STEPHEN TAY (DR)

Associate Professor (Educator)

Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • PhD in Materials, Imperial College London (2015)
    o National Research Foundation (Clean Energy) Overseas Scholarship
  •  B.Eng. in Materials Engineering (First Class Honours), Nanyang Technological University (2011)
    o Dean’s List for 2009/2010 and 2010/2011
    o A*STAR Pre-Graduate Scholarship for 2010/2011
  • Workforce Skills Qualifications Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (2017)

EMPLOYMENT RECORDS:

  • Associate Professor, Department of the Built Environment, NUS (2023 – Present)
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Building, NUS (2019 – 2022)
  • Adjunct Researcher, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, NUS (2019 – Present)
  •  Head of Urban Solar Group and National Solarisation Centre, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, NUS (2017 – 2018)
  • Head of National Solarisation Centre, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, NUS (2016 – 2017)
  • Deputy Head of National Solarisation Centre, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, NUS (2015 –2016)

PROFESSIONAL/CONSULTING ACTIVITIES:

  • Working Group Member on Renewable Energy Certificates, Singapore Standards Council (2021)
  • Taskforce member of Green Built-Environment Advisory Committee for the Singapore Green Building
    Masterplan (2020)
  •  Invited speaker and panelist for Sustainable Energy Technology Asia 2018 (2018)
  • Lead Trainer for ASEAN Training of Trainers on Solar Technology for Renewable Energy Training
    Institutions (2018)
  • Country representative for ACE-USAID Workshop on Renewable Energy Incentive (2017)
  • Consultant for Imperial Consultants advising a Fortune Global 500 company (2013-2014)

TEACHING:

  • PF1101 Fundamentals of Project Management
  • PF3504 Energy Management
  • PF4305 Green Developmemt

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Solar photovoltaic performance in the urban environment
  • Co-location of solar photovoltaic systems and greenery
  • Willingness-to-pay and social perceptions on renewable energy

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  • Mavian Xin Yi Tay, Grace Khei Mie Wong, Siu-Kit Lau, Stephen En Rong Tay, Motivations and
    deterrents of Asian small and medium-sized enterprises’ willingness to adopt green electricity, Journal of
    Cleaner Production, Volume 370, 2022, 133233, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133233
  •  Member of Working Group that developed the SS 673 : 2021 Code of practice for renewable energy
    certificates, published by Enterprise Singapore (2021)
  •  Chapter contribution to Update of the Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Roadmap for Singapore, commissioned by
    the National Climate Change Secretariat (2020)
  • Chapter contribution to Where Sun Meets Water : Floating Solar Market Report – Executive Summary
    (English), commissioned by World Bank Group (2018)
  • Chapter contribution to Super Low Energy Building Technology Roadmap, commissioned by Building
    Construction and Authority (2018)

AWARDS:

  • University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY21/22 (2023)
  • University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY20/21 (2022)
  •  University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY19/20 (2021)
  • Young Green Building Advocate Award Category under the SGBC-BCA Sustainability Leadership Awards
    (2019)
  • Nanoscale article selected for the “2016 Nanoscale HOT Article Collection” and featured in the Stanford
    Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Science Highlights (2016)
  •  1st prize for presentation and poster competition, Electrophoretic Deposition V: Fundamentals and
    Applications (2014)
  •  1st prize for technical presentations, IET Present Around the World Competition (UK South East Region)
    (2013)
  •  1st prize, Royal School of Mines Association Essay Competition (2012)
  •  1st prize for poster competition, Discover URECA@NTU (2010)
  •  NTU President Research Scholar (2009/2010)
  •  DSO-URECA Research Scholar (2008/2009)