Outstanding Young Alumni
Our young alumni have consistently distinguished themselves with achievements that have earned recognition from platforms like Forbes, Prestige Singapore, and Tatler Gen.T. These awards showcase the innovation, creativity, and leadership of NTU Singapore's graduates. Listed below are alumni who have been honoured with these awards.
Alwyn Rusli
Founding member, Trihill Capital
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2025
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023
Aruna Harsa Njotohardjo
Co-founder and CTO, Dekoruma
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019
Brian Marshal
Founder and CEO, SIRCLO
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2025
Fortune Indonesia 40 Under 40 2024
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2021
Serene Cai
Co-founder, Speedoc
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2021
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2021
Ted Chen
Co-founder, CEO and Chief Product Architect, Evercomm Singapore
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2022
Forbes 30 Under 30 2016
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2016
Dr Matthew Chew
Co-founder, Our Grandfather Story
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2024
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023
Chew Zi Jie
Founder, Sidekicklabs; Co-founder, Tribe; Director, AngelHack; Co-founder, StackUp
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2020
Kenneth Chia
Founder, CEO and Creative Director, Pencil Sword
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2020
Josephine K Chow
Co-founder, ShopBack
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018
Jonathan Chua
Co-founder and Creative Director, Zendyll Records; Managing Director, Zendyll Productions; Member of Singaporean band, The Sam Willows
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019
Chuah Joolin
Chief of Staff, Carro
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019
Cui Huanhuan
Co-founder and Managing Partner, LongHash Ventures
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2020
Edmund Joseph Twohill
Co-founder and Executive Director, ImpactSG
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2025
Dr Feng Lei
Professor, College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, China
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022
Dr George-Cristian Potrivitu
Chief Technology Officer & co-founder, Aliena Pte Ltd Singapore
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2025
Dr Guo Shasha
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cornell University
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025
Han Zhong Liang
Vice President, Senior Investment Strategist, BlackRock
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025
Sherman Ho
Co-founder, Happiness Initiative
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2024
Dr Jia Zhunan
Founder and CEO, Breathonix Pte Ltd
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2023
Joanne Denise Paranjothy
Teacher, Catholic High School
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017
Karan Bhardwaj
VP Operations Product, Atlys
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022
Dr Kenath Priyanka Prasad
VP, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Atlatl Research & Consulting
Forbes 30 Under 30 2021
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2021
Kheng Narelle Songyi
Member of Singaporean band, The Sam Willows; actress
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019
Fannie Kue
Head of Venture Capital Business Development, SEA, Google Cloud, Google
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2022
Annabelle Kwok
Tech Entrepreneur
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2023
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2019
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2018
Annette Lee
Filmmaker, actress, musician
Prestige 40 Under 40 2024
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2023
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022
Jason Lee
Founder and CEO, Scent by SIX
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2023
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2020
Lee Ray Sheng
Co-founder, A Hot Hideout; Co-founder and CEO, SNUM Group
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2025
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2025
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025
Lim Hui Kiat
CEO APAC, Helpling
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2020
Dr Mark Lim
CEO, Aliena Pte Ltd
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2023
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2020
Luke Lim
CEO, Supermom
Forbes Asia 100 to watch 2025
Vivian Lim
Founder, The Idea Co; Curator, GEN & TEDxSingapore
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2020
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2020
Rebekah Lin
Director of Business Development, Tembusu Partners; Director, Jia Foundation; Co-founder, The Social Co; Co-founder, Half
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2024
Lin Shiyang
Former CFO, mClinica
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017
Liu Jiannan
CEO, SCI Ecommerce
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2021
Liu Xi
Founder and CEO, FOMO Pay
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2018
Dr Liu Yayuan
Assistant Professor, The Johns Hopkins University
Forbes 30 Under 30 2021
Jean Loo
Director, Rainbow Centre; Co-founder and Advisor, superherome
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2019
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2019
Low Lin Hui
Product Operations, Content Moderation AI, TikTok; Former co-founder, Hypotenuse AI
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023
Dr Milad Mohammadzadeh
Co-founder and Director, See-Mode Technologies
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2020
Mohamed Abbas s/o Sheyed Ebramsa
Co-founder, Onelyst and Rely
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2021
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2016
Mohan Rajesh Elara
Provost Chair Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2025
Nazhath Faheema Seyed
Director of Development & Community Relation, Hope Initiative Alliance
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2021
Alecia Neo
Co-Artistic Director, Ubah Rumah Residency (Bintan)
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2021
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2020
Joelle Pang
Southeast Asia Expansion Lead, Acumen Academy
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2023
Prukalpa Sankar
Founder and CEO, Altan
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2025
Quah Zheng Wei
Co-founder and CEO, Accredify
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2024
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022
Rahul Nambiar
Co-founder and CEO, Botsync
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023
Sandhya Sriram
CEO, Sprout Agritech; Former founder and CEO, Shiok Meats Pte Ltd
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2022
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2022
Dr Subhrajit Roy
Staff Research Scientist, Google
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019
Dr Tan Yen Jackie
Co-founder and CEO, BorderDollar
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2023
Teo Peiru
CEO, Key Reply
Prestige Singapore Women of Power 2025
Asia Women Tech Leaders Award 2024
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2023
Ting Ding Chen
Founder and CEO, TTRacing
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022
Trivedi Prashant
Co-founder, Botsync
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023
Venkatachalam Singaram
Co-founder and COO, Botsync
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023
Venkatesh Nikhil
Co-founder, Botsync
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023
Esther Wang
Fund Advisor, ACA Investments; Founder, Joytingle
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018
Prestige Singapore 40 under 40 2018
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2019
Jane Wang
Co-founder and CEO, Roceso Technologies
Prestige Singapore 40 under 40 2024
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2022
Xiong Yifang
Founder and CEO, Pantasy
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2016
Forbes China List of 30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Entrepreneurism 2015
Dr Xiong Zehui
Professor, Queen’s University Belfast
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023
Dr Yang Jianfei
Assistant Professor, NTU Singapore
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2024
Zack Yang
Co-founder, FOMO Pay
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2019
Ye Anran
Co-founder, SNUM Group
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025
Edward Yee
Head of Strategic Projects, FAR.AI; Co-founder, Givfunds Social Ventures
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2023
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2021
Yeo Guang Jin
Founder, 1 Up Media; Contributing Writer, Podnews
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2024
Nelson Yeo
Filmmaker
Locarno Film Festival 2023 winner
Dr Arjun Bhattarai
Co-founder and CTO, V-Flow Tech
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2024
Forbes Asia 100 to Watch 2022
Dr Avishek Kumar
Co-founder, VFlow Tech
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2023
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2023
Dhruv Khanna
Co-founder, Triton Foodworks - promotes sustainable farming with water-efficient hydroponics
Forbes India 30 Under 30 2020
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2019
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019
Louisa May Fung
ESG Associate, Climate Fund Managers
Heng Li Seng
Founder, Green Nudge
Kwek Zhi Heng
Head of Farming, Grorix
Lau Jia Cai
Co-founder, TreeDots - combats food waste by connecting surplus food suppliers with buyers
Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2022
Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2021
Forbes 30 Under 30 2020
Celine Ng
Analyst, Clay Capital - improves food systems through agritech and climate innovation
Ng Lee Kiang
Co-founder, Young Nautilus - promotes marine conservation through education and outreach
Information last updated 6 March 2026.
Esther Wang's photo courtesy of Forbes.