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Congratulations to ECE staff and NUS Alumnus, who have won the Best Paper Award at the 6th IEEE Women in Engineering Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2020 (WIECON-ECE 2020 organized by IEEE Bhubaneswar Subsection and IEEE Bangladesh Section on 26th & 27th Dec 2020. WIECON-ECE 2020 is an annual conference, first organized in 2015,

Professor Lim Yeow Kheng joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Professor (Practice) on 30 December 2020 after accumulating more than 15 years of industrial experience in microelectronics which include of chip packaging technology for 5G and smart automotive control systems. Prior to joining NUS, he was a Deputy Director in STATS

Congratulations to Dr Ho Ghim Wei, who has been promoted to Full Professor with effect from 1 January 2021. Prof Ho Ghim Wei leads the Nanomaterials & Nanosystems Innovation research group working on fundamental and applied research on nanosystems with emerging low dimensional nanomaterials, interfacial interactions and hybridized functionalities for energy, environment, electronics and healthcare.

The annual NUS Engineering Alumni Awards recognise the accomplishments and contributions of exemplary NUS Engineering alumni. Congratulations to ECE alumna Ms. Eng Se-Hsieng, who received this year’s Outstanding Engineering Young Alumni Award (OEYAA). Outstanding Engineering Young Alumni Award (OEYAA) A new award introduced in 2019 to recognise alumni age 40 or below for their professional accomplishments

One of the highlights in the Physics World calendar was the announcement of their Breakthrough of the Year, which was made this year on 17 December 2020. This year’s Top 10 Breakthroughs were selected by a crack team of five Physics World editors, who have sifted through hundreds of research updates published on the website this year. In

Four NUS-affiliated researchers have received national recognition for their excellent achievements and contributions in science and technology at a ceremony held at the Istana on 18 December 2020. Three researchers were conferred the prestigious President’s Science and Technology Awards (PSTA) – this is the highest honour bestowed on research scientists and engineers in Singapore –

Professor Dipti Srinivasan has been awarded the “2020 Outstanding Volunteer Award”​ by  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Singapore for her excellent service in furthering the mission of IEEE through her volunteer efforts. The award aims to recognize volunteers who have made outstanding contributions to the Singapore Section, its Chapters and IEEE as a

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Outreach together with ECE Club organized an Introduction to Arduino in Tinkercad interactive workshop on 9 and 10 December 2020. The aim of the workshop was to introduce the Arduino microcontroller and common uses of such embedded systems to secondary school students via the Autodesk Tinkercad platform.

Congratulations to Dr Sanjib Kumar Panda who has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to iterative learning control of motor drives. Sanjib Kumar Panda is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he serves as the Director of the Power & Energy

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Feng Jiashi, winner of the Young Researcher Award – among seven awardees at NUS University Awards. “To develop artificial general intelligence — teaching computers to see and think like humans is the very first step.” –  Assistant Professor Feng Jiashi. Research Achievements Among the first in the world to develop a

Professor Haizhou Li has been elected as a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Awards Board for the term January 2021 through 31 December 2023. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is the world’s premier professional society for signal processing scientists and professionals since 1948. It is the first society of the IEEE. Signal processing

The Institute of Engineers, Singapore (IES) recently held its National Engineers Day, including the announcement of the winners of the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2020. The annual awards recognise “outstanding contributions of local engineers to advancing engineering and enhancing the quality of life of Singaporeans”. Out of 50 submissions, NUS Engineering is proud to