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Chairperson

10:00AM – 1:00PM (SGT)

Professor Ng See Kiong

Deputy Director, Institute of Data Science

Chairperson

1:30PM-2:30PM (SGT)

Associate Professor Caroline Lee

Vice Dean, NUS Graduate School

Assoc Prof, Biochemistry Department, NUS Medicine

Assoc Prof, CSCB, Duke-NUS Medical School

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The 2D Materials Adventure: A journey from basic scientific discovery to deep tech value capture

Professor Barbaros Özyilmaz

Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUS

Professor Barbaros Özyilmaz is best known for his work on developing new device applications based on 2D materials such as graphene, black phosphorus, and monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC). He graduated in 1999 from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, with his Diplomarbeit in Physics at the European High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Institute in Grenoble, France. He undertook his PhD studies (1999-2004) with Prof Andrew Kent at New York University. His PhD work in collaboration with IBM on spin transfer torque provided the foundational IP for one of the first STT-RAM start-up companies; Spin Memory, Inc., Fremont, California.  He did his postdoctoral work (2004-2007) at Columbia University in Prof Philip Kim’s group pioneering graphene research in the USA. He joined the Physics Department at NUS in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and was instrumental in establishing Graphene Research in Singapore. He was promoted directly to full professor in 2013. As founding member and Deputy Director of the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D material (CA2DM) he has greatly contributed to establishing NUS as one of the globally leading Centre’s for 2D material research. More recently he has transformed the Office of Industry and Innovation at CA2DM into a 2D materials incubator with a focus on joint technology validation with industry. Since 2019 he is also the Department Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at NUS.  He is the recipient of numerous awards including the NRF Fellowship and the NRF Investigator Award, NUS Young Investigator Award and the Institute of Physics Award, Singapore.

He is globally recognized as a highly prolific researcher and inventor in a wide range of material systems and device applications. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed research papers and has close to 30 patents and is among the top cited researchers in the world. Both in 2018 & 2019 he was listed in the Clarivate Analytics – Global Highly Cited Researchers List for Cross-Field Research demonstrating significant scientific influence through publication of multiple papers that are ranked in the top 1 per cent by citations for their field and year of publication. His current focus is on accelerating the widespread adoption of graphene and other 2D materials into industry. His is the founder of GrapheneScale Pte. Ltd, a NUS spin-off commercializing graphene for the use in supercapacitors, semiconductors, heat assisted magnetic recording, IR sensors, and in biomedical applications.

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Wonder of low-dimensional materials

Associate Professor Eda Goki

Department of Physics and Chemistry, NUS

Member, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM)

Dr. Eda is Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the National University of Singapore, and a member of the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM). Before joining NUS in 20211, he was a Newton International Fellow of the Royal Society of the UK and worked at Imperial College London. Dr. Eda received his M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2006 and Ph.D. in the same discipline from Rutgers University in 2009. He is a recipient of the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Fellowship and many awards including the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) Young Scientist Award and University Young Researcher Award.

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Harnessing Digital Medicine to Transform N-of-1 Healthcare

Professor Dean Ho

Provost’s Chair Professor
Director, The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1)
Director, The Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM)
Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Professor Dean Ho is currently Provost’s Chair Professor, Director of The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1), Director of The Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

Prof. Ho and collaborators successfully developed and validated CURATE.AI, a powerful digital medicine platform that has optimized human treatment for broad indications ranging from oncology to infectious diseases. He co-led the first inhuman clinical trials that have resulted in completely halted disease progression and durable patient responses that substantially outperformed standard of care approaches.

Prof. Ho is a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also recently named to the HIMSS Future50 Class of 2021 for his internationally-recognised leadership in digital health. His discoveries have been featured on CNN, The Economist, National Geographic, Forbes, Washington Post, NPR and other international news outlets. Prof. Ho is also a Subgroup Lead in the World Health Organization (WHO)-ITU AI for Health Working Group for Regulatory Considerations.

Prof. Ho is a recipient of the Tech Heroes from Crisis Pathfinder Award from the Singapore Computer Society, NSF CAREER Award, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award, and V Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award, among others. He has also served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), a 26,000+ member global drug development organization.

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Biological variabilities of blood metabolites

Professor Markus Wenk

Provost’s Chair, Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry
Director, Precision Medicine Translational Research Program
Director, Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING)

National University of Singapore

Professor Markus Wenk has been interested in membrane lipids, their structure and function since his undergraduate years at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. At Yale he introduced and established novel techniques for analysis of phospholipid metabolism at the neurological nerve terminal. His work resulted in scientific publications which have major impact on conceptual advancements in the field of lipid metabolism. He is now spearheading novel approaches in systems scale analysis of lipids and their interactors (lipidomics) and is recognized as one of the thought leading investigators worldwide in his field. He established SLING, the Singapore lipidomics incubator, an interdisciplinary program at NUS dedicated to innovation, education and partnership in lipidomics research. Markus Wenk is Provost’s Chair, Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also founder and organizer of the biennial International Singapore Lipid Symposium (ISLS) and Executive Editor of Progress in Lipid Research (Elsevier).

The inventory of metabolites found in blood plasma offers insights into individual metabolism associated with health and disease. Plasma metabolite analysis based on mass spectrometry is a rapidly developing area in clinical diagnostics and disease management. However, the translation of laboratory-style methods towards robust, quantitative tests that deliver comparable results across different analytical sites, with appropriate turn-around times, will require extra interdisciplinary efforts. Here, I will highlight state-of the art capabilities for monitoring blood lipid metabolites via mass spectrometry and provide a perspective for translation of such technologies towards precision health and medicine. Examples of between-person and within-person variabilities will be presented.

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Breakthrough discovery of novel macrophage population through lymphatic research

Associate Professor Veronique Angeli

Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Assistant Dean (Academic Strategy), NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Director, Immunology Translational Research Programme, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Dr ANGELI Veronique received her PhD in 2001 from University of Lille in France. She did her post-doctoral training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York city, USA from July 2002 to July 2005 in the laboratory of Prof Gwendalyn Randolph before being recruited as an Instructor (July 2005 to August 2006). In October 2006, she was recruited as assistant Professor at National University of Singapore in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and promoted as associated professor in 2014. She is currently the leader of the Immunology Programme at Life Sciences Institute, NUS since July 2018 and the director of Immunology Translational Research programme at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS since 2020. In 2011 and 2015, Dr Angeli received the Faculty young investigator award and the Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Young Achiever Award from National University of Singapore, respectively.

Research interests: biology and functions of the lymphatic system. Tissue resident macrophage functions in health and disease.

During my talk, I first would share some of our work that unravels the crosstalk between lymphatic vessel and cholesterol and its relevance to diseases including atherosclerosis and lymphedema. Then, I would discuss how our lymphatic research led to the discovery of a population of tissue resident macrophage with novel homeostatic functions.

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Small fish models for complex human diseases

Associate Professor Christoph Winkler

Associate Professor and Assistant Head of Department, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore

Associate Professor Christoph Winkler graduated from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany with a Diplom in Biology and a Diploma thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Munich-Martinsried. He received his Dr. rer. nat. degree from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany in 1994. He did his postdoctoral studies as a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1996 to 1998. After this, he became an independent group leader at the University of Wuerzburg. In 2007, he joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an associate professor and is a principal investigator at the Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) and the NUS Centre for Bioimaging Centre (CBIS). His current research areas are developmental biology, neurogenetics and molecular cell biology. His research lab uses zebrafish and medaka as models for biomedical research to investigate fundamental mechanisms underlying motor neuron degeneration in spinal muscular atrophy as well as bone diseases, such as osteoporosis. Christoph Winkler is also an Assistant Head at the Department of Biological Sciences.

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Computers Looking at People: Computer Vision for Human Motion and Activity Understanding

Assistant Professor Yingjie Angela Yao

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, School of Computing

National University of Singapore

A/Prof Angela Yao is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the School of Computing since 2018, where she leads the Computer Vision and Machine Learning group. She and her students develop algorithms for automated interpretation of images and video. Her group works on topics ranging from segmentation, pose estimation, to video understanding. Before coming to NUS, she was a junior professor at the University of Bonn, Germany. She received her PhD in 2012 from ETH Zurich.

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Make an Impact: How Computer Architecture Researchers Design Novel AI Accelerators, Processors and Improved Security Techniques

Assistant Professor Trevor Erik Carlson

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, School of Computing

National University of Singapore

Trevor E. Carlson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and 2003, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from Ghent University in 2014.

His research interests include highly-efficient microarchitectures, hardware/software co-design, performance modeling and fast and scalable simulation methodologies. Through the use of fast bottleneck analysis and simulation, his goal is to improve both performance and efficiency of next-generation processors. Dr. Carlson has over a decade of computer architecture experience covering both industry and academia. While a staff engineer at IBM from 2003 and 2007, he helped to author 4 issued patents. During his PhD, in collaboration with the Intel ExaScience Lab, he co-developed the Sniper Multi-core Simulator which is being used by hundreds of researchers to evaluate the performance and power-efficiency of next generation systems. As a researcher at imec, Belgium, and as a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden, he investigated processor architectures to more efficiently handle long-latency memory accesses. Dr. Carlson’s research has been published at leading journals and conferences in computer architecture and simulation such as the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, the International Symposium on Microarchitecture, the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture and the International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software.

Dr. Carlson has received a number of awards for his research into simulation, sampling and modeling. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation in 2016, and the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software in 2013. In addition, he has received two Best Paper Award nominations, one from the International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software in 2015 and one from the International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software in 2014. He was selected to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum as an outstanding young researcher with Turing, Fields and Abel Award winners in 2015, and his work with the Sniper Multi-Core Simulator received the HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award in 2013.

Computer architecture is the design and evaluation of computer systems. In this talk, I will provide an introduction into Computer Architecture research, detailing results that we have been able to produce when working with great researchers at all levels, from undergraduate, to graduate and PhD. Computer architecture is one of the factors that have led to the the huge jumps in computer performance over the past few years, and I hope to be able to give some insight into the research process that could be a model for how things can work for your future research endeavors. For example, a number of our recent undergrad students have helped to build our new AI accelerator, and I will also describe results from our PhD students, who have developed a new processor type to achieve energy-efficient performance, as well as processors that are more secure against side-channel attacks.

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Eminent Alumni Insights – Proud to be an NUS Graduate

Professor Liu Bin

Vice President, Research and Technology
Head, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Engineering

Liu Bin obtained her BSc degree from Nanjing University, PhD degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS), followed by postdoctoral training at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She joined NUS in late 2005, and is now Provost’s Chair Professor, Vice President for Research and Technology. She is interested in the design and synthesis of organic molecules and organic nanomaterials with optimized structure and functions for biomedical and energy applications. She is passionate about nurturing the next generation research leaders and encouraging more women to pursue careers in science and engineering.

Title: Proud to be an NUS Graduate

In this talk, Liu Bin will share with you her journey of PhD studies in NUS. She will also speak on her research about materials innovation and how new materials can make a difference in biomedical research and translation. She will further highlight the exciting research programs in her department and the university.

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Discussion Forum with Deanery

Professor Shen Zuowei

Vice Provost, Graduate Education

Dean, NUS Graduate School

Professor Shen Zuowei is Vice Provost (Graduate Education & Special Duties) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Prof Shen was Deputy Head of the NUS Department of Mathematics from 2006 to 2012, Head from 2012 to 2014, and Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2014 to 2020.

Prof Shen received his PhD in 1991 from the University of Alberta, Canada and completed his postdoctoral training at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined NUS in 1993, was promoted to full professor in 2002, and Distinguished Professor in 2009. Since 2013, Prof Shen has been Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor.

A renowned mathematician, Professor Shen is well-known for his fundamental contributions in mathematical foundations of data science, especially in the areas of approximation and wavelet theory, image processing and compressed sensing, computer vision and machine learning. Together with his collaborators, he has several signature theorems and algorithms that include developing a duality analysis that leads to three mathematical principles: the duality principle, the unitary extension principle and the oblique extension principle in approximation and wavelet theory; sparsity based balanced model and algorithms by using redundant systems in image processing; and the singular value thresholding algorithm in compressed sensing. His recent research interests focus on approximation theory of deep neural networks.

Prof Shen is a prominent researcher in his various fields of research. He sits on several editorial boards of top journals and has been invited to speak at many international conferences and congresses, including the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2010 and the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in 2015. Both ICM and ICIAM, which are held every four years, are the most reputable congresses in mathematics and applied mathematics, and being an invited speaker at these events is testament to his expertise and leadership in these fields.

Prof Shen has received numerous awards and honours, including the NUS Outstanding University Researcher Award (2008 and 1997), Wavelet Pioneer Award from the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, US (2012), and the National Science Award of Singapore (1998). He has been elected as Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (2020), Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, US (2019), Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, US (2017), and inaugural Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science (2011).

Chair

Professor Wong Limsoon

Deputy Dean, NUS Graduate School

Kwan-Im-Thong-Hood-Cho-Temple Professor, School of Computing

Programme Director, Integrative Science and Engineering Programme

Wong Limsoon is Deputy Dean of the NUS Graduate School and Kwan-Im-Thong-Hood-Cho-Temple Professor in the School of Computing. He currently works mostly on knowledge discovery technologies and their application to biomedicine. He is a Fellow of the ACM, inducted in 2013 for his contributions to database theory and computational biology. He is a recipient of the 2003 Asian Innovation Gold Award for his work on treatment optimization of childhood leukemias and the 2014 ICDT Test of Time Award for his work on naturally embedded query languages.

Panellists

Professor Bao Weizhu

Vice-Dean, Faculty of Science

Professor Bao Weizhu is currently a Professor at Department of
Mathematics and is Vice Dean for Graduate Matters and Academic Affairs at Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore (NUS).
He got his PhD from Tsinghua University in 1995. He joined NUS as
an Assistant Professor in 2000 and was promoted to Professor in 2009.
He had been appointed as the Provost’s Chair Professorship at NUS during
2013 — 2016. His research interests include numerical methods for partial
differential equations, scientific computing/numerical analysis,
analysis and computation for problems from physics, chemistry,
biology and engineering sciences. He was awarded the Feng Kang
Prize in Scientific Computing by the Chinese Computational Mathematics Society in 2013. He has been invited to give plenary and/or invited talks in many international conferences including the Invited Speaker at
the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2014.

Associate Professor Biplab Sikdar 

Vice-Dean, Graduate Programmes, Faculty of Engineering

Biplab Sikdar is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore, where he also serves as a Vice Dean in charge of graduate programs in the Faculty of Engineering. His research focuses on issues related to security and privacy issues in Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (USA), the Tan Chin Tuan fellowship from NTU Singapore, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science fellowship, and the Leiv Eiriksson fellowship from the Research Council of Norway. Dr. Sikdar is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.

Associate Professor Saxena Prateek

Dean’s Chair Associate Professor
Assistant Dean, Graduate Studies
Co-Director, CRYSTAL Centre, School of Computing

A/Prof Saxena Prateek is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at National University of Singapore. He works on computer security. His present research projects are on machine learning security, decentralized systems, privacy and harware architectures for security. He receievd his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012 and visited Microsoft Research Redmond during the summer of 2015.

Associate Professor Heng Chew Kiat

Assistant Dean (Graduate Studies), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

A/Prof Heng Chew Kiat is Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. The graduate programme in the school awards Master of Science (MSc) and doctoral degrees (PhD) by research. A/Prof Heng believes every graduate student has the potential to blossom into a successful biomedical scientist in their chosen field of specialization. The role of the school is therefore to provide the most nurturing and supporting environment as they undergo a very demanding training phase. His research interest is in cardiovascular genomics and he is also the Research Director of the Department of Paediatrics.

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Discussion Forum with Graduate Students and Alumni

Chair

Chair Name

Co-founder, Alva Energi

Nationality: Indonesia

Undergraduate University: University of Oxford, UK

Graduated 2021 from Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme

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Alumni Panellists

Panellist

Vice President, Strategic Partnership, AliveX

Nationality: Singapore

Undergraduate University: National University of Singapore

Graduated 2009 from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

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Panellist

Assistant Professor (Jan 2022), Harvard University

Nationality: India

Undergraduate University: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Graduated 2018 from CQT/ISEP/Computing

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Panellist

Senior Advisor to the Board of Sopra Steria Asia

Nationality: Singapore

Undergraduate University: Hohai University, China

Graduated 2000 from Faculty of Engineering

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Panellist

Assistant Professor,  Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Nationality: Singapore

Undergraduate University: University of Cambridge, UK

Graduated 2019 from Faculty of Science

Read About His NUS Journey

Student Panellists

Panellist

Nationality: USA

Year 4, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Undergraduate University: Miami University of Ohio, USA

Read About Her NUS Journey

Panellist

Nationality: China

Year 4, Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme

Undergraduate University: National University of Singapore

Read About His NUS Journey

Panellist

Nationality: Singapore

Year 3, School of Computing

Undergraduate University: National University of Singapore

Read About His NUS Journey

Panellist

Nationality: Germany

Year 1, Faculty of Science/Centre for Quantum Technologies

Undergraduate University: Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)

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