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Over the past decade, a major trend in electronics has been the development of sensors, displays and smart devices which are seamlessly integrated onto the human body. Most of these wearable devices are singularly connected to a user’s smart phone and transmit all data via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi signals. But as consumers wear increasing numbers

Professor Minghui Hong was elected as a Vice President of The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) for 2019/2021 session, following its recent VP election. He was a council member for IES session 2018/2019. Prof. Minghui Hong is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. Prof. Hong is

NUS ECE Ph.D. student Gurleen Kaur (Supervisor : Assoc. Prof. Aaron J. Danner) won the Best Poster Award at 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC)- 2019 held from June 16-21, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois, US. IEEE PVSC is one of the premier international photovoltaics conferences that cover the entire spectrum of technical activities in photovoltaic

By the late 1990s, personal computers (PCs) had become commonplace in households around the world. The Pentium II had been released by Intel and provided CPU clock speeds of 450 MHz. SDRAM (Synchronous dynamic RAM) was replacing DRAM, with some higher end PCs containing 128Mb of it. When it came to storage, 10 to 16

A research work led by Associate Professor Ang Kah Wee from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NUS has won the Best Demo Paper Award at the 2019 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits held on June 9-14, 2019 in Kyoto, Japan. The winning paper is entitled “First demonstration of a fully-printed MoS2

By Assistant Professor Lim Ci Wen Charles Today, we use the internet for almost everything, from shopping to banking and entertainment. In doing so, we place our trust in cryptosystems that protect our private information and identities. However, the emergence of quantum computing can pose a threat to current information systems. No longer a theoretical

Assistant Professor Thomas Yeo (NUS – Electrical and Computer Engineering) is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Early Career Investigator Award. This honor is awarded to one scientist each year for significant contributions to the field of human brain mapping. Previous winners include Russ Poldrack (Stanford), Randy Buckner (Harvard)

Best Student Paper Award – IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC 2019) NUS Engineering ECE Ph.D. student Guoliang Shao (Supervisor: Professor Guo Yongxin) won the top best student paper award in the IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC 2019) held on May 06-08, 2019 in Nanjing, China. The IMBioC is an

Best Paper Award – IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium 2019 NUS ECE Ph.D. student Cong Wang (Supervisor: Professor Guo Yongxin) won the FLASH Competition best paper award in the 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium (IWS 2019) held on May 19-22, 2019 in Guangzhou, China. The winning entry is entitled “Realization of a Reconfigurable Leaky-Wave

The NUS Young Researcher Award is given to academics below the age of 40 and is based on their impact and potential in cutting-edge research. The award comprises $2,000 prize money and a research grant of $10,000 in the following year. The winners this year were Associate Professor Andrew Hui from Yale-NUS College, Associate Professor

Congratulations to Associate Professor Vincent Tan who has been awarded the Young Researcher Award at the NUS University Awards 2019 on 28 May. “To solve deep and fundamental problems in the information sciences, developing new mathematical results along the way that will have wide applicability in science and engineering.” – Associate Professor Vincent Tan, Department of

With a focus on saving the world, the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore has invested millions of dollars in research under the leadership of CEO Armin Aberle.   Professor Armin Aberle (Electrical and Computer Engineering) wants to move the world away from the fossil fuels that contribute to global warming and towards new, clean