{"id":7426,"date":"2020-12-21T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=7426"},"modified":"2024-07-31T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:12:38","slug":"top-national-honours-for-research-excellence","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/top-national-honours-for-research-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Top National Honours for Research Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">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\u2019s Science and Technology Awards (PSTA) \u2013 this is the highest honour bestowed on research scientists and engineers in Singapore \u2013 and Assistant Professor John Ho received the Young Scientist Award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Conferred annually, the PSTA celebrate outstanding and invaluable contributions by individuals or teams to Singapore\u2019s research and development landscape. Similarly, the Young Scientist Awards (YSA), administered by the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS), and supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), are presented to researchers aged 35 and below who have the potential to be world-class researchers in their fields of expertise.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7426 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1283\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/YSA_John-Ho.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Ysa John Ho\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/YSA_John-Ho.png 1283w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/YSA_John-Ho-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/YSA_John-Ho-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/YSA_John-Ho-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1283px) 100vw, 1283px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Young Scientist Award<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Assistant Professor John Ho from <a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ihealthtech.nus.edu.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute for Health Innovation and Technology<\/a> (iHealthtech) received the Young Scientist Award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Asst Prof Ho\u2019s research seeks to develop wireless technologies that address important challenges in medicine and healthcare. He pursues fundamental advances in electromagnetics and bioelectronics, as well as novel approaches in device engineering and system integration for translational applications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Working closely with life scientists and clinicians, his research aims to apply innovative technologies to demonstrate new approaches to study, diagnose, and treat disease. Some examples of devices developed by Asst Prof Ho and his collaborators include micro-implants that deliver light for targeted cancer therapy and smart clothing for daily health monitoring purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cOne of the remarkable things about Singapore is the amount of trust they put into young scientists. To me, STEM is the idea of play \u2013 it\u2019s the way we understand and shape the world around us,\u201d<\/em> said Asst Prof Ho.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.nus.edu.sg\/stfpage\/hsyj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to find out more on Asst Prof John Ho&#8217;s research and achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Science and Technology Awards (PSTA) \u2013 this is the highest honour bestowed on research scientists and engineers in Singapore \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":7427,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[37,47,48,49],"class_list":["post-7426","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-ece","news_category-awards-achievements","news_category-ece-in-the-news","news_category-research-impact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15133,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7426\/revisions\/15133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}