The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public and research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University.
Pramod P. Khargonekar is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. An expert in control systems engineering, Dr. Khargonekar has served in a variety of administrative roles in academia and federal funding agencies. Most recently, he served as Assistant Director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (2013-2016), and as Deputy Director for Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy. From 2001 through 2009 he was the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida.
The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering is the engineering college of the Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dean Ho is a Provost's Chair Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology, Director of the N.1 Institute for Health, and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He was previously a professor at UCLA, and associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Full Member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Illinois, United States.
Chad Alexander Mirkin is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and professor of chemical and biological engineering, and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University.
Christopher G. Chute is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, physician-scientist and biomedical informatician known for biomedical terminologies and health information technology (IT) standards. He chairs the World Health Organization Revision Steering Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
IEEE Life Sciences is an initiative launched by IEEE to promote the advancement of life sciences and supporting technologies, and to provide expertise and resources to individuals and enterprises involved in the various disciplines falling under the life sciences umbrella. IEEE Life Sciences provides access to a range of resources, including professional conferences, continuing education courses, publications, and standards. It is based in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Lim Kah Leong, is a Singaporean neuroscientist and tenured full Professor and Associate Vice President for Research at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), where he is also a President's Chair Professor in Translational Neuroscience. He was previously the Vice Dean for Research at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at NTU, Chair of the Department of Physiology at the National University of Singapore, Singapore and the deputy director for research at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore. Dr. Lim is known for his research in Parkinson's Disease. His research focuses on unraveling the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases, with the view to develop novel therapies aimed at effectively treating the disease.
Jennifer Hartt Elisseeff is an American biomedical engineer, ophthalmologist and academic. She is the Morton Goldberg Professor and Director of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center at Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Wilmer Eye Institute with appointments in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Orthopedic Surgery. Elisseeff's research is in the fields of regenerative medicine and immunoengineering.
Praveen Linga PhD, a chemical engineer, is a professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is an expert in clathrate hydrates or gas hydrates. He is also the co-founder of NewGen Gas Pte Ltd, a spin-off company that specialises in solidified natural gas (SNG) technology via clathrate hydrates for natural gas storage and transport. He has been interviewed and has provided expert opinion and commentary in the media.
Hai-Quan Mao is a Chinese chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and associate director of the university's Institute for NanoBioTechnology. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a member of the National Academy of Inventors.
Tan Tin Wee is a Singaporean bioinformatician and university lecturer. He is an associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the National University of Singapore and Chief Executive of the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) Singapore. As the inventor and founder of multilingual internationalized domain names (IDN) and a pioneer of the Internet, he was inducted into the Internet Society of 2012 along with the founding fathers of the Internet in the first Internet Hall of Fame. He is well known in Singapore and the region for his work on propagating and developing the Internet.
Jerry L. Prince is the William B. Kouwenhoven Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He has over 44,000 citations, and an h-index of 85.
Srinivas Sridhar is an American scientist, educator and academic. He is known for his research and educational activities in the area of nanomedicine, MRI, quantum chaos, superconductivity and neurotechnology. Srinivas Sridhar currently holds the position of University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University in the Departments of Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering. In 2016, Sridhar received the Biomedical Engineering Society Diversity Award. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008.
Lim Chwee Teck is a Singaporean scientist and entrepreneur. He is a specialist in human disease mechanobiology and in developing medical technologies for disease diagnosis and precision therapy and bringing them from the laboratory to the bedside.
Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, who works at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins University, he is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, the Center for Imaging Science, the Institute for Assured Autonomy, and the Mathematical Institute for Data Sciences. He joined Johns Hopkins University after 29 years at The University of Maryland. Before that, he was an assistant, associate professor, and later, director, of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute.
Kathleen E. Cullen is an American–Canadian biomedical engineer and neuroscientist. She is known for her work combining computational and systems neuroscience to understand how the brain encodes and processes self-motion (vestibular) information to ensure the maintenance of balance and stable perception. Her research also focuses on extending this knowledge to further advance the development of novel diagnostic tools, treatments, training, and rehabilitative strategies for patients.
Pooi-Yuen Kam, is an Emeritus Professor of National University of Singapore and currently a professor at the School of Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to receiver design and performance analysis for wireless communications. He is also a Fellow of the AAIA and a Fellow of the IES.
Amir Manbachi is an Iranian-born, Canadian-American academic and researcher, currently working as an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and known for his work in Medical Ultrasound. He is the co-founder and current director of HEPIUS Innovation Lab at Johns Hopkins University.
Cecilia Laschi is an Italian roboticist specializing in soft robotics and bio-inspired robotics, including the design of robot manipulators based on octopus tentacles and the biomedical applications of soft robotics. She is Provost’s Chair Professor of robotics at the National University of Singapore (NUS), head of the Soft Robotics Lab and co-director of the Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology and Innovation at NUS, on leave as professor in the BioRobotics Institute from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Italy, and editor-in-chief of the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
