Instructors
Nilanjan Raghunath
Adjunct Associate Professor, HASS, SUTD
Nilanjan Raghunath is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology and the future of work at HASS, SUTD. Her research and teaching focus on AI, automation, design, the future of work, and AI ethics, examining how technological change reshapes employability, inequality, and social capital. She also contributes to pedagogical research and curriculum design, developing interdisciplinary, practice-oriented learning experiences at the intersection of sociology, AI, and design. She is the author of Shaping the Futures of Work: Proactive Governance and Millennials (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University (2023–2024).
Bradley Camburn
Senior Lecturer, EPD, SUTD
Dr Camburn’s current research centres on leveraging AI to enhance the capabilities of physics-based simulation in support of the design process. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and made key contributions to design science, particularly in ideation and prototyping.
Before joining SUTD, he was an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University from 2019-2023. He received his PhD from the University of Texas in 2015 and his bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008, both in Mechanical Engineering. He was formerly the Chief Engineer at Gilmour Space Technologies and led the Research and Development team to produce the world’s largest single-port hydrogen peroxide oxidised hybrid rocket engine. He also previously worked as a Research Scientist at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Design Centre (IDC).
Kwan Wei Lek
Senior Lecturer, Associate Head of Cluster (SMT), SUTD
Wei Lek is currently a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of Cluster for the Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) cluster in SUTD. He received his PhD degree at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining SUTD, Wei Lek was a lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic for 7 years and an adjunct faculty at the Singapore Institute of Technology.
Oka Kurniawan
Senior Lecturer, Director (Education), OAIDI, SUTD
Though his first name sounds like a Japanese, Oka was actually born in Indonesia. He came to Singapore in 2000 to study Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. After he finished his Bachelor degree, he continued his further study in NTU to obtain his doctoral degree in Semiconductor Physics. In the last year of his doctoral degree, he began to work at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore. During his term in IHPC, he was involved with various research projects using numerical methods to solve quantum mechanics, electromagnetics, and plasmonics. After three and a half year in IHPC, he realised that his passion in teaching has not yet been realised, and so he moved on to School of Mathematics and Science, Singapore Polytechnic, in 2011. After completing his two-year contract, he then decided to join SUTD. While teaching in Singapore Polytechnic, he was also an adjunct lecturer at Digipen Singapore, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT).
Oka’s research interests are in simulation and modelling, scientific computing, numerical methods for physics and semiconductor devices. He has also been involved in some healthcare-related projects. Besides his passion in teaching and research, he loves to read books, listen to music, outdoor activities, and spending time with his family.
Natalie Agus
Senior Lecturer, ISTD, SUTD
Dr Natalie Agus is a lecturer in the ISTD pillar at SUTD. She has a strong passion in teaching and has begun helping and teaching various undergraduate computing courses at Sophomore, Junior, and Senior levels since her PhD candidature. The subjects she currently teaches also include programming in Python, Java, C#, and C/C++. She is interested in searching new ideas to deliver academic materials in the most engaging way possible, and constantly updates her teaching methods accordingly. Apart from teaching, she is also currently involved in research projects involving room acoustics and music information retrieval. Her thesis focused on developing binaural room reverberation algorithms, which allow perceptually realistic audio rendering in real time. She obtained her Bachelor of engineering with specialisation in robotics and completed her PhD in digital audio signal processing in SUTD right before joining the university as a lecturer. During her free time, she enjoys boxing, playing acoustic guitar, as well as piano.
Franklin Anariba
Senior Lecturer, SMT, SUTD
Obtained his Bachelor of Arts in chemistry at Rutgers University in New Jersey. As an undergraduate he carried out electropolymerisation research under the supervision of Prof Alexander Yacynych at Rutgers University, and in bionsensors under the supervision of Prof Alexander Scheeline at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After a short stint at Merck & Co. in Rawah, New Jersey, he pursued graduate studies at the Ohio State University, where he obtained a MSc in analytical chemistry and a PhD in molecular device fabrication under the supervision of Prof Richard McCreery.
Subsequently, he joined Prof David Bocian at the University of California, Riverside, where he studied molecular memory devices and metal/molecule/semiconductor interfaces which eventually led to technologies commercialised by Zettacore, Inc. Subsequently, he worked as a research scientist at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN, Singapore) where he worked on integrating microfabrication techniques amenable to surface chemistry modification processes, bioimaging, and localised surface Plasmon resonance for DNA amplification. In 2012, he joined SUTD.