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Name	Research Interests
Asst Prof (Adj) Bikramjit Singh Bhangu	Power electronics, power semiconductor devices, advanced machines and drives, intelligent power converters, sensorless control of high speed generators, battery storage, battery management systems, health monitoring of power converters and health monitoring of rotating electrical machines.
Assoc Prof Chai Gin Boay	Composite Materials & Structures, Buckling and Failure of Structures, Practical Application of Finite Element softwares (ANSYS, ABAQUS, MARC/MENTAT).
Assoc Prof Chang, Joseph Sylvester	Joseph Chang is multi-disciplinary engineer with research encompassing core CAS-related fields including analog, digital and aerospace circuits/systems; biomedical/life-sciences related-fields; and the emerging printed-electronics. He received the B.Eng (ECE) from Monash University, and Ph.D. from the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and has two-years IC-related industrial-experience. He is currently with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (and Adjunct at Texas A&M). He has contributed to senior university administration and to ECE undergraduate/graduate education. He was the inaugural Associate-Dean of Research-and-Graduate-Studies at the 660 faculty-strong College-of-Engineering. For undergraduate education, he emphasized on promoting and instilling undergraduates’ interest in ECE, including being the chair of the Undergraduate-Research-Experience-on-Campus and Undergraduate-Research-Opportunities-Program programs, chaired Orientation-Programs and national-level undergraduate-conferences, and has given several talks in high-schools. In the IEEE, he contributed to both core and multi-disciplinary fields, including as Guest-Editor of the Proceedings-of-the-IEEE on ‘Computational System-Biology’, Guest-Editor of the CAS-Magazine on ‘Special-Issue on Life-Sciences’, Editor of the CAS-Magazine’s Open-Column, Chairperson of the IEEE-NIH Life-Sciences-Systems-and-Applications (LiSSA) Workshop, Chairperson of two IEEE-NIH CAS-Medical-and-Environmental (CASME) Workshops, Chairperson of the LiSSA Technical-Committee, Associate-Editor of IEEE TCAS-I (3-terms) and -II, Associate-Editor of the IEEE CAS-Magazine, Distinguished-Lecturer, etc. Of specific interest, he organized the successful merging of the BioCAS and LiSSA technical-committees, largely for CAS’s concerted/united life-sciences efforts. He was instrumental in several non-IEEE establishments’ engagement in CAS’s activities, including other IEEE societies, National-Institutes-of-Health, Telemedicine-and-Advanced-Technology-Research-Center, American-Institute-of-Medical-and-Bioengineering, etc. Impact thereto includes NIH’s request for each of their 27 institutes a copy of the aforesaid CAS-magazine’s special-issue, representation by different IEEE societies at the IEEE-NIH workshops and NIH financial support for CASME. He has published over 200 referee-reviewed publications (primarily in IEEE) and has over 20 patents (awarded/pending). In the field of ‘Class-D amplifier’, he has the most number of publications in the IEEE; and the top-ranked paper (excluding patents) and four of the top six papers in ‘Digital Class-D Amplifier’ in Google Scholar. He has received numerous grants from local and international funding-agencies (including DARPA and the EU) and from industry, amounting to >US$10M. He has founded two startups, and has designed numerous ECE-related products for industry. His research interests are largely emerging technologies, including bioengineering, microfluidics, audiology, psychoacoustics, and analog and digital circuit designs. He leads a group of 25 researchers - externally funded - including from DARPA (USA) and from the European Union. Some description of his work may be found in the following editorials of the Proceedings of the IEEE and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (where he served as a Guest Editor): J. Chang, S. Wong, R. Newcomb and P. Häfliger, ‘Third Revolution in Medicine – the Convergence of Life Sciences with Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering’, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Special Issue on Life Sciences, Aug 2012 S. Wong, M. Ogorzalek and J. Chang, ‘Editorial on the Special Issue on Computational Systems Biology’, The Proceedings of the IEEE, Aug 2008
Asst Prof (Adj) Cheng Wei Ping	Dr Cheng's research interest is in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aircraft design, Incompressible flow, Compressible flows and Turbulent flows. His current focus is on the design of small and tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Assoc Prof Chue Shek Ming Randy	Prof. Chue's areas of research interest are in hypersonic aerothermodynamics, scramjet propulsion, flows around space vehicles during earth and planetary entries, high enthalpy shock tunnels, detonations and explosions. His current work focuses on ramjet and scramjet engines and ground testing of these systems.
Assoc Prof David Lee Butler	Prof Butler's area of expertise are surface metrology, machining processes and novel removal processes. His current research focuses on electrokinetic removal, the application of diatoms for nanotechnology and ultraprecision grinding.
Assoc Prof Fan Hui	Prof. Fan has been conducting research in the area of solid mechanics for over 20 years. His publications touched topics: fracture mechanics, mechanics of composites, micromechanics of defects in the solids, and multi-physics.
Assoc Prof Huang Weimin	Shape memory materials and technologies Smart actuators and devices Active assembly and disassembly Surface patterning Yield surface of materials Materials selection
Assoc Prof Huang Xiaoyang	Microscale fluidics and acoustics, nonlinear acoustics, aerodynamic instabilities, flow-structure interactions.
Asst Prof Jorg Uwe Schluter	Aerodynamics, wind energy, turbulent flows, flow control, Computational Fluid Dynamics (RANS, LES, DNS, and RANS-LES hybrids), high-performance computing and parallel programming approaches, combustion modeling and combustion instabilities, acoustics.
Prof Lam Yee Cheong	Dr. Lam's research is well supported by private and public funding. His most current research endeavor is on microfluidics, which include mixing and particle separation in microchannels. His recent research activities include modeling of materials and their processing, injection moldings, fiber composite manufacturing and the behaviors of polymers. He has also conducted research in the areas of metal working, fracture mechanics, life extension of structures and finite element analysis. He has published more than three hundred technical papers. His research in plastic injection molding is supported by Moldflow Corporation, USA, the leading and dominant company in plastic injection molding simulation software. As a result of this research collaboration, Moldflow donated $12.4 million dollars of software to NTU for research and educational purposes in 2000.
Assoc Prof Li Hua	Dr. Li Hua's area of expertise is computational science and engineering. His current research works focus on the multiphysics modelling of soft matters (smart hydrogel in BioMEMS and biological cell in micro scale fields), development of highly efficient numerical computational methodology (meshless & multiscale algorithms), simulation of sustainable energy (building energy efficiency and fuel cell system), and dynamics (high-speed rotating shell and composite materials structure).
Asst Prof (Adj) Li King Ho Holden	Holden's research interest is in the area of microelectronics, micro and nano fabrication methods and MEMS reliability study. The area in MEMS reliability is essentially an important aspect that is lacking in the academic world. Some of his latest works include the long term reliability of MEMS sensor under high constant acceleration field and various packaging options. Besides, Holden is actively working in the area of integration of microelectronics with MEMS and system level design.
Asst Prof Li Peifeng	Dr. Li’s research focuses on improving our understanding of the process-structure-mechanical property relationship of materials. The main strategy is the use of combined advanced experimental characterisation and multiscale material modelling techniques. Application includes lightweight metals, porous materials, composites and thermal barrier coatings for automotive, aerospace and defence sectors.
Assoc Prof Lin Rongming	These include Vibration Modelling, Modal Testing, MEMS, Dynamics of Microsystems.
Assoc Prof Liu Yong	Prof. Liu's research is focused on smart materials and structures and their applications. Materials related research activities include but not limited to developing shape memory alloys (SMAs), fundamentals of transformation characteristics of SMAs, sensing capability of ferromagnetic shape memory materials, processing-microstructure-property relation in SMAs, fracture mechanism of FSMAs, SMA thin films and melt-spun ribbons, constrained shape recovery and influencing factors, magnetic properties of FSMAs, etc. Application related research activities include morphing wing mechanisms of UAVs, smart-materials-based mechanisms for deployable space structures, smart-materials actuated biologically inspired micro-aerial vehicles (flapping wing system). Other activities include SMA actuated MEMS, nitinol stent - design, fabrication, characterization, smart materials actuated underwater robot, robotic hand actuated with muscle wire.
Asst Prof (Adj) Lou Kok Yong	Control system design and development for application in unmanned systems. Aircraft and spacecraft flight dynamics & control, modeling & simulation, and stability & control analysis. Guidance, navigation, & control, and 6DOF simulation analysis for evaluation of guided systems. Optimal and inverse control for aircraft maneuvers.
Prof Lu Yilong	Prof LU Yilong's research interests include modern radar systems, antennas, array signal processing, microwave circuits/devices, computational electromagnetics, evolutionary computation for optimization of complex problems. His current research works focus on new radar system concepts and demonstration, integrated millimeter wave antenna array, vector antennas, and new approaches for estimation of direction of arrival. Below is a more detailed list of his research interests: 1. Modern Radar Systems 1.1 Passive Radar (based on GSM, DTV and WiMAX illuminations) 1.2 High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR) 1.3 Foliage Penetration Radar 1.4 Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) Radar 1.5 Radar Imaging 2. Antennas 2.1 Wire antennas 2.2 Microstrip antennas 2.3 Millimeter wave antennas 2.4 Cavity antennas 2.5 Conformal antennas 2.6 Vector antennas 3. Array Signal Processing 3.1 Arbitrary digital beamforming (DBF) 3.2 Estimation of direction of arrival (DoA) 4. Microwave/Optical Circuits/Devices 4.1 Microwave digital receiver modules 4.2 Microwave filters 4.3 Integrated dielectric waveguides 4.4 Photonic crystal fiber (PCF) 5. Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) 5.1 Finite Element Method (FEM) 5.2 Method of Moment (MoM) 5.3 Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method 5.4 Wavelet Transform Method (WTM) 5.5 Efficient matrix equation solvers for generalized eigensystems 6. Evolutionary Computation 6.1 Genetic Algorithms (GA) 6.2 Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) 6.3 Applications of Evolution Computation for Optimization of Complex problems 7. GUI Software Development 7.1 MATLAB NEC Toolbox (NEC: Numerical Electromagnetic Code) 7.2 MATLAB Receiver Toolbox 7.3 MATLAB Radar Toolbox
Prof Mahmut Reyhanoglu	Dr. Reyhanoglu's major research interests are in the areas of nonlinear dynamics, controls, and robotics, with particular emphasis on application to mechanical and aerospace systems.
Asst Prof Martin Skote	Prof Skote's areas of expertise are Direct Numerical Simulation, Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow, Separation, Atmospheric Flow, Urban Air Quality, Turbulence Modeling, Plasma Actuator Modeling. His current research works focus on fundamental studies of turbulence aiming at the control of turbulent boundary layers.
Asst Prof Moon Seung Ki	He is interested in the boundary-spanning research that integrates the knowledge of design, engineering, and economics. His current focuses include applying economic theory to the design of customized and sustainable products and services, universal design for human variability, strategic and multidiscipline design optimization, service design and management for smart grid, and 3D additive manufacturing and welding.
Asst Prof New Tze How, Daniel	Jet mixing and control enhancements Jet in cross-flow phenomenon Vortex dynamics and flow physics Pulse detonation engine technology
Assoc Prof Ng Heong Wah	His early research interests have been in analysis and design of high temperature structures and pressure systems components including pressure vessels and piping design and analysis, fracture mechanics and defect assessment. Currently, his research focused on experimental, diagnostics, CFD modeling and simulation of plasma sprayed deposition of coatings for thermal barrier, SOFC fuel cells and other industrial applications.
Assoc Prof Ng Yin Kwee	His main area of research is thermal imaging, biomedical engineering; computational turbomachinery aerodynamics; marine sustainable energy problems; computational fluid dynamics & computational heat transfer such as laser modelling, bioheat transfer analysis. He is the: Adjunct National University Hospital Scientist; Editor-in-Chief for the J. of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology; J. Med. Imaging and Health Informatics; and strategy Assoc. Editor-in-Chief for World J. of Clinical Oncology; Assoc. Editor for Int. J. of Rotating Machinery; Computational Fluid Dynamics J. (CFDJ); Int. J. of Breast Cancer, Chinese J. of Medicine, Open Medical Informatics J., Open Numerical Methods J., J. of Healthcare Engg, J. of Scientific Conf. Proceedings, and J. of Bionanoscience; co-chairman for 15th Int. Conf. on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (2006); co-chair of the working group on thermal imagers under Medical Technology Standards Committee by SPRING, Singapore (handling the international standardisation aspects for thermal imagers for ISO-IEC) etc.
Assoc Prof (Adj) Poh Eng Kee	Assoc Prof (Adj.) Dr Poh Eng Kee specializes in guidance, navigation, control and signal processing. His areas of research focus on advanced navigation and control design for unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous underwater vehicle, satellite formation control and communication, GPS receiver design and algorithms.
Asst Prof Sathyan Subbiah	My background and training is in the area of precision machining and related areas such as fixturing. I try to apply this expertise to different fields such as production of micro-fluidic devices, aerospace and marine polishing process development, solar cell manufacturing, and micro-nano feature/parts development. My expertise includes both experimental tinkering and process modeling using finite element models. In the experimental side I have experience using statistical methods and design of experiments to enhance process understanding.
Assoc Prof Seah Leong Keey	Phase-resolved Imaging, Latent Fingerprint Imaging, Strain Measurement, Thin-Walled Structures, Buckling Analysis, Structural Behaviour,
Assoc Prof Shu Dong Wei	Drop test of Seagate Hard Disk Drives and other consumer products; Working with the defence industry and the hard disk drive industry; High speed camera at speed upto 20,000 fps; Impact tester at peak accleration upto 10,000g; Effects of delaminations in laminate composites on vibration and buckling; Piezo-electric sensors and actuators embedded in composites as vibration control-Theory; Piezo-electric ceramics fibres and particulates embedded in piezo-electric polymers; Stress of solder, metal foams, AZ90 and MA50 alloys at high strain rate of about 1000/s. Study on the Split Hopkinson Bar technique; FEM simulation of collision, energy absorbing devices (EAD) Ballistic testing on novel materials such as SMA, Solder, and metal foams; Spina Bifida in salamander and its early development; Youngs Modulus of metal foams; Youngs modulus of tropical swine bones under different moistures.
Prof Soh Chee Kiong	smart materials and structures, energy harvesting and offshore engineering.
Asst Prof Son Hungsun	- Magnetic field modeling - Mechatronics (design and control of electromechanical systems) - Robotics and Automation - Sensing methodology - Unmanned Vehicle System (UVS) - System dynamics and Vibration analysis - Nonlinear system and Control
Assoc Prof Sridhar Idapalapati	Mechanics of Materials; Failure Ananlysis; composites consolidation with CNTs; Optimal Sandwich Panels design as protective structures; Nanoindentation and contact mechanics especially for adhesion; bone fracture fixation
Assoc Prof Sunil Chandrakant Joshi	His research expertise emcompass - Process modelling for composites, Transition mechanisms in hydrogels, Composite repairs, and Thermal controls for micro-satellites. The current and past research activities include - Numerical simulation and optimization of composites manufacturing processes: - FE/NCV approach for heat and mass transfer simulation in fabrication assemblies for prepreg moulding, resin transfer moulding, resin film infusion processes - Modelling resin curing, mould filling, resin film infusion, polymer crystallization phenomena - Simulation of pultrusion process for monolithic and sandwich panels - Optimization of pultrusion parameters including resin shrinkage Polymer blends and thermo-sensitive hydrogels: - Studies on rheological behaviour, shear heating in injection moulding - Modelling of ceramic tape casting, polymer blends processing, demoulding - Thermo-reversibility of physical hydrogels - Simulation of gelation/ degelation of hydrogels - Fluid uptake and drug release of HPMC tablets Design, analysis and testing of thermal controls for micro-satellites: - Outgassing and surface characterization of thermal control coatings - Thermal analysis of spacecrafts in orbit - Modelling for thermal radiation properties of coated substrates - Plasma-spray coatings - Thermal vacuum and balance testing of micro-spacecrafts - Qualification testing of spacecraft test appendages Fibre reinforced and other composites: - Studies on delamination, composite repairs and joints - Failure analysis of the aircraft tail sections, composite bridge deck sections - Behaviour of woven composites and FMLs - Hygrothermal testing of polymer composites - Nano-engineered composites
Asst Prof Suresh Sundaram	Guidance and Control of Aerospace Vehicles Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design Machine Learning Applied Game Theory Optimization Distributed Computing Computer Vision
Assoc Prof Tai Kang	design automation, design optimization, multiobjective optimization, structural optimization, topology optimization, shape optimization, evolutionary computation, genetic and evolutionary algorithms, computational intelligence, discrete and combinatorial optimization, compliant mechanisms, flexural mechanisms, finite and boundary element analysis, paperboard packaging, folding and unfolding of 3D folded structures, flat pattern design, computational geometry, UAV trajectory planning, sensor network deployment, probability collectives, collective intelligence, system identification, mathematical modeling
Asst Prof Tang Hui	Aerodynamics, Hydrodynamics, Active Flow Control, Marine Renewable Energy, Sound & Vibration, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) > Active flow separation control using synthetic jet technology > Modeling of wind-wave-current-structure interaction > System analysis of wind/tidal turbines > Novel wave energy harvesting device > Analysis of structural vibration and structure–borne acoustics
Assoc Prof Tseng King Jet	Dr Tseng's research areas are Power Semiconductor Devices; Electron Device Modelling and Simulation; Electrical Energy Conversion; Electrical Energy Generation, Distribution, Storage and Utilization; Energy Efficiency; Power Systems and Power Electronics. His current research projects are Marine Tidal Stream Energy Systems, Energy Storage for Renewables, and Wide Band-Gap Power Semiconductors.
Asst Prof Wang Desheng	His research interests include Interactive Digital Media, numerical analysis and scientific computing, computational biomedical engineering and computational EM, computational geometry, computational graphics and vision.
Assoc Prof Wang Jianliang	1. Robust and Reliable Control, Fault Detection and Identification, Nonlinear Control, and Model Predictive Control. 2. Applications to Aircraft Flight Control System Design. 3. Control of Graphics Rendering Process.
Asst Prof Wu Yanhua	Experimental diagnostics of complex fluid systems including smooth- and rough-wall turbulent flows, biological fluids, turbulence and flow control, unsteady aerodynamics of flapping wing flight, bio-mimic flows, multi-phase reactive flows, and fluid engineering related to renewable energy.
Assoc Prof Xiao Zhongmin	Nano and Micro Mechanics of interacting defects in Composite Materials; Elastic-plastic Fracture Mechanics for Engineering Structures and Materials; Failure Analysis and Prevention of Aerospace Structures, Offshore Structures and Related Materials.
Asst Prof Yang Jinglei	Self-healing/smart composites and coatings; Micro- & nano-manufacturing of materials; Filament wound composites; Fiber metal laminates; Multifunctional nanocomposites and fiber reinforced composites; Ceramics; Energy storage materials; Interfacial properties in hybrid composite systems; Micro-/nano-mechanics; Impact; Tribology; Fracture; Corrosion protection
Assoc Prof Yang Yaowen	(a) Application of smart sensor technology for structural health monitoring; (b) Energy harvesting using smart materials; (c) Uncertainty analysis and modeling for structural systems; and (d) Evolutionary computation for optimization and inverse problem solving;
Assoc Prof Yu Ching Man, Simon	Research Areas/Interests Non-intrusive measurement technique: Laser-Doppler anemometry, Phase-Doppler anemometry, Particle Image Velocimetry and Planar Laser Induced Flourescent and their applications to turbulent mixing flows, biofluids Mechanics, environmental fluid mechanics and fundamental plume and jet studies. 12 MEng students graduated and 11 PhD students graduated (up to 2007) PhD candidates currently under supervision: Gao Lei: Vortex Ring dynamics using Particle Image Velocimetry Gan Zhiwen: Three-phase bubble column using Phase Doppler anemometer Wan Chao: Mixing of a heated jet Koh PK: Cold Spray Analysis (Part-time)
Prof Yue Chee Yoon	Advanced materials modeling, processing and properties with emphasis on fibre reinforced composites, liquid crystalline polymer-based polymer blends, micro-replication techniques, nanocomposites and applications of polymers in biomedical engineering and microelectronics. Interfacial properties of composites; surface treatment and modification; adhesion; solvent welding of polymers; prediction of long-term properties of polymers. Micro- and nano-manufacturing with a focus on micro-embossing of polymers aimed at the production of microfluidic devices.
Asst Prof Zhao Dan	1. Pulse combustion Drying 2. Control of Combustion instabilities (active, passive or tuned passive control) 2. Signal Processing 3. Flow measurement using noise logging technique 4. Aeroacoustic Measurements of Aerial Vehicles and High speed Vehicles (Acoustic imaging with Camera) 5. Acoustic dampers/materials
Asst Prof Zhou Kun	— First-principles calculation and atomistic simulation — Synthesis, characterization and modeling of nanomaterials (SiC nanowires, graphene, etc.) — Energy storage and solar energy — Material reliability and sustainability (fatigue, wear and corrosion) — Bio-inspired materials — Contact mechanics and tribology

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