Speakers

Susanna Kass 
Energy Fellow, lecturer, Stanford University

Bio: Susanna Kass is a Data Center Advisor on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In this role, she represents the UN Sustainable Development team by engaging private sector leadership, academic researchers, and public institutions to jointly promote sustainable energy within the international Data Center sector and global verticals industry. Through mutually beneficial collaboration, the goal setting, speaking engagements, and projects further the vision of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Kass is one of the researchers for The Clean Energy For Biden (now named Clean Energy for America), her focus is to provide scientific based evidence for America to revamp Carbon Neutral infrastructure and to support the new enactment to the Paris Agreement.
Kass is an Energy Fellow, lecturer at school of engineering at Stanford University and Cornell University Energy Systems Institute. She is a guest lecturer at The National University of Singapore. She works with the researchers at IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the Sustainability Institute at MIT, Columbia University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, SDSU, NMSU to foster research and cooperation.


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Sugandha Singh 
Power System Specialist, Keppel FELS Ltd., Singapore

Bio: Sugandha is a diligent electrical engineering professional with about 4 years of experience and strong expertise in the installation, repair, testing, and maintenance of electrical systems as per industry regulations. Presently working in a multibillion-dollar offshore and marine company as a Power System Specialist in a project that deals with Energy System Storage. Possesses problem-solving, process development, organizational, resource management, and time management skills for project management. Outstanding interpersonal and presentation skills with the capability to interact effectively with suppliers, clients, and team.

She has a Master of Business Administration, Quantic School of Business & Technology, 2021, Master of Science in Power Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2019 and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, India, 2016.

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Lam Yeng Ming
Professor, NTU Singapore

Bio: Prof Lam Yeng Ming received her BSc (Hons) in Materials Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. After working at Texas Instruments as a development engineer, she went on to do her PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy at University of Cambridge. She joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in 2001. She is the Chair of School of Materials Science and Engineering since January 2019. She is also the Director of the Facility of Analysis, Characterization, Testing & Simulations (FACTS) since 2017 and was the Technical Director from since 2010.  

She sits on the governing board for International Symposium for Polymer Analysis and Characterization (ISPAC) and the National committee on Measurement and characterization. She held a concurrent Senior Scientist position in RWTH University in Aachen, Germany, between 2011 and 2014 and a concurrent Senior Scientist position in IMRE, A*Star, from 2010-2011. 

Her research focuses on the design of functional nanostructured materials for optoelectronics application with a strong focus in the development of materials for a sustainable future. This ranges from synthesizing novel molecules for interesting phase transitions behaviour to working on controlling nanostructures formation and development through the understanding of the interaction energies involved for the various components in a system.


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Ling Xing Yi
Professor, NTU Singapore

Bio: Ling Xing Yi is a Professor in Chemistry from NTU. She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of Twente, the Netherlands in 2009. She then did a postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley between 2009 -2011 under the Rubicon Fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. She joined Chemistry and Biological Chemistry division at Nanyang Technological University in 2011, where she was promoted to professor in 2021. She is the recipient of the Asian Rising Star Lectureship, the Asian Chemical Congress (2019), Lectureship Awardee at the Chemical Society Japan Annual Meeting (2016), L’ORÉAL Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowship (2015), the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association prize for Young Scientist (2014), Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship (2012), Rubicon Fellowship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2009), and IUPAC Young Chemist award (2009). Her research group focuses using nanotechnology for fundamental studies and applications in catalysis, sensing, and diagnosis. She is the co-founder of Silver Factory Technology, a start-up company specializes in sensor technology for various medical and industrial applications.

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Rui Goncalves
Research Fellow, NTU Singapore

Bio: Rui Goncalves is a Research Fellow in the School of Materials  Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Chemistry from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from NTU, Singapore, working with Professor Lam Yeng Ming and Professor Björn Lindman. His work focuses on the formulation and characterisation of intricate self-assembly systems and molecular structure organisation of polymers and surfactants. He conducted research at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (United Kingdom), the Australian Synchrotron (Australia), and the Kemicentrum at Lund University (Sweden). His work has led to publications in journals including the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Langmuir, and RSC Advances.


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Leong Shi Xuan 
PhD Student, NTU Singapore

Bio: Leong Shi Xuan is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Ling Xing Yi from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). She is the recipient of the Nanyang President’s Graduate Scholarship (2018). Her current research focuses on developing nanoparticle-based platforms for enhanced detection of small molecules at the nano-bio interface using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). 



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