Student Achievements

Student Achievement Awards

Isakov Dimtry (PhD Student), Benjamin Tan (FYP Student, NUS) , together with Prof Jacob Phang, Dr Yeo Yee Chia, and team comprising Dr Andrew Tio (Postdoctoral Fellow, SIMTech), Dr Zhang Yi (Precision Measurement Group Manager, SIMTech), Thomas Geinzer (PhD Student, University of Wuppertal) & Prof Ludwig Josef Balk (Professor, University of Wuppertal) - Best Paper Award, International Symposium for Testing & Failure Analysis (ISTFA) 2008, 14 April 2009.

Ngo Yit Sung (PhD Student), Andi Putra (Research Fellow) & Hu Juan (Exchange Student, Tsinghua University) - 4th prize (US$ 600) at the 2008 IEEE International Hands-on Competition via Internet on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation, 7 Dec 2008.

Ni Bingbing (Ph.D Student) - Best Student Paper, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) Singapore, 6 Feb 2009, for his paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), Pisa, Italy, 15 – 19 Dec 2008.

Pu Yu (Ph.D Student) - Best Poster Award at the 19th ProRISC, an annual Workshop on Integrated System and Circuits, held in Veldhoven, Netherlands, 27-28 Nov 2008.

Zhang Yaqiong (Ph.D Student) - 2nd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Best Paper Contest, 25 Sep 2008, Singapore. The award winning paper is titled “The Design and Analysis of the Band Rejected Cross Semi-Circle Monopole Antenna for UWB Applications”.

She HaoYuan (Ph.D Student) - 3rd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Best Paper Contest, 25 Sep 2008, Singapore. The award winning paper is titled “Resonance of Cylindrical Structures with High Relative Permittivity – Enhancement of the Field and Applications in Optical Waveguide”.

Ghasem Naddafzadeh Shirazi (M.Eng. Student) - Best Student Paper, IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB2008), Hannover, Germany, 10-12 Sept 2008, for paper "A Cooperative Retransmission Scheme for IR-UWB Networks".

Zhang Yi (Ph.D Student) - Best Student Paper, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (IEEE ICAL), September 1-3, 2008, Qingdao, China.

Li Bingrui Joel - 1st Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2008) for paper entitled "Modelling of decision making process in Power Market with Type 2 Fuzzy logic and Game theory".

Koh Huang Zhang Jason - 3rd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2008) for paper entitled "A scheduling strategy based on traffic patterns for IEEE 802.16e Wi MAX mobile broadband wireless access".

James Teh Keng Soon (M.Eng Student) - Invited to the KAIST (Young Investigator's Forum for Culture Technology), 22-23 Aug 2008, Daejeon, South Korea. It is a prestigious invitation, as only 13 students around the world are selected.

Goh Szu Huat, Quah Cheng Teck (both Ph.D Students), together with Prof Colin Sheppard, Prof Jacob Phang and team - Best Paper for Device Failure Analysis, IPFA (International Symposium of the Physical & Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits) 2008, 7 -11 July, Singapore. The winning paper is titled "Effect of Refractive Solid Immersion Lens Parameters on the Enhancement of Laser Induced Fault Localization Techniques".

Ajay Mishra (Ph.D Student) - Top Place in "Software Only League" category of the "Semantic Robot Vision Challenge" at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 23 - 28 June 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

Lin Jianqiang (M.Eng student ) - Awarded IEEE Electron Devices Society Masters Student Fellowship for 2008, in June 2008, USA . Awarded a certificate and US 2,000.

Tan Yen Kheng, Krishna Mainali, Andi Sudjana Putra, Nie Maowen, Chua Teck Wee (all Ph.D Students), Zamani Mohsen (M.Eng Student) and undergraduate Ju Lijing (EE4 Student) - 2nd Prize, 5th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing, 23 - 25 Jan 2008, Singapore.

Tang Xinyi (Ph.D Student) - 2nd prize, Best Student Poster Paper, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, 20 - 22 Dec 2007, Tainan, Taiwan, for his work on "A 180 degree phase shifter with small phase error for broadband applications".

Grace Wang Huiqi [Ph.D Student, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering (NGS), hosted by ECE and supervised by ECE faculty member] - Best Paper Award, 2007 European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC), for her team's work on "Uniaxial Strained Silicon n-FETs on Silicon-Germanium-on-Insulator Substrates with an e-Si0,7Ge0,3 Stress Transfer Layer and Source/Drain Stressors for Performance Enhancement", 10-14 September, Munich, Germany.

Cao Wei (Ph.D Student) - Best Student Paper Award, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, for her work on "A Novel High Data Rate DS UWB Communication System via Superposition of Chip Waveforms", 24 - 26 September 2007, Singapore.

Sriram Krishnan - Won the Top prize of 175,000 Swedish Kronor (S$36,000) in the Excitera Innovation Challenge’s (EIC) “The Best New Mobile Service” competition organised by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, May 2007.

Kartik Prabhakara - €10,000 3rd Prize, SIMagine JavaCard application development competition (France) (2002).

Qiu Chengwei (Ph.D. Student) - won the US$15,000 'SUMMA Graduate Fellowship 2005' Award in Advanced Electromagnetics, via the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in year 2006.

Tan Yan Ny (Ph.D. Student) - Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Fellowship 2005, with an award of US$6000. For research on SONOS-type nonvolatile memory devices.

Cen Yizhe & Liang Jia Jian - Won US$5000 prize in the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition (2005/2006) organised by the Singapore Management University, July 2006.

Lee Tek Po Rinus (Ph.D. Student) - Won 1st prize / Gold award NTD 100,000 (S$4,700) and a trophy, 2nd TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award (Category III : Physics, Chemistry of Material for Nano-Scaled Devices), 29 June 2007, Taiwan.

Qiu Chengwei (Ph.D. Student) - Won US$2500 for the Graduate Fellowship Award 2005-06 from IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Li Rong (Ph.D. Student) - Awarded Student Travel Grant worth US$1000 by IEEE ComSoc to attend and present her paper titled "Generalized Quadratic Receivers for Unitary Space-Time Constellations with Orthogonal Design over Rayleigh Fading Channels" at the IEEE Globecom conference 2005 in St Louis, Missouri, USA, in December 2005.

Goh Chi Keong (PhD Student) - Won IEEE CEC Travel Grant for both years of 2005 (US$800) & 2006 (US$750), from IEEE Computational Intelligent Society.

Yan Pingkun (Ph.D. student) - Best Student Paper Award presented at the 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 26-29 October 2005, Palm Springs, California, USA for his work on "MRA Image Segmentation with Capillary Active Contour".

Wu DongRui (M.Eng. student) - Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2005), Reno Nevada USA, for his work on "Type-2 FLS Modelling Capability Analysis".

Zhou Zhi Ying (Ph.D. student) - Second Prize in the Info Tech and Engineering category at the 2004 International Idea to Product (I2PTM) competition organized by University of Texas (UT) at Austin.

Rodney Hua - 2nd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (paper also published in Proceedings of International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems & Technology, Las Vegas, USA) (24-27 June 2002).

Chong Yung Fu (Ph.D. Student) - IEEE Electron Devices Society Graduate Student Fellowship (USA) (2002).

Pang Hong Lin - IEEE Power Electronics Society's Transaction Paper Prize (USA) (2000).

Tan Li Yu - Overall Champion in the Humanoid category of the 11th Robo World Cup 2006 organised by FIRA (Federation of International Robot-soccer Association) in Germany, July 2006.

Zhang Ruixiang and Tee Wei In - 1st Prize, Humanoid Robot Competition at the FIRA Robot World Cup, Austria (2003).

Li Zhi (M.Eng Student) - Best Student Paper, 2007 International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007), 2 - 5 July 2007, Beijing, China, for his work on "Constructing Secure Content Dependent Watermarking Scheme Using Homomorphic Encryption". Prize is USS500 (S$760) and a certificate.

Ye Zhen (Ph.D. student) - 1st Prize, IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest (2007) for paper entitled "Relay Feedback Analysis and Auto Tuning for a class of servo control systems".

Kang Kai (Ph.D Student) - 2nd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Best Paper Contest, 22 Mar 2007, Singapore. The award winning paper is titled "A Wideband Scalable and SPICE-compatible Model For On-chip Interconnects Up to 110 GHz."

Loke Wei Ting - 2nd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2007) for paper entitled "Comprehensive Statistical Static Timing Analysis using nested-edge indexed canonical timing model".

Wong Tze Siang Ashton - 2nd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2007) for paper entitled "Micromechanical Oscillator Circuits".

Ng Buck Sin, Kwang Khai Chun, Mai Kaojjie, Hui Zhewei Vitor and Nitin Batra - 2nd Prize, Humanoid category of the FIRA Robo World Cup, USA (2007).

Tan Kok Chuen (Ph.D. Student) - Invited as a journal reviewer, for a special issue on "Computational Art", as part of the "International Journal of Computational Science (IJCS)".

Tan Yen Kheng (Ph.D. Student) & Ku Cik Ling - Won the 2nd Prize in the International category of "2006 National University Student Creativity-in-Action Contest" held in Taiwan on 18th Nov 2006.

Sharan H Makhija - Won the 3rd place in the "Yahoo! Hack Day" competition in the Messenger Category on 30 Sept 2006 organised by the Yahoo! Developer Network.

Zhang Zhishou ((Ph.D. Student) - won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2006, for his work on “A Content-Aware Stream Authentication Scheme Optimized for Distortion and Overhead”.

Luo Tao (Ph.D. Student) - won the “Best Paper in Failure Analysis”, at International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) 2005, held in July 2006, Singapore, for the paper "Transmission EELS Attachment for SEM".

Hwang, Wan Sik (Ph.D. Student) - won the ‘DPS 2005 Young Research Award’ at 27th International Symposium on Dry Process, for the paper entitled “Effect of SiO2 Mask on Surface Properties of Advanced Gate Stacks using ICP of Cl2 / HBr”.

Tan Li Yu - Overall Champion in the Humanoid category of the 10th Robo World Cup 2005 organised by FIRA (Federation of International Robot-soccer Association) in Singapore, December 2005.

Cham Jin Wei, Leong Chee Yen & Ong Kok Choong - Won the 'Excellent' Award in the "2005 International University Student Creativity-in-Action Contest" held in Taiwan, December 2005.

Andi Sudjana Putra (Ph.D. Student) - Awarded the top 20 paper presentation at "BioNano: The Next Frontier" conference at the Queensland Bioscience Precinct, the University of Queensland. Awarded sponsorship by the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network, and to present his paper titled "Development of Partially-Rotating Piezoelectric Actuators in an Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection Installation" in December 2005.

Yu Rui (Ph.D. student) - 2nd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest (2005) for paper entitled "A Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulator Employing SAW Resonator" in the area of IC design.

Song Wei - 1st Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2005).

Yeo Eng Guan - 3rd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2005).

Tony Low Aik Seng (Ph.D. student) - IEEE Electron Devices Society Graduate Student Fellowship (2005).

Kim Sun Jung (Ph.D. student) - IEEE Electron Devices Society Graduate Student Fellowship (2005).

Liu Tie (Ph.D. student) - Best Poster Award at ICMAT 2005 for his work on "Transport Properties and Micromagnetic Modelling of Magnetic Nanowires with Multiple Constrictions."

Lim Kim Huat Jason – 1st Prize with S$1,500 cash, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2009) for project entitled "Printer Head Test".

Yu Hao – 2nd Prize with S$1,000 cash, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2009) for project entitled "Radio Frequency Interference Test".

Guo Junjie – 3rd Prize with S$500 cash, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2009) for project entitled "White and RGB LED-based LCD Test".

Thang Wei Wang - IES Outstanding Volunteer Award 2007/08 – Young Members Committee, in honour of his constribution to the Institution of Engineers, Singapore in the Council Year 2007/08 (Feb 2009).

Wong Jin Xiang Terrence – 1st Prize with S$10,000 cash, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2008) for project entitled "Remote Monitoring System on a Bridge".

Maung Zaw Win Min – 2nd Prize with S$5,000 cash, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2008) for project entitled "Intelligent Monitoring and Trigger System on a PV power system".

Yang Rui – 3rd Prize with S$3,000 cash, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2008) for project entitled "Flexible LCD TV color Temperature Testing".

Loke Wei Ting - 1st Prize with S$150 cash, IEEE Singapore Section Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2007) for paper entitled "Comprehensive Statistical Static Timing Analysis using nested-edge indexed canonical timing model".

Tan Chun Chia - 2nd prize with SS$100 cash, IEEE Singapore Section Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2007) for paper entitled "Investigation of Super lattice-like Structure for Phase Change Random Access Memory (PCRAM)".

Wong Tze Siang Ashton - 3rd Prize with S$75 cash, IEEE Singapore Section Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2007) for paper entitled "Micromechanical Oscillator".

Wang Chenchen (Ph.D. student) - won the 1st prize for poster presentation titled "Ferromagnetic Nanoscale Antidot Arrays", in the 2nd Materials Research Society Singapore Conference on Advanced Materials, 18 - 20 Jan 2006.

Seah Yew Keng & Tan Ting Feng - 1st Prize with $10,000 cash of Philips Young Innovators Challenge 2005/06.

Miao Zhe & Lim Zhangjun - 3rd Prize with $3,000 cash of Philips Young Innovators Challenge 2005/06.

Leong Chee Yen & Ong Kok Choong - 2nd Prize with $3000 book vouchers of NETS Innovator Series 2005.

Team Members of SPOT® : Chin Yong Jie Andy, Tee Wen Kai and Thirumurugan S/O Narayanan - Winner of the Social Entrepreneurship Award at the 6th Start-up@Singapore Finals (2005)

Goh Han Leong (Ph.D. student) and Ong Kok Choong - Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor's Award 2005 – Defense Science Category

Tai Fook Lim Jerry - 1st Prize & Innovative Award winner of Techsource System Engineering Design Competition 2005.

Chua Poh Leng Jeffrey - 2nd Prize & Technical Award of Techsource System Engineering Design Competition 2005.

Chian Poh Choon - 3rd Prize Winner of Techsource System Engineering Design Competition 2005.

Lee Tze Chung, Goh Han Leong (Ph.D. Student), Chung Chun He & Ong Kok Choong  - STARTUP@Singapore NUS INTRO AWARD (2005).

Farooq Jamil Alvi, Saad Naveed Pall and Umar Sohail Mirza  - Merit Award in The Crime Prevention Robot Design Competition organised by the National Crime Prevention Council and Singapore Police Force. (2004).

Yim Keng Hoong  - Gold Award for IES Student Publications (2004).

Saravana Kumar (Ph.D. Student) together with collaborators from Dept. of Biological Sciences  - Merit Award in the Open Award Category of the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors Award (2004).

Goh Kok Hwee  - Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award, Commendation Award in the Open Award Competition (2004).

Zhou ZhiYing Steven (Ph.D. Student) - Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award, Commendation Award in the Open Award Competition (2004).

Tan Bing Siang Derek - NUS Student Achievement Award (Arts & Culture) 2008.

Methajarunon Kasidit  - NUS Student Achievement Award (Enterprise & other competitions Category) 2008.

Chan Ching Weng  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled Development Of PCRAM Devices For Improved Lifetime Performances (2007/2008).

Li Yang  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled Laser Fabrication Of Metallic Nano-Structures And Its Plasmonic Effect (2007/2008).

Lim Ye Mei, Tan Jun Wei  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled Development Of MEMS Vibration Mechanism For Collecting Kinetic Energy (2007/2008).

Loke Kok Leong Desmond  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled Nanoscaling Of Phase Change Memory For High Density Data Storage (2007/2008).

Woo Bo Sheng  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled Fabrication Of Lens Sheet For 3-D Display (2007/2008).

Li Bingrui Joel  - FoE Innovation Award (Certificate Of Recognition), on the project titled Modelling Power Market With Type-2 Fuzzy Logic And Game Theory (2007/2008).

Tan Yao Xiong  - FoE Innovation Award (Certificate Of Recognition), on the project titled Optimal Mask Design Via Inverse Lithography (2007/2008).

Sun Wei & Team Members - Selected as one of the 13 finalists in the IBM Women’s Conference Student Contest 2005

Salman Javed Nawaz & Ashwini Anand - Selected to attend the “Global Brand Forum 2004", a premier business forum with the theme of "Redefining leadership in brands and business".

Eng Se-Hsieng - First ECE Student to graduate from the NUS double-degree program with French Grandes Ecoles. (B.Eng. 2003, M.Eng. 2004).

Vinit Nagarajan - Selected to attended the Global Village Program at the Lehigh University, USA (June 2004 - Aug 2004).

Liu Haibo - Selected to attend the 9th international exhibition of youth scientific-technical projects EXPO-SCIENCE 2003 (Moscow, Russia).

Chilgunde Amit Chandrakant - Selected to attend the HPAIR conference (Sydney, Australia) on Asian and International Relations (2002) (HPAIR).

Vinit Nagarajan - Invited to attend the prestigious global issues symposium,(St Gallen, Switzerland) which was organised in collaboration with Harvard University (2002).

Jackie Lee Choon Yau -  took academic leave to find Hardware Zone Pte Ltd. He was one of the winners selected for ASME Netrepreneur of the Year Award (2001).

Chin Yong Jie Andy - Represented Singapore in the 6th Asian Water-polo Championship (2005).

Lin Hong Tai - Represented Singapore in 22nd South-East Asian Games Canoeing Event (2003).

Quek Wei Cheng - Awarded GOLD in Engin Colours Award (2003).

Buvana Kumaravel - selected by Singapore National Youth Council and HSBC Bank for Youth Environment Award  (2001).

Chen Xiaohuan - led NUS first team for Varsity Chinese Debate & “Best Speaker of the Match”, 5th International Varsity Debate Quarter-final (2001).

Wun Hau Sze - invited to join Singapore Symphony and won first prize at World Music Festival in Dutch town of Kerkrade (2001).

Teo Swee Shang - Vice-Captain of National Wushu Team & Gold medalists in 3rd Invitational Wushu Championships (Beijing, China) (2000).
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