Singapore Fellows

NEE, Yeh Ching Andrew
SMA Co-Director
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 metal stamping dies and plastic injection moulds, rapid prototyping, computer-aided process and fixture
planning, VR and AR applications in manufacturing.

YUE, Chee Yoon
Programme Co-Chair
Professor and Dean, School of Mechanical and Production 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 Production 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 Production 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 Production Engineering, NTU
Ph.D. - Melbourne University 1983
Expertise: Optimisation of manufacturing processes, numerical and physical modelling of material behaviours 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, collaborative product development, enterprise process
management and micro-system design.

NGOI, Kok Ann Bryan
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Production 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 Production Engineering, NTU
Ph.D. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering - Bradford, UK 1985
Expertise: Advanced manufacturing systems scheduling and planning, supply chain design and planning, 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 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 and technology management in silicon wafer
manufacturing.

Singapore Associates

CHAN, Bee Eng Mary
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, NTU
Ph.D. - MIT 1993
Expertise: Polymer science, micro- and nano-patterning, surface surface, adhesion, tissue engineering, drug and gene delivery.

XIE, Ming (from 1 April 2002 - 31 March 2004)
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, NTU
Ph.D. in Informatics - INRIA Rennes 1989
Expertise: Robotics, robotic vision and industrial automation.

MIT Fellows

HARDT, David E.
Programme Co-Chair
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - MIT 1978
Expertise: Modeling and control of manufacturing processes, system dynamics and control.