— 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.

— Co-Investigator —

Professor Chen Xiaodong is the President’s Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry (by courtesy) and Professor of Medicine (by courtesy) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. After his academic training in China, Germany, and the US, he started his independent research career as a Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellow and Nanyang Assistant Professor at NTU in 2009.

Following his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in 2013, he assumed full professorship since 2016. His current research interests include mechano-materials science and engineering, flexible electronics technology, sense digitalization and cyber-human interfaces and systems.

Professor Chen has received various prestigious accolades for his exceptional scientific contributions, including the Singapore President Science Award, Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigatorship, Singapore NRF Fellowship, Winner of Falling Walls, and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. He serves on the editorial advisory board for numerous global journals and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ACS Nano.

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Lim Yeow Kheng is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Singapore Hybrid-Integrated Next-Generation µ-Electronics (SHINE) Programme Director at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has more than 20 years of industrial experience in semiconductor foundries technology development and Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) manufacturing and business operations. He started his career at GlobalFoundries Singapore in 2001 and subsequently joined STATS ChipPAC Pte Ltd as Deputy Director in 2011. His major interests are in Advanced Wafer-level Packaging and Wafer-level Integration Technology including Fan-out/Fan-in WLP, System-in-Package (SiP), Integrated Passive Device (IPD), Through-Si-Via (TSV) and Integrated 3D IC Packaging. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and had published extensively with patents filed on these technologies.

On the technical front, Dr. Lim is actively involved in international technical activities such as Chairman (2012-13), Vice Chairman (2019) and Treasurer (2010-11, 2016-18) of Singapore Reliability/ Electronics Packaging/ Electron Devices Chapter; Board Member (2015-22), General Chair (2014), Technical Chair (2012-13) and Technical Co-chair (2010-11) of International Symposium on Physics and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits; Treasurer (2015) of Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits; Committee Member (2014-22) of International Interconnect Technology Conference Advanced Metallisation Conference Asian Programme; Technical Sub-committee Member (2009-22) of International Reliability Physics Symposium; Committee Member (2014-22) of Singapore National Working Group for Semiconductor Devices.

— Co-Investigator —

Professor Massimo Alioto received the MSc degree and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Catania (Italy) in 1997 and 2001. He is a Professor at the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Green IC group and is the Director of the Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems area. He held positions at the University of Siena, Intel Labs – CRL, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, BWRC – University of California Berkeley, and EPFL.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, and was the Deputy-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. He is currently Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, and previously of the Circuits & Systems society. He is/was Technical Program Chair and Track Chair in a number of leading IEEE conferences, and is currently in the ISSCC TPC. Prof Alioto is an IEEE Fellow.

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Koen Mouthaan received the MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He worked at TNO Defense, Safety and Security in the Netherlands, and at SkyGate, a company that designed phased-array antennas for consumer applications.

Between 2003 and 2015 he was assistant professor and associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He rejoined the same department in 2016. His research interests include microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and systems, phased array antennas, digital beamforming, design and innovation.

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Surya Bhattacharya received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of System-in-Package with the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Agency for Science Technology and Research, where he leads the advanced packaging team to initiate and execute industry research and development projects in advanced electronic packaging and 2.5D/3DICs. He has over 25 years of experience with the Semiconductor Technology Industry. He was a Principal Foundry Engineer with Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, driving CMOS development and manufacturing for Broadcom’s Networking, and wireless products with Asian foundries. He joined IME from Qualcomm, where he served as the Director for Foundry Engineering. He started his career with Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, CA, USA, where he was a Senior Manager for CMOS technology development for Rockwell’s communication products

— Co-Investigator —

Professor Lee Pooi See is the Dean, Graduate College and Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She received her PhD degree from the National University of Singapore in 2002 and joined NTU in 2004. Her current research focuses on developing stretchable elastomeric composites for electronics and energy devices, human-machine interface, sensors and actuators, hybrid materials for soft robotics. Professor Lee received the TechConnect Innovation Award in Washington 2015, Nanyang Research Award in 2016 and won the Nanyang Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award 2017. She was awarded the NRF Investigatorship in 2016 and listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2018-2021. Her election as the National Academy of Inventors Fellow in 2020 is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. She is currently the Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters and serves on the editorial advisory board for several journals.

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Qiu Cheng Wei received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003, and the PhD degree from the Joint PhD.= Program between the National University of Singapore, Singapore and SUPELEC, France in 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Physics Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology till the end of 2009, and in December 2009, he joined ECE Department of NUS as an Assistant Professor. Since Jan 2017, he has been promoted to be Associate Professor with tenure.

He was the recipient of the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics in 2005, IEEE AP-S Graduate Research Award in 2006, URSI Young Scientist Award in 2008, NUS Young Investigator Award in 2011, MIT TR35@Singapore Award in 2012, Young Scientist Award by Singapore National Academy of Science in 2013, Faculty Young Research Award 2013 in NUS, SPIE Rising Researcher Award 2018, Young Engineering Research Award 2018, Engineering Researcher Award 2021 in NUS, Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics 2020 by Physics World.

His research interests are in the areas of electromagnetic wave theory of transformation optic metamaterials, light-matter interaction, and nanophotonics. He has published over 340 peer-reviewed journal papers, including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Nano Lett./ACS Nano, Light: Sci. Appl., Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, etc. He was Highly Cited Researchers in 2019 and 2020 by Web of Science.

His research has been widely featured by media coverage, such as Science Magazine, Straits Times, MIT Technology Reviews, SPIE Newsroom, A&EN etc. He has given a number of keynotes and many Invited Talks in international conferences. He has been serving in Associate Editor for various journals such as PhotoniX, Photonics Research, and Editor-in-Chief for eLight. He also serves in Editorial Advisory Board for Laser and Photonics Review, Advanced Optical Materials, and ACS Photonics.

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Li Shuzhou is the Associate Professor and Assistant Chair (Graduate Studies and Lifelong Learning), School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. 

He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD in Chemistry from Nankai University, Peking University, and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. He has been exploring research into various properties of nanomaterials by theoretical and computational tools. 

His current research focus on three directions: (1) the design catalysts for energy-conversion-related reactions; (2) degradable polymers; and (3) optical properties of metal-semiconductor nanostructures.

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Yu Jing is a Nanyang Assistant Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a PhD in Chemical Engineering (2012). 

Following his PhD, Dr. Yu did a postdoc with Professor James Heath at California Institute of Technology, where he worked on engineered T cell immunotherapy. In 2014, Dr. Yu expanded his research interests towards polyelectrolytes brushes during his postdoc with Professor Matthew Tirrell at the University of Chicago. He is also an NRF Fellow, Class of 2019. 

The overall goal of Dr. Yu Jing’s research is to characterize the dynamic properties of interfaces with hierarchical structures and to gain molecular-level control of soft interfaces to enable the design of integrated, multifunctional interfaces. His work has been featured in various top journals, including Science, Science Advances, Nature Chemical Biology, PNAS, JACS, Advanced Materials.

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Lim Teck Guan is a Senior Scientist from System-in-Package group in Institute of Microelectronics (IME). His research interests are RF/mmWave and Photonic integration design. Currently, he is developing the Si-interposer and the FOWLP platform for various integration applications such as High-Performance Computer, 5G Communications, Radar, and Sensor.