{"id":17387,"date":"2026-08-17T17:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=17387"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:45:02","slug":"asst-prof-wang-lei-awarded-2026-robert-brown-promising-researcher-award","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/news\/asst-prof-wang-lei-awarded-2026-robert-brown-promising-researcher-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Asst Prof Wang Lei Awarded 2026 Robert Brown Promising Researcher Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17389 \" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/dr-wang-lei-robert-brown-promising-researcher-award-2026-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/dr-wang-lei-robert-brown-promising-researcher-award-2026-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/dr-wang-lei-robert-brown-promising-researcher-award-2026-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/dr-wang-lei-robert-brown-promising-researcher-award-2026-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/dr-wang-lei-robert-brown-promising-researcher-award-2026-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/dr-wang-lei-robert-brown-promising-researcher-award-2026.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Asst Prof Wang Lei has been awarded the 2026 Robert Brown Promising Researcher Award from the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE). The award recognises outstanding early-career researchers with strong potential to advance academic research and innovation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asst Prof Wang received the award for his project on AI-driven electrochemical diagnosis for sustainable catalysis, which uses AI and electrochemical sensing to better understand catalytic reactions in real time.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asst Prof Wang Lei has been awarded the 2026 Robert Brown Promising Researcher Award from the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE). The award recognises outstanding early-career researchers with strong potential to advance academic research and innovation. Asst Prof Wang received the award for his project on AI-driven electrochemical diagnosis for sustainable catalysis, which uses AI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":17389,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[21,31],"class_list":["post-17387","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-news","news_category-faculty-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/17387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/17387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17391,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/17387\/revisions\/17391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}