Brian is an electrical engineer, born in Singapore, 1991. He received his B.Eng. from Nanyang Technological University in 2017, where he spent a year (2014-2015) at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Brian  received his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University in 2021 where he was elected as the Valedictorian of his graduating class. During his graduate studies, he received scholarships to work at the Tokyo Institute of Technolgy, Japan and Intel Labs, Santa Clara, US in 2018 and 2020 respectively. Upon graduation, Brian joined a prominent Singapore-based silicon photonic startup as the Head of Optical and Product Engineering where he spearheaded commerical platform development. In 2022, Brian was one of the two annual recepients of the prestigous Ministry of Education-NTU CoE International Postdoctoral Fellowship where he pursued his fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, from 2022 to 2024. In the fall of 2024, Brian joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Nanyang Technological University as an assistant professor. As of now, the IPs authored by Brian have been the subject of licensing fees from industry in excess of 500, 000 SGD. He serves as the reviewer for Advanced Optical Materials, Journal of Lightwave Technology, ACS Photonics, Optics Express, JOSA B. Brian has been the corresponding author in internationally renowned journals such as Nature Communications. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets (i.e., MIT News, Optics.org).