Student – Awards & Achievements – Electrical and Computer Engineering

Student – Awards & Achievements

2022

He Minghao (PhD student supervised by Assoc Prof Ang Kah Wee) –
Best Presentation Award, 2022 IEEE 5th International conference on Electronics Technology (ICET), 13-16 May 2022, Chengdu, China.

Pu Yuhan (PhD student supervised by Assoc Prof Liang Yung Chii) –
Award Associação RAEGE Açores (in “Fundamental Research and Devices for Radioastronomy and Space Geodesy” area), WOCSDICE EXMATEC 2022 conference, 3-6 May 2022, Ponta Delgada, Portugal.

Dr Xu Ruolei (graduated PhD student previously supervised by Prof Chen Zhi Ning) –
First Prize, Student Paper Award, Marina Forum on Metantennas, 20 – 22 Mar 2022, Singapore.
The winning entry is titled “A hemispherical wide-angle beamsteering near-surface focal-plane metamaterial Luneburg lens antenna using transformation-optics”.

2021

Lan Yuchi (PhD student supervised by Assoc Prof Aaron Danner) –
Poster Award (“Silicon Materials & Cells” thematic area), 38th EU PVSEC, 6 – 10 Sept 2021.
The winning entry is “Towards Ultra-Thin Silicon Solar Cells for High Specific Power Applications”.

Zhang Bo (PhD student supervised by Prof Chen Zhi Ning) –
a) 2nd Prize, Huawei Annovation Cup 2021, 10 Dec 2021, Singapore.
b) Honorable Mention, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 4-10 Dec 2021, Singapore.

Xu Ruolei (PhD student supervised by Prof Chen Zhi Ning) –
3^rd Prize, Huawei Annovation Cup 2021, 10 Dec 2021, Singapore.

Saha Jaydeep (PhD student supervised by Assoc Prof Panda Sanjib Kumar) –
Best Paper Award, IEEE ECCE-Asia 2021, 24-27 May 2021, Singapore.
The winning paper is entitled “Modulation of Direct Matrix-Based Dual-Active-Bridge (MB-DAB) AC-DC Converters”.

Xu Ruolei (PhD student supervised by Professor Chen Zhining) –
a) 1^st Prize, Student Paper Award (Application Track),
Marina Forum on EMetamaterials, 4-5 Mar 2021, Singapore.
b) Excellent Award, 2^nd NUS EM & Microwave Student Symposium 2021, 25 Feb 2021, Singapore.
The winning entry for both awards is entitled “A Compact Beamsteering Metasurface Lens Array Antenna With Low-Cost Phased Array”

Su Yuanyan (PhD student supervised by Professor Chen Zhining) –
Honourable Mention, Student Paper Award (Application Track), Marina Forum on EMetamaterials, 4-5 Mar 2021, Singapore.
The winning entry is entitled “A Radial Transformation-optics Mapping for Flat Ultra-wide-angle Dual-polarized Stacked GRIN MTM Luneburg Lens Antenna”.

2020

Dr Val Mikos (graduated PhD student, supervised by A/Profs Arthur Tay & Heng Chun-Huat) –
Institute of Engineers, Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards Applied 2020 (Young Creators category), 30 Nov 2020.
The winning entry is entitled “A Wearable, Patient-Adaptive Freezing of Gait Detection System with Biofeedback Cueing for Parkinson’s Disease Patients.”

Dr Carlos David Rodríguez Gallegos (graduated PhD student supervised by Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda), Springer Award 2020.
The winning thesis is entitled “Modelling and Optimization of Photovoltaic Cells, Modules, and Systems”.
Each prize comprises 500 Euros, and publication of the PhD work in Springer’s collection of outstanding thesis.

The Ph.D. thesis of our recent graduate, Dr. Oktoviano Gandhi, titled “Reactive Power Support Using Photovoltaic Systems: Techno-Economic Analysis and Implementation Algorithms” has been given the Springer Thesis Award for its scientific excellence and the high impact of its contents.
He did his research under the supervision of Professor Dipti Srinivasan and Dr. Thomas Reindl.

Gurleen Kaur (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Aaron Danner) – Best Paper Award, 10th International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics (Silicon PV 2020).
The winning entry was titled “Can Charge Enhance Selectivity? Passivated Contacts Using a Highly Charged AlOx Dielectric Tunnel Layer Comparing SiOx/p+poly-Si and SiOx/PEDOT:PSS to AlOx/p+poly-Si and AlOx/PEDOT:PSS”.
This was selected as a top paper representing the best current research in crystalline Silicon PV technology, and chosen as one of the video highlights of the conference. The video presentation is available at https://cms2020.siliconpv.com/video/list.

Dr Gnana Sambandam Kulothungan (PhD graduate supervised by Assoc Prof Akshay Kumar Rathore) –
2nd Prize, 2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Student thesis Award, 19 May 2020.
The winning thesis is entitled “Low Frequency Modulation Techniques for Multilevel Converters for Solar PV Application”.

2019

Shi Shuyuan (PhD student supervised by Prof Yang Hyunsoo) – Winner, Best Student Presentation, 2019 Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), 4-8 Nov 2019, Las Vegas, USA.
The winning entry is entitled “Efficient Magnetization Switching and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in WTe2/ferromagnet Heterostructures”.

Wu Jibin (PhD student supervised by Prof Li Haizhou) & joint team with NTU – 2nd Prize, 2019 International Collegiate Competition for Brain-Inspired Computing, 19-20 Oct 2019, Tsinghua University, China.
The prize includes a certificate and RMB 60,000.

Team comprising Gurleen Kaur (ECE PhD Student), Dr. Tanmay Dutta (graduated ECE PhD student), Dr. Xin Zheng (graduated ECE PhD Student- now Research Fellow, SERIS), Dr. Ling Zhi Peng (Senior Research Engineer II, REC Solar Ltd.), Marvic John Naval (Engineer, SERIS), Dr. MSM Saifullah (Senior Scientist, IMRE), Dr. Rolf Stangl (Head, Novel Cell Concepts & Simulation Group, SERIS) and Assoc Prof Aaron Danner (ECE) –
Best Poster Award, IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, 16-21 June 2019, Chicago, USA.
The winning entry is titled “Ultra-thin LPCVD SiNx/n+poly-Si passivated contacts – A possibility?”

Gao Xiaoxue (PhD student supervised by Prof Li Haizhou) – Runner Up for Best Poster Award, 4th Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology, Interspeech 2019, 14 Sept 2019, Graz, Austria.
The winning entry is entitled “Speech-to-singing conversation and synthesis”.

Team Bumblebee comprising undergraduates Shawn Lum (Computer Science), CEG students Hashir Zahir, Cheng Wei Hong & Chua Chong Yu, EE students Kang Qingxuan & Ng Yong Jie, ME students Niu Xinyuan, Jonatan Colim, Delvin Goh and Aung Pyei Phyo –
Best Static Judging, 22nd Annual International RoboSub Competition, 29 July – 4 Aug 2019, San Diego, USA.

Shao Guoliang (NUS ECE PhD Student Supervised by Prof. Guo Yongxin), Best Student Paper Award (First Prize), IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC 2019), 06-08 May, 2019, Nanjing, China. The Winning entry is entitled “Wearable Magnetic Localization System with Noise Cancellation for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy”. There are 12/113 papers short listed. The prize comprises of a certificate and RMB 1000.

Wang Cong (PhD Student Supervised by Professor Guo Yong Xin), Best Paper Award, FLASH Competition, 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium, 19 – 22 May 2019, Guangzhou, China. The winning entry is entitled “Realization of a Reconfigurable Leaky-Wave Antenna with Fixed-Frequency Beam Scanning Capability Using Liquid Metal”.

2018

Team POWER@NUS (comprising of PhD students and staff members from Electrical Machines and Drives Lab), supervised by Assoc Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda and Mr Blokken Eddy (SERIS) – Best Overall Student Team (South-Asia Region), 2018-19 edition of the IEEE “Empower a Billion Lives” competition, 18 – 21 Dec 2018, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. The team qualified to participate in the Global final round of this competition, to be held at ECCE, Baltimore, USA in September, 2019. The team has proposed a community empowerment solution via rural electrification along with a business model, where renewable energy is harnessed as the main source of energy with adequate respect given to risks.

Berrak Sisman (PhD Student Supervised by Prof Li Haizhou) – PhD Forum Best Presentation Award, The 10th Asia-Pacific Signal & Information Processing Association Annual Summit & Conference (APSIPA), 12-15 Nov 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The winning entry is entitled “Limited Data Voice Conversion from Sparse Representation to GANs and WaveNet”.

Team comprising Zhao Jian (PhD student), Li Jianshu (SoC PhD student), Cheng Yu (PhD student) – The supervisors for the various students are Dr Feng Jiashi, Assoc Prof Yan Shuicheng, Dr Robby Tan Tantowi and Assoc Prof Terence Sim (SoC). Best Student Paper, 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 22 – 26 Oct 2018, Seoul, Korea. The winning paper is entitled “Understanding Humans in Crowded Scenes: Deep Nested Adversarial Learning and A New Benchmark for Multi-Human Parsing”.

Team comprising EE undergraduates Cheng Huimin, Hu Jiawei & Koh Wai Heng (Supervised by Dr Rajesh Panicker and Dr Gao Zhi of Temasek Lab) – 2nd Prize, Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest 2018, 21 – 24 July 2018, Shanghai, China. Their winning entry is a wearable device (ARENA Glass) to provide warded patients and hospital staff real-time intuitive navigation within the building complex.

Su Yuanyan (PhD Student Supervised by Prof Chen Zhining) – Best Student Paper, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI) 2018, 31 July – 2 Aug 2018, Singapore. The winning paper is entitled “High-Isolated Coplanar-Fed Circularly Polarized 2×2 Curl Antenna for MIMO Applications”.

Team comprising Xu Yanjun, Luo Ziyan (PhD Students), Dr Yang Yumeng (graduated PhD student), Zhang Mengzhen (Research Engineer) and Prof Wu Yihong – Best Poster Award, 21st International Conference on Magnetism (ICM2018), 16-20 July 2018, USA. The winning entry is entitled “AC Excited Spin Hall Magnetoresistance Sensor with Extremely Simple Structure and Zero DC Offset”.

PhD Student Kenan Emir AK (Supervised by Prof Ashraf Kassim, Dr Lim Joo Hwee (I2R) and Dr Tham Jo Yew) –2nd Position, FashionGen Challenge, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2018), 8-14 Sept 2018, Munich, Germany.

Team comprising Wu Jibin, Pan Zihan (PhD Students) and Zhang Malu (Non-Graduating Student), supervised by Prof Li Haizhou and Dr Chua Yansong (A* Collaborator) – First Prize, 2nd International Collegiate Competition for Brain-Inspired Computing, Tsinghua University, China, 14 Oct 2018. The prize includes a certificate and a RMB 100,000.

Lei Dian (graduated PhD student supervised by Prof Yeo Yee Chia and Dr Gong Xiao) – Best Student Paper Award, 2018 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits, 18 – 22 June 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The winning entry is entitled “The First GeSn FinFET on a Novel GeSnOI Substrate Achieving Lowest S of 79 mV/decade and Record High Gm,int of 807 μS/μm for GeSn P‐FETs”

2017

Team comprising Lin Fenghan (PhD Student) and Prof Chen Zhining – Computer Simulation Technology (CST) University Publication Award 2017, Dassault Systemes, 22 Dec 2017, Darmstadt, Germany. The winning paper is entitled “Low-Profile Wideband Metasurface Antennas using Characteristic Mode Analysis”. The prize comprises a certificate and a free upgraded CST software license for one year.

Learning and Vision (LV) Team comprising Dr. Feng Jiashi, Ph.D. candidate Zhao Jian, exchange undergraduate student Wang Zhecan and Panasonic R&D team – First Place, International Conference on Computer Vision 2017 (ICCV 2017), MS-Celeb-1M Large-Scale Face Recognition Hard Set / Random Set / Low-Shot Learning Challenges, 28 Oct 2017, Venice, Italy.

Dr Amin Kianinejad (PhD Graduate Supervised by Prof Chen Zhining & Assoc Prof Qiu Chengwei) & Dr Amit Kumar Singh (PhD Graduate Supervised by Assoc Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda) Springer Thesis Award, 22 Nov 2017, Singapore.

Dr Amin Kianinejad is awarded for his work on “Metamaterial Surface Plasmon Based Transmission Lines and Antennas”.

Dr Amit Kumar Singh is awarded for his research on “Analysis and Design of Power Converter Topologies for Application in Future More Electric Aircraft”.

Srien Sithara Syed Nasser (PhD Student Supervised by Prof Chen Zhining) – Best Student Paper (1st Prize), 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 16-19 Oct 2017, Xian, China. The winning entry is entitled “Low-profile Bilayer Metasurface Integrated Antenna for Cellular Base Stations”. The prize comprises a certificate and 300 USD.

Su Yuanyan (PhD Student Supervised by Prof Chen Zhining) – Best Student Paper (2nd Prize), 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 16-19 Oct 2017, Xian, China. The winning entry is entitled “AMC-based High-isolation SIW Slot Array Antennas for Ka-band SAR Systems”. The prize comprises a certificate and 200 USD.

Deng Tianwei (PhD Student Supervised by Prof Chen Zhining) – Young Scientist Best Paper Award, 2017 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA17) & Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (IEEE-APS), 11 – 15 Sep 2017, Verona, Italy. The winning entry is entitled “A Broadband 3D Frequency Selective Rasorber By Using Magnetic Materials”.

Team comprising He Tong, Kong Ru (both PhD Students), Dr Avram J. Holmes (Yale University), Dr Mert R. Sabuncu (Cornell University), Prof Simon B. Eickhoff (Heinrich Heine University, Germany), Dr Danilo Bzdok (Julich Research Centre, Germany), Dr Feng Jiashi and Dr Thomas Yeo) – Best Paper Award (Runner-Up), 8th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging, 12 -14 June 2018, Singapore. The winning paper is entitled “Is deep learning better than kernel regression for functional connectivity prediction of behaviour?”

Team U-Lion comprising Bi Yingcai, Lan Menglu, Li Jiaxin (all 3 NGS students), Qin Hailong (ECE MEng student) & Zhang Kun (ECE Research Engineer), led by Dr Lai Shupeng (ECE Research Fellow) & supervised by Prof Ben Chen.

Champion (Category D – Autonomous), Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC), 17 March 2017. The prize comprises an iPad Mini 4 for each team member, and $7,000 cash for the team.

Best Platform Design Prize, SAFMC, 17 March 2017. The prize is $1,000 cash.

Wang Kangli & Ke Yijie (PhD students supervised by Prof Ben Chen) Their research work on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle (UAV) ULion has been published in Science China Information Sciences, Volume 60, March 2017. It was also featured in the following online media:
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) EurekAlert
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Org
- sUAS News
- Institute of Mechanical Engineering