News

  • 02/19: Our paper, entitled: “Experimental evaluation of the stimuli-induced equilibrium point concept for automatic ramp merging systems”, was accepted for publication by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  • 01/19: Yazhini passed her PhD oral examination. Congratulations!

  • 12/18: Our paper, entitled "Design and evaluation of a prototype system for real-time monitoring of vehicle honking", was accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  • 11/18: Hian Hian passed her PhD oral examination. Congratulations!

  • 08/18: Our paper entitled “The Pc metric: a performance measure for collision avoidance algorithms” was accepted for publication in Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

  • 07/18: Kendrick left our group to join a local company. All the best!

  • 05/18: Research Fellow and Research Assistant positions available.

  • 04/18: Our paper, entitled "Localized Manipulation of Magnetic Particles in an Ensemble", was accepted for publication in IEEE Access.

  • 12/17: Wang Heng returned to our group as a Research Engineer. Welcome back!

  • 12/17: Yazhini left to join Panasonic R&D Center in Singapore. All the best!

  • 12/17: Our paper, entitled "Determination of Green's Function for Three-dimensional Traction Force Reconstruction Based on Geometry and Boundary Conditions of Cell Culture Matrices", was accepted for publication in Acta Biomaterialia.

  • 12/17: Our paper, entitled "Numerical Study of Heat Transfer Enhancement of Roll-to-roll Microchannel Heat Exchangers", was accepted for publication in the Journal of Heat Transfer.

  • 10/17: Our paper, entitled "The Concept of Stimuli-Induced Equilibrium Point and Its Application in Ramp-Merging Control", was accepted for publication as a regular paper in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  • 08/17: Our paper, entitled "Motion Control of a Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulator in Task Space”, was accepted for publication by Asian Journal of Control.

  • 08/17: Our paper, entitled “An Electromagnetic System for Inducing a Localized Force Gradient in an ECM and its Influence on HMVECs Sprouting”, was accepted for publication by SLAS Technology (formerly Journal of Laboratory Automation).

  • 08/17: Hian Hian joined our group as a Research Engineer. Welcome back!

  • 08/17: Our paper entitled “Stimuli-Induced Equilibrium Point: A Psychological Field Theory Application in Ramp Merging Control Systems” has been accepted for presentation at the 17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2017), October 18~21, 2017, Jeju, Korea.

  • 08/17: Lakshmi and Wang Heng left our group to pursue their PhD degrees in the US. All the best!

  • 07/17: Research Engineer position available.

  • 07/17: Our paper, entitled “Impact of cross-sectional geometry on mixing performance of spiral microfluidic channels characterized by swirling strength of Dean-vortices”, has been accepted for publication by Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

  • 07/17: Our paper, entitled “Heat exchanger improvement via curved microfluidic channels: impacts of cross-sectional geometry and dean vortex strength”, has been accepted for publication by Journal of Heat Transfer.

  • 07/17: Our paper, entitled “Methods and techniques of improving experimental testing for microfluidic heat sinks”, has been accepted for publication by Case Studies in Thermal Engineering.

  • 06/17: Manuel passed his PhD Qualifying Examination. Congratulations!

  • 05/17: Yuanrui passed his PhD Qualifying Examination. Congratulations!

  • 04/17: Research Engineer position available.

  • 02/17: Niven joined our group as a Research Engineer. Welcome aboard!

  • 02/17: Lakshmi has been conferred the degree of Master of Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering, NUS. Congratulations!

  • 12/16: Peter Chen is the Principal Investigator of a newly signed Research Collaboration Agreement between NUS and CtrlWorks Pte. Ltd. for the project entitled "Robotic Mobile Transport".

  • 11/16: Our group has filed a US Provisional Patent Application (No. 62/415,526) entitled "Electromagnetic Needle and Flux Collector for Localized Manipulation of Magnetic Micro-Particles".

  • 10/16: Peter Chen (as Co-PI) was part of research team (led by PS Lee, PI) that was awarded a multi-year research grant by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore entitled “Research, Development & Demonstration of a Highly Efficient Hybrid Cooling System for High Ambient Temperature Data Centre”.

  • 10/16: Our paper entitled “A Magneto-Microfluidic System for Investigating the Influence of an Externally Induced Force Gradient in a Collagen Type-I ECM on HMVEC Sprouting” was accepted for publication by SLAS Technology (formerly Journal of Laboratory Automation).

  • 07/16: Research Engineer position available.

  • 06/16: Research Fellow position available.

  • 02/16: Our group welcomes Professor Wu Xingming from Beihang University as an academic visitor.

  • 02/16: Dr. Du Yue departed to pursue of a new career. All the best!

  • 01/16: Our paper entitled "Three-dimensional characterization of mechanical interactions between endothelial cells and extracellular matrix during angiogenic sprouting" has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. [Abstract]

  • 01/16: Dr. Kendrick Amezquita Semprun joined our group as a Research Fellow. Welcome aboard!

  • 01/16: Yang Yuanrui joined our group as a M.Eng. student. Welcome aboard!

  • 12/15: Wang Heng joined our group as a Research Engineer. Welcome aboard!

  • 11/15: Our group welcomes Professor JIN Xin from Beijing Institute of Technology as an academic visitor.

  • 11/15: Santhosh joined our group as a Research Engineer. Welcome aboard!

  • 11/15: Our group has filed (through NUS ILO) an US Provisional Patent Application entitled: “Electromagnetic needle and flux collector for localized manipulation of magnetic micro-particles”.

  • 08/15: Dr. Zhu Ming joined our group as a Research Fellow. Welcome aboard!

  • 08/15: Zhao Changchen returned to Beihang. Bye for now.

  • 08/15: Dr. Zhou Shengfeng joined DNV-GL (Singapore). Farewell and see you around!

  • 08/15: Manuel Del Rosario Jr. joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome aboard!

  • 07/15: Yazhini has successfully upgraded to be a PhD candidate. Congratulations!

  • 07/15: Du Yue was appointed to the new position of Research Fellow. Welcome again!

  • 07/15: Yazhini and Hian Hian passed their QE. Congratulations!