Singapore Fellows

NEE, Yeh Ching Andrew
SMA Co-Director (from 1 March 2002 to 28 February 2005)
SMA Interim Co-Director (with effect from 14 March 2005)
Director, Office of Research, NUS Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS Active Member CIRP (1990)
Fellow - Society of Manufacturing Engineers (1990)

D.Eng. - UMIST, 2002 
Ph.D. in Machine Tools and Technology - University of Manchester, 1973

Expertise: Computer-aided design of dies and moulds, distributed manufacturing systems, computer-aided process and fixture planning, virtual and augmented reality applications in manufacturing

YUE, Chee Yoon
Programme Co-Chair
Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU

Ph.D. - Monash University 1983

Expertise: Manufacturing physics and processes; modelling, processing and properties of advanced materials and microreplication processes.

TOR, Shu Beng
Course Coordinator
Head, Manufacturing Engineering Division, NTU Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU

Ph.D. in CAD/CAM, Mechanical Engineering - University of Westminster, UK 1985

Expertise: CAD/CAM, design automation, process threads automation and micro moulding.

BHATNAGAR, Rohit
Associate Professor, Nanyang Business School, NTU

Ph.D. in Management - McGill University 1994

Expertise: Location and coordination issues in global supply chains, multi-plant coordination, logistics alliances, simulation of manufacturing systems, shop floor coordination and lead-time management.

CHEN, I-Ming
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - California Institute of Technology 1994

Expertise: Reconfigurable automation, sensor-based mechanical system simulations, biomedical applications of reconfigurable robotic systems, parallel kinematics machines (pkm) and smart material based actuators.

LAM, Yee Cheong
Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU

Ph.D. - Melbourne University 1983

Expertise: Optimisation of manufacturing processes, numerical and physical modelling of material behaviours, micro-fluidics and manufacturing processes.

LOH, Han Tong
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1989

Expertise: Data mining, robust design, rapid prototyping, design optimisation and CAD/CAM.

LU, Wen Feng
Group Manager, Product Design and Development Group, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - University of Minnesota 1990

Expertise: Design methodologies, information technologies in product design, product lifecycle management, enterprise process management and micro-system design.

NGOI, Kok Ann Bryan
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - University of Canterbury 1990

Expertise: Ultra-precision engineering, micro-/nano-fabrication and nanometrology.

SIVAKUMAR, Appa Iyer
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU

Ph.D. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering - Bradford, UK 1985

Expertise: Advanced manufacturing systems scheduling and planning, supply chain design, planning and scheduling, multiple objective optimisation in scheduling, discrete event simulation and manufacturing systems engineering.

SUBRAMANIAM, Velusamy
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - MIT 1995

Expertise: Scheduling and Analysis of manufacturing systems.

YOON, Soon Fatt
Professor and Vice-Dean (Research), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - University of Wales, Cardiff, UK, 1986

Expertise: Advanced semiconductor device processing and epitaxy, IC manufacturing, technology management in silicon wafer manufacturing.