The appointment recognises his expertise at the intersection of AI, weather and climate science, and strengthens Singapore’s contribution to international efforts in this space. AI is set to transform how we understand and respond to weather and climate risks. At the forefront of this shift, Assistant Professor Gianmarco Mengaldo (Mechanical Engineering) has been appointed to the Joint Advisory

Assoc Prof Wentao Yan and his team emerged among the top performers at the Additive Manufacturing (AM) Benchmark Challenge 2025, securing 9 awards in a field of 24 groups from around the world. Held under the NIST-led Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series (AM Bench), the challenge drew 84 entries across 19 challenge problems. Institutions including

On 16 March, AHRI ASEAN signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (CDE, NUS), through its Department of Mechanical Engineering, to strengthen collaboration in advancing data centre certification, sustainable cooling, and talent development across the region. The key areas for collaboration are: Standards

NUS CDE researchers helped develop an AI method that keeps long-term climate simulations stable and accurate.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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