Team comprising V Prasad Anjangi (PhD student) and Dr Chitre Mandar

Best Student Paper, Underwater Systems with Experiments in Memory of Giovanni Toso, The International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet), Washington DC, USA, 22 Oct 2015.

The winning entry is entitled “"Design and Implementation of Super-TDMA: A MAC Protocol Exploiting Large Propagation Delays for Underwater Acoustic Networks".

The prize comprises a certificate and USD 500.

Team AeroLion comprising Wang Kangli, Ke Yijie (both PhD Students), Shan Mo (Temasek Lab), Li Xiang & Dr Wang Fei (both from AeroLion Technologies)

Champion (Rotary-Wing Category), 2015 Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Cup, International UAV Innovation Grand Prix, held in Anji, Zhejiang, China, 30 Oct 2015.

The prize comprises cash of CNY 100,000.

The team is supervised by Prof Ben Chen and Prof Lee Tong Heng.

Du Xinxin & Kyaw Ko Ko Htet (PhD Students Supervised by Assoc Prof Tan Kok Kiong)

2015 Engineering Impact Awards ASEAN Regional Contest, National Instruments, Singapore, 30 Jun – 10 July 2015.

The three prizes won are as follow :
a) Academic Honorary Mention ($500 cash and plaque)
b) Advanced Research Award ($300 and plaque)
c) Editor’s Choice ($300 cash and plaque).

The winning entry is entitled “Solution to an autonomous vehicle platform integrated with remote human intervention and supervision”.

The team comprises researchers from Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC/UIUC, Singapore) & NUS, including Dr Ni Bing Bing (Researcher, ADSC/UIUC) & Yuan Jun (PhD Student). Both Dr Ni and Yuan Juan are Prof Ashraf Kassim’s former and current PhD students respectively)

Ranked No 1, Thumos Challenge (Temporal Localization Challenge), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015, 7 -12 June 2015, Boston, USA.

NUS Formula SAE Team – comprising of Shia Jun Jie (EEE4, Design Centric Programme FYP Student) and 13 student members, supervised by Prof Seah Kar Heng (ME Dept), won the following awards at FSAE 2015 competition, 13 – 16 May 2015, at Michigan, USA with their winning entry NUS FSAE (Formula Society of Automotive Engineering) race car project :

a) Rank no. 1, World Champion for Cummins Inc. Applied Technology Award
b) Rank no. 1, Business Presentation Event
c) Rank no. 2, Acceleration Event (Drag Race)
d) Rank no. 3, FEV Powertrain Development Award
e) Rank no. 4, Bosch Engineering Design Drawing Award

The car made history by clinching the overall 7^th ranking in the world, out of 120 teams.

Abhra Roy Chowdhury (PhD student supervised by A/Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda)

1st Prize (PhD Thesis Category), IEEE Industry Applications Society Chapters & Membership Development Department (IAS CMD) Graduate Student Thesis Contest 2015, 23 Apr 2015, Orlando, USA.

The award winning entry is entitled “Modeling and Control of a Bioinspired Robotic Fish Underwater Vehicle and its Propulsion Mechanism”.

The prize comprises a plaque, certificate, USD $500 cash, paid attendance at the IAS annual meeting and reimbursing the travel and accommodation expenses of USD $1500.

Liu Yu Hang (PhD student supervised by Prof Nitish Thakor)

Best Oral Presentation, 9th Student Workshop of the East Asian Consortium on Biomedical Engineering (“Others” Session), National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), 12 Oct 2014, Taiwan.

The winning entry is entitled “Evaluation of neurovascular function based on spontaneous reversible ischemia rat model”.

The prize comprises a certificate and NCKU memorabilia.

Lu Canyi (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Yan Shuicheng)

2014 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, 16th Computing in the 21st Century Conference, 24 Oct 2014, Beijing.

The winning entry is “Block diagonal affinity matrix pursuit for subspace clustering”.

The prize is USD $10,000 and a trophy.

Jayantika Soni (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda)

Best Presentation (Building Energy Management Technologies I [Special session-45]), 40th Annual IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Conference (IECON 2014), 29 Oct – 1 Nov 2014, Dallas, Texas, USA.

The winning entry is entitled “Load-side demand management in buildings using controlled electric springs".

The prize is a certificate.

Zhang Song Song (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Vincent Lee)

CHEMINAS Poster Award, 6th International Symposium on Microchemistry & Microsystems 2014, 30 July – 1 Aug 2014, Singapore.

The winning entry is entitled "Nanowire Embedded Silicon Neural Probe Fabricated by CMOS Process with Highly P-doped Silicon Electrode for Neural Recording".

The award is a certificate and cash of SGD 240.

Qian You (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Vincent Lee, Assoc Prof Liang Gengchiau & Dr. Humberto Campanella (IME))

Oral Paper Award, The 6th International Symposium on Microchemistry & Microsystems 2014, 30 July – 1 Aug 2014, Singapore.

The winning entry is entitled "All Metal Nanoelectromechanical Switches Working at 300°C". The award is a certificate and cash of SGD 240.

Wang Hao (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Vincent Lee

Oral Paper Award, The 6th International Symposium on Microchemistry & Microsystems 2014, 30 July – 1 Aug 2014, Singapore.

The winning entry is entitled "Microneedle Array Integrated with CNT Filters for Controlled and Selective Transdermal Drug Delivery".

The award is a certificate and cash of SGD 240.

Abhra Roy Chowdhury (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda)

Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), International Scholarship 2014, Sept 2014, Sapporo, Japan.

The candidate is nominated for this scholarship based on his research work presented during SICE Annual Conference 2014, 9-12 Sept 2004, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido.

His research work is entitled “Kinematic Parameter based Behavior Modelling and Control of a Bio-inspired Robotic Fish Propulsion”.

This scholarship is awarded to foreign researchers who are young, have potential ability to contribute to the field of Instrument and Control Engineering and also have sufficient achievements in their fields.

The prize includes a certificate and JPY 100,000 (US$1,000).

Team “AeroLion” comprising Cui Jinqiang (NGS PhD Student), Kevin Ang Zong Yao (PhD Student), Phang Swee King (NGS PhD Student), Dr Wang Fei (Research Scientist, Temasek Lab [TL]), Dr Lin Feng (Senior Research Scientist, TL), Dr Dong Xiangxu (Research Scientist, TL), Pang Tao (MEng Student / Associate Scientist, TL), Yang Zhaolin (Associate Scientist, TL), Lai Shupeng (NGS PhD Student), Li Kun (PhD Student), Wang Kangli (PhD Student), Ke Yijie (PhD Student), Liu Peidong (MEng Student), Li Xiang (Research Engineer) & Lin Jing (Lab Technologist, ECE / TL). The team is supervised by Prof Ben Chen.

Champion, 2014 International Micro Aerial Vehicle (IMAV) Competition, 13 Aug 2014, Delft, the Netherlands.
The prize comprises a trophy and certificate.

Ramprakash Kathiresan (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda, Dr Pritam Das & Dr Thomas Reindl (SERIS))

Best Student Paper, 2014 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Asia (ISGT-Asia), 20 – 23 May 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The winning entry is entitled "An interactive LED lighting interface for high energy savings". The award is a certificate.

Lin Junwei, Lam Cheng Yen, and Wang Hanjie

1st Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2013) – for paper entitled " The Development of Wireless Wearable Blood Pressure Sensor for Chronic Disease Management”, supervised by Prof Lian Yong. The prize comprises USD 300 and a certificate.

Team comprising NGS PhD Student Lin Min, ECE PhD students Chen Qiang, Dong Jian, Huang Junshi, Xia Wei and their supervisor Assoc Prof Yan Shuicheng

Runner-up, ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC), International Conference on Computer Vision 2013 (ICCV13) 7 Dec 2013, Sydney, Australia.

The winning entry is entitled “Adaptive Non-parametric Rectification of Shallow and Deep Experts”.

Since 2013, ILSVRC becomes the flagship completion in computer vision, classifying 1000 object categories over 1.2M images. This year, more than 20 teams (Berkeley, NYU, Oxford, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, etc) participated in this competition. The team is ranked 1st among all academic teams and 2nd among all teams.

The honor is an invited talk in the ILSVRC13 workshop associated with the ICCV13 main conference.

Liu Xiayun (PhD Student Supervised by Dr Heng Chun Huat)

Student Design Contest Runner-up for Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference 2013, 12 Nov 2013, Singapore.

The winning work is entitled “A 13-pJ/bit 900-MHz QPSK/16-QAM transmitter with band shaping for biomedical application”.

The prize comprises a certificate.

Team comprising PhD students Chacko John Deepu, Zhang Xiaoyang, Liew Wen Sin and David Wong Liang Tai
(all supervised by Prof Lian Yong)

Best Design Award, Student Design Contest, Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, 11-13 Nov 2013, Singapore.

The winning entry is entitled “An ECG-SoC with 535nW/Channel Lossless Data Compression for Wearable Sensors”.

The prize is a certificate.

Yan Hengchao (PhD Student supervised by Dr Justin Pang), Dr Zhou Junhong (Principle Researcher, A*STAR SIMTech),
and Dr Justin Pang

Best Paper in Session, 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 10 - 13 Nov 2013, Vienna, Austria.

The winning paper is entitled "Precognitive Maintenance and Probabilistic Assessment of Tool Wear Using Particle Filters."

The award is a certificate.

Tan Yan Zhi (NGS Student Supervised by Dr Justin Pang and Prof Lee Tong Heng)

Best Paper in Session, 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 10 - 13 Nov 2013, Vienna, Austria.

The winning paper is entitled "Convex Separable Parametrization in Integrated Servo-Mechanical Design for High-Performance Mechatronics".

The award is a certificate.

Yan Zhi graduated with B.Eng (1st Class) from ECE Department. He is currently pursuing his PhD on an NGS scholarship.

Shambavi Krishnamurthi, Rahul Rajeev (both CEG4 students in the Faculty’s Design-Centric Programme) and team

Tops in the Biotechnology Category at 2013 GlobalTiC Talentpreneur Award & Forum held in Taipei, Taiwan from 19-23 August 2013, for their prototype smart watch called ezmon. Ezmon can measure vital signs such as heart rate and body temperature, and potentially detect glucose level without the need for pricks. The champion team was awarded with US$3000, a certificate of award, a trophy, as well as another US$1000 for 'Best Exhibition'.

Chua Yao Wei, Alfred (EE4 student supervised by A/P Tan KK and Dr Andi Sudjana Putra)

Won the 2^nd runner up in the Design category for the 7^th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (7^th i-CREATe) held in Seoul, Korea from 29-31 August 2013. The winning entry is entitled QIKRehab - A portable and user-friendly upper limb rehabilitation device that helps stroke patients to regain the ability to perform daily tasks through interactive task-based training. The prize entitlement is cash prize US$350.

Sun Hucheng (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Guo Yong Xin)

Second Prize, Applications & Student Innovation Competition, 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics, 1 – 3 August, Hong Kong.

The winning entry is entitled “A Novel Rectifier for Wireless Power Transmission with a Wide Input Power Range”.

The prize comprises a certificate and HKD $1000.

Abhra Roy Chowdhury (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Panda Sanjib Kumar)

IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Scholarship, 6 July 2013, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA.

This scholarship is given to the students enrolled full-time at an accredited college or university in a field of study that will lead to a career in ocean engineering or a related ocean science field. Student must have demonstrated excellence in academics as well as the ability to perform independent research through professional and/or academic recognition programs.

Chen Yiguo (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Hong Minghui, Prof Stefan Maier [Imperial College] and Prof Boris Luk’yanchuk [DSI])

Best Young Researcher Paper, 9th Asia-Pacific Near-Field Optics Conference (APNFO 2013), 3 - 6 July 2013, Singapore.

The winning entry is entitled “Realization of tunable perfect absorber via phase-change materials”. The prize comprises a certificate, trophy and S$250 cash.

Zhan Chunlei (previously NGS Student Supervised by Dr Yeo Yee Chia, now a Research Engineer with ECE)

Best Student Paper Award, 2013 Very Large Scale Integration – Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA) Conference, 22 – 23 April, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The winning paper is entitled “(110)-Oriented Germanium-Tin (Ge0.97Sn0.03) P-channel MOSFETs”.

Poi Voon Er (MEng Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Tan Kok Kiong & Assoc Prof Lim Hsueh Yee [Otolaryngology Dept]) –

The winning paper is entitled "Development of a hearing aid with frugal objectivity”.

The prize is a certificate.

Mridul Sakhuja -

2012 EU Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (PVSEC) Student Award, Messe Frankfurt, Germany, 24 – 28 Sept 2012.

The winning entry is entitled “Antireflective and Self-Cleaning Packaging Glass for Solar Modules”. The prize comprises 200 euro and a certificate. Student is awarded for having the most outstanding research work in the field of “Components for PV Systems”.

Koh Kah How (PhD Student Supervised by Dr Vincent Lee Cheng Kuo) –

1st Prize, IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest (2012). The winning entry is entitled “A Low Voltage Driven 2-D MEMS Scanning Mirror using Hybrid Actuation Mechanisms”. The prize comprises USD 350 and a certificate.

Chan Kah Fai Darrick - 1st Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2012)

for paper entitled "Nanostructure Array Fabrication with Double Layer Nanosphere Lithography by Sonication and Mechanical Shock”. The prize comprises USD 300 and a certificate.

Ding Junjia (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Adeyeye Adekunle Olusola) –

Best Presentation Award, 5th IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School, Nanotechnology Research Centre, SRM University, India, 22 – 27 July 2012.

The winning entry is entitled “Realization Of A Reprogrammable Magnetic Logic Based On A Nanoscale Reconfigurable Magnonic Crystal”.

The prize comprises a certificate and USD 100.

Hoo Chin Hau & Alex Koay Zi Hao (both CPE 4th Year Students supervised by Dr Akash Kumar) –

2nd Prize, Open Hardware Contest, Xilinx, Beijing, China, 1 June 2012.
The winning entry is entitled “Playing Soccer on Multiple FPGA boards”.
The prize comprises RMB 3000 cash and certificates.

Lim Shu Fan (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Ashwin M Khambadkone) –

Winner, 2012 APEC Nano Presentation Award (Technical Session No. 7 : AC-DC Converters I), Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA, 5-9 Feb 2012.

The winning paper is entitled “A Multimode Digital Control Scheme for Boost PFC with Higher Efficiency and Power Factor at Light Load".

The prize is a certificate.

Liu Liang (PhD Student supervised by Dr Zhang Rui and Prof Chua Kee Chaing) –

Best Paper, International Conference on Wireless Communications & Signal Processing (WCSP), Nanjing, China, 9 -11 Nov 2011.

The winning entry is entitled “A New Approach To Weighted Sum-rate Maximization for the K-user Gaussian Interference Channel”.
The prize comprises a certificate.

Thillainathan Logenthiran (PhD Student supervised by A/Prof Dipti Srinivasan)- 1^st Prize, Siemens Smart Grid Innovation Contest 2011, Germany, 15 Sep 2011.

The winning entry is the student’s PhD research project on "Multi-Agent System for Operation of a Smart Grid".

The prize comprises a plaque, a certificate, 5000 Euro cash and a paid trip to Berlin, Germany to receive the prize.

Koh Shao Ming (PhD Student) – Best Student Paper Award, 2011 VLSI (Very-large-scale integration) Technology, Systems & Applications (VLSI-TSA) Conference, 25 – 27 April 2011, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The winning entry is entitled “New Tellurium Implant and Segregation for Contact Resistance Reduction and Single Metallic Silicide Technology for Independent Contact Resistance Optimization in n- and p-FinFETs”.

The prize comprises a plaque and US$1000. The award will be given at the 2012 VLSI-TSA, scheduled on 23 – 25 April 2012, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Student is supervised by Dr Yeo Yee Chia and A/Prof Ganesh Samudra.

Mojtaba Ranjbar (PhD Student) - Best Poster, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Materials Research Society Singapore, 26 June – 1 July 2011, Singapore.

The winning entry is entitled “Advanced Magnetic Force Microscopy Tips for High Resolution Magnetic Imaging”. The prize comprises a certificate and $300 cash.

Khoo Eng Tat (PhD Student supervised by A/Prof Adrian Cheok) has been featured in Faculty of Engineering webpage on 28 Feb 2011. Eng Tat has many achievements in his graduate studies in the department, and his work on interactive media has garnered much achievement and recognition both locally and internationally.

Team comprising Kasun Karunanayaka , (MEng Student), Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh (PhD Student, NGS), Dr Jose Sepulveda (Senior Research Fellow, IDMI), Dr Mili John Tharakan (Research Fellow, IDMI), Manoj Krishnen (Research Intern, IDMI), Assoc Prof Adrian David Cheok, Jeremy Heng (FYP Student), Li Yi Jiang (FYP Student) and Eishem Bilal Naik (EE2 Student) - Creative Showcase Golden Award, 7^th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 19 Nov 2010.

The winning entry is entitled "Liquid Interfaces – A New Creative Entertainment Technology". The prize comprises a certificate.

Chen Ying (PhD Student) - Gallium Arsenide Application Symposium (GAAS) Association Student Fellowship 2010, Paris, France, 28 Sep 2010. The winning entry is entitled “A Varactorless VCO with 15% Continuous Frequency Tuning Range and 0.2 dB Output Power Variation”. The prize is 2000 euros and a certificate. Student is supervised by Dr Koen Mouthaan.

Xin Maoqing (PhD Student) - 1st Prize, IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest, 20 Sep 2010, USA. The award winning paper is entitled “High speed electro-optic phase shifter based on a lateral P-G-N diode capacitor". The prize comprises USD 350 and a certificate.

Hitesh Dhiman (EE), Ankit Sachdev (EE) & team member – 8th overall position out of 48 international teams, 2010 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) held in Michigan, USA in July 2010.

Liew Wen Sin (PhD Student), together with Dr Yao Libin and Assoc Prof Lian Yong - Winner, 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC) / International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) Student Design Contest. The winning entry is entitled "A 0.8-V 32-fJ/Conversion-Step Dual-Capacitive-Array Successive Approximation Analog-to-Digital Converter". The prize is a certificate and USD2000. The award ceremony will be held on 17 June, 2010, Anaheim, USA.

Ong Wee Ling - won the 2010 MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship of USD1,500 from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, USA. 29 March 2010.

Jun Tan (PhD Student) together with Assoc Prof Lian Yong - Gold Leaf Award, 2009 Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (Shanghai, China, 19-21 November 2009) for the paper “A 1-Volt, 2.5-mW, 2.4-GHz Frequency Synthesizer in 0.35µm CMOS Technology”. The Gold Leaf Award recognizes the top 10% papers presented in the conference.

Ho Bing Kun - 1st Prize, IEEE Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest (2009) for paper entitled " Low power design of a 16-band non uniform filter bank for hearing aid application ".

Wu Yuming (PhD Student) - 2nd Prize, IEEE Region 10 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest, 16 Sep 2009, USA. The award winning paper is entitled "Resonance of coupled gold nanoparticles as effective optical antenna". The prize comprises USD 300 and a certificate.

Yang Jing (PhD Student) together with Hu Junhao (PhD Student), Dr Yu Changyuan, Yeo Yong Kee and Wang Yixin - Certificate of Merits, 14th Opto Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) 09, 13 – 17 July 2009, Hongkong. The winning paper is titled "Multi-Channel 80-GHz Pulse Train Generation Based on Four-Wave Mixing in Highly Nonlinear Fiber". The prize is a certificate.

Rinus Lee Tek Po (Ph.D Student) - Young Scientist Award, European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2009 Spring Meeting, 12 June 2009, Strasbourg, France. The winning paper is titled "Sulfur Segregation at the Platinum Silicide/Silicon:Carbon Interface for Electron Barrier Height Reduction: An Approach to Enable Independent Control of Contact Resistances for N- and P-channel FinFETs with a Single Metal Silicide", and is co-authored with his supervisor, Dr Yeo Yee Chia.

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.

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”.

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".

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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".

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).

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

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

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".

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".

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 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.

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”.

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”.

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.

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.

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

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

Carol Cheng Hoi Yee (EEE3) (supervised by A/Prof HK Garg)

won the silver award (Prestige level – local category ) in the new University Students Mobile Application Category for the annual Singapore Security Awareness For Everyone (SAFE) Competition 2014 on 8 Jan 2015 organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Her winning entry is entitled "Speed Photofit". The prize comprises of a trophy and S$2000 cash.

Team AP-Lion comprising Lan Menglu, Lin Jiaxin, Liu Kaijun, Wang Shuai, Zhang Mengmi (all ECE FYP Students)
under team advisor Dr Phang Swee King (Research Scientist)

The following awards are won under Category D2 Fully Autonomous, Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition 2015, 20 March 2015.

- Overall Championship Award (Gold). Prize comprises SGD 7000 cash and 5 Samsung Tablets
- Best Performance Award (Gold). Prize comprises SGD 1000 cash
- Best Theory of Flight Award (Gold)
- Best Video Award (Silver)

Wang Xingjue (M.Eng Student Supervised by Dr Justin Pang & Dr Zhou Junhong)

SIMTech-NTU Complex Systems Joint Lab Outstanding Student Paper Award, 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, 10-12 Nov 2014, Singapore.
The winning entry is entitled “Feature extraction for classification of welding quality in RSW systems."
The prize comprises a certificate and $350 cash.

Novelsys, a start-up company founded by Mark Keong En Ming (EE4), Kenneth Lou (BBA2) and Delane Foo (Industrial Design DID 3), won the inaugural Tech Plan Grand Prix@SG on 19th June 2014 at The Vault, Singapore. The prize is an opportunity to represent Singapore in the grand finals to be held in Tokyo, Japan with sponsored air-tickets.

Team consisting of Mark Keong En Ming (EE4), Kenneth Lou (BBA2) and Delane Foo (Industrial Design DID 3), with their start-up company, Novelsys, won the 1st Prize in the Biz Venture Challenge at the 15th Start-up@Singapore Finals, held on 31st May 2014 at University Town, NUS. The team impressed the judges with their ambitious but well-planned business strategy to provide mobile charging solutions to Singapore, Asia, and eventually, the world. The team planned to invest the $15,000 prize money in prototyping in preparation for their Kickstarter campaign launching in early 2015 (http://kickstarter.novelsys.co).

Jin Shajiang and Xu Jinzhou (EE4 students supervised by A/P Aaron Danner)

won the Best Innovation Award, in the ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) Tech-Factor Challenge 2013/2014 on 12 May 2014, Singapore. The winning entry is entitled “Solar Powered Quadcopter”. The prize is S$2,000.

Wong Wei Long Andy and Lim Minghui (EE4 students supervised by A/P Aaron Danner and Dr Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker)

won the Best Systems Engineering Award, in the ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) Tech-Factor Challenge 2013/2014 on 12 May 2014, Singapore. The winning entry is entitled “Relay Communication Aerial Vehicles”. The prize is S$2,000.

Shashank Gupta and Nicholas Wong Siew Ming (EE4 students supervised by A/P Aaron Danner)

won the Best Presenting Team Award, in the ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) Tech-Factor Challenge 2013/2014 on 12 May 2014, Singapore. The winning entry is entitled “AutoBot – Indoor Solar-Powered Surveillance Robot”. The prize is S$2,000.

Tan Sze Wei and Low Kang Jiang (EE4 students supervised by A/P Xu Yong Ping and A/P Guo Yongxin)

1st Prize, in iNEMO Design Competition, 21st May 2014. Their winning entry is a smart vest with LED signaling, entitled ‘Integrated Smart Sensor Based Application For Lifestyle Enhancement’. The prize is S$10,000 cash.

Samdish Suri and Bai Xiao (EE4 students supervised by A/P Hari Garg and A/P Prahlad Vadakkepat)

2nd Prize, in iNEMO Design Competition, 21st May 2014. Their winning entry is a gesture recognition system, entitled ‘Integrated smart sensor based application for Lifestyle Enhancement’. The prize is S$5,000 cash.

Vivek Kamatchi Sundaram and Adeel Safdar (EE4 students supervised by A/P Arthur Tay and Dr Yen Shih-Cheng)

2nd Runner Up, in iNEMO Design Competition, 21st May 2014. Their winning entry is a tool for home physiotherapy sessions, entitled “Integrated Smart Sensor based Application for Health and Wellness’”. The prize is S$3,000 cash.

Team comprising Wang Kangli, Ke Yijie & Li Kun (PhD Students Supervised by Prof Ben Chen) and Dr Pang Tao (Associate Scientist, Temasek Lab)

Overall Championship (Gold), Best Performance Award (Gold) & Most Creative Award (Bronze) for Category E (Unconventional), 2014 Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC), 22 Mar 2014, Singapore.
The winning entry is entitled “U-Lion”.
The award for “Overall Championship (Gold)” comprises S$3,000 and 5 iPad Mini, while that for “Best Performance Award (Gold)” is S$1,000.
In addition, the team is awarded medals for winning the “Most Creative (Bronze) Award”.

Team comprising Kevin Ang Zong Yao, Liu Peidong (PhD Students), Cui Jingqiang, Lai Shupeng (NGS PhD Students) & Wang Dong (EE4 Student) Supervised by Prof Ben Chen

Best Theory of Flight Award (Silver) for Category D2 (Fully Autonomous), 2014 Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC), 22 Mar 2014, Singapore.
The winning entry is entitled “Q2-Lion”.
The team is awarded medals for winning the “Best Theory of Flight (Silver) Award”.

Shreya Kundu (PhD Student Supervised by Prof Bhatia Charanjit Singh & Dr Yang Hyunsoo)

Winner, Postgraduate Oral Presentation Competition 2013, Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE), 3-4 Oct 2013, Singapore.
The winning entry is entitled “Spacer-less, decoupled granular L1₀ FePt magnetic media using Ar–He sputtering gas”.
The award is a certificate and $200 book voucher.

Team Aion consisting of Raymond Kwek Kok Xuan (leader), Goh Yong Liang, Lim Dao En Isaiah, Mok Siu Pan and Ng Wenbin Reico Maynard (EE3 students supervised by Dr Justin Pang CK) – won the 1st Prize in the Singapore Space Challenge 2013 under Category 4: Autonomous Systems, 15 August 2013. Their winning entry is entitled “Autonomous Space Miner”. The prize comprises of a plaque and S$2500 cash.

The event is organized by the Singapore Space and Technology Association, with the objective to promote technical and industrial research in Space and Technology and at the same time, challenge the thinking processes and creativity of students.

Pong Xiang Ming Benjamin and Ye Zhu’En Joel (EE4 students supervised by A/P Vivian Ng and Dr K Mouthaan) – 1st Prize, in in iNEMO Design Challenge, 16th August 2012 to 17th May 2013. Their winning entry is entitled “Integrated smart sensor based application for lifestyle enhancement”. The prize comprises of S$10,000 cash.

Pushpaleela Prabakar and Nallasamy Suriya (EE4 students supervised by Dr Akash Kumar and A/Prof Tham CK) – 3rd Prize, in iNEMO Design Challenge, 16th August 2012 to 17th May 2013. Their winning entry is entitled “Cyclometer”. The prize comprises of S$3000 cash.

The event is organized by ST Microelectronics, with the objective to encourage students to use the iNEMO solution to develop new application ideas in the areas of health, entertainment, or lifestyle enhancement.

Pramod Kumar Pisharady (PhD Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Prahlad Vadakkepat & Assoc Prof Loh Ai Poh) – PREMIA (Pattern Recognition & Machine Intelligence Association) Singapore Best Student Paper, 21 Feb 2013, Singapore.

The winning award is entitled “Attention Based Detection and Recognition of Hand Postures Against Complex Backgrounds”, in International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 101, Issue 3 (2013), Pages 403-419.

The prize comprises a certificate and $500 cash.

Taiebeh Tahmasebi (PhD Student) – Best Poster (2^nd Prize), IEEE Magnetics Society Singapore Chapter Poster Competition, 4 Oct 2011, Singapore.

The winning entry is entitled “L1₀FePt Growth for Spintronics Applications”. The prize comprises a certificate and $200 cash.

Ivana (NGS PhD Student Supervised by Dr Yeo Yee Chia) – First Prize (Category B – Year 3 & 4 Students), Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) Postgraduate Students Poster Competition, 22 July 2011.

The winning entry is entitled “Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Band Alignment at Interface between Ni-InGaAs and In0.53Ga0.47As”. The prize comprises a $300 Borders bookstore voucher and a certificate.

Vincent Wiguna – 2nd Prize, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB ) Prize (2011) for project entitled "Commercialization of the series connected Inverter for micro-grid application".

Gu Chaojun – 4th Prize, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB ) Prize (2011) for project entitled "Towards Smart Grid - Power Delivery for the 21st Century".

Rong Zehua, Lin Haining – 1st Prize, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2011) for project entitled "Stroke & PD Rehabilitation Activity Tracking System".

Soh Yiyong, Koh Kai Hung – 3rd Prize, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2011) for project entitled "A Patient Tracking System for Hospitals".

Wang Yuxiang – 1st Prize, 2011 IEEE Control Chapter (Singapore) for project entitled "Vision-based Feature Extraction for the Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)".

Kee Hong Tat – 3rd Prize, 2011 IEEE Control Chapter (Singapore) for project entitled "Prosthetic/Robotic Hand with Humanlike Softness and Warmth ".

Desmond Loke Kok Leong (NGS PhD Student Supervised by Dr Yeo Yee Chia, Prof Chong Tow Chong and Dr Shi Luping of DSI) – Silver Award in the Open Section of Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award 2011, 20 Apr 2011.
The winning project is entitled “Enabling Universal Memory through Nanostructure Engineering".

The award presentation ceremony is scheduled on 28 May 2011. The invention will be exhibited at the Singapore Science Centre from 29 May to 4 June. Exhibition posters will be on displayed for all winning inventions. The prize comprises $5000 cash, a silver medal and a certificate.

Taiebeh Tahmasebi (PhD Student) , together with Dr Seidikkurippu Nellainayagam Piramanayagam (Adjunct Assoc Prof, DSI Senior Scientist), Dr Rachid Sbiaa (DSI Research Scientist), Dr Law Yaozhang Dean Randall (DSI Assistant Manager) and Prof Chong Tow Chong (Adjunct Prof)
a) Best Poster Award, Material Research Society Singapore (MRS-S) Conference on Advanced Materials, Singapore, 17 – 19 Mar 2010. The winning is entitled “Effect of different seed layers on magnetic and transport properties of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy spin valves”. The prize comprises SGD 350 and a certificate. The team clinched the top prize among 195 entries.

b) Best Poster Award, IEEE Magnetics Society (Singapore Chapter) Student Poster Competition, Singapore, 18 Oct 2010. The winning entry is entitled “Texture effects on magnetic and transport properties of Co/Pd multilayers-based Pseudo-Spin-Valves with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy”. The prize comprises SGD 300 and a certificate.

Er Poi Voon – 1st Prize, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2010) for project entitled "Accelerometer-based Fall and Inactivity Detection System".

Freddy Wilyanto Suwandi – 3rd Prize, Agilent Engineering Excellence Competition (2010) for project entitled "Dual Axis Sun Tracking System with PV Cell as the Sensor, Utilizing Hybrid Electrical Characteristics of the Cell to Determine Insolation ".

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

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

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".

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

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)".

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.

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

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)

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

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

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).

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

Team Westeros, consisting of CEG students Du Lingyi, Huang Geng, Meng Kaizhi and Zheng Naijia, claimed first place in iCreate Mobility Challenge 2013, for their App: IVLE Metro. They won a Microsoft Surface Pro and trophy (each), and S$2,000 (team). The second place went to another CEG team Chatty (with their App by the same name), consisting of Hu Shuchen, Wang Zhuochun, Wang Zihao and Xiao Yawen. They won a iPad Mini 16GB Wifi + 4G and trophy (each) and S$1,000 for the team.

Chua Geng Li (EE4 Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Adekunle Adeyeye) - High Achievement Award, 26th Faculty Innovation & Research Awards 2012, 9 May 2012.

The project is entitled “Free Standing Metal Electrode for Electro-Mechanical Non-Volatile Memory”.

The prize comprises $400 cash and a certificate.

Chan Kah Fai Darrick (EE4 Student Supervised Assoc Prof Vivian Ng) - Merit Achievement Award, 26th Faculty Innovation & Research Awards, 2012, 9 May 2012.

The project is entitled “Nanosphere Lithography”.

The prize comprises $200 cash and a certificate.

Tam Weng Yi (EE4 Student Supervised by Assoc Prof Tan Kay Chen) - Merit Achievement Award, 26th Faculty Innovation & Research Awards 2012, 9 May 2012.

The project is entitled “Grid Cells: An Inspiration to A Biologically-Inspired Robotic Navigation System”.

The prize comprises $200 cash and a certificate.

Muhammad Ahad - NUS Student Achievement Award (Competitions) 2012.

Zaineb A. Taqi Al-Qazwini (PhD Student Supervised By Dr Kim Hoon)  - 1st Prize (Best Paper Award in Communications & Networks), ECE GSS, 16 Sep 2011, NUS.

The winning entry is entitled “10-Gb/s Directly-Modulated Lasers Driven By 3.5-GHz-Bandwidth Duobinary Signals”. The prize comprises $250 NTUC vouchers and a certificate, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Singapore.

Wang Huanhuan (PhD Student Supervised By A/Prof Ashwin Khambadkone)  - 1st Prize (Best Paper Award in Power & Energy Systems), ECE GSS, 16 Sep 2011, NUS.

The winning entry is entitled “Improved Comprehensive Thermal Model For Power Electronics Building Block Applications”. The prize comprises $250 Popular vouchers and a certificate, sponsored by IEEE Power & Energy Society Singapore.

Li Yanlin (PhD Student Supervised By A/Prof Oruganti Ramesh)  - 3rd Prize (Best Paper Award in Power & Energy Systems), ECE GSS, 16 Sep 2011, NUS.

The winning entry is entitled “A Parallel Power Processing Scheme With Active Power Decoupling For Solar Powered AC Module Inverter”. The prize comprises $50 Popular vouchers and a certificate, sponsored by IEEE Power & Energy Society Singapore.

Yang Hongxin (PhD Student Supervised By Prof Chong Tow Chong)  - 1st Prize (Best Paper Award in Microelectronic Technologies & Devices), ECE GSS, 16 Sep 2011, NUS.

The winning entry is entitled “Growth-Dominant SuperLattice-Like Phase Change Medium And Its Application In Lateral PCRAM”. The prize comprises $250 Capital Mall vouchers and a certificate, sponsored by IEEE Reliability / Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) / Electron Devices (ED) Singapore.

Lam Kai Tak (PhD Student Supervised By Dr Liang Gengchiau)  - 3rd Prize (Best Paper Award in Microelectronic Technologies & Devices), ECE GSS, 16 Sep 2011, NUS.

The winning entry is entitled “Computational Study of Bilayer Graphene Nanoribbon Nanoelectromechanical Devices”. The prize comprises $100 Capital Mall vouchers and a certificate, sponsored by IEEE Reliability / CPMT / ED Singapore.

Syed Rizwan (PhD Student Supervised By A/Prof Bharawadj Veeravalli & Dr Ha Yajun)  - 1st Prize (Best Paper in Integrated Circuits & Embedded Systems), ECE GSS, 16 Sep 2011, NUS.

The winning entry is entitled “SVARC - A Scalable And Flexible Architecture For Reconfigurable Computing”. The prize comprises $200 NTUC vouchers and a certificate, sponsored by Department.

Han Ningren  - FoE Innovation Award (High Achievement Award), on the project titled "Large-area broadband multi-layer terahertz metamaterials design and fabrication on flexible substrates" (2010/2011).

Sivasubramaniam Shanthini Devi  - FoE Innovation Award (High Achievement Award), on the project titled "Intelligent Home for Personalised Health and Well-being Management" (2010/2011).

Qian Yudi  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Classifier Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm On Design Problems " (2010/2011).

Shankar Narayan Mohan  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Classifier Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm On Design Problems" (2010/2011).

Yeap Chun Chee  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Investigation of high density PCRAM" (2010/2011).

Janaka Gamini Jayasuriya  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Identity tracking on multi-touch tables" (2010/2011).

Zhao Zhi  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "B-score, on screen text and business card recognizer" (2010/2011).

Lin Haining(CPE), Rong Zehua(CPE), Xu Yang(EE), Yao Chengzhi(EE)  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Stroke Patients Rehabilitation Monitoring And Aiding" (2010/2011).

Freddy Wilyanto  - FoE Innovation Award (High Achievement Award), on the project titled "A novel control method for pv-panel tilt angles with auto adjustment facilty" (2009/2010).

Chuan Guangxu  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Self correcting behaviour in car racing simulation" (2009/2010).

Teo Xue Ling  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Social networking - rice printing system" (2009/2010).

Adaickalavan Meiyappan  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Diode switched crossbar architecture (1d1r) for ultra high density pcram" (2009/2010).

Tan Hui Huang  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Synthesis of sub-100 nm diameter silicon nanowire array using a porous alumina template and cataltic chemical etching" (2009/2010).

Yang Sishuo  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "Wearable micro-sensor platform and processing system" (2009/2010).

Chen Jia & Lim Chang Yung  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled "A light diffuser for a head-mounted medical device to be used in a clinical study" (2009/2010).

Le Nguyen Phuong Thi  - FoE Innovation Award (Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize and High Achievement Award), on the project titled High Linearity Voltage-controlled Oscillator (2008/2009).

Yuan Weiming Allan  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled Efficient Phase Change Random Access Memory Cells using Enhanced Thermal Confinement Structure (2008/2009).

Liew Chin Cheak  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled Study of Efficiency of Financial Markets (2008/2009).

Prashant Kumar  - FoE Innovation Award (Merit Award), on the project titled Real Time Traffic Counting for Video Surveillance (2008/2009).

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

Extra-Curricular Activities

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

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

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

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