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Professor of Practice, Programme Director
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| Prof. Ignatius Rasiah, holds a joint appointment as Professor of Practice at the Institute for Engineering Leadership in the College of Design & Engineering as well as the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in NUS. He is currently the Faculty Advisor for the Medical Grand Challenge as well as an Advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Healthcare (CIH) at the National University Health System. Prior to his current appointment, he was the VP for Breakthrough Research at Medtronic. In his capacity as VP, Ignatius led the effort for the launch of a Digital Health incubator for start-ups called MindUp together with IBM, Rambam hospital and a VC fund (Pitango). He also led the Medtronic Center for External Technology Incubation (CETI). This was a global effort in incubating research projects outside Medtronic. They included research projects, product development and startups funded by government grants, venture funds, incubators and entrepreneurs. This center has a focus on breakthrough technologies and business models relating to the surgical and patient monitoring spaces.
Ignatius, who has more than 25 years’ experience in R&D management of product development in industry, received his PhD in Physics in 1992 in Malaysia and continued onto his postdoctoral fellowship at the Lash Miller Labs in the University of Toronto in Canada. He was the Chief Technology Officer for Asia at PerkinElmer Optoelectronics from 2004 to 2007. He was previously the Global Technology Manager at Honeywell Electronic Materials until 2003 and has been holding key positions at national levels such as the Cardiovascular Taskforce in Singapore, the National Lung Cancer Taskforce in Malaysia, panel member on the SGTech review board at Enterprise Singapore, Innovation Advisor to Singaporean companies at IPI ( https://www.ipi-singapore.org/innovation-advisors-programme ) and the Institutional Review Board at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is on the Industrial Advisory Board of the Engineering Science Programme at NUS and has been a consultant to several companies in the areas of medical products, electronics and optical technologies in US, Europe and Asia. Dr. Rasiah is a member of the American Physical Society (APS) and the CPMT chapter of the IEEE and he is an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. |