Highlights
Liu Guangxin, PhD student under the supervision of Associate Professor Wu Lin, has received the Best Flash Talk Award.
Liu Guangxin, received the Best Flash Talk Award at Advanced Photonics: The Intelligent Photonics Forum, held in Foshan, China, from 7 to 9 November 2025. His presentation, Deep Learning-Driven Quantum Nanophotonic Systems, was recognized for its excellence and innovation.
One in four SUTD faculty ranked among top 2% of world’s best scientists for 2024
In the latest “World’s Top 2%” scientists list released by Stanford University in September 2025, SUTD faculty were listed across fields including artificial intelligence & image processing, networking & telecommunications, optics and applied physics.
Design Thinking and Innovation Project Showcase at 2025 Crea8 Sustainability Competition
This marks a significant milestone—the first-ever external and public showcase of our Term 2 students’ works from the Design Thinking and Innovation course.
2025 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow – Professor Ricky Ang
A distinguished theoretical and computational scientist, Prof Ang’s research focuses on developing theoretical scaling laws and models to address complex physical problems.
2025 Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT)
SUTD Associate Professor Wu Lin and alumna Jia Yifan have been featured in the Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) 2025 list.
Professor Chua Chee Kai named 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar (Lifetime) by ScholarGPS
SUTD President Professor Phoon Kok Kwang, as well as Prof Tony Quek (Head of ISTD), Prof Yang Hui Ying (EPD), Assoc Prof Soujanya Poria (ISTD), and Assistant Prof Xiong Zehui (ISTD), are also named Highly Ranked Scholar based on prior five-year activity.
The art and science of twisting light
SUTD researchers designed a novel nonlinear chiral metasurface that could generate circularly polarized light more easily, expanding optics-based applications.
Superconducting qubit baths give clean simulation of quantum transport
Researchers from Singapore and China have used a superconducting quantum processor to study the phenomenon of quantum transport in unprecedented detail.
Designing a spiral ladder-inspired tool that allows precision control of light direction and polarisation
SUTD researchers developed a novel bilayer metasurface that enables unidirectional circularly polarised waves to be emitted, opening up possibilities in the fields of biological and chemical sensing, optical communications, and quantum computing.
More than a quarter of SUTD faculty ranked top 2% of world’s best scientists for 2023
The prestigious list, as compiled by Stanford University, is based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes more than 220,000 researchers from across the globe, classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.