Dr. Yizhou JIANG is a Research Fellow jointly affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the SHINE Centre. He received his B.Eng. degree in 2018, a minor in Law in 2019, and a Ph.D. in 2023, all from Fudan University, China.

His research interests span hybrid integration of solid-state circuits with flexible electronics, wearable biomedical sensing systems, and hardware implementation of AI algorithms. Currently, his work focuses on the integration of flexible antenna systems.

Dr. Manohar LAL is a Senior Research Fellow at the SHINE Centre, NUS, and leads the E6NanoFab Lithography and Ion Beam Milling clusters. His expertise lies in sub-10 nm device fabrication using advanced nanolithography and focused ion beam techniques. His research focuses on advanced semiconductor devices and 3D-printed interconnects for Electronic and Photonic Integrated Circuits (EPICs).

He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from IISc Bangalore in 2018 and previously served as a Scientific Officer at BARC, Mumbai. Since joining NUS in 2018, he has been instrumental in setting up the Orion NanoFab Helium Ion Microscope lab.

Dr. Gan ZHANG is a Research Fellow at the SHINE Centre, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he contributes to cutting-edge work in thermal management of microelectronics. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham in 2020 and joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NUS in 2025.

His current research focuses on advanced thermal management strategies to enhance the performance and reliability of microelectronic systems.

Yatharth Mahest SANT is currently a Research Engineer working under the guidance of Prof. Koen Mouthaan. He earned his Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligent Systems (AIS) from the National University of Singapore – Institute of Systems Science (NUS-ISS) in 2024.

His research interests lie in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and remote sensing, with a focus on FPGA-based implementations.

Dr Michael Dell’Aiera received his PhD from Savoie Mont-Blanc University in 2024. He is currently a Research Manager in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

His research interests include computer vision and machine learning for remote sensing, with a focus on information fusion, multimodal image registration, speckle noise removal, target detection and classification, and complex-valued neural networks.

Maheswari SIVAN is a postdoctoral research fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS), working under Professor Aaron Thean. Her research focuses on two-dimensional materials for advanced logic and memristive technologies, combining experimental work with simulation techniques such as TCAD modeling and quantum transport analysis. She has published in top journals, including Nature Communications, ACS Nano, and npj 2D Materials and Applications.

Maheswari earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NUS, her M.Tech. in Solid State Technology from the Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, and her B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Kerala University.

Looking ahead, she aims to integrate device physics, materials science, and machine learning-enhanced computational methods to drive transformative advances in semiconductor technologies

NGUYEN Dinh Cung Tien is a Research Fellow at the SHINE Centre, National University of Singapore (NUS).   He earned his Ph.D. in Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering from Jeonbuk National University, South Korea, in 2022.

Prior to his current role, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea. His current research focuses on the development of advanced materials and the fabrication of thin-film devices.

Dr. Tang earned his PhD in Material Science and Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2019. Following this, he undertook postdoctoral research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the mentorship of Professor Aaron Thean.   

His research is centered on monolithic 3D electronics using BEOL-compatible materials for post-Moore computing. Dr. Tang has authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 11 as first or corresponding author, with publications in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, IEEE IEDM, IEEE VLSI, and ACS Nano. As a key team member, he led successful grant proposals funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education, a collaborative industrial project with SK Hynix, and a research initiative under the U.S. Semiconductor Research Corporation.

Chen Gong earned his B.E. degree in Communication Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2021, and his M.E. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in 2024.

He is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research interests span flexible phased array system design, signal processing theory and applications, as well as interpretable deep neural networks.

He is a Research Engineer and part-time PhD student in Professor Prof Koen Mouthaan’s group, where his work focuses on digital phased array systems leveraging RFSoC technology.

Dr. Mohammad Ameen received B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, in 2012 and 2014 respectively, and PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad in 2022. He is currently working as a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He received the Young Scientist Award (YSA) at the Union Radio Science General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS-2020), during 29th August to 5th September 2020, held at Rome, Italy. Also, he received the Young Scientist Award at the URSI combined Atlantic/Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-AP-RASC 2022), during May 29 to June 3, 2022, at Gran Canaria, Spain. His research interests include the design and development of antenna arrays, conformal antennas, deployable antennas, stretchable antennas, foldable antennas, conformal phased array antennas, circularly polarized metamaterial/metasurface antennas, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antennas, high-impedance surfaces.

Dr. Sonu Devi is a research fellow and project leader in Aaron Thean’s Research group at National University of Singapore. Dr. Sonu is a materials science researcher with a focus on the development of novel materials for semiconductor device and related applications. 

Dr. Sonu completed her PhD in Physics in 2016 from IUAC Delhi. Her research mainly focussed on ion beam induced defect creation and recovery in semiconductor materials. 

After PhD, Dr. Sonu joined NUSNNI Nanocore, National University of Singapore in 2017, where she worked on growth of crystalline oxide thin films using pulsed laser deposition and their transfer on Si substrate for CMOS compatibility. In 2020, Dr. Sonu joined Prof. Aaron Thean’s group at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. Here, her research interests include fabrication of back-end-of-line compatible, advance semiconductor devices for 3-D monolithic integration. Her work has been accepted in leading technology conferences like VLSI, IEDM and EDTM.

Mr Leong Jin Feng has a Bachelor in Science (Physics) with Honours from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was awarded the Kent Ridge Undergraduate Scholarship for his undergraduate studies and he was also admitted into the Special Programme in Science, which aims to develop young undergraduate researchers in integrated science research.  In this programme, he has undertook research with a scientist from the Centre of Climate Research Singapore on understanding the Sumatra Squall Line phenomenon with the help of weather simulations.

He has also spent two years with Professor Sow Chorng Haur from the Department of Physics in NUS, both as a Final Year Project student and a research assistant. During this period, he was involved in the study of defects and its effects on the optical properties of a two-dimensional material, Tungsten disulfide. In addition, he has also investigated chemical vapour deposition methods and transfer methods of two-dimensional materials.

Currently, he is a PhD student under Professor Aaron Thean. He is working on using two-dimensional materials for development of in-memory devices and neuromorphic computing.

Dr Younghoon Kim received his PhD from the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea, in 2019. He worked as a researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (2018─2021) and as a staff engineer at the Semiconductor R&D Center of Samsung Electronics (2021─2023). Currently, he is a research fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research focuses on the synthesis of materials for multi-functional electronic devices

Dr Wang Xiaoshi is a research fellow in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He graduated from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, with a PhD in materials science in 2018. During this time, he conducted research in the field of nanomaterials, including metal nanocrystals, metal alloys, layered porous
polymers, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and MOF-derived materials. His current research interests focus on the polymer processing technology used for colourimetric sensor packaging.