A young, fast-rising global university in Singapore, renowned for engineering, materials science, computing and AI, the sciences, medicine, and business.
24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President and Distinguished University Professor
Office of the President
As NTU's fifth President and founding leader of AI Singapore, he steers a whole university to move like a start-up while keeping science and people at the center.
Deputy President and Provost, Stephen Riady Professor in Healthcare and Technology
Office of the Provost
A metabolism scientist turned Provost, he shapes NTU's academic mission with the rigor of a researcher who still cares about how discoveries reach patients.
Dean, College of Engineering
College of Engineering
A world leader in nanoparticle delivery for cancer, he now leads one of Asia's largest engineering colleges with a builder's optimism.
Executive Director, Energy Research Institute @ NTU; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)
He leads NTU's energy institute and its industry partnerships, turning perovskite and printable-electronics research into real low-carbon power.
Distinguished University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Materials Science and Engineering
A Fellow of the Royal Society, he invents the soft, sensing materials that let electronics feel and bend like living skin.
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Vice President (International Engagement)
School of Materials Science and Engineering
An elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow, she turns fabrics and thin films into devices that harvest and store energy from everyday motion.
Chair, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Dieter Schwarz Foundation Chair Professor
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Leading NTU's EEE school, he builds the quantum photonic devices that could make secure, sovereign quantum systems real.
Chair, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Once an NTU student and now its MAE Chair, she pushes 3D printing from novelty to a serious manufacturing science for industry and medicine.
President's Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering
College of Computing and Data Science
He designs the game-theoretic and multi-agent methods that help AI make good decisions in messy, real-world settings, from security to markets.
Professor of Artificial Intelligence; Provost Chair in Computer Science and Engineering
College of Computing and Data Science
A pioneer of sentiment and commonsense reasoning in NLP, he works to make language models that are explainable rather than black boxes.
President's Chair Professor in Artificial Intelligence; Director, MMLab@NTU
College of Computing and Data Science
Behind widely used tools like ESRGAN and CodeFormer, he leads MMLab@NTU in restoring and generating images with rare technical taste.
Acting Dean, College of Science; Chair, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
A Mukaiyama Award-winning synthetic chemist, he invents cleaner reactions that make complex, medically useful molecules easier to build.
Chair, School of Biological Sciences; President's Chair in Biological Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
With decades studying how the p53 gene guards our cells, he brings hard-won cancer-biology insight to the school he now leads.
Chair, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Professor of Physics
Division of Physics and Applied Physics
An American Physical Society Fellow, he reveals the unusual shapes DNA can fold into, work that quietly reshapes how we read the genome.
Associate Professor, Division of Mathematical Sciences
Division of Mathematical Sciences
He works at the elegant crossroads of finite geometry, combinatorics, and number theory, the pure mathematics that underpins codes and designs.
Professor of Physics; Director, Institute of Advanced Studies
Division of Physics and Applied Physics
A Highly Cited physicist, he uses ultrafast light to understand how next-generation solar materials capture energy, so we can make them better.
Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine; Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences)
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
A renowned gastroenterologist who led Hong Kong through SARS, he now builds a medical school where clinical care and AI grow up together.
Irene Tan Liang Kheng Professor of Neuroscience; Director, NTU Institute for Mind and Learning
Neuroscience and Mental Health
A pioneer of optogenetics, he helped give neuroscience the ability to switch brain circuits on and off with light to understand how we think.
Dean, Nanyang Business School; President's Chair in Finance
Nanyang Business School
A finance scholar with dual doctorates, she leads Nanyang Business School into a future where business fluency and technology are inseparable.
President's Chair Professor of Information Systems; Vice President (Lifelong Learning and Alumni Engagement)
Nanyang Business School
She studies how organizations actually learn and innovate, and puts that knowledge to work opening lifelong learning to NTU's whole community.
Professor of Communication
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
The first Asian to lead the International Communication Association, he helped write the early rules of a fair and open internet.
Dean, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Tan Kah Kee Professor
School of Humanities
A distinguished historian of India and empire, he brings humane, long-view thinking to a college that keeps technology grounded in people.
Provost's Chair in Psychology; Head of Psychology
School of Social Sciences
Bridging psychology and medicine, he studies grief, meaning, and dignity so that people are cared for well through life's hardest passages.
Director, National Institute of Education; Professor of Psychology and Child and Human Development
Psychology and Child and Human Development
A leader in teacher education and motivation research, she shapes the people who will shape Singapore's next generation of learners.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of Nanyang Technological University, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.