Highlights
Spotlighting Biodiversity on Campus Through an Award Winning Photograph by Dr Lim Ser Yong
Congratulations to Dr Lim Ser Yong on being selected as a winner of the International Biodiversity on Campus Photo Contest 2025. From June to November 2025 the contest drew strong participation from students researchers and staff across the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) with 263 entries close to 20,000 online views and 1,500 public
Assoc Prof Ong Soh Khim appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Human-Machine Interaction journal
Congratulations to Assoc Prof Ong Soh Khim on her appointment as Editor-in-Chief of the Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) journal. HMI brings together research across engineering, design, artificial intelligence and computer science, shaping new ways for humans and machines to work together to improve safety, efficiency, usability and performance. In her research, Assoc Prof Ong explores how
Congratulations on the Merit Award at the Global Student Innovation Challenge 2025
Congratulations to our student team for securing a Merit Award at the Global Student Innovation Challenge 2025 in Bangkok. The competition ran from 24 to 26 November and brought together student innovators from around the world, each presenting ideas aimed at improving everyday life. With the supervision of Dr Danielle Tan, the team from the
Asst Prof Tan Yu Jun Receives ‘Science, She Says!’ Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tan Yu Jun on being awarded the Science, She Says! award from Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale)! The award was presented recently in Naples by Italian Deputy Minister Edmondo Cirelli. The Science, She Says! award recognises outstanding female scientists under
Forging International Partnerships in Aerospace: Insights from ICASSE 2025
The Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, led by Profs. Khoo Boo Cheong, Zhu Lailai, Chng Tat Loon and Spot Srigrarom, hosted the 9th International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering (ICASSE 2025), on 29-31 July 2025. This event was jointly organised with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Technical University of
Asst Prof Shin Sunmi named among Nanoscale 2023 Emerging Investigators
Assistant Professor Shin Sunmi has been named among the Nanoscale 2023 Emerging Investigators by the journal Nanoscale, highlighting rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Her paper, Enhanced far-field coherent thermal emission using mid-infrared bilayer metasurfaces, was featured by the journal in a themed collection of research contributions highlighting “the very best work from researchers in the early stages of
[Business Times] Engineering Singapore’s green future
Countries have pledged zero emissions by 2050 but the means to get there are vague. Businesses need specific details on the decarbonisation of economies to align their own strategies, to raise and make investments, and to participate with impact. To read the full article by Professor Seeram Ramakrishna and Dalson Chung: Engineering Singapore’s green future
[Straits Times] Smart recycling boxes that reward residents for sorting waste have cut contamination rate
A trial in Bishan and Sin Ming to collect recyclables using smart boxes has managed to cut the contamination rate of their contents to just 5 per cent – far lower than the national average of 40 per cent. Professor Seeram Ramakrishna (NUS Mechanical Engineering), who chairs the Circular Economy Taskforce at the National University
Prof Seeram Ramakrishna and Asst Prof Sing Swee Leong among world’s most highly cited researchers
Prof Seeram Ramakrishna and Asst Prof Sing Swee Leong from NUS Mechanical Engineering have been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers in the latest Highly Cited Researchers 2022 List published by data analytics firm Clarivate, among the world’s most influential scientific minds. They are among 18 highly cited researchers from the College of



