ECE Department welcomes Dr. Wang Xinchao and Dr. Zhou Juan, Helen, and congratulates Professor Zhang Rui and Associate Professor Qiu Chengwei for their Chair Professorship appointments.
New Appointments:
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Dr. Wang Xinchao, joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Assistant Professor in March 2021. Before joining NUS, he joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a Swiss-NSF postdoctoral fellow in 2016 and Stevens Institute of Technology as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2017. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, medical image analysis, multimedia, and signal processing. |
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Dr Zhou Juan, Helen joined ECE Department as an Associate Professor under joint appointment with NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YYLSOM). Dr. Zhou holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from NTU, Singapore and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Memory and Aging Centre, Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. She is currently Deputy Director at the Centre for Translational MR Research, NUS YYLSOM. |
Chair Professorship Appointments:
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Professor Zhang Rui has been appointed Provost Chair with effect 1 Jan 2021 in recognition of his outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishment. His current research interests include UAV/satellite communication, wireless power transfer, reconfigurable MIMO, and optimization methods. He has published over 400 papers in the field of wireless communications, which have been cited more than 47,000 times, with the h-index over 100. |
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Associate Professor Qiu Chengwei has been appointment Dean’s Chair for the 2nd time with effect 1 Jan 2021. He was the recipient of the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics in 2005, IEEE AP-S Graduate Research Award in 2006, URSI Young Scientist Award in 2008, NUS Young Investigator Award in 2011, MIT TR35@Singapore Award in 2012, Young Scientist Award by Singapore National Academy of Science in 2013, Faculty Young Research Award 2013 in NUS, SPIE Rising Researcher Award 2018, Young Engineering Research Award 2018, Engineering Researcher Award 2021 in NUS, Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics 2020 by Physics World. |
