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In 2025, NTU Engineering appointed 36 top-of-their-field new faculty members strengthening the College across materials science, manufacturing, energy, computing, sustainability and beyond.
Drawn from leading institutions worldwide, these academics bring deep technical expertise, interdisciplinary perspectives and a shared commitment to advancing engineering research, education and impact.
We're pleased to introduce and welcome them on board!
School of Materials Science and Engineering
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| Atul N. PARIKH | Matthew Wei Ming TAN | Naoki HIGASHITARUMIZU | Ronghui WU |
| Soft Matter, Life-Like Materials, Living Systems | Soft Materials, Soft Actuators and Flexible Electronics | Low-dimensional 2D Materials, Solid-state Electronics, Photonics and Optoelectronics | Smart Textiles, Silk Fibroins, Microfluidic Spinning and Thermoregulation |
| PhD: Pennsylvania State University | PhD: Nanyang Technological University | PhD: The University of Tokyo | PhD: Donghua University |
Postdoc: Los Alamos National Laboratory Previous Institution: University of California, Davis | Postdoc: Harvard University | Postdoc: University of California, Berkeley | Postdoc: Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, The University of Chicago |
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| Virgil ANDREI | |||
| Electrochemistry, Solar Fuels and Photovoltaics | |||
| PhD: University of Cambridge | |||
| Postdoc: University of Cambridge, University of California, Berkeley |
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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| Daniel Yiwei TAY | Erkan KAYACAN | Hongying LI | Marvin Carl MAY |
Additive Manufacturing and Green Engineering | Optimisation-based Algorithms and Physics-informed Machine Learning | Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flows, Droplet and Particle Dynamics | Industrial AI |
| PhD: Nanyang Technological University | PhD: KU Leuven | PhD: Nanyang Technological University | PhD: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Postdoc: Nanyang Technological University, University of California, Berkeley | Postdoc: University of Illinois, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Postdoc: Imperial College London | Postdoc: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Mun Sek KIM | Punit KUMAR | ||
Advanced Energy Storage Systems | Structural Materials for Extreme Environments | ||
| PhD: Stanford University | PhD: Indian Institute of Science | ||
| Postdoc: N/A | Postdoc: Nanyang Technological University, University of California, Berkeley |
School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
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| Anuvab DAS | Arpita IDDYA | Pei LIU | Sheena SMITH |
Synthetic Chemistry, Sustainable Catalysis, Biocatalysis and Bioinorganic Chemistry | Electrochemical and Membrane-based Separation Technologies | Protein Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Precision Gene and Cell Therapy | Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT), Protein Engineering and Synthetic Biology |
| PhD: Texas A&M University | PhD: University of California, Los Angeles | PhD: University of California, Berkeley | PhD: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Postdoc: California Institute of Technology | Postdoc: Yale University, Rice University | Postdoc: Stanford University | Postdoc: University of Zurich |
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| Shi Xuan LEONG | Xiaogang LIU | Zhiwei JIANG | |
Digital Chemistry with AI and Automation | Computation-guided Molecular Engineering | Ultrathin, Porous and Functionalised Membranes for Advanced Separations | |
| PhD: Nanyang Technological University | PhD: University of Cambridge | PhD: Imperial College London | |
| Postdoc: University of Toronto | Postdoc: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology | Postdoc: Imperial College London |
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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| Daniel BENNETT | Ilya BELOPOLSKI | Soujanya PORIA | Weiran ZHANG |
Computational Condensed Matter Physics | Topological Materials for Quantum Science | Speech, Signal and Natural Language Processing | Energy Storage and Electrochemistry |
| PhD: University of Cambridge | PhD: Princeton University | PhD: University of Stirling | PhD: University of Maryland |
| Postdoc: University of Liège, Harvard University | Postdoc: RIKEN Center | Postdoc: Nanyang Technological University | Postdoc: University of Maryland |
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| Yang WU | Yujie ZHANG | Zhiguo DING | |
Control Theory and Industrial Applications | Meta-Antenna and Antenna-Array | Wireless Communications | |
| PhD: Tsinghua University | PhD: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | PhD: Imperial College London | |
| Postdoc: Aalborg University | Postdoc: National University of Singapore | Postdoc: Queen’s University Belfast, Imperial College London |
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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| Bryan German PANTOJA-ROSERO | Chunchun YE | Congcong YUAN | Gun KIM |
Structural and Construction Engineering with AI for Monitoring, Digitalization, and Automation in Construction | Porous Polymer Materials and Advanced Membranes for Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability | Geophysics and Geomechanics | Nondestructive Testing, Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound-Polymerization, Flexible Sensors and Energy |
| PhD: Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne | PhD: The University of Edinburgh | PhD: Harvard University | PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Postdoc: Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne, The University of Texas at Austin | Postdoc: The University of Edinburgh, Queen Mary University of London | Postdoc: Cornell University | Postdoc: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Saulo MENDES | Weiming TU | Wen ZHOU | Wenkui DONG |
Ocean Engineering, Coastal Protection, Natural Hazards and Hydrodynamics | Sustainable Synthetic Biology, Environmental Biotechnology, and CO2 Reduction | Digital Manufacturing Strategies for Construction and Sustainable Construction Materials | Structural Engineering in Construction Materials Development |
| PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PhD: University of Oxford | PhD: University of Michigan | PhD: University of Technology Sydney |
| Postdoc: University of Geneva | Postdoc: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Postdoc: Delft University of Technology | Postdoc: Dresden University of Technology, University of New South Wales |
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| Xiaojin ZHENG | Xiaole YIN | Youngrong KIM | |
Clay Minerals in Geotechnical Engineering | Environmental Health, Microbiology and Bioinformatics | Sustainable Shipping Technologies, Intelligent Ship Operation and Navigation Systems | |
| PhD: The University of Texas at Austin | PhD: The University of Hong Kong | PhD: Norwegian University | |
| Postdoc: Princeton University | Postdoc: Harvard Medical School | Postdoc: Chalmers University of Technology |
