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Nanyang Technological University

Young and research-intensive, Singapores Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is the fastest-rising
Asian university in the worlds top 50. NTU offers engineering, science, business, humanities, arts and social
sciences, and medicine. Its new medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine is set up jointly
with Imperial College London.
With 400 partnerships including joint PhD programmes with top academic institutions and joint laboratories
with industry leaders such as BMW, Rolls-Royce and Robert Bosch, NTU is also ranked No. 1 globally for
industry income and innovation.

The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

Where Interdisciplinary Research Revolution Begins
Enabling unparalleled inventions, the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) strives to develop the
strongest research capability to address the complex challenges of the 21st century while raising Singapores
profile as a top-notch research hub.
Our School, internationally lauded for its high academic standards and research orientation, is one of the
worlds largest schools that specialises in electrical and electronic engineering education. It counts, amongst
our full-time team, 150 faculty members with research and professional expertise and about 500 research,
technical and administrative staff.
The high calibre of our faculty is matched by a well-developed teaching and research infrastructure one of
the most comprehensive and sophisticated constellations of research centres and laboratories around the
globe. Our cutting-edge research and technological innovations span a broad spectrum, covering Autonomous
Systems, Big Data and Analytics, Biomedical Engineering, Cyber Security, Electromagnetic Effects, Infocomm
Technologies, IC Design, Internet of Things, Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology, Photonics, Satellite
Engineering, Semiconductor Lighting and Displays, Silicon, Smart Sensors and Advanced Sensing as well
as Spintronics.
Beyond teaching, our faculty members actively collaborate with leading overseas universities, research
institutes and multinational companies. Our research output is highly regarded for its quality. This has enabled
our School to consistently attract, on average, about S$65 million per annum of research funding over the past
five years. Since 2008, our faculty members have published some 680 Science Citation Index (SCI) journals
and 400 conference papers annually. Additionally, more than 100 international journals have appointed these
distinguished academics as editorial members, an acknowledgement of the high professional standing of
our faculty members.

8 Mega Research Centres

INFINITUS, Infocomm Centre of Excellence

www.infinitus.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof Peter CHONG, Email: ehjchong@ntu.edu.sg

INFINITUS is a centre of excellence for information and communication engineering with research programmes
in (1) Communications and Network Systems, (2) Advanced Sensing, (3) Security, (4) Data Mining and Analytics,
(5) Video Analytics, (6) Navigation and Positioning, and (7) Radio Frequency and Microwave Engineering.

NOVITAS, Nanoelectronics Centre of Excellence

www.novitas.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof ZHANG Qing, Email: eqzhang@ntu.edu.sg

NOVITAS has strong expertise in material growth and characterisation, device and IC processing, electrical
and reliability measurements, modelling and simulation. Its research activities include (1) Advanced Silicon
Device and Integration Technologies, (2) Compound Semiconductor Device and IC Technologies, and (3)
Nanotechnologies.

VALENS, Centre of Excellence for Bio-Instrumentation, Devices and

Signal Processing
www.valens.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof SER Wee, Email: ewser@ntu.edu.sg

VALENS is a centre of excellence for bio-medical research. Its research activities are focused on four major
areas, namely (1) Bio-Imaging, (2) Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, (3) Neural Engineering, and
(4) Lab-On-Chip. Many of the research projects involve active participation from clinicians and international
research partners.

OPTIMUS, Photonics Centre of Excellence

www.optimus.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof SHUM Ping Perry, Email: epshum@ntu.edu.sg

OPTIMUS focuses on advanced photonics with research activities in (1) Novel Photonic Materials and
Devices, (2) Photonic Nano-structures and Applications, (3) Optical Fibre Technology, and (4) Advanced
Optical Communications.

LUMINOUS! Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays

www.luminous.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof Hilmi Volkan DEMIR, Email: hvdemir@ntu.edu.sg

LUMINOUS! offers potential solutions addressing energy efficiency and photometric quality problems in
lighting. Its key competencies include white LEDs and OLEDs for solid-state lighting and displays, nanocrystal
quantum-dot nanoluminophors, plasmophors, ZnO-based transparent electrodes and emitting devices,
organic photovoltaics, electrochromics for smart windows and low-power displays.

VIRTUS, IC Design Centre of Excellence

www.virtus.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof SIEK Liter, Email: elsiek@ntu.edu.sg

VIRTUS advances discovery and design (D&D) as well as research and development (R&D) in IC design and
technology for applications in medical technology, clean technology and consumer electronics. Its research
areas are mainly in analogue, mixed-signal, power management and data converters, energy harvesting,
low-power RF and mm-wave IC, and new technology directions such as 3D-integration and physical design,
3D RF and mixed-signal circuits, and terahertz IC.

EXQUISITUS, Centre for E-City

www.exquisitus.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof WANG Dan Wei, Email: edwwang@ntu.edu.sg

EXQUISITUS is a centre of excellence that advances research and development (R&D) in electrical systems for
future cities. Its research activities include energy conversion devices, clean and renewable energy systems,
energy storage, smart grids, energy efficient buildings, control system technologies, mobile robotics, and
intelligent transportations.

COFT (Centre for Optical Fibre Technology)

Director: Prof Kantisara PITA, Email: ekpita@ntu.edu.sg

COFT is being set up to develop core capabilities and technologies for specialty optical fibre fabrications
and characterisations. It has strong expertise in the design and fabrication of specialty optical fibre for
various applications. COFT focuses its research activities in (1) High Power Fibre Lasers (2) Sensors, and
(3) Communications.

3 Joint Research Centres

EMERL (Electromagnetic Effects Research Laboratory)
www.emerl.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof SEE Kye Yak, Email: ekysee@ntu.edu.sg

EMERL is the first national-level electromagnetic effects research and measurement test facility that caters
to both defence and commercial sectors. Its research projects cover power electronics EMC, high-speed
signal integrity, printed circuit board EMC, integrated circuit EMC, electromagnetic shielding, and radio
frequency interference (RFI).

SaRC (Satellite Research Centre)

www.sarc.eee.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof LOW Kay Soon, Email: ekslow@ntu.edu.sg

SaRC is a centre of excellence offering satellite research and training of manpower in space technologies. Its
research activities include design of satellite payloads, development of low earth orbit (LEO) nano- and picosatellite for distributed space missions, satellite ground system design for mission control and experiment,
as well as innovative technologies and applications for future satellites.

ROSE (Rapid-Rich Object Search) Lab

rose.ntu.edu.sg
Director: Prof Alex KOT, Email: eackot@ntu.edu.sg

The ROSE Lab is a joint collaboration between the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Peking
University, China. Its vision is to create the largest collection of structured domain object database in Asia
to enable the development of rapid and rich mobile object search. Its three research programmes are (1)
Large-scale Structured Object Database and Analytics, (2) Scalable Visual Object Search, and (3) Media
Cloud Platform.

Contact Us

Colin LEONG
Senior Assistant Director
Office of Associate Chair (Research)
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

Tel
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Website

: (65) 6592 1663

: (65) 6794 3661
: leongch@ntu.edu.sg
: www.eee.ntu.edu.sg
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