Six of SDE faculty members have received either the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) or Annual Digital Education Award (ADEA) 2021.
The Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) recognises achievements in teaching, including instruction, educational design, assessment and feedback, as well as wider adoption of good practices in these areas through leadership and support of other colleagues.
Dr Chung Shu Yeng, Simone, Department of Architecture
Dr Simone Chung combines academic research and her experience as a UK-trained architect to formulate a pedagogy underpinned by cinematically-informed methodologies and the adoption of new media and technology for design explorations. The extended reality projects of the M.Arch. design studio she piloted in 2019, 'We are Millennials, Mobilised', were selected to represent Singapore at the Venice Biennale. Acknowledging immersive experience as key to learning, she actively initiates interdisciplinary workshop collaborations overseas, in Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.
A Rome Scholar in Architecture, other international achievements include the Japan Foundation Asia Center Fellowship (2019) and CCA Research Fellowship (2020). She is an international co-investigator at University of Cambridge (2017-2020) and core member of the Asian Cinema Research Lab at NTU.
She is co-editor of The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore (2020, Amsterdam University Press). In 2019-20, she was an editorial board member for The Singapore Architect. She is a curator for the Singapore pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2021).
Dr Simone Chung completed her PhD at University Cambridge under the AHRC Block Grant Scholarship. She holds a M.Phil. in Screen and Cultures from Cambridge and M.Sc. Advanced Architecture Studies from University College London.
Dr Zhang Ye, Department of Architecture
ZHANG Ye holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, UK and received both M.Arch and B.Arch from Tsinghua University, China. He was a fellow of Cambridge Overseas Trust from 2008 to 2011, and also a visiting academic at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London in 2015. Ye has been placed on the Honour Roll of School Teaching Excellence Award (STEA) and he is also the winner of the University Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) at NUS.
Ye's principal research interest resides in synergising different methods for understanding and analysing the built form. His current research project focuses on the relation between emerging sharing practices in the city and transformation of urban form. His research has received funding from institutions in United Kingdom, USA, Hong Kong SAR, China and Singapore. Ye has published widely in the field of urban form and urban design. Recently, he co-edited the special issue of Built Environment, Space-Sharing Practice in the City and he is also the co-author of the book, Sharing by Design published by Springer Nature.
Ye serves as the Executive Director of International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) and sits on the editorial board of Built Environment. He is also the director and co-founder of NUS-Tsinghua Design Research Initiative: Sharing Cities, a collaborative research platform between National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University sponsored by Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation (Hong Kong).
Dr Tay En Rong, Stephen, Department of Building
Dr. Stephen Tay is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Building and Adjunct Researcher in the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore. He believes in engaging students in his modules for a meaningful learning experience. This is achieved by strategies such as the use of quotes to inspire, pre-lecture open discussions with Padlet, and student generated questions for active learning.
Beyond the classroom, Dr. Tay strives to be a better educator through active participation in Learning Communities within NUS, conducting pedagogical research supported by the Teaching Enhancement Grant, and sharing his teaching experience with fellow educators in conferences.
Associate Professor Reppard Brian Stone, Division of Industrial Design
R Brian Stone is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Academics in the Division of Design at the National University of Singapore. His award-winning work and teachings are centered in the areas of motion design, interaction design, information visualization, and user experience. Professor Stone is the co-organizer of the bi-annual MODE Summit, an international conference bringing together motion design educators to present research and discuss how the discipline enhances, effects, and impacts communication.
Professor Stone is also the co-editor of a collection of essays entitled, The Theory and Practice of Motion Design: Critical Perspectives and Professional Practice published by Routledge.
Apple recognized Professor Stone's teaching with the Apple Distinguished Educator award. He is also a recipient of the Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award, The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Order of Omega Faculty Recognition Award.
Mr Koh Zhenglong, Donn, Division of Industrial Design
Donn Koh co-founded the acclaimed STUCK Design, an award winning design innovation agency in Singapore. With 13 years as a design practitioner who has also won numerous teaching awards, Donn has mentored more than 50 designers who are now working in Accenture, IBM, Boston Consulting Group, Zendesk, Linkedin, Grab, Carousell, DBS, Google, and STUCK Design.
Donn is also the inventor of the bend-and-snap mechanism of the Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse, and the lead industrial designer of the Air+ Smart Mask and the HTC Evo 4G. His projects clinched the BraunPrize, Good Design Award, IDEA Gold, and iF Design and multiple Red Dot Best of the Best awards. His twin passions are to create imaginative solutions and to help designers become extraordinarily creative and effective.
The Annual Digital Education Award (ADEA) recognises achievements in developing innovative technology-enhanced teaching, including instruction, educational design, assessment and feedback, as well as wider adoption of good practices in these areas through leadership and support of other colleagues.
Dr Clayton Miller, Department of Building
Dr. Clayton Miller is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the Department of Building. He is the creator of the NUS MOOC EDx Course - Data Science for Construction, Architecture and Engineering that has approximately 20,000 participants worldwide since April 2020. Dr. Miller is the Co-Leader of Theme D - Data Analytics at the UC Berkeley SinBerBEST2 Lab and the Co-Leader of Subtask 4 of the IEA Annex 79 Occupant-Centric Building Design and Operation. He is the leader of the Internet-of-Buildings (IoB) Platform and Building and Urban Data Science (BUDS) Lab and is an affiliate of the Center for 5G Digital Building Technology at NUS.  Dr. Miller's research focuses on performance data analytics using thousands of real-world case study buildings collected from facilities around the world. His team leads the development of the smartwatch-based Cozie wellness and comfort data collection open source project, the ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III Kaggle competition, and the SpaceMatch activity-based workstation optimization platform.
Dr Miller was previously a Fellow at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) at the ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Zurich) and the CTO of a Singaporean startup company, Optiras Pte Ltd.  that developed monitoring technologies for buildings. Clayton holds a Doctorate of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) from the ETH Zürich, a MSc. (Building) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and a Master of Architectural Engineering (MAE) and BSc. from the University of Nebraska. He is a former U.S. Fulbright Student Scholar to Singapore at NUS and a Walter Scott Jr. Scholar.
