK

Materials Science & Engineering

Electronic structure theory, Clean energy applications, Free radical chemistry

Co 2012 makwk @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

63 Weijiang ZHAO Electronics and Photonics

Electromagnet ic Compatibility; Antennas and Electromagnet ic Scattering; Computational Electromagnet ics

Co 2012 zhaow@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

64 Mian LU Computing Science

High performance computing, BigData applic ations

Co 2014 lum@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

65 Yi WANG Computing Science

- Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics

Co 2014 wangyi @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

66 Alexander GENEST Materials Science & Engineering

Computational catalysis, homogenous catalysis, heterogeneou s catalysis

Co 2014 genesta @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

67 Zaw Oo ZAW Electronics & Photonics

· Multi- physics modeling & analysis in electronic packages and systems · Complex modeling of electromagnet ic scattering & radiation in large platform · New technology and prototype for LED lighting and display

Co 2014 zawzo@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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68 Xian-Ke, Richard GAO Electronics &

Photonics Electromagnet ic interference/e lectromagnetic compatibility, metamaterial/ graphene antenna, RFID, wireless biosensor, inverse problems, robust design

Co 2014 gaoxk@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

69 Zhiqian ZHANG Engineering Mechanics

Soft matter (e.g. dielectric elastomer); Advanced numerical methods (such as FEM, Meshfree Methods) for nonlinear solids and structures, Fluid-Structure Interactions; Shape/Topolo gy Optimization;

Co 2014 zhangz @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

70 Viet Phuong BUI Electronics & Photonics

- Computational Electromagnet ics, F29EMC Analysis and Prediction System, Electromagnet ic Modeling and Optimization of Antennas, Applied Electromagnet ics in Communicatio ns and Aerospace

Co 2014 buivp@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

71 Yuan CHENG Engineering Mechanics

Molecualr dynamics simulations, M echanical properties and the assembly of nanomaterials and biomaterials

Co 2014 chengy @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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72 Jun YE Materials

Science & Engineering

Electron/hole/ exciton- phonon interaction and quasi- particle dynamics/tran sport in organic semiconductor s.

Co 2014 yej@ihp c.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

73 Wei Hin WONG Engineering Mechanics

Micromechani cs-based fracture mechanics.

Co 2014 wongwh m@ihpc. a- star.edu. sg

NIL

74 Ling DAI Engineering Mechanics

Molecular dynamics, mechanical

Co 2014 dail@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

75 Erika Fille LEGARA IHPC/Computin g Science/Comple x Systems Programme, Cross- disciplinary Data-intensive Analytics (CDA)

Complexity science, Complex network analysis, agent-based modelling, computational social science, statistical science

Co 2013 legaraeft @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

76 BA TE IHPC/Fluid Dynamics

Multiphase fluid modeling and analysis, Free surface tracking methodology, Species transport and reaction modeling

Co 2013 bat@ihp c.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

77 Teck Leong TAN IHPC/Materials Science & Engineering

First- principles based models for alloy structural prediction as applied to nanoalloy structures and energy applications.

Co 2013 tantl@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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78 Zuoqi ZHANG IHPC/Engineerin

g Mechanics 1) Biomecha nics, especially related topics on hierarchical and multifunctiona l materials 2) Nanomec hanics, especially related topics on carbon nanotube or graphene based materials and devices 3) Characteri zation and optimization of composites with microstructure s

Co 2013 zhangzq @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

79 Constantin Ciprian CHIRILA IHPC/Materials Science & Engineering/Op tics & Transport

Laser interaction with matter, ab initio numerical methods, X- Rays / University of Bucharest (Romania) Theoretical Physics

Co 2013 chirilacc @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

80 Keng Boon Dave WEE IHPC Independent Investigatorship

Computational systems biology, computational drug discovery and design.

Co 2013 weekb@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

81 Xin LUO IHPC/Materials Science & Engineering/Int erfaces

First-principles calculation on Electronic transport between metal/insulato r interface; Phonon and thermoelectric properties in 2D Low dimensional nanomaterial; Ferroelectric, Ferromagnetic properties in oxide interface.

Co 2013 luox@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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82 TANDIONO IHPC/Fluid

Dynamics Microfluidics, Acoustic cavitation, Boundary layer flows, Hot-wire anemometer

Co 2013 tandiono @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

83 Hongying LI IHPC/Fluid Dynamics

1. Single-phase flow in complex geometries 2. Multiphase flows 3. Finite volume method 4. Single and two-phase flow and heat transfer in porous media 5. Level-set method 6. Conjugate heat transfer

Co 2013 lih@ihpc .a- star.edu. sg

NIL

84 Gang ZHANG IHPC/Engineerin g Mechanics

Nanoscale Thermal Conduction; Thermoelectri c Materials: Energy Transfer and Harvesting;Na no-Electronics: Transport Through Nanotubes, Nanowires and Graphene

Co 2013 zhangg @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

85 Fangsen CUI IHPC/Engineerin g Mechanics/Soft Matter

Modeling and simulation of medical device (stent), computational biomechanics, Vibration and noise

Co 2013 cuifs@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

86 Siew-Wan OHL IHPC/Fluid Dynamics

Fluid/bubble dynamics, numerical simulation, high speed photography

Co 2013 ohlsw@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

87 Haiyan MIAO IHPC/Fluid Dynamics

Urban Wind Simulation, Multiphase Flow, Alternative Fuels, Spray & Combustion,

Co 2013 miaohy @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

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Internal Combustion Engine: Design & Optimisation

88 Choon Chiang, Keith FOO IHPC/Engineerin g Mechanics

Mechanics of soft active materials, Soft machines and stretchable electronics, Structural deformation and failure analysis

Co 2013 foocc@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

NIL

89 Vinh-Tan NGUYEN IHPC/Fluid Dynamics

Fluid dynamics, biological flows, fluid- structure interactions, numerical methods

Co 2013 nguyenv [email protected] - star.edu. sg

NIL

90 Soo Kng TEO Computing Science

Biomedical engineering, Computational biomechanics using numerical techniques (finite element method)

Co 2014 teosk@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

91 Wai Teng TANG Computing Science

High performance computing techniques, GPGPUs, performance modeling, big data analytics

Co 2014 tangwt @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

92 Loganathan PONNAMBALAM Computing Science

Supply chain disruption modeling, Agent-based modeling , Infectious disease modeling, Spatio- temporal data mining and Network- based modeling

Co 2014 ponnaml @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

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93 Muhamad Azfar RAMLI Computing

Science Complex Networks, Random Processes, Multi-Agent Systems,

Co 2014 ramlima b@ihpc. a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

94 Ramanarayan HARIHARAPUTRAN

Materials Science & Engineering

Atomistic modelling using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo methods, Continuum modelling using Phase field model, Nucleation phenomena, Transport kinetics, Crystallization process, Kinetics of phase transformatio n, Pattern formation in materials by heat and mass transport, Elastic effects on thin film evolution, Structural stability of nanostructure s, Characterizati on of interfaces such as surfaces and grain boundaries.

Co 2014 harihara putran@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

95 Erika Fille LEGARA Computing Science

Complex Systems Modelling and Optimization, (Big) Data Science, Computational Social Science (understandin g socio- technical systems), Urban Complexity Research (transportatio

Co 2014 legaraeft @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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n and land- use)

96 Zhaoxia WANG Social & Cognitive Computing Department

Social data analytics, intelligence systems, pattern recognition, risk/fault prediction and analysis, data mining and applications, and urban mobility

Co 2014 wangz@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

97 Boon Kiat QUEK Social & Cognitive Computing Department

Computational Social Cognition: computational models of social information processing of affective and cognitive states and other socio- cognitive constructs (e.g., motivations, emotions, action tendencies, personality, attitudes, behaviour); connectionist and localist- connectionist networks; cognitive modelling and simulation Robotics: autonomous unmanned vehicles; autonomous system survivability; multi-agent systems; control architecture design for

Co 2014 quekbk @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

Nil Nil

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autonomy; fuzzy logic control and inference; system engineering and integration; computer vision; machine perception; wireless networking; artificial cognitive systems

98 Robert LASKOWSKI MSE solid state DFT, applications and method development

Co 2015 rolask@i hpc.a- start.ed u.sg

N Nil

99 Teck-Bin Arthur LIM Enviromental Modeling / Fluid Dynamiics

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flow Control, Environmental Flow Modeling, Building and Marine/Offsho re Applications.

Co 2015 limtba@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

100 Sridhar NARAYANASWAMY Engineering Mechanics

Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Additive Manufacturing , Composite Micromechani cs, Microstructure Property correlations

Co 2015 narayan as@ihpc .a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

101 Dinh-Chi PHAM Engineering Mechanics

Composite materials, fracture and fatigue, multiscale modeling, optimization

Co 2015 phamdc @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

102 Loganathan PONNAMBALA M

Cross- Disciplinary Data Intensive Analytics/Comp uting Science

Maritime Traffic Management, Agent-based modeling, Supply chain disruption modeling,

Co 2015 ponnaml @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

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Infectious disease modeling and Network- based modeling

103 Wai Teng TANG Computing Science

HPC machine learning, GPGPUs, heterogeneou s computing for HPC

Co 2015 tangwt @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

104 Guglielmo VASTOLA Engineering Mechanics

Additive Manufacturing

Co 2015 vastolag @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

105 Binfang WANG Electronics and Photonics

Urban environmental & green building modeling - solar irradiance & daylight, numerical optimization in engineering design, computational electromagnet ics and interactive engineering

Co 2015 wangbf @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

106 Wai Siang YEOH Electronics and Photonics

Wireless power transmission, antenna technology, wireless tracking technology

Co 2015 yeohws @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

107 Wenzu ZHANG Electronics and Photonics

Application- driven research in modelling and computation;

Co 2015 zhangw z@ihpc. a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

108 Wenzu ZHANG IHPC/EP Computational quantum optics and photonics

Co 2015 zhangwz @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

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109 Ming CHENG Co 2015 chengm

@ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

110 My Ha DAO Fluid Dynamics Wave Dynamics, Hydrodynamic s, Wave- Current Interaction, Turbulence modelling, Data-driven modelling, Marine Ecological - Algal bloom modelling

Co 2015 daomh @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

111 Yew Li HOR Electronics and Photonics

Terahertz/ optical metamaterial, superlens, plasmonics, chiral structure, non- destructive testing (NDT)

Co 2015 horyl@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

112 Pankaj KUMAR Fluid Dynamics Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI), CFD, FEM, Mixing in Laminar Flow, and Numerical Solution of Fractional Differential Equations

Co 2015 kumarp @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

113 Yong LIU Computing Science

Distributed Computing, Large Scale Machine Learning, Recommender System, Resource Allocation and Optimization, Big Data Analytics

Co 2015 liuyong @ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

114 Zhun Yong ONG Engineering Mechanics/Mec hano- Electronics

(1) Interfacial thermal and charge transport, (2) Thermal conductivity of low- dimensional nanostructure

Co 2015 ongzy@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

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s, (3) Development of new computational techniques for simulating thermal and charge transport, (4) Substrate- limited carrier mobility in 2D crystals (graphene, MoS2), (5) Stochastic processes and methods in transport simulations, (6) Effects of disorder on charge and thermal transport in low- dimensional nanostructure s, (7) Anderson localization and percolation theory

115 Soo Kng TEO Geometrical Modeling / Computing Science

Biomedical engineering, Computational biomechanics using numerical techniques (finite element method)

Co 2015 teosk@i hpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

116 Lin WU Electronics and Photonics

• Quantum plasmonics/na nophotonics • Plasmon- enhanced phenomena & applications • Nanoscale device and ultrafast device modelling and simulation

Co 2015 wul@ihp c.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

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117 Haiyan XU Co 2015 xuh@ihp

c.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

118 Xiaofeng YIN Computing Science

Manufacturing planning and scheduling; Supply chain and logistics optimisation and risk management; Knowledge discovery and pattern recognition; AI-based optimisation

Co 2015 yinxf@ih pc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

119 Huapeng ZHAO Electronics and Photonics

Electromagnet ic Radiation and Scattering, Electromagnet ic Compatibility

Co 2015 zhaoh@ ihpc.a- star.edu. sg

N Nil

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Data Storage Institute (DSI)

S/N Name Research Dept Research

Interest Co/ Sole

Year approv ed

Email address

Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others)

1 Guchang HAN Magnetic Memory/NVM

MRAM, Magnetic logic, Magnetic sensor, Magnetics

Sole 2014 han_guc hang@d si.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Associate Professor, NUS

2 Zhejie LIU Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Recording Physics and Micromagneti cs Electromagnet ics, Micromotors , Actuators and Drives

Sole 2009 LIU_Zhej [email protected] - star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

3 Jiaping YANG Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

1. MEMS 2. Multi-scale and multi- physics modelling

Sole 2010 YANG_Ji aping@d si.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

4 Zhimin YUAN Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Magnetic Recording System, Nano- metrology & Instrumentatio n, Recording Physics & Micromagneti c Simulation

Sole 2009 YUAN_Z himin@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

5 Chengwu AN Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Physics and application of optoelectronic and laser technology, Raman spectroscopy, Optical inspection

Co 2008 AN_Che ngwu@d si.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

6 Khin Mi Mi AUNG Data Center Technologies Division (DCT)

Storage Network Security, Data Center Security, Fault Tolerant, Distributed and High Performance Storage

Co 2009 Mi_Mi_ AUNG@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

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7 Reuben BAKKER Advanced

Concepts and Nanotechnology Division at DSI

Nanophotonic s

Co 2015 reuben_ bakker@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

8 Kheong Sann CHAN Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Iterative Codes (LDPC), Reed Solomon codes, soft detectors, Timing recovery, equalizer design.

Co 2008 CHAN_K heong_S ann@dsi .a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

9 Zilong CHEN Advanced Concepts and Nanotechnology Division at DSI

Quantum optics, Quantum metrology, Quantum sensors, Solid state defects for quantum applications

Co 2015 chenzi@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

Nil NIL

10 Yunjie CHEN Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Magnetic recording, Magnetic materials and media, Magnetic nanostructure s and nano- magnetism, Scanning probe microscopy, Nano science and technology, ion-surface interaction

Co 2015 chen_yu njie@dsi .a- star.edu. sg

NA NIL

11 Eng Keong CHUA Non-volatile Memory Division (NVM)

Non-volatile memory such as phase change memory and reconfigurable switch with applications in auto-mobile and aerospace.

Co 2012 CHUA_E ng_Keon [email protected] star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

12 Hong Jing CHUNG Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

New technology in data storage, spin torque oscillator and related phenomena & applications;

Co 2015 chung_h ong_Jing @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NA NIL

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scanning probe techniques and applications

13 Chunling DU Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Optimal and robust control; Filtering and estimation; Vibration modelling and control; Motion control; Advanced control for nano- positioning; Multidimensio nal systems

Co 2008 DU_Chu nling@d si.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

14 Franck Gerard ERNULT Non-volatile Memory Division (NVM)

MRAM, Magnetic tunnel junctions, Magnetic materials, Process development, Physical Vapor Deposition, Reactive Ion Etching

Co 2011 Franck_ GE@dsi. a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

15 Yuan-Hsing FU Advanced Concepts and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Simulation and characterizatio n of light- matter interaction in nano-meter scale for nanophotonics applications.

Co 2014 FU_Yuan _Hsing@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NA NIL

16 Nu Phyu HLA Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Computational electromagnet ic, Numerical techniques, Modelling, simulation, design and analysis of permanent magnet motors /actuators, Hard disk drive spindle motor and EMI/EMC of electromagnet ic devices

Co 2014 Hla_Nu_ PHYU@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

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17 Jiangfeng HU Drive Systems

and Technologies Division (DST)

Magnetic nanoparticle and nanotechnolog y

Co 2011 HU_Jian g_Feng @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

18 Wei HUA Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Air-flow simulation and mechanical design

Co 2011 HUA_W [email protected] - star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

19 Rong JI Materials Science Lab Division (MSL)

Surface Science, Material Analysis, Thin film and Film interface Analysis, Lubricant and Overcoat study for hard disks

Co 2013 JI_Rong @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

20 Quan JIANG Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Electric Drive, Motion Control, Power Electronics, DSP/FPGA Embedded System, Electrical Machines, Computer- aided Testing, Electric Vehicle and Electromagnet ic Field

Co 2008 JIANG_Q uan@dsi .a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

21 Yu JIANG NVM division, DSI

Scaling and Development of 3D-RRAM device architectures. RRAM and selector device design, fabrication and characterizatio n

Co 2014 JIANG_Y [email protected] star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

22 Eng Kiat KOH Data Center Technologies Division (DCT)

Personal information management, mobile computing, urban living

Co 2009 KOH_En g_Kiat@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

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23 Vivek KRISHNAMURTHY Advanced

Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Optical interconnect technologies, Silicon photonics, integrated nanophotonic circuits, semiconductor lasers, all- optical switches/trans istors, all- optical memory.

Co 2013 Vivek_K @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

24 Leonid KRIVITSKIY Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Quantum Optics Biophysics

Co 2011 Leonid_ KRIVITSK [email protected] - star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

25 Arseniy KUZNETSOV Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Nanophotonic s, metamaterials , nanoparticles, laser-matter interaction

Co 2013 Arseniy_ [email protected] star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

26 Yicheng LAI Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Ultra-fast lasers systems, Active/Passive fiber devices, High speed optical switches, Nanophotonic integration technology, Microwave photonics, Optical systems design, Optical metrology and instrumentatio ns.

Co 2011 LAI_Yich eng@dsi .a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

27 Hock Koon LEE Scientific and Technology Intelligence Division (STI)

Nonvolatile memory (phase change memory) Semiconducto r lasers Semiconducto r fabrication process techniques

Co 2011 LEE_Hoc k_Koon @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

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28 Siang Huei LEONG Drive Systems

and Technologies Division (DST)

Nanometrolog y and Instrumentatio n

Co 2011 LEONG_ Siang_H uei@dsi. a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

29 Minghua LI Non-volatile Memory Division (NVM)

Novel phase change materials, Optical data storage media, ZnO thin film

Co 2008 LI_Ming hua@dsi .a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

30 Jianming LI Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

(1) All optical magnetic recording & ultrafast magnetic recording, (2) Phase change materials for phase change memory (PCM) & optical data storage, (3) fractal mrasurement of material microstructure s & image processing

Co 2009 LI_Jianm ing@dsi. a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

31 Yan Hwee, Sunny LUA Non-volatile Memory Division (NVM)

Nanomagnetis m, Spintronics, Non-volatile memory, Nanofabricatio n

Co 2011 Sunny_L ua@dsi. a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

32 Boris LUKIYANCHUK Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Laser-matter Interactions, Laser Processing and Chemistry, Plasmonics, Left-handed materials (materials with negative refraction index), Nanoclusters,

Co 2008 Boris_L @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct Appt NTU NTU

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Laser Cleaning

33 Yansheng MA Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Tribology and head-disk interface of hard disk drive, Lubricant on disk surface, Contamination analysis and control of hard disk drive

Co 2008 MA_Yan sheng@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

34 Jing PU Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Silicon Photonic device design, fabrication and characterizatio n.

Co 2013 PU_JIng @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

35 Shuqin REN Data Center Technologies Division (DCT)

Privacy preserved data asset management for shared storage system; Adaptive QoS Management for multi- tenanted storage system; I/O monitoring and scheduling for parallel file system

Co 2011 REN_Sh uqin@ds i.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

36 Sergio RUOCCO DCT NVM, compilers, system software, operating systems, real- time systems, software engineering, real-time systems, power management.

Co 2014 sergio_R UOCCO @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

no NIL

37 Maziar SHAKERZADEH Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Materials structure- properties correlation, Heat assisted magnetic

Co 2014 Maziar_ [email protected] star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

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recording, Mechanical properties of thin and ultrathin films, Phase Transformatio ns in Solids, Physics of physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) techniques, Carbon thin films and nanostructure s, Plasma processing for surface modification of materials

38 Jianzhong SHI Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Condensed matters, thin film technology

Co 2010 SHI_Jian zhong@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

39 Wendong SONG Non-volatile Memory Division (NVM)

Thin films and functional materials for data storage

Co 2009 SONG_ Wendon [email protected] star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

40 Seng Ghee TAN Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Nanoscale electronics, physics, spintronics, single- electronics

Co 2009 TAN_Se ng_Ghee @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

41 Venkataramanan VENKATAKRISHNAN

Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Nonlinear optimal control for HDD servo, Servo for Perpendicular recording

Co 2008 Venka_V @dsi.a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct Appt NUS

42 Guillaume VIENNE Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

• Nanophotonic s • Optical materials & nanofabricatio n • Optical modeling (analytical,

Co 2011 Guillaum e_GV@d si.a- star.edu. sg

Adjunct Appt NTU

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FDTD) • Ultrafast lasers • Laser- matter interaction • Laser processing • Waveguides • Non-linear optics

43 Guillaume VIENNE ACN Nanophotonic s, quantum optics, fiber optics

Co 2014 Guillaum e_GV@d si.a- star.edu. sg

Adj. Assoc. Prof NTU

44 Yonghong WANG Data Center Technologies Division (DCT)

Storage System, File System,CE Data Storage and Application

Co 2009 WANG_ Yonghon [email protected] star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

45 Weijie WANG Non-volatile Memory Division (NVM)

Microelectroni cs; Non- Volatile Memory; Phase Change Materials; Memory Structures and Processes; Nano- Characterizati on; Laser- matter interaction;

Co 2012 WANG_ Weijie@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

46 Qian WANG Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

Nanophotonic s; Photonic Integration; Plasmonics; Photonics Modeling and Simulation; Fiber Optics; Liquid Crystal Optics and Devices; Optical Interconnectio n; High density data storage; Optical Sensing;

Co 2011 WANG_ Qian@d si.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

47 Qingsong WEI Data Center Technologies Division (DCT)

Data Center Technologies, Distributed Storage System, Cloud Storage, Non-

Co 2011 WEI_Qin gsong@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

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volatile Memory Technologies, File System, Memory Management.

48 Weiya XI Data Center Technologies Division (DCT)

Storage system failure and reliability, file systems, data management and allocation, performance optimization and green storage system.

Co 2011 XI_Weiy [email protected] star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

49 Xuewu XU Advanced Concept and Nanotechnology Division (ACN)

3D display; Holographic display; Computer- generated holography; Spatial light modulator for holography; Holographic memory; Functional crystal materials and Lasers

Co 2006 XU_Xue wu@dsi. a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

50 Baoxi XU Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

High density and high speed hybrid data storage, Optical data storage, Photonics, Electro-optics, Nonlinear optics

Co 2008 XU_Baox [email protected] star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

51 Ji-Feng YING Materials Science Lab Division (MSL)

Materials characterizatio n

Co 2013 YING_Ji_ Feng@d si.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

52 Shengkai YU Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Nanotribology, Computational Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Head-disk interface of hard disk drive, Smart Materials and Structures

Co 2010 YU_Shen gkai@dsi .a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

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53 Mingsheng ZHANG Drive Systems

and Technologies Division (DST)

Nanotribology & tribology in head disk interface, MEMS and their application for data storage, Micromagneti cs and spintronics

Co 2008 ZHANG_ Mingshe ng@dsi. a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

54 Qide ZHANG Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Airflow, flow- induced vibration, and particle trajectories of disk drives, Fluid bearings, spindle motor and rotor dynamics, Computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, vibration analysis

Co 2008 ZHANG_ Qide@d si.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

55 Tiejun ZHOU Drive Systems and Technologies Division (DST)

Energy assisted recording; nanostructure d magnetic/semi conductor materials for data storage, spintronics, biological applications; electrically controlled magnetism in nanostructure d ferromagnetic /multiferroric composites

Co 2010 ZHOU_Ti ejun@ds i.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

56 Yongqing ZHU Data Center Technologies Division (DCT)

• Cloud storage and cloud computing, data management, metadata index and search; • High- performance storage system, parallel and

Co 2011 ZHU_Yo ngqing@ dsi.a- star.edu. sg

NIL NIL

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distributed system, data placement and distribution; • Optical access networks, resource allocation, scheduling, QoS, and load balancing.

57 Ramon Jose Paniagua

Dominguez Advanced Concepts

and Nanotechnology

Theoretical Nanophotonics and

Metamaterials Co 2016

[email protected]

star.edu.sg Nil Nil

58 Lim Sze Ter Non-Volatile Memory Magnetism and

magnetic materials Co 2016

[email protected]

Nil Nil

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Institute of Microelectronics (IME)

S/N Name Research Dept Research

Interest Co/ Sole

Year approv ed

Email address

Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others)

1 Dim-Lee KWONG Director's Office 1. 3D IC and TSV 2. Advanced Optical Interconnect technology 3. Si-based Biosensors 4. Miniaturized medical devices 5. MEMS- CMOS integrated Microsystems

Sole 2005 kwongdl @ime.a- star.edu. sg

2 Guo-Qiang Patrick LO Nano Electronics & Photonics; TSV Taskforce; Gallium Nitrade (GaN) Program

1. Si-Based Light-Emitting Devices and white solid- state lighting 2. 3D Optical- Interconnects 3. Low-Loss Passive Waveguide -- Process and Modeling 4. Ultra-High Speed Si- based Modulator 5. Ultra-High Speed Si- based Photodetector 6. GaN Power Devices and Technology 7. 3D IC – for High Bandwidth Electrical and Optical Interconnect 8. 3D IC with Thermal management Solution

Sole 2009 logq@im e.a- star.edu. sg

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3 Ming Bin YU Interconnection

& Advanced Packaging Program

1. Silicon Nano photonics 2. TSV process technology development

Co 2003 mingbin @ime.a- star.edu. sg

4 Xiaowu ZHANG Research Office 1.3D IC integration with TSV technology 2.TSV interposer technology 3.Micro-stress sensor design, fabrication and testing

Co 2003 xiaowu @ime.a- star.edu. sg

5 Qingxin ZHANG MEMS Program Si based MEMS device design and fabrication, Intergation of MEMS and CMOS technology, Wafer transfer technology and its application on RF/Bio technology

Co 2006 qingxin @ime.a- star.edu. sg

6 Yuan GAO Integrated circuits and system design

RF/analog integrated circuit design

Co 2009 gaoy@i me.a- star.edu. sg

7 Tsung-Yang Jason LIOW NanoPhotonics Program

Silicon Photonics

Co 2009 liowty@i me.a- star.edu. sg

8 Navab SINGH MEMS Program MEMS/NEMS devices and technology

Co 2009 navab@i me.a- star.edu. sg

9 Xin LIU Integrated Circuits & Systems Laboratory - Digital IC

Digital signal processing; VLSI circuit design; Wireless communicatio n

Co 2011 liux@im e.a- star.edu. sg

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10 Mi Kyoung PARK Bioelectronics

program Development of label-free immunosensor s - silicon photonics sensor, SPR sensor, and electrochemic al sensor; Cancer Diagnostics, Surface Chemistry for bio- conjugation

Co 2011 parkmk @ime.a- star.edu. sg

11 Jun Feng SONG Nano Photonics Program

Silicon photonic III-V on SOI Silicon Plasmonics Radio on SOI Silicon photonics biosensor

Co 2011 songjf@i me.a- star.edu. sg

12 Xin Peng WANG Nano Electronics Program

Advanced architectures and materials for nanoscaled CMOS technology; Emerging NVMs and their application, including metal-oxide based ReRAMs, chalcogenide phase-change memories etc;

Co 2011 wangxin @ime.a- star.edu. sg

13 Hong CAI Sensors Actuators & Microsystems Program

1. Nano-opto- mechanical- systems (NOMS) development, which is based on the core technologies of nanomechanic s and nanophotonics . It can be exploited for actuating optomechanic al devices, including sensors,

Co 2012 caih@im e.a- star.edu. sg

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accelerometer s, gyro, nano- optical switches and array, and nano- actuators etc. It will be technological impact for revolutions traditional micro-silicon- devices through the light-and- motion connection. 2. Nano- Photonics research area, focusing on silicon photonics devices development. Including CMOS platform- based silicon micro- and nano- fabrication process development, photonic devices with applications in high-speed optical interconnects development.

14 Tshun Chuan Kevin CHAI Integrated Circuits & Systems Laboratory - Analog & Mixed Signal IC

• Analog mixed signal design; • Readout interface for sensors applications in biomedical areas such as cellomics, genomics and proteomics; • interface readout for MEMS sensors using capacitive, piezoelectric,

Co 2012 chaitc@i me.a- star.edu. sg

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piezoresistive, resonance etc.

15 Daw Don CHEAM MEMS Program MEMS / MEMSEN

Co 2012 cheamd [email protected] - star.edu. sg

16 Bangtao CHEN MEMS Program MEMS integration and packaging, vacuum packaging

Co 2012 chenb@i me.a- star.edu. sg

17 Jia Hao CHEONG Integrated Circuits & Systems

Low power ASIC design for implantable wirelessly powered blood flow monitoring system

Co 2012 cheongj [email protected] - star.edu. sg

18 Hongyu LI Interconnection & Advanced Packaging Program

1. 3D IC and 3D packaging process integration by TSV technology. 2. Fine pitch Cu to Cu bonding. 3. 3D interconnect reliability.

Co 2012 lihy@im e.a- star.edu. sg

19 Eu Jin Andy LIM Nano Photonics Program

1, Semiconducto r process integration and device physics (Silicon, III-V) 2. Advanced gate stack technology in particular metal gates, high-k dielectrics, interface engineering for CMOS applications 3. Silicon photonics devices or optoelectronic

Co 2012 limej@i me.a- star.edu. sg

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devices 4. Thin film chemical vapour deposition process technology for e.g. Ge, Si, SiC, SiGe epitaxial films and superlattice structure

20 Xianshu LUO Nano Photonics Program

1. Silicon photonics for on-chip optical interconnects 2. Hybrid Optoelectronic s IC for Next- Generation Optical Communicatio ns 3. Microwave photonics by using silicon photonics platform

Co 2012 luox@im e.a- star.edu. sg

21 Sheung Yan Simon NG Integrated Circuits & Systems

Lower power CMOS sensor interface and high resolution data converter design

Co 2012 ngsys@i me.a- star.edu. sg

22 Andrew Benson RANDLES Sensors Actuators & Microsystems Program

SAW Temperature compensation, cMUT design and fabrication

Co 2012 randlesa [email protected] - star.edu. sg

23 Ravinder Pal SINGH Integrated Circuits & Systems

Power Management IC design

Co 2012 ravinder ps@ime. a- star.edu. sg

24 Chengliang SUN Sensors Actuators & Microsystems Program

Research Area: Piezoelectric MEMS sensors and actuators Projects: RF-MEMS Resonator Energy harvester

Co 2012 sunc@i me.a- star.edu. sg

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25 Xiaoguang TU Nano Photonics

Program Silicon Photonics Device and Integration

Co 2012 tux@im e.a- star.edu. sg

26 Lei YAO Integrated Circuits & Systems

Mixed signal VLSI design, biomedical circuit and system, neural stimulation and recording circuits, data conversion circuits

Co 2012 yaol@im e.a- star.edu. sg

27 Jun ZHOU Integrated Circuits & Systems

1. energy- efficient digital signal processor design 2. Low voltage circuit and system design 3. Variation- tolerant circuit and system design 4. 3DIC design

Co 2012 zhouj@i me.a- star.edu. sg

28 Minwoo RHEE IPP-Packaging Materials

Advanced packaging material and simulation. Power electronics / Rugged Electronics Packaging.

Co 2013 rheem@ ime.a- star.edu. sg

29 Ming-Yuan CHENG Interconnection & Advanced Packaging Program

Implantable miniaturized medical devices, 3D neural probe array system, sensorized guide wire system, bio- packaging, microassembly for medical device, and flexible tactile sensing arrays.

Co 2013 chengm [email protected] - star.edu. sg

30 Shiyang ZHU NanoP Silicon photonics and plasmonics for telecom communicatio n and sensing

Co 2013 zhusy@i me.a- star.edu. sg

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31 Vivek CHIDAMBARAM

NACHIAPPAN TD-AdvPkg- Bonding

Materials characterizatio n, reliability testing, failure analysis, wafer level and die- level bonding optimization, MEMS hermetic and vacuum packaging

Co 2013 nachiap panvc@i me.a- star.edu. sg

32 Hyun Kee Peter CHANG Sensors Actuators & Microsystems Program

MEMS; Inertial Sensors (Gyroscopes, Accelerometer s and Magnetomete rs); Inertial Switch and Resonators

Co 2014 changhk @ime.a- star.edu. sg

33 Yuandong Alex GU MMD/SAM Energy harvesting, inertia sensor, NEMS, medical devices and their biocompatibili ty.

Co 2014 guyd@i me.a- star.edu. sg

Adj Appt NUS

34 Ying HUANG NanoP Silicon Photonics, Quantum photonics integrated circuit, Multi- layer integrated photonics platform, Non- linear Optics

Co 2014 huangy @ime.a- star.edu. sg

N/A

35 Chia-Pin CHANG Bio-Electronics Program

- Rare cells enrichment and isolation - Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis - Development of new in-vitro diagnosis (IVD) techology - Biosensors, bioMEMS, microfluidics, and point-of- care devices

Co 2015 changcp @ime.a- star.edu. sg

NA

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36 Ee Lim TAN Miniaturized

Medical Devices - Development of micro- electronic devices and system for biomedical applications - Minimally- invasive, non- invasive continuous, and real-time device and system solution - Emphasis in human physiological monitoring (e.g. blood/ liquid pressure monitoring, tactile feedback and contact force detection)

Co 2015 tanel@i me.a- star.edu. sg

NA

37 Ilker Ener Ocak MEMS sensors and systems; Accelerometers; Gyroscopes; Magnetometers; Pressure Sensors; Resonators; Circuits for capacitive sensors

Co 2016 [email protected]

Nil Nil

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National Metrology Centre (NMC)

S/N Name Research Dept Research

Interest Co/ Sole

Year approv ed

Email address

Adjunct, joint or no appointment (if supervisor has more than one appt, please provide details of all types of appt)

University (NUS, NTU; please specify if others)

1 Yun Fook, Thomas LIEW Executive Director

Nanotribology /tribochemistr y of magnetic recording devices, Trace level air-borne molecular microcontami nants and reliability of magnetic recording components/s ystems, Magnetic nanostructure s/spintronics devices for data storage/memo ry devices

Sole 2003 Thomas _Liew@ nmc.a- star.edu. sg

2 Siew Kong TUNG Mechanical Metrology Cluster

Materials characterizatio n R&D and instrumentatio n; materials development for aerospace brazing materials, lead free solders and solder fluxes, metallic alloys, nano- powders, and others

Co 2006 tung_sie w_kong @nmc.a - star.edu. sg

3 Liping ZHAO Optical Metrology Laboratory

Optical systems and optical measurements ; Surface measurements ; Infrared optics and non- destructive inspection; Diffractive optics and planar optics;

Co 2010 zhao_lipi ng@nmc .a- star.edu. sg

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4 Jing ZHANG Optical Radiation Lab

Establishing and improving standards in optical radiometry; Developing fiber lasers for optical radiometry application; Novel devices in silicon photonics; Silicon photonics integration; Fiber optics and fiber lasers

Co 2012 zhang_ji ng@nmc .a- star.edu. sg

5 Yueyan SHAN RF and Microwave Lab

RF, microwave, millimeter wave and sub- millimeter wave metrology, measurement and applications; time and frequency metrology

Co 2012 shan_yu eyan@n mc.a- star.edu. sg

6 RONGMO LUO Mechanical Metrology 2/Pressure & Flow

Pipeline flow defects detection technology; oil and gas flow measurement; bunker fuel metering; fluid-structure interactions, and computational fluid dynamics

Co 2015 Luo_ron gmo@n mc.a- star.edu. sg