SIRE 2017 Convention Advisory Committee

School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Prof Ang is an Associate Professor with the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering since Nov 2004. He received the Ph.D. degree in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, and the M.Eng. and B.Eng degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 1999 and 1997 respectively. Dr Ang leads a multidisciplinary team focuses on robotic technology in biomedical applications. He is the PI of several projects funded by A*STAR SERC, A*STAR BMRC, NMRC, MOE, NTU & the French Embassy.

Technical Director of ARTC
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

Nicholas Yeo is currently the Technical Director of A*STAR’s Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC).

Nicholas leads a talented group of research and technology staffs towards developing and delivering next generation of advanced manufacturing solutions such as Robotics, Additive manufacturing and Industry 4.0 technologies. He plays an important role in driving technology and process innovations between global industry partners and the Singapore public R&D centre, as well as developing strategic relations with industry leaders in sectors that cut across sectors such as Aerospace, Machinery, Oil & Gas and FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).

With over 17 years of experience in R&D and operational roles,Nicholas brings along an extensive portfolio of technical expertise from project management, technology exploration and innovation as well as multi-disciplinary technical functions. Before joining the ARTC, he has held various senior positions such as Global Account Manager at Flextronics and Programme Manager at Eastman Kodak and involve in developing a technology start up for LED headlamp applications.Nicholas graduated with a Bachelor degree (1st class) in Mechanical Engineering, and is a certified PMP and MSP practitioner and has an EMBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

National Robotics Programme Office

Rayner is Director of the National Robotics Programme, a position he has held since January 2017. He was formerly Engineering Director, for Sirona, a German dental equipment maker. In that role he was responsible for expanding Sirona’s presence in the high growth Asia/Pacific markets and R&D operations in Foshan and Guangzhou. He was also the leader for Product Management and Leanmanufacturing operations

He formerly headed the electrical design team at Hill-Rom that set up their first Asian medical device R&D facility in Singapore that focused on applied R&D into electro-mechanical systems. He also set up Welch Allyn R&D centre in Singapore, its first in the Asia Pacific region to design and develop medical products for the emerging markets.

Rayner graduated with a Bachelor of Electronic and Communication Engineering (Honors) from the University of Sheffield, U.K., attained his Master of Technological Design (Rapid Product Development) from the National University of Singapore and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Master of Science (Biomedical Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University and Master of Business Administration from the California State University, Sacramento, USA.

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

U-Xuan TAN received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. From 2012-2014, he was a Lecturer at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. In 2014, he took up a research intensive role and is since an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. He was awarded STUD Outstanding Education Award - Excellence in Teaching in 2015 and best student paper finalist for IEEE ROBIO 2006. His research interests include mechatronics and medical robotics.

ST Dynamics

Graduated BSc. Electrical Engineering – University of Southern California ( Magna Cum Laude ), MSc. Management of Technology - National University of Singapore, 2002 and attended International Executive Programme – INSEAD,

Paul is the Vice President of Technology Development at ST Dynamics - a company in the ST Engineering Group and he also assumes the role of co-Director for the ST Engineering-NTU Robotics Corporate Lab.

He has been in the field of engineering for more than twenty years, including sectors such as aerospace, robotics, unmanned vehicles and intelligent systems and is actively involved in the management of advanced R&D in these fields within the company.

His current focus is in driving advanced robotics and autonomous systems in the airport and crisis response sectors and believes that there is much opportunity in applying the latest technologies to enhance the operations and safety in these areas.

Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR

Wei-Yun Yau received his BEng from the National University of Singapore (1992), MEng (1995) and PhD (1999) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Currently, he is the Department Head for Robotics at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR. He also serves as a member of the IAPR’s Technical Committee on Biometrics. He is the recipient of TEC Innovator Award 2002, Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award 2003 (Merit), IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2006 and Standards Council Distinguished Award 2007. His research interest includes intelligent robots, biometrics, active vision system, and human-robot interaction and has published widely, with 12 patents granted and over 150 publications. One of his papers received the Pattern Recognition Journal Honorable Mention 2010 and listed as top 25 most cited papers in Scopus as at April/May 2012.