Staff Awards & Achievements

  • Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) 2022
    Honour Roll* (2023-2027)

    SOH Wee Seng – Associate Professor

    *Faculty members who have been awarded either the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) or Annual Digital Education Award (ADEA) three times (since AY 03/04) will be placed on the Honour Roll to honour their sustained high performance in teaching.
    Individual TAN Yan Fu, Vincent – Associate Professor
    Team SOH Wee Seng (Team Lead) – Associate Professor
    Tan Chin Chye, Henry – Professional Officer
    Sangit SASIDHAR – Senior Lecturer
    Ravi S/O SUPPIAH – Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
  • Assistant Professor Mike Shou –
    Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list – Class of 2022.
  • Associate Professor Tan Yan Fu, Vincent–
    Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2022.
  • Professor Guo Yong Xin –
    Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, January 2022.
    He is honoured for his contributions to the field of Microwaves and Antennas.
  • Professor Massimo Alioto –
    Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2022-2023.
  • Associate Professor Sanjib Kumar Panda –
    Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Power Electronics Society, 1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2023.
  • Professor Guo Yong Xin –
    Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, for years 2022-2024.
  • Adjunct Associate Professor Liew Yun Fook – Asia Pacific Metrology Programme (APMP) Award, Regional Metrology Organization (RMO) Asia Pacific, 25 Nov 2021.
    He is honoured for his significant contributions to the development of metrology in Asia Pacific region.
  • Professor Chen Zhining – IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s John Kraus Antenna Award 2021, 15 Oct 2021.
    Prof Chen is honoured for outstanding contributions to translational research of electromagnetic metamaterials for antenna engineering.
  • Professor Zhang Rui – Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, 7 July 2021.
    He is recognised for his achievements in the field of wireless communications.
  • Professor Ho Ghim Wei – Elected Fellow, the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 15 May 2021.
  • Dr Luo Sha – ATEA (Team) 2021.
    Associate Professor Heng Chun Huat – ATEA (Team) 2021.
    Dr Mike Shou Zheng – NRF Fellowship 2021.
  • Prof Zhang Rui – Appointed Provost Chair, NUS with effect from 1 Jan 2021.
  • Assoc Prof Qiu Cheng Wei – Reappointed Dean’s Chair, FoE with effect from 1 Jan 2021.
  • Award-Winning ECE Teachers & Educators: AY2019/2020
    Engineering Educator Award:
    • Chua Dingjuan – Lecturer
    • Soh Wee Seng – Associate Professor
    • Tan Yan Fu, Vincent – Associate Professor
    Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
    • Danner Aaron – Associate Professor
    • Heng Chun Huat – Associate Professor
    • Jerald Yoo – Associate Professor
    • Rajesh Panicker – Senior Lecturer
    • Sangit Sasidhar – Senior Lecturer
    Innovative Teaching Award
    • Rajesh Panicker – Senior Lecturer
  • Prof Dipti Srinivasan – IEEE Singapore 2020 Outstanding Volunteer Award.
    She is recognised for her excellent service in furthering the mission of the chapter.
  • Assoc Prof Panda Sanjib Kumar – IEEE Fellow 2020
    He is recognised for his contributions to iterative learning control of motor drives.
  • Dr John Ho –
    Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) Young Scientist Award, 18 Dec 2020.
  • Associate Professor Qiu Chengwei & team –
    2020 Physics World’s Top 10 Breakthroughs, 11 Dec 2020.
    Their research work on “photonic ‘magic angles’ in twisted 2D materials” has won the them this award.
  • Professor Li Haizhou –
    Elected as a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Awards Board for the term January 2021 through 31 December 2023.
  • Professor Zhang Rui, Professor Sam Ge, Associate Professor Qiu Cheng Wei & Associate Professor Thomas Yeo –
    The World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers 2020, 30 Nov 2020.
  • Assistant Professor John Ho –
    Institute of Engineers, Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards Applied 2020 (Research and Development category), 30 Nov 2020.
    The winning entry is entitled “Small-scale Wireless Bioelectronics for Remote-controlled Phototherapy”.
  • Assistant Professor Benjamin Tee (Courtesy Appointment) –
    Institute of Engineers, Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards Applied 2020 (Research and Development category), 30 Nov 2020.
    The winning entry is entitled “Neuro-Inspired Electronic Skin Nervous System for Intelligent Autonomous Robotics”.
  • Associate Professor Vincent Tan Yan Fu –
    Elected to the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors, 5 Nov 2020.
  • Assistant Professor Mandar Anil Chitre –
    IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society’s Distinguished Technical Achievement Award, 6 Oct 2020. He is honoured for his contributions to underwater communication and networking in non-Gaussian or impulsive noise environments, where many traditional modems fail to perform to their specifications.
  • Professor Guo Yong Xin –
    2020 IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters Tatsuo Itoh Prize, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).
    The winning team comprised of Professor Guo Yong Xin, Professor Aaron Thean (Dean of Engineering), Dr Wei Chen, Dr Yida Li & Dr Rongqiang Li.
  • Award-Winning ECE Teachers & Educators
    Annual Teaching Excellence Award & Engineering Educator Award:
    • Soh Wee Seng – Associate Professor
    • Luo Sha – Senior Lecturer
    • Rajesh Panicker – Senior Lecturer
    • Sangit Sasidhar – Lecturer
    Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
    • Danner Aaron – Associate Professor
    • Heng Chun Huat – Associate Professor
    • Zhang Jianwen – Senior Lecturer
    • Chua Dingjuan – Lecturer
    • Tan Huei Ming – Teaching Assistant
    Innovative Teaching – Individual Award
    • Luo Sha – Senior Lecturer
    Innovative Teaching – Team Award
    • Heng Chun Huat – Associate Professor
    • Luo Sha – Senior Lecturer
    • Zhang Jianwen – Senior Lecturer
    • Eric Cheung Jun Hao – Teaching Assistant
    • Uh Choon Leng – Laboratory Technologist
  • Assistant Professor Feng Jiashi has been awarded “Engineering Young Researcher 2020” in recognition of his research work and contributions in artificial intelligence.
  • Associate Professor Vincent Tan of ECE Department is one of the three winners of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing’s “Outstanding Editorial Board” award this year!
  • Dr Yeo Boon Thye, Thomas has been promoted to Associate Professor with effect from 1 July 2020.
  • Professor Zhang Rui  –
    Won IEEE Communications Society’s 2 prestigious awards, namely:
    a) Marconi Prize Paper Award:
    The winning paper is entitled “Energy-Efficient UAV Communication with Trajectory Optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 3747-3760, June 2017.
    b) Heinrich Hertz Award:
    The winning paper is entitled “Placement Optimization of UAV-Mounted Mobile Base Stations”, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp 604-607, March 2017.
    This is the 2nd time Prof Zhang has won both these awards.
  • Professor Guo Yong Xin  –
    Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, for a term of 3 years. He will be resuming duty on 1 August 2020.
  • Professor Yang Hyunsoo  –
    Awarded National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigatorship, in March 2020.
    He was awarded for his research project entitled “The next-generation non-volatile memory: towards THz operation.”
  • Associate Professor Vincent C. Lee –
    appointed as the co-Editor-in-chief for the IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology since the Jan 2020.
    He was also appointed as the Distinguished Lecturer for 2020 by the IEEE Nanotechnology Technical Council.
  • Dr Chen Wei (formerly Research Fellow, currently Lecturer at Zhejiang University), Dr Li Yida (Research Fellow), Dr Li Rongqiang (formerly Visiting Scholar, currently Professor at Chengdu University of Information Technology), Prof Aaron Thean and Prof Guo Yong Xin – 2020 IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters Tatsuo Itoh Prize,  IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).
    The team is honoured for making the most significant contribution by a published paper in the year 2018 in the field of interest of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. The Tatsou Itoh Award is given annually and recognizes the author(s) of the best paper published in the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters.
  • Associate Professor Massimo Alioto Bruno –
    IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the Solid-State Circuits Society in 2020-2021.
    He is recognized for his leadership in the fields of ultra-low power design of integrated systems and hardware security.
  • Professor Dipti Srinivasan –
    IEEE Fellow 2020.
    She is recognised for her contributions to computational intelligence for Smart Grid.
  • Assoc Prof Massimo Alioto – His invention of a novel class of sensor interfaces has been featured in the following media on 22 October 2019:
    a) Tech Ballad
    b) Science Magazine
    c) Science Daily
    d) Bright Surf
    e) Tech Xplore
    f) Bioengineer
    g) Semiconductor Digest
    h) 7th Space
  • Dr Charles Lim Ci Wen –
    Young Scientist Award 2019, Singapore National Academy of Science, 17 Oct 2019.
    Dr Lim was recognised for his work in quantum communications and cryptography resulting in quantum secure communication methods.
  • Prof Venkatesan Thirumalai Venky –
    APS-FIAP 2020 Distinguished Lectureship Award.
    Prof Venky has been honored for his outstanding work as a physicist and educator in Applied Physics.
  • Prof Hong Minghui –
    Elected Vice President of The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) for 2019/2021 session.
  • Team comprising Dr Ang Kah Wee and Feng Xuewei (PhD student under Dr Ang’s supervision) – Best Demo Paper, 2019 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, 9 – 14 June 2019, Kyoto, Japan.
    The winning paper is entitled “First demonstration of a fully-printed MoS2 RRAM on flexible substrate with ultra-low switching voltage and its application as electronic synapse“.
    This work was done in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing.
  • Dr Thomas Yeo –2019 Early Career Investigator Award, Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
    Dr Yeo is honoured for his contributions in developing and applying machine learning algorithms to map the human brain.
  • Team comprising Dr Hu Jun (graduated ECE PhD student), Dr Tang Huajin (I2R), Prof Tan Kay Chen and Prof Li Haizhou – CIM Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 12 June 2019, New Zealand.
    The winning paper is entitled “How the Brain Formulates Memory: A Spatio-Temporal Model”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 56-68, May 2016.
  • Dr Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker – Engineering Educator Award, AY 2017/2018, NUS.
  • Drs Chua Dingjuan, Sangit Sasidhar, Luo Sha & Assoc Prof Vincent Tan Yan Fu– Honours List, FoE Teaching Awards, AY 2017/2018, NUS.
  • EPP1 & 2 Team @ CEG (Gold) comprising ECE’s Assoc Prof Soh Wee Seng, Dr Sangit Sasidhar, Dr Arrchana Muruganantham & Dept of Computer Science (Colin Tan Keng Yan, Soo Yuen Jien & Ravi s/o Suppiah)– Innovative Teaching Award, AY 2017/2018, FoE, NUS.
  • Assoc Profs Heng Chun Huat, Chor Eng Fong, Biplab Sikdar, Tsang Man Kel, Chen Xudong, Profs Lee Tong Heng, Tan Kok Kiong, Drs Gong Xiao & Kelvin Fong Xuanyao– Commendation List, FoE Teaching Awards, AY 2017/2018.
  • Professor Low Kay Soon – His research on satellites has been featured in NUS News on 5 Mar 2019.
  • Dr Thomas Yeo’s research to harness machine learning to gain new insights into the brain has been featured in the following media in 2019
  • Dr Charles Lim Ci Wen – National Research Foundation Fellowship 2019, Singapore.
  • Assoc Prof Zhang Rui – IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer for years 2019 and 2020.
  • Prof Ge Shuzhi Sam, Assoc Prof Yan Shuicheng, Assoc Prof Zhang Rui and Dr Liu Liang (Research Fellow) -The world’s most highly cited researchers 2018.
  • Assoc Prof Yang Hyunsoo – His invention of a groundbreaking spin-based memory device has been featured in NUS News on 6 December 2018.
  • Assoc Prof Vincent Tan Yan Fu – Faculty of Engineering Dean’s Chair, 1 Jan 2019 – 31 Dec 2021.
  • Outstanding Editor Award, Light Conference, 16 – 18 July 2018, Changchun, China. Prof Hong is honoured for his contributions to Light: Science & Applications (LSA) – Prof Hong Minghui
  • Assoc Prof Yang Hyunsoo’s study on quantum spin effects has been featured in the following media:
  • Prof Venkatesan Thirumalai Venky –European Advanced Materials (EAM) Award 2018, EAM Congress, 21 Aug 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. Researcher of the year 2018, Advanced Materials Proceedings, Dec 2018. Prof Venky is honoured for his notable and outstanding contribution in the field of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology.
  • Assoc Prof Massimo Alioto Bruno’s research on “low-cost ‘battery-less’ wake-up timer – in the form of an on-chip circuit” has been feature in NUS news on 16 Nov 2018.
  • Assoc Prof Yang Hyunsoo – IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2019.
  • Assoc Prof Heng Chun Huat & Lu Yuxuan (NGS Student) – Young Creators Award, The Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards, 26 July 2018.
  • The winning entry is entitled “A 16-channel capacitive sensor interface circuits for physical signals monitoring”.
  • Dr Thomas Yeo Boon Thye – Singapore Neuroscience Association Young Neuroscientist Award, 26 Sep 2018.
  • Dr Yeo is honoured for his contribution to neuroscience research.
  • Assoc Prof Zhang Rui – Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Sept 2018.
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, 1 Jan 2019 – 31 Dec 2020.
    Prof Adekunle Olusola Adeyeye – Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Sept 2018. He is recognized for his contributions to the synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanostructures and their applications in low power magnonic information processing.
  • Dr Feng Jiashi and his team’s research entitled “Finding any Waldo with zero-shot invariant and efficient visual search” has been featured in prestigious Nature Communications on 13 Sept 2018.
  • Assoc Prof Massimo Alioto – Editor in Chief of the scientific journal “IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems”, 1 Jan 2019, for 2 years.
  • Assoc Prof Massimo – His research on “Innovative battery-indifferent microcontroller chip” has been featured in the following media:
    • OpenGov Asia (4 May)
    • Capital 95.8 Radio FM (3 May)
    • Electronics 360 (3 May)
    • New Electronics (3 May)
    • Science Daily (3 May)
    • Electronic Component News (3 May)
    • Power Systems Design (3 May)
    • Tech Explorist (3 May)
    • Brightsurf (3 May)
    • NUS News (7 May)
  • Assoc Prof Jerald Yoo – Appointed IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecturer (DL), for two-year term from 2017 – 2018. This is the first SSCS DL from a Singapore-based institution.
  • Dr Yoo has pioneered and is recognized in the field of Energy-Efficient Circuit Design for Wearable Healthcare Applications and Body Area Network using Human Body as a Communication Medium.
  • Prof Li Haizhou – International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Fellow 2018. He is honoured for his contribution to multilingual speech information processing.
  • Team comprising Dr Li Teng (Research Fellow) and Prof Chen Zhining – Best Poster Award, 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), 4-7 March 2018, Nanjing, China. The winning paper is entitled “Design of Dual-band Metasurface Antenna”. The prize is a certificate.
  • Assoc Prof Vincent Tan Yan Fu – IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer for the years 2018 and 2019.
  • Team comprising Prof Tan Kok Kiong, Ng Cailin (NGS PhD Student) & Dr Liang Wenyu (Research Fellow) Their startup on “Temperature Control in In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)” has been featured as part of NUS’ Graduate Research Innovative Programme (Grip), in the following media :
    • a) Lianhe Zao Bao (5 Sep 2018)
    • b) The Straits Times (10 Sep 2018).
  • Assoc Prof Massimo Alioto – His team’s research invention in smart microchip “Batless” has been featured in NUS News on 3 & 7 May 2018.
  • Dr Feng Jiashi – His research on artificial neural networks has been featured in the Portfolio magazine on 23 Feb 2018.
  • Prof Hong Minghui – Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore (FSEng), 27 Mar 2018.
  • Dr Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker – Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA), AY 2016/2017, NUS.
  • Dr Vincent Tan Yan Fu – National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship 2018.
  • Assoc Prof Qiu Cheng Wei – Dean’s Chair, FoE, for period 1 Jan 2018 – 31 Dec 2020.
  • Team comprising Karthika Vijayan (Research Fellow), Dr Dong Minghui (Researcher, I2R) & Prof Li Haizhou – Springer Poster Presentation Award, Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) 2017, 14 Dec 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The winning paper is entitled “A dual alignment scheme for improved speech-to-singing voice conversion”.
  • Team comprising Prof Li Haizhou, I2r Researchers Dr Sun Hanwu, Dr Kong Aik Lee, Dr Nguyen Hieu Trung, NTU’s Dr Wei Rao (Research fellow), Zhi Hao Lim (PhD scholar) and Prof Eng Siong Chng – Top Performer (Oriental Language Recognition (OLR) Challenge), Speech Ocean Prize Award, APSIPA ASC 2017, 14 Dec 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Assoc Prof Mehul Motani – IEEE Fellow 2018. He is recognized for his contribution to information theory, wireless communications and sensor networks.
  • Assoc Prof Guo Yong Xin – IEEE Fellow 2018. He is recognized for his contribution to wideband printed antennas.
  • Dr Feng Jiashi – MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” Asia 2018, 22 Nov 2017. Dr Feng is recognised for his work on “Enabling computers to grow learning ability with dynamic neural networks”.
  • Prof Lim Teng Joon, Prof Sam Ge Shuzhi and Assoc Prof Zhang Rui – The world’s most highly cited researchers 2017.
  • Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, April 2017 – Dr John Ho
  • Team comprising Prof Goh Cher Hiang, Ajie Nayaka Nikicio and Harsh Kumar (Research Engineers) and Loke Wei-Ting (Research Associate) – Best Paper, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Networks and Satellite (COMNETSAT), 5-7 Oct 2017, Semarang, Indonesia. The winning entry is entitled “Radiation Analysis & Mitigation Framework for LEO Small Satellites”.
  • Prof Ben Chen and his team comprising Dr Lai Shupeng (Research Fellow), Bi Yingcai, Li Jiaxin, Lan Menglu (all NGS Students), Tan Yu Herng, Liu Xiaodong (PhD Students), Zhang Kun (Research Engineer), Chen Yu (MEng Student), Zhao Yabang (MSc Student), Zhang Lele (CSC Student from Beijing Institute of Technology), Xu Yang (CSC Student from Xiamen University), Sun Chenwu (CSC Student from Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics) & Dr Phang Swee King (Temasek Lab Research Scientist) – Champions (Indoor and Outdoor Categories), 2017 International Micro Air Vehicles (IMAV) Competition, 18–21 Sep 2017, Toulouse, France.
  • Prof Adekunle O Adeyeye – His team achieved achieve significant breakthrough in spin wave based information processing technology. The work has been featured in the following online media on 24 July 2017:
    • New Electronics
    • Nanowerk
    • com
    • ECN Mag
    • org
    • Science Daily
    • Science Newsline
    • Science & Technology Research News
  • Prof Hong Minghui – Outstanding Editor Award, Light: Science & Applications, Springer Nature Journal, Light Conference 2017, 17 July 2017, Changchun, China. Light: Science & Applications is a prominent optical journal under the Nature Publishing Group (impact factor 14.098 in 2016), ranking 3/92 in the field of Optics. It publishes high quality optics and photonics research from around the world. The Journal covers fundamental research as well as the important issues in engineering and applied sciences that are related to optics and photonics.
  • Assoc Prof Qiu Cheng Wei – Young Investigator Award, The Optical Society, 7th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Optofluidics (IMCO), 25 – 28 July 2017, Singapore.
  • Prof Nitish Thakor – Academic Career Achievement Award 2017, 39th Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), 11-15 July 2017, Jeju, Korea. The award honors Professor Thakor’s lifelong achievements and contributions in the fields of biomedical engineering and his leadership to the profession.
  • Assoc Prof Xu Yong Ping – Distinguished Lecturer (DL), Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), 5 May 2017, Canada. He will serve for two terms, in years 2017 and 2018.
  • Assoc Prof Yang Hyunsoo, Dr Shawn David Pollard (Research Fellow) & Yu Jiawei (PhD Student) – The team’s invention on ultra-thin multilayer film for next-generation data storage and processing has been featured in the following online media on 10 April 2017:
    • NUS News
    • Electronics 360
    • Haptic
    • Phys Org
    • R&D Magazine
    • Nanowerk
    • Science Daily
    • New Electronics
    • Science Newsline
    • Open Gov
  • Dr Gong Xiao & Prof Yeo Yee Chia. Their research on “Monolithic integration of InGaAs n-FETs and lasers on Ge substrate” has been featured in online magazine “Semiconductor Today” on 29 March 2017.
  • NUS Early Career Research Award, 6 Sep 2017. The winning project is entitled “Fast Transferrable Machine Learning for Human-like Artificial Intelligence”.
  • Dr Feng Jiashi – Assoc Prof Tan Kok Kiong. His team has invented a device to treat ear condition. The research was reported in The Straits Times on 24 May 2017, as well as the following media:
    • Open Gov (25 May)
    • 938LIVE (24 May)
    • Capital Radio 95.8FM (24 May)
    • News Medical (24 May)
    • Science Daily (24 May)
    • Medical Xpress (24 May)
    • NUS News (24 May)
    • NUS Twitter (24 May)
  • NUS Young Researcher Award 2017, 28 April 2017. Dr Thomas Yeo Boon Thye
  • Innovative Teaching Award AY2015/2016 – Dr Zhang Jianwen (Bronze)
  • Engineering Young Researcher Award 2017 – Dr Thomas Yeo Boon Thye
  • Engineering Researcher Award 2017 – Prof Hong Minghui
  • Engineering Research Leadership Award 2017 – Prof Nitish Thakor