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MEET THE DEAN | A FASS Education Offers Depth, Diversity & Difference
Professor Lionel Wee
Professor Lionel Wee is the Co-Dean of NUS College of Humanities and Sciences and the Dean of the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Before becoming FASS' 18th Dean, Prof Wee was the Faculty’s Vice Dean of Research (2014-2021) and is a Provost’s Chair Professor of Linguistics with the Department of English Language and Literature, which he headed from 2010 to 2014.
Associate Professor Zhang Yang
Associate Professor Zhang Yang is Vice-Dean (Undergraduate Studies), NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She joined the Department of NUS Economics in 2012, and her teaching and research interests include Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics and Industrial Organisation. Assoc Prof Zhang is also a two-time FASS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2013 and 2014) and Annual Teaching Excellence Award: National University of Singapore (2013) winner, as well as the recipient of the Merv Shalowitz and KGSM Doctoral Fellowships – both from Northwestern University – and the An Tai Scholarship from Peking University.
Associate Professor Nicholas Hon
As Vice Dean, Associate Professor Nicholas Hon leads the management of external relations and spearheads initiatives aimed at enhancing student life in FASS. Concurrently, he chairs the research section of NUS Psychology and is involved in teaching and research on cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Assoc Prof Hon also sits on various university committees relating to student life, and is a member of an advisory panel for the Housing and Development Board.
Hear from Our Dean
Professor Sun Yeneng
Prof Sun is Goh Keng Swee Professor and Professor of Mathematics and Economics at NUS. Upon receiving his PhD in Mathematics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989, he joined NUS as a faculty member at the Department of Mathematics. Prof Sun headed the Department of Economics from 2008 to 2012 and the Risk Management Institute from 2018 to 2020. He was a recipient of the Outstanding University Researcher Award (1998) and the National Science Award (2000). He is also an Economic Theory Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and a Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science. He is currently the Dean of NUS’ Faculty of Science and has helmed this role since 1 July 2020.
CHS Core Curriculum and Learning Pathways
Professor Sow Chorng Haur
Prof Sow Chorng Haur obtained his BSc and MSc in Physics from NUS and his PhD from the University of Chicago. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies before joining the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science in 2001. His research interests include carbon nanotubes and graphene, and studies of nanostructured functional materials and their unique physical properties. He has authored and co-authored many papers in the field of nanoscience and nanomaterials. He is a recipient of multiple university- and faculty-level teaching excellence awards. Prof Sow is Vice Dean (Outreach and Admissions) at the Faculty of Science.
CHS CORE CURRICULUM | Integrated Pillars@FASS
Associate Professor Loy Hui Chieh
Associate Professor Loy Hui Chieh received his BA and MA from NUS, and his PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interest centres on early Chinese Philosophy, while occasionally branching out into Ancient Greek Philosophy and other things historical and philosophical. He is a faculty member at the Department of Philosophy, and Vice Dean (Academic Affairs) at NUS College.
Dr Clay Eaton
Dr Clay Eaton is a faculty member at the Department of Japanese Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and has among his focus research and teaching areas the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, and the social and political effects of Japanese Imperial Policy in Southeast Asia.
Dr Kamalini Ramdas
Dr Kamalini Ramdas is a senior lecturer with the Department of Geography. She teaches modules in social and cultural geography. Dr Kamalini is particularly interested in the spatialities of gender, sexuality and 'race' and the application of social theory in geography. Her specific areas of interest include: feminist care ethics, critical geographies of familyhood and community and queer politics.
INTERDISCIPLINARY MODULE | HS2907 — Earth and Beyond
Dr Muhammad Nawaz
Dr Muhammad Nawaz is a Geomorphologist with expertise in GIS, DSS, Environment and Sustainability with more than 25 years of research experience in a broad range of issues relating to catchment management and sustainable development. He has conducted multi-disciplinary research in several catchments including Darwin Harbour & Daly River catchment, Australia, Mangla Reservoir catchment, Pakistan and Saddang Watershed, Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
INTERDISCIPLINARY MODULE | HS2902 Do Play Play: The Importance of Play
Dr Alex Mitchell
Dr Alex Mitchell teaches interactive media design in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. His current research investigates various aspects of computer-based art and entertainment, focusing in particular on interactive stories. Dr Mitchell has a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and recently completed his PhD at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering.
Sivasothi N.
Sivasothi aka Otterman joined NUS in 1987 and never left the Department of Biological Sciences. I have been embroiled in education and research of mangroves, wildlife biology and sustainability. Currently I also teach in LSM2251 Ecology, LSM2252 Biodiversity, LSM1303 Animal Behaviour and HSI1000 How/Why Science Works. Through research with my UROPS, Honours and Masters students (Otterman Holt), we contribute to wildlife management in Singapore through various wildlife Working Groups. I take other action through NUS Toddycats, Biodiversity Friends Forum and am delighted to be the staff advisor to the undergraduate animal welfare group, NUS PEACE.
Dr Michael Yudistira
Dr Michael Yudistira is a lecturer in various aspects of chemistry in NUS, including physical, computational, experimental, and environmental chemistry. He has taught at every level in the four-year undergraduate course, as well as at the graduate level. He incorporates practical design, props, and objective-based computational thinking in the courses he teaches; one example being the build-your-own visible-range spectrophotometer project for undergraduate students in chemistry (CM3267), where students built the aforementioned lab instrument out of electrical components, Lego blocks, an RPi computer, and a Python 3 code. Mike is also an avid video and board gamer in his free time.
INTERDISCIPLINARY MODULE | A Scientist Pirate? William Dampier's Explorations
Dr Donna Brunero
Dr Brunero is a historian with more than a decade of experience teaching courses relating to the British empire, maritime history and Singapore history. As a winner of numerous teaching awards, she is known for her innovative in-class teaching and for involving students in public history related projects.
GEOGRAPHY | MASTERCLASS Introduction to the Geographic Information System (GIS)
Dr Yan Yingwei
Dr Yan Yingwei is a GIScientist working on volunteered geographic information (VGI), social media data, geo-crowdsourcing, citizen GIScience, and the related spatial big data analytics for disaster and crisis management and computational social sciences. He is also interested in pedagogical research that pertains to GIS education. He is currently the Director of MSc in Applied GIS and a member of the GIS Unit and the Graduate Studies Committee of the Department of Geography. He is also the co-chair of the ISPRS Technical Commission Working Group on Human Behaviour and Spatial Interactions. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, and conducted his postdoc research at the Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Germany. He teaches modules in Geographic Information Science (GIS). He is also experienced in Surveying and Mapping. He worked as a land and marine surveying engineer between 2009 and 2010..
POLITICAL SCIENCE | ASK ME ANYTHING Have Your Burning Questions About Our Programme Answered
Dr Dunya Lepori
Dr Dunya Lepori received her BA in Political Science from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 2005, and her PhD in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012. She had taught several courses in comparative politics, political theory, Middle East politics, and women's politics.
THEATRE STUDIES | MASTERCLASS Theatre and Performance on Stage and in the World
Dr Maiya Murphy
Dr Maiya Murphy works at the confluence of performer training, theatre making, movement, and cognitive approaches to understanding theatre. She is the author of Enacting Lecoq: Movement in Theatre, Cognition, and Life(2019). Her work has also appeared in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Constructivist Foundations, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Survey, Practice as Research in the Arts and Beyond (Robin Nelson, ed.), The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq (Mark Evans and Rick Kemp, eds.), and The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater (Nadine George-Graves, ed.). She is an Assistant Professor in NUS Theatre Studies and makes theatre with her collective, Autopoetics.
COMMUNICATIONS & NEW MEDIA | ASK ME ANYTHING Communications: An Introduction
Dr Alex Mitchell
Dr. Alex Mitchell teaches interactive media design and his research focuses on computer-based art and entertainment. He previously taught at Nanyang polytechnic and worked as an interaction designer at IDEO, London, and at I2R, Singapore. His creative work has been featured at Graphite 2004 (Nanyang Technological University), Displacements Exhibition (13 Wilkie Terrace, 2013), ID: The Body’s Still Warm (42 Cambridge Road, 2018); and Climates of Change (ELO/HyperText, 2020).
Dr Soh Kai Ruo
Dr. Soh Kai Ruo has worked professionally in marketing and communication within the arts and cultural sector and social impact space, including leading promotions of award-winning campaigns that empower Mental Health caregivers. A Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at NUS, she teaches global media and cultures, international media practices, media representation and strategic communication.
Dr Shobha Avadhani
Dr Shobha Avadhani teaches public speaking and media studies, and has published research on the intersection of youth, citizenship and new media as well as the changing nature of democratic discourse in hybrid regimes, and the role of Singaporean schools in shaping technological citizenship. She has many years of experience in teaching and curriculum development from secondary school level to higher education and adult learning.
ENGLISH LITERATURE | LECTURE The Wide World of English Literature
Dr Gilbert Yeoh
Dr Gilbert Yeoh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies. He teaches modules in 20th-century literature and film, and has special interest in authors like J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett.
Elijah Woo
Elijah is an incoming Year 4 student majoring in English Literature with a minor in French, who loves everything computers, video games, film and music. He has studied at Boston University under an exchange programme, and he is focused primarily on Japanese Literature, both Classical and Contemporary.
Marcel Nico Lew Ying
Marcel is graduating this semester with a BA (Hons) in English Literature. His thesis was on the ethics and value of resistance in Geoffrey Hill’s poetry. He loves narrative poetry, nineteenth-century fiction and sci-fi/fantasy. He is also passionate about classical music and linguistics.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS | DEMONSTRATION & LECTURE On Linguistics at NUS
Associate Professor Mie Hiramoto
Associate Professor Mie Hiramoto earned her PhD in lingui stics from the University of Hawai’i (2006). Her research interests are sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, in particular, contact linguistics (e.g., Japanese spoken outside Japan and Singapore English) as well as language, gender, and sexuality (e.g., mediation and medialization; Asian masculinity). Some of her recent research papers appeared in World Englishes (2019), Language in Society (2019), Social Semiotics (2020), Language and Communication (2020), and Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (2020).She serves as co-editor-in-chief for Gender and Language and associate editor for Journal of Language and Sexuality among other journal-related services. She also serves as Deputy Principal Investigator of the FASS Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (2020~).
MALAY STUDIES | LECTURES Photographs: (Un)covering gender and family in the Malay and Indonesian World; and, Global South Intellectual: Voices from the Malay World
Dr Suriani Suratman
Dr Suriani Suratman, a social anthropologist, is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Malay Studies, and Convenor of the Minor in Gender Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her teaching covers areas on Malay culture and society, lived experiences of families and households and art making in the Malay and Indonesian archipelago. Her research focuses on Malay ethnic identities and the (re)production of portrayals of Malays, gender relations and inequalities in Malay families and households as well as politics of remembering. A recent publication of hers is an article in Religions (2021), an online journal, studying Muslim marriage preparation handbooks in Singapore. She is currently working on a book chapter titled “Assembling an imagined family life: Women’s work and place”. This is based on a research project together with other researchers, funded by the NHB Heritage Grant, which analyses representations and constructions of being and becoming female through colonial photographs of former British and Dutch colonies in the Malay world.
Dr Azhar Ibrahim
Dr Azhar Ibrahim is a Senior Lecturer at NUS Malay Studies, and holds a joint appointment with NUS Southeast Asian Studies. His research interests are in religion and society, deviance and social control, and sensory studies.
SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | ASK ME ANYTHING (WITH ALUMNI) Discover the Possibilities of a Southeast Asian Studies Degree
Associate Professor Vatthana Pholsena
Associate Professor Vatthana Pholsena graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Institute of Political Studies, also known as 'Sciences Po') in Grenoble, France in 1997, before moving to the U.K. to pursue her Ph.D. at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hull. She first came to Singapore in 2002 on a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute. Subsequently, she worked as a Research Fellow in the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS; National Centre for Scientific Research) for over a decade, based at the Institut d’Asie Orientale (Institute of East Asian Studies) in Lyon and at the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (Southeast Asia Centre) in Paris. Assoc Prof Pholsena is also the head of NUS Southeast Asian Studies.
Sarah Tong
Cedric Teng
Khoo Yi Feng
JAPANESE STUDIES | ASK ME ANYTHING WITH ALUMNI Career Paths for Japanese Studies Graduates, Working in Japan, Intercultural Communication
Associate Professor Lim Beng Choo
Associate Professor Lim Beng Choo graduated from the Department of Japanese Studies with a BA (Hons) and a MA, and worked briefly as an interpreter before pursuing her PhD in East Asian Literature at Cornell University with an Overseas Research Scholarship from NUS. Her dissertation, supervised by Professor Karen Brazell (1938 - 2012), was on noh in the late Muromachi period. Her book, Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater, published by Cornell East Asian Series, is based on this dissertation. She has served as the Deputy Head and the Graduaet Coordinator of the department, and on various faculty committees, including the Faculty Curriculum Review Committee and the Graduate Studies Conference Committee.
Kim Mi Jin
After completing her BSc in Environmental Studies and MA in Japanese Studies at NUS, Mi Jin joined the Department of Japanese Studies and currently works as a teaching assistant for the NUS module HSA1000. Her research interests include Japanese popular culture, idols, and the representation of women in the media.
Kennard Xu
Kennard completed his BA in Japanese Studies with NUS in 2008, having spent around two years studying in Japan during his undergraduate programme. He has since been employed with various Japanese organisations including the Kagoshima Prefectural Government, and has also founded two companies - Sinken Trade and Marketing & Veg-An..
Benjamin Goh
Having completed his BA and MA in Japanese Studies at NUS, Benjamin is currently working a teaching assistant for the NUS module HSA1000. A passionate educator, Benjamin enjoys helping students realise their own potential. His other hobbies include playing sports such as softball and Muay Thai.
LANGUAGES | PANEL SESSION Unlocking The Power of Learning Foreign Languages as The 21st Century Global Competency
Ms Indrianti Tjan
Ms Indrianti Tjan is the convenor of the Indonesian language and a senior lecturer at the Centre for Language Studies, National University of Singapore. She received her Master of Education in TESOL from the School of Education, Boston University. She joined NUS in 2007. Prior to joining NUS, she taught English at various universities in Indonesia. In 2004, she received a Fulbright Grant to teach Bahasa Indonesia as a foreign language at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Indrianti’ s research interests are in the area of applied linguistics including Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, and Intercultural Studies.
Dr Jan Auracher
Dr Jan Auracher studied Foreign Language Education at the University of Munich. In 2007, he graduated with a dissertation on psycho-physiological responses in reading. Jan taught German at universities in Japan, Korea, and Canada before joining the Centre for Language Studies at NUS as a Senior Lecturer.
Dr Wang Haoshu
Dr Wang Haoshu is a lecturer of the Chinese language at the Centre for Language Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his Ph.D. in Chinese linguistics and bilingual development from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and has been teaching Chinese as a foreign language for over 10 years in China and Singapore. His research interest lies in App-aided learning of Chinese characters.
PSYCHOLOGY | ASK ME ANYTHING Have Your Burning Questions About Our Programmes Answered
Dr Nina Powell
Dr Nina Powell has a Ph.D. in the psychology of human behaviour and decision-making (Social and Cognitive Developmental Psychology). She has more than 10 years of experience in grant and research publication writing and reviewing, and consultation for best approaches to assessing and measuring human behaviour and decision-making with respect to cognition, emotion, and behaviour modification.
Associate Professor Stuart Derbyshire
Associate Professor Stuart Derbyshire is NUS Psychology's Director of Undergraduate Studies/ His primary research interest is pain with a particular focus on pain that occurs without obvious injury or disease. There are many clinical conditions, including fibromyalgia, low back pain and irritable bowel syndrome, where the subjective experience of pain exceeds what might be expected from the objective signs of injury or disease. We have examined these patients using functional imaging in combination with direct stimulation and using hypnosis to modify pain experience. We have also developed a series of techniques to induce pain in pain free individuals without involving a typical noxious stimulus. These techniques include suggested pain, observing others in pain and injury to a rubber hand during the rubber hand illusion.
Associate Professor Sacha Epskamp
Associate Professor Sacha Epskamp teaches multivariate statistics and data science, and his research interests involve (network) psychometrics, meta-science and reproducibility, complexity, time-series modeling, and dynamical systems modeling. He has received several awards for his research, including the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, the dissertation prize of the psychometric society, and the junior scientific reward of the Complex Systems Society.
Dr Camilo Libedinsky
Dr Camilo Libedinsky is the Deputy Director of Research and Assistant Professor at NUS Psychology. His interest is cognitive neuroscience, and he uses human and non-human primates to study perception, working memory, attention and decision making. Another interest of Dr Libedinsky's is the development of neurotechnologies in collaboration with engineers, including motor brain-machine interfaces and sensory feedback devices.
Dr Elias Garcia-Pelegrin
Dr Elias Garcia-Pelegrin is an Assistant Professor at NUS Psychology. His research explores the nuances that allowed for the selection of complex cognitive abilities in humans by investigating a wide array of different species from the Primate, Dermoptera, and Scadentia orders. Alongside this, his research also investigates the convergent evolution of intelligence by exploring the cognition of different species and taxa such as corvids, hornbills, and dolphins.
Dr Hasse De Meyer
Dr Hasse De Meyer, a Lecturer and CARE Team Member at NUS Psychology, is a Clinical Psychologist. She primarily works with children and adolescents and specialises in assessing and treating behavioral, social, and emotional problems. Her largest expertise and area of interest lies in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). More specifically, She uses experimental tasks to study underlying deficits in reinforcement learning and potential remediation strategies in children with ADHD. More recently, she conducted studies on well-being during Covid-19 and parenting styles in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Dr De Meyer currently has ongoing research projects in Japan and Belgium on reinforcement learning in children with ADHD.
CHINESE STUDIES | MASTERCLASS Chinese Women and Chinese Pop Music
Professor Ong Chang Woei
Professor Ong Chang Woei is the head of NUS Chinese Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research areas include the Intellectual History of Later and Late Imperial China, Military History of Later Imperial China, Local History and the Transnational Networks of the Hokkien Communities.
PHILOSOPHY | LECTURE What is Philosophy
Associate Professor John Holbo
Associate Professor John Holbo (NUS Philosophy) likes to teach modules that are sort of half-in and half-out of the discipline, like “Philosophy and Science Fiction” and “Philosophy and Film”. Maybe that means he’ll be able to get you half-into philosophy? His hobby is drawing pictures of philosophers.
CHINESE LANGUAGE | LECTURE Introduction to Translation and Interpreting Minors
Dr Bei Hu
Dr Bei Hu is Assistant Professor In Translation and Interpreting in the NUS Department of Chinese Studies. Her research interests lie in high-stakes intercultural communication and the reception of translation.
ANTHROPOLOGY | MASTERCLASS Anthropology — and Why the World Needs More of It
Dr Tom Ozden-Schilling
Dr Tom Ozden-Schilling is a Presidential Young Professor with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. His research includes the study of technology and expertise, for example, in the context of environmental conflicts and venture capitalism. His teaching includes anthropological theories and issues in science and technology.
SOCIOLOGY | MASTERCLASS Putting Sociology to Work
Dr Emily Chua
Dr Emily Chua is an anthropologist working at the intersections of digital technology, media, capital and authoritarian state politics in Singapore and China. She has written ethnographies of newsmaking in the ‘post-truth’ contemporary, election rallies as ‘post-political’ performances, and most recently, the way our remakings of economics, finance and money are in turn remaking us.
SOCIOLOGY | STUDENT WORKSHOP Socio X Anthro-Duction - a Taster Class for Students, by Students
Zara Ahmed
ECONOMICS | BRIEFING & ASK ME ANYTHING What Economics Has in Store for You
Dr Kelvin Seah
Dr Kelvin Seah is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Economics, NUS. He teaches econometrics and the economics of education.
EXPERIENCE | VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP Visit the Civic District
Dr Clay Eaton
Dr Clay Eaton is a faculty member at the Department of Japanese Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and has among his focus research and teaching areas the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, and the social and political effects of Japanese Imperial Policy in Southeast Asia.
EXPERIENCE | VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP Roots to Reefs
Dr Gretchen Coffman
Dr Gretchen Coffman is a wetland restoration ecologist and Senior Lecturer in the NUS Department of Geography and Bachelor of Environmental Studies Deputy Director. She teaches wetland restoration ecology, biogeography, applied ecology and research methods in Physical Geography.
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Experiential Learning and Personal Growth
Associate Professor Chng Shu-Sin
Assoc Prof Chng Shu-Sin received his BSc (Hons) from NUS and PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University. His research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms of inter-membrane lipid trafficking in Gram-negative bacteria and mycobacteria, and in identifying novel protein targets in these bacteria for the development of new antibiotics. For his work, he received the Faculty of Science Young Scientist Award (2018). He is also the recipient of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Walter Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research (2019). Shu-Sin is a passionate educator and has won multiple university- and faculty-level awards, including the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award and the Honour Roll. He is currently Vice Dean for Student Life and Alumni Relations at the Faculty of Science.
Student Sharing Session
Clementine Bella Putri Santosa
Major in Physics, Minor in Philosophy
Liew Chet Ming
Double Majors in Chemistry and History
Neaton Ang
Major in Data Science and Analytics
Suthershinii G
Double Majors in Life Sciences and Psychology
Data Science and Economics
Economics Reimagined: Shape the Future with Our Data Science and Economics Programme
Associate Professor Lim Tiong Wee
Assoc Prof Lim Tiong Wee received his undergraduate education in mathematics and graduate education in statistics at Imperial College London and Stanford University, respectively. He has research affiliations with the Faculty's Centre for Quantitative Finance and NUS’ Risk Management Institute. He is currently Deputy Head (Academic) at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, Faculty of Science.
Dr Liu Chunchun
Dr Liu Chunchun is an experienced educator in multidisciplinary courses. Her teaching areas include economics (microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, mathematical economics, international finance, game theory), mathematics, quantitative finance and business. As an economist and applied mathematician, her research interests include applied game theory, applied microeconomic theory, applied mechanism design, industrial organisation and platform economy. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science.
Dr Denis Tkachenko
Dr Denis Tkachenko’s research focuses on theoretical econometrics and its applications in macroeconomics and finance, which was published in the top five and top field economic journals. At NUS, he teaches classes in econometrics, forecasting and machine learning. He is a senior lecturer at NUS’ Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Environmental Studies
Associate Professor Peter Todd
Assoc Prof Peter Todd, a marine biologist, has been teaching ecology and marine science at NUS for 18 years. His interdisciplinary research synthesises elements of biology, geography and engineering to answer ecological and environmental questions. In particular, he studies tropical coastal organisms and communities and the effects urbanisation has on them. He is the Director of the Bachelor of Environmental Studies (BES) programme.
Chemistry
Chemistry: The Central Science
Associate Professor Jason Yeo Boon Siang
Assoc Prof Yeo studied chemistry at NUS, where he received his BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees. He obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich and did postdoctoral research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His work focuses on developing efficient and robust materials to catalyse energy conversion reactions to achieve sustainable and environmentally friendly energy economy. Systems of interest include reduction of carbon dioxide to multi-carbon chemicals and fuels such as n-propanol, and water splitting. Assoc Prof Yeo has been awarded multiple faculty- and university-level teaching excellence awards and is currently the Deputy Head of Education at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science.
Life Sciences
CHS Life Sciences: One Major, Two Specialisations, Diverse Disciplines
Associate Professor Henry Mok Yu-Keung
Assoc Prof Henry Mok obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1996 on the study of folding and NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy of the DNA binding domain of the human papillomavirus E2 protein. His expertise is in determining the structural/functional relationship of proteins involved in human diseases using both NMR and X-ray crystallography. His group has determined structures of allergens from dust mites and cockroaches that lead to understanding of diseases like asthma and atopic dermatitis. Assoc Prof Mok is Deputy Head (Undergraduate Matters) at the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science.
Physics
Physics Curriculum in CHS
Dr Wang Qinghai
Dr Wang Qinghai obtained his BSc in China and his PhD from Washington University in St Louis, USA. His research interests include quantum mechanics, mathematical physics and cosmology. He is a recipient of multiple university- and faculty-level teaching excellence awards. Dr Wang is currently the Deputy Head (Education) at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science.
Mathematics
Taking Math in NUS: A Door That Opens to Many Possibilities
Associate Professor Victor Tan
Assoc Prof Victor Tan received his BSc from NUS and PhD from the University of California. His research interests are in algebra and number theory. He is also a Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy. As President of the Singapore Mathematical Society, he has organised a wide range of mathematics enrichment programmes for school teachers and students. He has received multiple faculty- and university-level awards for teaching excellence, including the Outstanding Educator Award, the highest recognition for educators at NUS. Assoc Prof Tan is currently Deputy Head (Teaching) at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science.
Quantitative Finance
Quantitative Finance in NUS
Associate Professor Tan Hwee Huat
Assoc Prof Tan Hwee Huat received his BSc (Hons) and PhD from the University of Adelaide. His research interests are in numerical optimisation and financial modelling. Assoc Prof Tan has been teaching at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science for more than 30 years, and he has been the Director of the Quantitative Finance Programme, hosted by the Department of Mathematics, for the past 17 years.
Statistics
Unlock the Secrets of Data: Learn the Techniques and Methods of Statistics
Dr David Chew
Dr David Chew has taught a wide variety of classes within the Statistics curriculum. He is currently the coordinator of a massive data literacy general education course in NUS and Assistant Head (Academic) at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, Faculty of Science.
Data Science and Analytics
Data Science and Analytics: Elevate Your Career and Drive Business Success
Associate Professor Lim Tiong Wee
Assoc Prof Lim Tiong Wee received his undergraduate education in mathematics and graduate education in statistics at Imperial College London and Stanford University, respectively. He has research affiliations with the Faculty's Centre for Quantitative Finance and NUS’ Risk Management Institute. He is currently Deputy Head (Academic) at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, Faculty of Science.
Food Science and Technology
Preparing Professionals for the Future of Food and Health
Dr Liu Mei Hui
Dr Liu Mei Hui graduated from the pioneering batch of NUS’ Food Science and Technology Programme. She received numerous food industry awards as a student. Following her first degree, Dr Liu was awarded the prestigious Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Graduate Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Molecular Biology. Her research work at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR and Cornell University brought her on many scientific journeys in the fields of molecular biology, nutrition and genomics. Her multidisciplinary research has been recognised in prestigious journals including Nature. Dr Liu is Assistant Dean at NUS’ Faculty of Science, where she oversees student counselling and manages student groups and societies.
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
Student Life Sharing: NUS Pharmaceutical Society (NUSPS)
Angela Wan Pik Choo
Angela is a Year 3 Pharmacy student. She is currently the Vice-President (Internal) of NUSPS where she oversees the internal operations of the society, setting its directions to better serve Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science students. She was a former resident of Ridge View Residential College. Angela speaks to prospective students in multiple projects, and conducts taster courses of the NUS Pharmacy Programme. As a leader of NUSPS, she aspires to engage fellow students and enrich their student lives through NUSPS activities.
Lee Jin Chain
Jin Chain, a Year 1 Pharmaceutical Science student, graduated from Nanyang Junior College in 2021. She is the current treasurer of her class. She currently resides at Raffles Hall, where she participates in a wide range of activities. As Project Director of the Pharmacy Orientation Programme, she enjoys planning events and seeing them come to fruition and aspires to create memorable experiences for freshmen.
Teng Yi Xuan
Yi Xuan is a Year 1 Pharmaceutical Science student. She is currently the Project Director of Pharmacy RAG (RxAG) under the Pharmacy Orientation Domain (2023). She oversees the various committees together with her three Vice Project Directors and actively participates in other NUSPS projects as an Orientation Group Leader. The sense of enjoyment and fulfilment from her own freshman experience encourages her to similarly enhance the experiences of the new cohort through RxAG.
Glynis Lim En Xi
Glynis graduated from National Junior College in 2021 and is a Year 1 Pharmaceutical Science student. As the Project Director of RxFlag, she enjoys planning meaningful activities to make a positive impact on children and foster stronger bonds between student volunteers and the children.
Pharmacy
Pharmacy So Much More Than You Imagined – Extraordinary Pharmacists for Extraordinary Times
Associate Professor Chui Wai Keung
Assoc Prof Chui Wai Keung received his BSc (Pharmacy) (Hons) degree from NUS and was conferred a PhD majoring in medicinal chemistry, from Aston University in Birmingham, UK. He headed NUS’ Department of Pharmacy between 2013 and 2015. He is currently a member of the Singapore Pharmacy Council. He co-leads the design and implementation of the new competency-based BPharm (Hons) programme, which integrates basic, clinical and systems sciences as its hallmark. Assoc Prof Chui sits on working committees in the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Western Pacific Pharmaceutical Forum.
Mr Ryan Loh Zhi Wei
Mr Loh graduated from NUS Pharmacy in 2016. He completed his pre-registration in 2017 at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) and continued as a pharmacist in the outpatient department. In 2018, he was put in charge of the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Pharmacy, where he worked closely with the Emergency Team to coordinate the hospital’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. His key contributions included the set-up of fever tentage, COVID holding areas and transfer processes to the Community Care Facilities during the first two years of the pandemic. Since 2021, Mr Loh has moved back to the Outpatient Pharmacy, where he currently serves as the Deputy Section in charge.
Ms Priscilla Chua
Ms Chua is Director, Clinical Informatics Group, Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) and Deputy Director, National Chief Architect Office, Ministry of Health (MOH). She drives the use of data standards such as the harmonisation of COVID vaccination codes in technology systems. During COVID-19, she facilitated the setup of 10 vaccination centres and supported the deployment of vital signs monitoring equipment at Community Care Facilities. She also holds MSc (Health Informatics) and Master of Health Administration qualifications.
Professor Paul John Gallagher
Prof Gallagher is a graduate of University College London, UK and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he obtained his MBA and PhD, respectively. He was previously the Head of Pharmacy of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) (2010 to 2018), where he reformed pharmacy education through his Directorship of the National Pharmacy Internship Programme and the establishment of the Irish Institute of Pharmacy. Before RCSI, Prof Gallagher established a pharmacy and medical centre in Dublin. He is recognised by Utrecht University, Netherlands and the International Pharmaceutical Federation for his contributions to academic pharmacy practice.
Pharmaceutical Science
Your Pharmaceutical Science Adventure and Beyond
Dr Yau Wai Ping
Dr Yau is the Deputy Director of the undergraduate Pharmaceutical Science Programme and an Assistant Head at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science. She also coordinates the Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme (UPIP) and Student Exchange Programme (SEP) which provide experiential learning opportunities for Pharmaceutical Science students.
Miss Su Qi
Miss Su Qi graduated from Pharmaceutical Science in 2022. During her undergraduate studies, she did research with Dr Brandon Morinaka and completed her final year project on bat immunology with Professor Wang Linfa. She is now a full-time research assistant and will be starting as a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, UK, in October.
Mr Kong Qi Herng
Mr Kong is co-founder of moonbeam co., a food technology enterprise that creates sustainable products, technologies and communities through upcycling. His passion for food waste led him to embark on his entrepreneurship journey, where his team seeks solutions to sustainability challenges with viable business models. He is now doing his Master’s studies.
Mr Joel Lim
Mr Lim has a passion in exploring the commercial space in tackling chronic diseases. He previously interned in bioinformatics at Nalagenetics and marketing at Sanofi, where he currently works as a Medical Engagement Executive in the diabetes field. In this role, he applies his skills set at the intersection of science and communication, helping to bridge the knowledge gap between patients, healthcare practitioners and companies.
Special Programme in Science
What Makes the Special Programme in Science (SPS) Special?
Associate Professor Liou Yih-Cherng
Assoc Prof Liou Yih-Cherng received his PhD from Queen’s University, Canada. After a postdoctoral stint at Harvard Medical School, he joined the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science in 2003. He is Director of the Faculty’s Special Programme in Science and concurrently, the department’s Deputy Head (Graduate Studies and Research).
Scientific Inquiry 1
Mr Sivasothi
Mr Sivasothi received his BSc and MSc in Animal Biology from NUS. Since then, he has been immersed in mangroves and wildlife for research, education and conservation at NUS and earned the moniker ‘Otterman’ through his work with otters. He actively promotes youth development, public education and environmental stewardship with wildlife conservation working groups and ground-up partnerships, such as the NUS Toddycats, the International Coastal Cleanup Singapore, as well as Biodiversity Friends Forum in partnership with the National Parks Board (NParks). He is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and a Research Associate at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.
Scientific Inquiry 2 and Interdisciplinary Courses
Dr Liu Mei Hui
Dr Liu graduated from the pioneering batch of NUS’ Food Science and Technology Programme. She received numerous food industry awards as a student. Following her first degree, Dr Liu was awarded the prestigious Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Graduate Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Molecular Biology. Her research work at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR and Cornell University, USA brought her on many scientific journeys in the fields of molecular biology, nutrition and genomics. Her multidisciplinary research has been recognised in prestigious journals including Nature. Dr Liu is Assistant Dean at NUS’ Faculty of Science, where she oversees student counselling and manages student groups and societies.
Dr Foo Maw Lin
Dr Foo graduated with a BSc (Hons) and MSc from NUS and a PhD in Chemistry and Materials from Princeton University, USA. He then worked as a researcher in Canada, the United States and Japan. His pedagogical interests include interdisciplinary education and game-based learning. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, where he teaches inorganic chemistry and energy resources.
Dr Mun Lai Yoke
Dr Mun graduated with a PhD in Economics from NUS. Prior to joining NUS, she worked in the financial industry in Singapore and London. She is a senior lecturer with the Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, where she teaches macroeconomics, financial economics and international finance.
Chemistry
How the Tiger Got its Stripes
Associate Professor Adrian Lee
Assoc Prof Lee received his BSc (Hons) MA and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. He did his postdoctoral studies at the University of Cambridge and he was the Singapore Millennium Foundation Fellow (2002 to 2004). His research interests at this time were atmospheric science and computational chemistry. More recently, his focus has moved to education - here, his interests are wide-ranging, including technology-enhanced learning, especially blended learning, interdisciplinary education and student living-learning experiences. From 2015 to 2021, he was the Deputy Director of the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning (CDTL), where he was responsible for academic development. In this work, Assoc Prof Lee embraced a collegial culture within which to build programmes that further a conversation that becomes part of an academic’s scholarly reflective teaching practice. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award (2017). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science.
Data Science and Analytics
Data Analytics in Sports
Dr Vik Gopal
Dr Gopal graduated from NUS’ Department of Mathematics and went on to complete his PhD in statistics at the University of Florida, USA. He worked at the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT) and then IBM, before joining NUS in 2013. He has been teaching classes in statistics and data science to undergraduates and adult learners in the interim. He finds the invasion of statistics into sports wonderful, but sincerely hopes that no manager turns to chatGPT for advice on how to run his/her team. He is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, Faculty of Science.
Data Science and Economics
Insights at the Intersection: When Data Science Meets Economics
Dr Yuting Huang
Dr Huang holds a BSc in Statistics from the University of Maryland, College Park and a PhD in Economics from NUS. Her teaching interest revolves around the comprehension of methodological foundations as well as the application of analytical tools to gain insights into aspects of business and economics. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, Faculty of Science.
Environmental Studies
Resilience in Restoration
Dr Gretchen Christina Coffman
Dr Coffman’s research focuses on the study of conservation biogeography, the exploration of factors that limit ecosystem recovery and the development of conservation and restoration strategies. She is a member of the Tropical Environmental Change (TEC) research group at NUS and engages in ongoing, funded research projects in Singapore and throughout the Southeast Asian region. This research focuses on riparian plant ecology, restoration of endangered species and ecosystems, conservation biogeography, and invasive plant biology in wetlands and river systems of tropical and Mediterranean climates. She employs a variety of study designs, methods and scales to answer scientific questions that tackle a spectrum of conservation and restoration challenges. Dr Coffman is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Food Science and Technology
Nutritional Strategy for Cardiovascular Disease
Dr Kim Jung Eun
Dr Kim earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut, USA and further completed a dietetic internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital, USA to become a registered dietitian. She is a nutrition scientist with advanced training in dietetics and human clinical research. Her long-term research goal is to develop and validate dietary strategies and recommendations that effectively protect against age-associated chronic diseases and promote public health. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Science.
Forensic Science
CSI: NUS - Forensic Science and the Law
Associate Professor Stella Tan
Assoc Prof Tan has postgraduate academic qualifications in law, forensic science and science. She was previously Deputy Senior State Counsel, Attorney-General’s Chambers and Director (Prosecution and Legal Policy) at the Health Sciences Authority, where she provided legal advice and practical training to forensic experts. She has co-authored papers on stem cell research, therapeutic cloning and germline modification for the National Bioethics Advisory Committee. She has won consecutive Dean’s Meritorious Teaching Awards. She is currently Associate Provost (Student Conduct) at the Office of the Provost, NUS, Assistant Dean (Student Life), Faculty of Science and Director of NUS’ Forensic Science Programme.
Associate Professor Eugene Lee
Assoc Prof Eugene Lee is a senior prosecutor and holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment at the Faculty of Science, NUS. He holds post graduate qualifications in forensic science from the Henry C Lee Institute of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science at the University of New Haven, USA. He has been involved in forensic science education in NUS since 2009 and is a coordinator for in the Forensic Science Programme at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Assoc Prof Lee started his career as a prosecutor in 1993 and has extensive experience in the conduct of serious cases such as murders, firearm offences, kidnapping and serious sexual crimes.
Life Sciences
On Nature, Selfies, Frisbee, Windows, #Fun and Happiness
Associate Professor L Roman Carrasco
Assoc Prof Carrasco obtained his PhD from Imperial College London on environmental modelling. His research interests are interdisciplinary and reside within the divide of ecology and economics. He develops bioeconomic models to answer resource allocation questions with a spatially explicit component. The main question he has been trying to answer is how to reconcile agricultural production and biodiversity conservation in the tropics. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science.
Mathematics
Linear Algebra in Action
Dr Jonathon Teo
Dr Teo completed his BSc and PhD degrees at NUS. His research interests are in geometry and mathematical physics. He teaches introductory mathematics courses for Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering and Data Science minor students. He is a recipient of the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2023). Dr Yeo is currently a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science.
Physics
Physics in Medicine and Healthcare
Dr Chan Taw Kuei
Dr Chan completed both his BSc and PhD studies at NUS, and did his postdoctoral studies at the Centre for Ion Beam Applications (CIBA). His pedagogical research interests include authentic and technology-enhanced learning, as well as the theories and implementation of teacher immediacy and its impact on student motivation in education psychology. Dr Chan is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science.
Quantitative Finance
Introducing Quantitative Finance
Dr Li Wei
Dr Li Wei lectures on courses ranging from calculus and discrete structures in pure mathematics to financial mathematics and game theory in applied mathematics. She was a recipient of the Faculty Teaching Award (2019, 2021 and 2022). She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science.
Statistics
Empowering the ABCD Technologies
Professor Kwok Pui Choi
Prof Choi obtained his BSc from the University of Hong Kong, and his MSc and PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research interests include probability and its applications to statistics, computational biology and recently forensic science. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses in NUS, such as Probability, Advanced Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, Statistical Models for Actuarial Science, Uncertainty, and Articulating Probability and Statistics in Court. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, Faculty of Science.
SOCIAL WORK | LECTURE Is Poverty a Problem in Singapore?
Associate Professor Irene Ng
Associate Professor Irene Ng (NUS Social Work) is the Steering Committee Chair of the Social Service Research Centre in the National University of Singapore. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Social Work and Economics from the University of Michigan. Her research areas include poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, and social welfare policy. Her current research projects include a study of in-work poverty among the young; social safety nets in East Asia; and the development of universal digital access.