Singapore Fellows

CHUA, Soo-Jin
Deputy Director & Programme Advisor
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - University of Wales, Cardiff, UK 1977
Expertise: Molecular beam epitaxy, III-Nitrides/Arsenides/Phosphides metal organic vapour phase epitaxy, optoelectronic and photonic
devices, organic light emitting devices and device simulation.

CHOI, Wee Kiong
Programme Co-Chair
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK 1986
M.B.A. - Edinburgh University 1991
Expertise: Nanocrystal memory, nanostructure fabrication, silicon
germanium device fabrication, reliability study of copper metallization
for ICS, silicon-silicon oxide system and SiC fims.

CHIM, Wai Kin
Course Coordinator
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - NUS 1991
Expertise: MOS device physics and reliability, nanocrystal memory, photon emission microscopy, scanning probe microscopy and scanning electron microscopy.

DU, Hejun
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, NTU
Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering - Imperial College, UK 1991
Expertise: MEMS sensors and actuators, shape memory alloy thin films, smart materials and structures, topology optimisation, computational
mechanics and modelling.

LI, Yi
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science, NUS
Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Materials Science - Department of Metallurgy, University of Sheffield, UK 1990
Expertise: Phase transformation and metallic amorphous materials.

LU, Li
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS
Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Material Engineering - Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Catholic University of Leuven 1989
M.Eng. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
B.Eng. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Expertise: Functional materials, in-situ reaction, phase transformation, thin film and nanostructured alloys.

PEY, Kin Leong
Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS 1994
B.Eng. (Hons) - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS 1989
Expertise: Advance alloy silicide for Si/SiGe technologies, advanced interconnects reliability, physical analysis of ultrathin gate dielectric breakdown and laser annealing for nano-scale CMOS.

WONG, Chee Cheong
Associate Professor, School of Materials Engineering, NTU
Ph.D. in Materials Science - MIT 1986
Expertise: Microelectronic and optical interconnects, flip chip packaging and subsystem integration, flat panel display materials and processes and fundamentals of thin film growth.

WU, Ping
Senior member of technical staff, Institute of High Performance Computing
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering - University of Montreal, Canada 1992
Expertise: Atomistic computer modelling of materials, computational thermochemistry, pattern recognition and data mining for materials research and materials design.

Singapore Associates

TAY, Andrew
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - University of New South Wales 1974
Expertise: Electronics packaging, MEMS, numerical simulation, fracture and delamination, moisture diffusion, heat transfer, wirebonding and solder joint reliability.

YEADON, Mark (from 8 February 2002 to 7 February 2004)
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science, NUS
Ph.D. - University of Birmingham 1995
Expertise: In-situ growth and characterisation of thin films and nanostructured materials by ultrahigh vacuum transmission electron
microscopy (UHVTEM), epitaxial and polycrystalline silicides, oxides and
nitrides and ultrathin amorphous materials.

MIT Fellows

THOMPSON, Carl V.
Programme Co-Chair
Stavros Salapatos Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Ph.D. in Applied Physics - Harvard University 1982
Expertise: Processing and properties of thin films and nanostructures for applications in electronic and electromechanical devices and
systems.