Biography
Edwin Koh is Programme Director (Capstone), Associate Head of Programme (Design and Artificial Intelligence), and Cheng Tsang Man Teaching Chair Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He has previously served as founding Programme Director (MSc in Design and Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise) and Provost’s Chair Teaching Professor at SUTD. Prior to joining SUTD, Edwin has held full-time, visiting, and committee positions at the National University of Singapore, New York University, and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP), respectively. His research focuses on improving the design process and appears in journals such as Research in Engineering Design. Edwin received his BEng in Mechanical Engineering and SM in Manufacturing from the Nanyang Technological University. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of his master’s studies and holds a PhD in Engineering Design from the University of Cambridge.
Education
- PhD (University of Cambridge)
- BEng, SM (Nanyang Technological University)
Professional activities
- Membership in scientific and professional societies: Design Society
Institutional and professional services
- Provost’s Chair Teaching Professor from 2024 to Present
- Programme Director, Capstone from 2023 to Present
- Associate Head of Programme, Design and Artificial Intelligence from 2021 to Present
- Senior Lecturer at the Design and Artificial Intelligence Programme from 2020 to Present
- Senior Lecturer at the Engineering Product Development Pillar from 2020 to Present
- Programme Director, MDAIE from 2025 to 2026
Awards
- Outstanding Educator Award (SUTD Awards 2024)
Selected publications
- E.C.Y. Koh, “From text to DSM: evaluating the impact of writing style and entity naming on LLM-based retrieval of asymmetrical indirect design dependencies,” Research in Engineering Design, vol. 37, no. 2, p. 13. 2026. doi:10.1007/s00163-026-00476-2.
- E.C.Y. Koh, “Auto-DSM: Using a large language model to generate a design structure matrix,” Natural Language Processing Journal, vol. 9, p. 100103. 2024. doi:10.1016/j.nlp.2024.100103.
- E.C.Y. Koh, “Resilience analysis of infrastructure systems in incremental design change,” Computers in Industry, vol. 142, p. 103734. 2022. doi:10.1016/j.compind.2022.103734.
- E. C. Y. Koh, “Design change prediction based on social media sentiment analysis,” Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, vol. 36, p. e24, 2022. doi:10.1017/S0890060422000129.
- E.C.Y. Koh, “Retrieving asymmetrical indirect links through large language models,” presented at the 27th International DSM Conference (DSM 2025), Hoboken, NJ, USA. 2025.
- E.C.Y. Koh, “Generating a design structure matrix with a large language model,” presented at the 26th International DSM Conference (DSM 2024), Stuttgart, Germany. 2024.
- E.C.Y. Koh, L.S. Tai, A.A. Kassim, “A design and artificial intelligence undergraduate curriculum based on project-based learning,” presented at the 9th International Research Symposium on Problem-Based Learning (Irspbl): Transforming Engineering Education 2023, Cambridge, MA. 2023.