Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance to fund research on elderly welfare and traffic safety

Congratulations to Prof Tan Kok Kiong from NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering for being one of the four researchers in Singapore to receive grants for innovative research on senior citizen welfare and traffic safety. The Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation advocates for budding and inter-disciplinary research focused on the growing ageing population and the rising concerns over traffic safety in Asia.

Selected from a total of 193 applications received from the region, the four Singapore researchers received grants worth SGD38,948 from the Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation at the 11th MSIWF Research Grant Awards 2017 ceremony held on 30 January 2018 . Prof Tan received grant for developing a wearable, non-intrusive, and location-based fall detection monitoring system for the elderly.

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