Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Whatsapp Academy Fellows Asst Prof Mohan Rajesh Elara Mohan Rajesh Elara Fellow Assistant Professor at SUTD Expertise: Design Innovations Dr. Mohan is currently an Assistant Professor with the Engineering Product Development Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He received his Ph.D in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and M.Sc in Consumer Electronics degrees from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained his B.E degree from the Amrita Institute of Technology and Sciences, Bharathiar University, India. Before joining SUTD, he was a Lecturer in the School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic. His research interests are in robotics with an emphasis on self-reconfigurable platforms as well as research problems related to robot ergonomics and autonomous systems. Prof Peter Jackson Peter Jackson Senior Fellow Head of Pillar at SUTD Expertise: Data Science Peter Jackson served as the Director of the Cornell University Systems Engineering Program. He led the introduction of its online M. Eng. degree program in systems engineering which was subsequently ranked in the top eight such programs by US News and World Report. He has published over thirty articles, primarily in production planning and scheduling, and multi-echelon inventory management. He is the author of an introductory text on systems engineering, Getting Design Right: A Systems Approach. He advised 50 M. Eng. projects over 36 years of service at Cornell. Dr Jaclyn Lee Jaclyn Lee Senior Fellow Chief Human Resources Officer at SUTD Expertise: Data Analytics and Agile Thinking Jaclyn manages Human Resources, Faculty Administration, Organisational Development and Digital HR in her current role as Chief Human Resources Officer. She has over 25 years of experience in Human Resources in various industries. Before joining SUTD, was the Senior Vice President of Group Human Resources in a large Temasek-linked Company. Jaclyn also has rich experience in managing large and diverse workforces, as well as HR projects in the Asia Pacific Region. In her prior role in NEC Corp, she was the Regional HR Director and HR Business Expert for the South Asia Region. Jaclyn has in recent years been advocating the use of Digital technologies for Employee Experience, and also educating the HR community on the use of Data Analytics for the HR Function. She is a frequent speaker in key conferences and also sits in various national HR committees and workgroups. She has a Doctor of Philosophy (Phd) in Business Information Systems from University of Twente in the Netherlands, Master of Business from SMU, Master of HRM from Rutgers University and a BSc in Psychology from Brandon University in Canada. Asst Prof Luo Jianxi Luo Jianxi Fellow Assistant Professor at SUTD Expertise: Design Innovations Jianxi Luo was born in Chongqing, China, and holds degrees in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing and engineering systems from MIT in Cambridge, MA. He is currently assistant professor of engineering product development at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where he leads the Data-Driven Innovation Lab. He is also associate director of the SUTD Technology Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP). Prof. Luo has a strong passion for design, innovation and entrepreneurship in research, teaching and practice. His research applies system theories and network analysis methods to designing products, processes and ecosystems for better chances of innovation. Recent research focuses on developing scientific principles and a data-driven decision support system for concept generation and direction-finding for innovation. He teaches courses on “entrepreneurship”, “innovation”, and “design”, to undergraduate, graduate and executive students from diverse backgrounds. In practice, he was a (co-)founder of several start-ups in the United States. Prior to joining SUTD, he was a faculty member at the Tandon School of Engineering of New York University, a visiting scholar at Columbia University in NYC and the University of Cambridge in UK. He is a chair emeritus of the Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section of INFORMS. Assoc Prof Arlindo Silva Arlindo Silva Senior Fellow Associate Professor at SUTD Expertise: Design Innovations Arlindo joined SUTD in 2015. Before that, he spent 24 years teaching and doing research at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Lisbon (UL), Portugal, where he taught Materials, Design and other Engineering related topics at all levels of higher education. He has written 2 books and co-edited 2 more, published over 100 articles in journals, conferences and book chapters, and filed over 50 patents with his students on innovative designs. He was also a Senior Materials Education consultant at Granta Design Ltd, Cambridge, UK, and is an active member of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Design Society (DS), the International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (SPEE). Assoc Prof Sun Jun Sun Jun Senior Fellow Associate Professor at SUTD Expertise: Cybersecurity Sun Jun's interests lies in developing systematic tools/theories/methodologies for software/system correctness, reliability and efficiency. Sun's current focus is on automated system verification techniques, in particular, model checking. Sun is interested in publishing at the following top-tier conferences and journals: CAV, ICSE, FSE, FM, TACAS, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, etc. A big part of his recent research is on a model checking framework called PAT. To this date (3.5.14), PAT has attracted more than 3000 registered users from more than 300 organizations. It has been used to teach formal methods and model checking in multiple universities and companies. Assoc Prof Bige Tunçer Bige Tunçer Senior Fellow Associate Head of Pillar at SUTD Expertise: Urban Solutions Bige Tunçer is an associate professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. She leads the Informed Design Group, which focuses on data collection, information and knowledge modeling and visualization, for informed architectural and urban design. She has led and participated in various research projects in design computation. She currently leads a large multi-disciplinary project, investigating multi-modal data collection on user and usage information of public spaces in residential new towns, and develops a design system for the adaptive redesign of such spaces. She has taught many design computation and studio courses to undergraduate and graduate students. Currently she teaches Capstone, where all engineering and architecture students form groups to work on industry defined and funded design projects and develop prototypes. Prof Kristin Wood Kristin Wood Senior Fellow Head of Pillar at SUTD Expertise: Design Innovations Kristin L Wood is Co-Director of the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC). He completed his Master’s and Ph.D degrees in Mechanical Engineering (Division of Engineering and Applied Science) at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joining SUTD, he was the Cullen Trust Endowed Faculty Professor in Engineering and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Prof Wood’s research focus is in the areas of innovation processes, ideation methods, design-by-analogy, advanced manufacturing processes, such as Solid Freeform Fabrication, methods in product development and innovation, design for manufacturing and tolerance methods, machine-system design, design for product flexibility, design transformer theory, reverse-engineering, and design teaching and learning methods. He has received numerous national and international awards in engineering education, teaching and design research. Prof David Yau David Yau Senior Fellow Professor at SUTD Expertise: Cybersecurity David Yau obtained the B.Sc. (first class honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, all in computer science. He is now Professor in the Information Systems Technology and Design pillar of the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Since 2010, he has been Distinguished Scientist at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore, where he is Cybersecurity Program Director. He is also Qiushi Chaired Professor in the Department of Control, Zhejiang University, China. From 1997 to 2013 (on leave 2010-12), he was Assistant Professor then Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University (West Lafayette). In 2004, he was on sabbatical leave as Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, CUHK. David’s research interests are in network protocol design and implementation, network and cyber-physical system security and privacy, quality of service (QoS), network incentives, and wireless sensor networks. He received an IBM Fellowship and a CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. He won Best Paper award in 2017 IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) and 2010 IEEE Int’l Conf. Multi-sensor Fusion and Integration (MFI). He was Mark Weiser Best Paper finalist of 2013 IEEE Int’l Conf. Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), and Best Paper finalists of 2013 ACM BuildSys, 2013 IEEE Int’l Conf. Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA), and 2007 IEEE Int’l Conf. Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS). Prof Zhou Jianying Zhou Jianying Senior Fellow Professor at SUTD Expertise: Cybersecurity Prof. Jianying Zhou received PhD in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London. He has rich career experiences, having worked in research institutes, industry, and universities in different countries (China, USA and Singapore). Before joining SUTD, he was a principal scientist and the head of Infocomm Security Department at Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR. He was a security consultant at the headquarters of Oracle Corporation. He worked at Kent Ridge Digital Labs as a project manager and in National University of Singapore as a post-doctoral fellow. He also worked in Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research engineer. Prof. Zhou’s research interests are in applied cryptography, computer and network security, cyber-physical security, mobile and wireless security. He has published 200+ referred papers at international conferences and journals with 6000+ citations, and received ESORICS’15 best paper award. He has 2 technologies being standardized in ISO/IEC 29192-4 and ISO/IEC 20009-4, respectively. He also has a number of technologies being patented. Prof. Zhou is a co-founder & steering committee co-chair of International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS). He is also steering committee chair of ACM AsiaCCS, and steering committee member of Asiacrypt. He has served 200+ times in international crypto and security conference committees (ACM CCS & AsiaCCS, IEEE CSF, ESORICS, RAID, ACNS, Asiacrypt, PKC, FC etc.) as general chair, program chair, and PC member. Adjunct Fellows Cheng Yi Chiao, Yitch Cheng Yi Chiao, Yitch Adjunct Fellow Internal Innovation, Tech Lead, KPMG Expertise: Systems Thinking Cheng Yi Chiao, Yitch is SUTD Academy Adjunct Fellow and trained as an electronics engineer specialising in IC Design. He has worked in enterprises and startups across different industries. His specialisations include domain knowledge in Healthcare and accounting firms. In his spare time he runs meetups for Product management Presently Yitch looks at Internal Innovation helping to modernise audit. Chow Kok Wah Chow Kok Wah Senior Adjunct Fellow General Manager at Singapore Institute of Aerospace Engineers Expertise: Aircraft Engineering and Maintenance Operations Chow Kok Wah has more than 30 years of experience in airline and engineering & maintenance operations in the Singapore Airlines Group. He was Senior Vice President in charge of Line Maintenance and Information Technology in the SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC), a MRO subsidiary of Singapore Airlines from 2012 to 2015 managing a team of 1,800 personnel and generating almost $400 million in annual revenue. In this capacity, he also supervised SIAEC’s line maintenance subsidiaries and joint venture companies in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Australia which together have a combined personnel strength of 700 and operates in 33 airports in 5 countries. Kok Wah is currently the General Manager of Air Transport Training College which trains engineers and technicians for the aerospace industry. He remains active in the aviation community. He is the Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Institute of Aerospace Engineers (SIAE) which represents aerospace professionals and the Honorary Treasurer of the Association of Aerospace Industries of Singapore (AAIS) which represents aerospace companies in Singapore. Dr Michael Fung Dr Michael Fung Senior Adjunct Fellow Group Director (Planning Group) and Chief Data Officer at SkillsFuture Singapore Expertise: Data Science, Robotics, MEMS Michael Fung is the Group Director (Planning Group) and Chief Data Officer at SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a public policy and funding agency driving the implementation of the national SkillsFuture movement, promoting lifelong learning and skills mastery, and strengthening Singapore's education and training the ecosystem. He oversees the strategic policy and planning, resource planning, and human resource functions, and also champions the data governance, management, and reporting practices at SSG. Previously, he was the Group Director (Policy Group) and Chief Data Officer at the Singapore Workforce Development Agency. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Southern California, USA; bachelor and master degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, USA; and completed two executive programs at Tsinghua University, China. Dr Uwe Kaufmann Dr Uwe Kaufmann Senior Fellow Managing Director at Centre for Organisational Effectiveness Dr Kaufmann holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He has more than twenty years of experience in implementing organisational improvements and changes in a wide range of industries. This includes private organisations such as Alstom, Aon, Armstrong, Bao Steel, Bosch, Bosch Siemens Home Appliances, Flextronics, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan, Schneider Electric, DB Schenker, Siemens, TCL, TRW, Wilmax Systems; as well as Public Service agencies such as ISCA, MSF, MFA, MinDef, MOF, MOH, MOM, MTI, IE Singapore, Muis and the Kingdom of Tonga. Dr Koh Yong Khiang Dr Koh Yong Khiang Adjunct Fellow Vice President/Chief Engineer, Engineering Analysis at Singapore Technologies Kinetics Expertise: Dr Koh Yong Khiang received his BEng (Hons.) degree in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1981 and 1984 respectively. Upon graduation, he worked as a Product Engineer responsible for product failure analysis, design improvement and application of MCAE software in structural stress and dynamics analyses. Dr Koh Yong Khiang joined Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd in March 1994 as a Principal Engineer taking part in the indigenous infantry fighting vehicle design and development programme. In October 1988, he continued to pursue his postgraduate study & research at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton in UK under the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholarship. He graduated with a PhD degree, specializing in Structural Vibration and Control in February 1993. Dr Koh co-owns a patent titled: A Vibration Reducing Assembly, P-No: 99870, granted on 30th June 2005. The product features a two-stage suspended vibration isolated trooper floorboard which reduces physical fatigue of the troopers and prolongs their combat effectiveness. Ian Loe Ian Loe Adjunct Fellow Director, Government Cybersecurity Operations at GovTech Expertise: Cybersecurity Ian Loe has more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry with wide industry experience spanning public sector to financial services. He has deep knowledge in enterprise architecture covering technology, data, and business processes with deep expertise in governance and security technologies. Today Ian is responsible for the management of cybersecurity operations in the Government Technology Agency of Singapore. Steven Ng Steven Ng Adjunct Senior Fellow Chief Strategy Officer at USER Experience Researchers Pte Ltd Expertise: Strategy Development, Business Transformation, Product Development Mr Steven is SUTD Academy Adjunct Senior Fellow and Chief Strategy Officer of USER Experience Researchers, a tech solution house with expertise in advanced mobile application development, digital transformation and is one of the first local UX agency in Asia to do user experience research and design. He was formerly CEO of Global Databank, a digital start-up venture of an investment holding group. A veteran with over 28 years experience in the Infocomm Technology industry, Steven has held senior management positions in AT&T and Gartner amongst other tech companies. In various roles, he has led strategy development, business transformation, M&A and geo-expansion, spearheading numerous product development initiatives and business diversification. He has very broad financial, business and operations expertise including management consultancy to MNCs. Dr Yuanfu Qiu Dr Yuanfu Qiu Adjunct Senior Fellow Founder at USER Experience Researchers Pte Ltd Expertise: User Experience Design, eCommerce, Big Data Analytics, Internet Innovation Dr Qiu is the founder of USER Experience Researchers Pte Ltd, a leading UX design service company in Asia focusing on user experience. He has over 18 years’ experience in responsive web design, ecommerce, mobile apps design innovation, user experience design and research in world leading MNC and local companies. He graduated as the first PhD in Singapore in user experience program from Nanyang Technological University Singapore, supervised by Prof Martin Helander and Chui Yong Ping, the worldwide UX pioneer and leader. He has a Master in Industrial Engineering, and Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. He was professionally trained in interaction design, computer science and management science. He has published more than 30 papers in international conferences and journals, including the Best Paper awards in APCHI, IEEE CIS International Conferences. He was a reviewer of UPA, CHI, and HFES conferences, the president of Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) Singapore, a member of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), CHI and IEEE Society, advisory board member for SIM university Human factors program. Er Dr Mike Teng Er Dr Mike Teng Senior Adjunct Fellow Assistant Secretary General at Singapore Manufacturing Federation Expertise: Innovation and Productivity Er Dr Teng is currently the Assistant Secretary General of Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF), Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Innovation and Productivity Centre, (SiPi) a national productivity centre as well as the Centre for Corporate Learning under Singapore Manufacturing Federation. Er Dr Mike Teng is the author of the best-selling book "Corporate Turnaround: Nursing a sick company back to health", in 2002. His book is endorsed by management guru Professor Philip Kotler and business tycoons Mr Oei Hong Leong and Dr YY Wong. He had authored twenty seven management books mainly in the productivity and innovation topics. He has more than 30 years of experience in leading corporate and business model transformation in the Asia Pacific region. Of these, he held Chief Executive Officer’s positions for more than 20 years in multi-national and publicly listed companies. He also used to advise several boards of directors of publicly-listed companies such as Jurong Engineering Ltd, Enzer and Informatics. Teo Chor Guan We use cookies to ensure that you get the best experience while browsing our website. By continuing, you are agreeing to our cookie policy. To decline cookies, modify your browser settings at any time. Ok, I got it.