Group Leader

A/Prof. TAN Swee Ching
Dr Tan Swee Ching received his Bachelor in Physics from the National University of Singapore. He then worked in Hewlett Packard Singapore and Ireland as a Laser Process and Equipment engineer to develop new technology for silicon micromachining. During his work in Hewlett Packard, he had made two major contributions which helped the company to reduce operation cost by at least US$400,000 per annum and to increase the throughput by 35% within his department. He was honoured the Award for Outstanding Achievement for these contributions to the company. He gained PhD admission to University of Cambridge Electrical Engineering Department with Scholarships from Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Wingate Foundations. His PhD work was to use photosynthetic proteins as light absorbing materials for solar cells under the supervision of Professor Sir Mark Welland. After his PhD, Dr Tan then moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT to become a postdoctoral associate working on high electron mobility devices under Prof Carl V. Thompson and Professor Tomas Palacios. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore. He is also the founder of Ultra Dry Pte. Ltd. a spin-off company from NUS based on the invention of a super-hygroscopic material. Dr Tan also sits in the editorial board of Scientific Reports (a journal of Nature Portfolio), advisory board of Device (Cell Press) and international advisory board of Energy Technology (Wiley). Last but not least, Dr Tan’s works are published in many top tier journals like Nature Electronics, Nature Sustainability, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Advanced Materials, etc.(Check here)
Our Team

Prof. Li Hongbin
Visiting Professor

Prof. Shao Beibei
Visiting Professor

Prof. Wang Xu
Visiting Professor

Liang Zhijie
Visiting Professor

Dr. Le Qiujian
Research Fellow

Dr. Lu Haojie
Research Fellow

Guo Shuai
PhD Student

Wang Fei
PhD Student

Luo Wenxing
PhD Student

Jiang Zhuosheng
PhD Student

Guo Xingkui
PhD Student

Li Wulong
PhD Student

Zhou Linran
Master Student

Xu Lingtian
Master Student

Dong Yu
Master Student

Liang Kaiqi
Master Student
Our Alumni

Hu Fanrui
UROP Student

Piper Anne Rawding
Exchange Student (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Currently: Improvement Engineer at Trinseo

Kevin Huang
Exchange Student (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Currently: Engineering Intern at U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Laurie McKenna
Exchange Student (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Shannon Ting
Exchange Student (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Currently: Process Support Engineer at Applied Materials

Tan Yun Shi
Research Student

Lakshmi Shenoy
Research Intern (Special Program in Science, NUS)
Currently: Research Assistant at Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS

Quek Xiu Quan
Research Intern (Special Program in Science, NUS)
Currently: Graduate Student at Centre for Quantum Technologies

Shawn Voon Hwee Ng
Research Intern (Special Program in Science, NUS)

Barbara Ang
Research Intern
Currently: Research Engineer, MSE, NUS

Ngeow Yoke Keng
Research Intern

Luo Zheyu
Exchange student (Arizona State University)
Currently: Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology

Zixuan Wu
Exchange student (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)

Kevin Chun Ting Li
Exchange student (Johns Hopkins University)

Wong Shu Jun
Research Student
Currently: Cost and Schedule Engineer at ExxonMobil

Lee Di Sheng
FYP Student
Currently: PhD Student, MIT

Varun Singh
Research Fellow
Currently: Senior Research Scientist, UNIST, Republic of Korea

Udayagiri Vishnu Saran
UROP Student

Wang Yanan
UROP Student

Annie Liu
Exchange Student (University of Pennsylvania)

Aditya Tjitra Salim
UROP Student

Anuraj Singh Rawat
UROP Student

Gao Weixi
UROP Student

Dr. Jonnadula Krishna
Research Fellow

Dr. Sai Kishore Ravi
Research Fellow
Current Position: Asst. Prof. (City University of Hong Kong)

Dr. Jayraj Vaghasiya
Research Fellow
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist (Central European Institute of Technology)

Dr. Yang Lin
Research Fellow
Current Position: Assoc. Prof. (Chongqing University)

Dr. Zhang Qian
Research Fellow
Current Position: Assoc. Prof. (Sun Yat-sen University)

Zhang Yaoxin
Research Fellow
Current Position: Assoc. Prof. (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Dr. Zhang Songlin
Research Fellow
Current Position: Assoc. Prof. (Fudan University)

Qu Hao
Lab Technologist

Zhang Xueping
Research Fellow
Current Position: Assoc. Prof. (Donghua University)

Wei Zechang
Research Fellow
Current Position: Assoc. Prof. (Zhejiang A&F University)

Dilip Krishna Nandakumar
Research Fellow

Anran Hou
UROP Student

Liu Mingyang
Master Student

Zhang Ziquan
Research Intern

Bai Lulu
PhD Student

Shi Yu
PhD Student

Wang Jiang
PhD Student

Sun Zhaoyang
PhD Student

Fuad Indra Alzakia
PhD Student

Zhou Mengjuan
PhD Student

Shan He
PhD Student

Yang Jiachen
PhD Student

Yu Zhen
PhD Student

Lakshmi Suresh
Research Fellow

Nikita Paul
PhD Student

Cui Yi
PhD Student