SUTD Assistant Professor Malika Meghjani listed in Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders and SUTD alumna recognised as rising tech star
SUTD Assistant Professor Malika Meghjani listed in Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders and SUTD alumna recognised as rising tech star
For her pioneering research in artificial intelligence and robotics, Assistant Professor Malika Meghjani from the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) pillar has been named in the Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders list of 2025.
The Asia Women Tech Leaders Award, with its inaugural edition in 2024, seeks to recognise 50 accomplished women technologists from the Asia-Pacific region. The Award celebrates the achievements of these inspiring women leaders who will become the role models of young girls and women who aspire to have good careers in tech.
Excerpt of Assistant Prof Meghjani’s citation for the award:
“Currently an Assistant Professor, Dr Meghjani leads a diverse and interdisciplinary research group advancing the frontiers of marine robotics. Her groundbreaking work integrates multi-agent reinforcement learning, heterogeneous robotic systems, and semantically aware AI to monitor marine environments. Her innovations – underwater autonomous vehicles to UAVs and USVs working in coordinated swarms – provide real-time environmental intelligence with reduced human intervention. These technologies significantly affect water quality modelling, coral reef conservation, and sustainable aquaculture. Deployed locally and globally, her systems already contribute to climate-resilient coastal management in Singapore and beyond.”
At the Asia Women Tech Leaders Award ceremony held in Singapore on 29 April 2025, SUTD alumna Rachel Chua (Computer Science and Design, Class of 2020) was also awarded Top 10 Asia Young Women Rising Tech Stars.
These exceptional young women technologists are trailblazers who contribute to the advancement of society and drive innovation in emerging technologies.
Excerpt of Rachel’s citation for the award:
Rachel’s recent work has seen her at the forefront of innovation in the healthcare space, where she led an exploratory project that applied generative AI to deliver personalised, contextual information to users. Undertaken during the early stages of the generative AI boom, the project tested the boundaries of the emerging technology and offered a glimpse into its transformative potential.