Investigator

— Principal Investigator —

Professor Aaron Thean is the Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also holds several other technical leadership appointments including Director of SHINE (NRF Mid-size Centre), Co-Director for A∗Star SIMTech–NUS Joint laboratory for Large Area Flexible Hybrid Electronics. Prior to NUS, Professor Aaron Thean served as imec’s Vice President of Logic Technologies and led an International semiconductor technology consortium which included top industry leaders such as Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Globalfoundries and Apple. Before joining imec, he held technology R&D management positions with major U.S. tech companies, including Qualcomm, IBM, and Motorola. From 2007-2009, he led his IBM New York team to develop the Industry’s first foundry-compatible 32nm/28nm High-k Metal-Gate Low-Power CMOS technology, enabling the SOCs in some of Apple’s and Samsung’s most popular smart mobile devices.

Professor Aaron Thean received his B.Sc. (Highest Honors), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He published over 300 technical papers and holds more than 50 U.S. patents. He is also an IEEE Electron Device Letters editor. He has been recognized as Returning Singaporean Scientist by Singapore’s National Research Foundation in 2016 to start his research in Embedding Intelligence in New Form Factors for Ultra-low Energy Electronics.