Associate Professor James Kah

Vice Dean
Outreach & Special Projects

James KAH is  the Vice Dean overseeing outreach and special projects at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering (2009) from NUS. Prior to joining NUS, James was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

As an educator, James runs courses on Gerontechnology in Ageing and Assistive Technology for Persons with Disability (PWDs) while leveraging on novel educational strategies in community-based learning to teach and drive innovations in these areas through co-designing solutions with the elderly and disability communities in Singapore towards community deployment to address their challenges to daily living. In his current administrative role as Assistant Dean, he oversees the outreach efforts of CDE to our educator partners in high schools and to prospective undergraduates through the various programmes and activities to ensure that CDE attracts the best students.