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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President of NUS
Office of the President
A mathematician and lifelong NUS person who served a decade as Provost before leading the university as President, championing broad-based, flexible education.
Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost
Office of the Provost
A semiconductor pioneer who built the College of Design and Engineering and now guides academic life across NUS as Provost.
Deputy President (Administration)
Administration Cluster
Brings three decades of international operational leadership to steward the people, campus, and systems that keep NUS running.
Dean and Tan Sri Runme Shaw Senior Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
From NUS student to Dean of Computing, an ACM Fellow whose work on databases and big data has shaped a generation of engineers.
Provost's Chair Professor and Director, NUS AI Institute
Department of Computer Science
Leads the NUS AI Institute and, as a former Dean, grew Computing into a powerhouse while advancing multimedia and trustworthy AI.
Professor of Materials Engineering, FREng
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Singapore's most-cited engineer and a world authority on nanofibers, whose generosity in mentoring young researchers is legendary.
NUSS Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, FRS
Department of Biomedical Engineering
A Fellow of the Royal Society whose mechanobiology and microfluidic diagnostics turn deep science into tools that heal.
Provost's Chair Professor and Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Pioneers AI-personalized medicine through CURATE.AI, leading NUS biomedical engineering and the WisDM and N.1 institutes.
Distinguished Professor and Director, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials
Department of Physics
The godfather of graphene, whose Centre for Advanced 2D Materials made Singapore a global hub for two-dimensional materials.
Professor of Chemistry, SNAS Fellow
Department of Chemistry
A world leader in graphene chemistry and 2D materials, honored with the President's Science Award and devoted to grooming young talent.
Professor of Mathematics, SIAM and AMS Fellow
Department of Mathematics
An applied mathematician whose models of Bose-Einstein condensates earned SIAM and AMS fellowships and global service to his field.
Provost's Chair Professor of Biological Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
A Provost's Chair Professor whose work on how plants decide to flower advances both fundamental biology and food security.
Dean, Faculty of Science
Dean's Office
A conservation scientist leading nature-based climate solutions, now stepping up to lead the Faculty of Science.
Dean, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Dean's Office
An obstetrician and researcher on the earliest thousand days of life, leading NUS Medicine with heart and rigor.
Yong Loo Lin Professor in Medical Oncology and Director, National University Cancer Institute
Department of Medicine
A clinician-scientist and world expert in multiple myeloma, bringing precision oncology from the lab to patients' bedsides.
Goh Keng Swee Professor in the Department of Economics
Department of Economics
A leading economist of platforms and two-sided markets who led the Economics department and mentors NUS scholars.
University Professor
Department of History
A towering historian of China and the Chinese diaspora, honored with the Tang Prize and named University Professor by NUS.
Raffles Professor of Social Sciences
Department of Geography
A geographer of migration and cities whose Vautrin-Lud Prize and British Academy fellowship crown decades of field-defining work.
Dean and Stephen Riady Professor, NUS Business School
Dean's Office
An NUS alumnus and operations-research scholar returning to lead the Business School after decades of teaching and research.
Emeritus Professor, NUS Business School
Department of Finance
As Dean for over a decade he built NUS Business School into a global name; now Emeritus, still a generous voice in international business.
David Marshall Professor of Law and Vice Provost (Educational Innovation)
Faculty of Law
A leading scholar of international law and AI governance who founded NUS College and shaped legal education across Asia.
Professor of Law and Ambassador-at-Large
Faculty of Law
A revered diplomat and law professor who presided over the Law of the Sea negotiations and still mentors students at Tembusu College.
Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
An economist of growth and the shifting world economy who led the Lee Kuan Yew School and still teaches its next leaders.
Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute
Asia Research Institute
Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School and a global voice on Asia, now leading the Asian Peace Programme.
This directory is unbounded, in pursuit of every professor at every university, everywhere. Every person is real, public, and cited; anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed.
A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of National University of Singapore, 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.