Prof LIU Bin
Deputy President of Research & Technology
NUS
Prof Ernst Kuipers
Vice President (Research)
NTU
Prof LIM Keng Hui
Assistant Chief Executive Officer (SERC)
A*Star
Prof Phillip WONG
Stanford University, USA
Prof Takao SOMEYA
University of Tokyo, Japan
Bich-Yen NGUYEN
Senior Fellow
SOITEC, USA
Dr. Suresh VENKATESAN
CEO
POET Technologies, USA
Dr. Desmond Rodney LIM
Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Technology)
DSO
— 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.
— 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.
— 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.
— Co-Investigator —
Professor Antonio Helio Castro Neto is the founder and Director of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Co-Director of the NUS Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, Distinguished Professor in the NUS Department of Materials Science Engineering as well as Department of Physics. He is also a Professor at NUS Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
— 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.
— 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
— 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.
— 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.
— 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. In December 2009, he joined ECE Department of NUS as an Assistant Professor.
— 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.
— 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).
— 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.
— Research Collaborator —
Professor Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He is an author of over 800 papers, 17 books and 2 patents in the area of design tools and methodologies, large scale systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems and innovation.
— Research Collaborator —
Professor Ahmed A. Busnaina, PhD is the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the National Science Foundation’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (CHN) for High-rate Nanomanufacturing since 2004 and the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials (CSSM) since 2015 at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
— Industry Collaborator —
Ms. Bich-Yen Nguyen is a senior fellow at Soitec, Crolles, France, where she is responsible for the joint development of fully depleted silicon-on-insulator technology with strategic partners and customers.
— Industry Collaborator —
Dr. Leong Yoke Choy Vincent is the Director of the RF program in DSO National Laboratories, Singapore. His research and development work involve the design, modelling and characterization of MMIC/solid state power amplifiers, high dynamic range RF receivers, and novel passive structures such as baluns and couplers.
Dr. Anil Kumar Gundu received B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India, and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and PhD degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2022.
Dr. Bark Hyunwoo is a research fellow in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his PhD in advanced materials engineering from the Kookmin University, Seoul (Republic of Korea) in 2018. His research focuses on organic/inorganic composites for heat management, thermal energy conversion, and wearable electronics.
Dr. Cai Zheren is a research fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his BSc and PhD in chemistry from Nanjing University and the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (respectively). His current research focuses on designing wearable electronics for electrophysiology.
Dr Chen Nuan is a research fellow in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She received her PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the N.1 Institute for Health, National University of Singapore, in 2020. Her current research focuses on flexible and stretchable electronics for biomedical applications.
Dr. Evgeny Zamburg is senior research fellow in SHINE. He received his PhD in 2015 from the Institute of Nanotechnology, Electronics, and Instrumentation, Southern Federal University, Russia. He got several research fellowships to conduct his research in Technical University of Munich (2012), IBM Research-Zurich (2013), National University of Singapore (2014), National Chiao Tung University (2016), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (2016-2017).
Dr. Jagan Singh Meena is a Research Fellow (RF) in SHINE Centre, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He earned PhD degree in area of flexible electrical devices at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) Taiwan in 2012. He received M. Tech. degree in area of Solis State Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur India in 2007. Currently in SHINE, he is working in areas of wearable electronics and developing flexible strain sensors, for space-and-satellite and body-motion-monitoring applications.
Mr. Jayasanker Jayabalan received B.Eng (Hons.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University and M.Sc, Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering from National University of Singapore. He is a Research Fellow with the National University of Singapore where he focuses on Machine Learning Guided Test and Failure Analysis & Diagnostic Capability Development for Next Generation 3D-IC Packaging Technologies. He possesses over 25 years of industry and research experience in Semiconductor Test Technology. He was a Principal Design Engineer with Avago Technologies, leading Design-for-Test (DfT) development for several of Avago’s Networking ASIC products and thereafter a Research Scientist with IME, leading 2.5D System-In-Package DfT activities. He started his career with National Semiconductors, Singapore, where he was a Test Engineer for NS’s communication and computing products.
Mr. Karim received B.S. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt, in 2010, M.S. degree in electronics engineering from American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt, in 2013 and PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from National University in Singapore (NUS), in 2019. He was a research assistant at Nile University from 2010 to 2011 and American University in Cairo (AUC) from 2011 to 2012. He was a graduate intern at PC client group (PCCG), Intel Cooperation, Oregon USA from 2012 to 2013. He worked as a teaching assistant at Middle East Technical University North Cyprus Campus (METU – NCC) in 2014. He is currently working as a research fellow at electrical and computer engineering department, NUS.
His research interest includes non-volatile memories and logic, computing in memory, low power ADCs, computer-aided design (CAD) for 3D ICs, and field programmable analog arrays IC design.
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.
Mr. Liu Paiting joined SHINE center as a research engineer in Feb 2022. He obtained his BEng from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in Jun 2021 and began to pursue his MEng (research-based master) degree in NUS from July 2021.
Mr. Lucas Lum is a research fellow in SHINE centre. He pursued his doctoral degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from 2019 to 2023. His research focused on on-board electromagnetic shielding using vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays.
His current research in SHINE centre focuses on magnetic field imaging-based defect modelling of 3D ICs.
Ms. Ma Yuyu received her Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2021, and M.Sc. degree from NUS in 2022. She is currently a Research Engineer in the Green IC group. Her research interests are analog circuits and architectures based on transistors working in super-cutoff region.
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. Murugan Balaji is a research fellow at the SHINE Center. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics at Bharathiar University (2017). After his doctoral degree, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India (2017-2021). After this, he worked as a research professor in the field of thin film transistor applications at Gachon and Dongguk Universities, South Korea (2021-2023).
His current research work is on the CNT and III-V materials-based flexible TFTs for neuromorphic applications.
Mr. Neelkamal SEMWAL received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, India in 2019.
He worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Ittiam Systems Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India from 2019 – 2022. He is currently working as a Research Engineer in the Green IC group. His research interest is on low power systems and circuits.
Dr. Pratisha Gangwar is a skilled researcher and physicist with a passion for advancing the field of engineering. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree from MJP Rohilkahand University in 2011 and later earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Allahabad with a focus on Quantum Field Theory in 2013. In 2020, she obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where she dedicated her research to exploring the potential of layered materials for energy harvesting.
After completing her Ph.D., Dr. Pratisha Gangwar joined the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics at IIT Delhi, where she contributed to the development of piezoresistive pressure sensors. She then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay in December 2021, where she worked on the back end of line (BEOL) compatible process development for non-volatile memories.
Dr. Pratisha Gangwar recently joined Prof. Aaron Thean’s Group at NUS in March 2023, where her major responsibility is to develop back-end-of-line compatible processes for 3D monolithic integration for non-volatile memories. Her extensive academic background and research experience make her an accomplished and dedicated researcher in the field of physics and engineering.
Mr. Qu Hao has completed his Bachelor’s degree at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on developing new agriculture sensors with ultra-low power and a long lifecycle.
Dr. Rakesh Tirupathi is a Research Fellow in Prof. Aaron Thean’s Research Group at the National University of Singapore’
Dr. Rakesh Tirupathi (Member, IEEE) holds a B.Tech. degree from Bapatla Engineering College, India in 2010, and an M.Tech. and Ph.D. degree from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India in 2012 and 2021, respectively. His research interests lie in in-memory computing circuit design, in-sensor computing circuit design, mixed-signal integrated circuit design, and sensor interfacing circuits. His expertise includes CMOS integrated circuits, capacitance and capacitive sensor measurement, switched capacitor networks, low-pass filters, operational amplifiers, application-specific integrated circuits, buffer circuits, calibration techniques, approximation theory, demodulation, field programmable gate arrays, low-power electronics, microfabrication, microsensors, modulation, square-wave generators, and signal conditioning circuits.
Ms Wan Ruyue is currently a research assistant in Prof. Aaron Thean’s Research group at National University of Singapore (NUS). Her current work focusses on 1 transistor and 1 RRAM (1T1R) device fabrication and evaluation.
Ruyue received her master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from NUS in 2023, where she gained solid knowledge in memristor device mechanisms as well as its fabrication. Her bachelor’s degree was received in Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) in China, where she worked on Molecular Electronics Projects, measuring the electronic performance of self-assembly monolayers (SAMs) and extracting the electronic structure of the junctions.
Dr. Siah Chun Fei is a research fellow in SHINE center. He received his doctoral degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2022. After his postgraduate programme, he joined SHINE as a research fellow to support the heterogenous integration research activities.
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.
Ms. Sun Si Xiao received her Bachelor’s Degree in Microelectronic science and technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2021. Currently, she is pursuing her Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering department in the Green IC Group at NUS. Her current research work focuses on optimize low-power FPGA develop toolchain.
Dr. TANG Shiwen is a research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. She received her PhD degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China, in 2023. She received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in 2016 and 2019, respectively, and the MSc degree from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., in 2018.
Her research interests include the reconfigurable intelligent surface and flexible antenna designs.
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
Dr. Wei Jiaqi is a research fellow in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He graduated jointly from NTU, Singapore and Sorbonne
University, France with a PhD in material science in 2016. During this time, he uncovered the reversible
metal ion desolvation and structural changes during spatially confined electrosorption and pioneered
the research of confined electrochemical energy storage. His current research interests include energy
storage, flexible electronic systems, and confined electrochemistry.
Dr. Xia Huarong is a research fellow in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He graduated from Peking University, China, with a PhD in physical electronics in 2016. During this time, he uncovered the reversible lithiation of
organohalide halide perovskite materials and pioneered the research of perovskite materials for energy storage.
Mr. Xiong Dingyi received the bachelor’s degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University (in China) in 2022. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering department from the National University of Singapore.
Dr. Xu Baochang is a research fellow at SHINE center. He obtained his PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2014. After 5 years’ experience in the industry, he joined ECE, NUS in 2019 as a research fellow supporting the process development at E6nanofab.
Dr Ying Jiang is a research fellow in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She received her BSc in Microelectronics from Sun Yat-sen University in 2012, an MSc in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2015, and a PhD in Material Science from Nanyang Technological University in 2020. In 2023, Dr. Jiang joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University as a visiting postdoc. Her current research focuses on soft, stretchable electronic devices for human-machine interfaces.
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. Zhang Xiangyu graduated from NTU with PhD degree in school of electrical and electronic engineering 2017.Currently, he is a research fellow in NUS under Singapore Hybrid-Integrated Next Generation μ-Electronics (SHINE) program in Prof. Aaron Thean group. His research interests include mixed signal circuit design, biological and flexible sensing technologies, human computer interfaces in 3D, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications.
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