Full list of supervisors IHPC – Institute of High Performance Computing Surname Given Names Department Research Interests Email Contact Ahluwalia Rajeev Materials Science & Engineering rajeev@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Akimov Yuriy Electronics & Photonics Bai Kewu Materials Science & Engineering Phase Transformations, Ferroelectrics, shape memory alloys. Crack Propagation and Dislocation dynamics, Microstructural Evolution using Phase Field Modeling 1. Hydrodynamics 2. Nonlinear wave optics 3. Plasma physics 4. Nano-Photonics and Plasmonics Computational Material Science Bai Ping Electronics & Photonics baiping@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Branico Paulo Independent Investigatorship BUI Viet Phuong Emerging Algos and Models Cheng Yuan IHPC Chu Hong-son Electronics & Photonics Chwee Tsz Sian Jeremy Materials Science & Engineering DAI Ling IHPC Computational nanoelectronics, Nanoelectronic device modeling, Nanophotonic device modeling 1. Large scale molecular dynamics simulations 2. High strength ceramics at extreme conditions 3. Dynamics of fast dislocations 4. Mechanical properties of nanophase ceramics 5. Scalable parallel algorithms for data mining and structure analysis - Computational Electromagnetics - EMC Analysis and Prediction System - Electromagnetic Modeling and Optimization of Antennas - Applied Electromagnetics in Communications and Aerospace Molecular dynamics simulations, Mechanical properties and the assembly of nanomaterials and biomaterials Plasmonics/nanophotonics and optics components and devices for data communication, sensing and biological application. Computational electromagnetics for microwave and photonics. Reduced scaling quantum chemical methods Intermolecular interactions Excited state quantum chemistry Molecular dynamics, mechanical akimov@ihpc.astar.edu.sg baikw@ihpc.astar.edu.sg branicio@ihpc.astar.edu.sg buivp@ihpc.astar.edu.sg chengy@ihpc.astar.edu.sg chuhs@ihpc.astar.edu.sg chweetsj@ihpc.astar.edu.sg dail@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Jan 2015 Full list of supervisors Farber Ilya Computational Social Cognition (Computing Science) Cross-disciplinary data-intensive analytics group (Computing Science) Materials Science & Engineering Cognitive neuroscience, neural basis of consciousness, decision-making, philosophy of mind Data mining/analytics, data stream mining, time-series data analysis, complex network/system modeling and simulation Tight-binding and DFT calculations of transport properties farberi@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Fu Xiuju Gan Chee Kwan Gandhi Alagappan Materials Science & Engineering Photonic Crystals and Quantum Optics gandhi@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Gao Xian-Ke, Richard Radio Frequency Engineering gaoxk@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Genest Alexander MSE Goh Siow Mong, Rick Computing Science Guo Junyan Engineering Mechanics Guo Tianfu Engineering Mechanics Hariharaputra n Ramananr ayan Materials Science & Engineering Hegde Ravi Electronics & Photonics Electromagnetic interference/electromagnetic compatibility, metamaterial/graphene antenna, RFID, wireless biosensor, inverse problems, robust design Computational catalysis, homogenous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis Parallel applications performance prediction, Adaptive parallelism and scheduling algorithms for multicore and clusters, Lock-free parallel algorithms, Large-scale discrete event simulation One of my current researches is focused on growth, formation and mechanics of nanostructures in semiconductor material systems. The influence of diffusion, growth, and stress on the morphological evolution of nanostructures in epitaxial thin films is being investigated. I am also interested in numerical modeling and simulations of mechanical response of various engineering structures. Constitutive modeling and numerical simulation of polymeric materials, soft matter and bulk metallic glasses 1. Mechanics of nanostructures 2. Physics of surfaces 3. Computational Phase transformation 1. Electromagnetic metamaterials 2. Nonlinear fiber optics Hung Gih Huang, Terence NA terence@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Huynh Phung Hyunh Computing Science Cloud computing, high performance computing, distributed computing, big data, cloud-based data analytics GPU mapping optimization, hardware/software partitioning, scheduling, large scale data analytics fuxj@ihpc.astar.edu.sg ganck@ihpc.astar.edu.sg genesta@ihpc.astar.edu.sg gohsm@ihpc.astar.edu.sg guojy@ihpc.astar.edu.sg guotf@ihpc.astar.edu.sg hariharaputran@ihpc. a-star.edu.sg hegder@ihpc.astar.edu.sg huynhph@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Jan 2015 Full list of supervisors Jhon Mark Hyunpong IHPC Independent Investigatorship Jin Hongmei Materials Science & Engineering Kang Chang Wei Fluid Dynamics Khoo Eng Huat Electronics & Photonics Klaseboer Evert Fluid Dynamics Koh Wee Shing Independent Investigatorship Kuo Shyh Hao Computing Science Le Duc Vinh Fluid Dynamics Lee Kee Khoon, Gary Computing Science LEGARA Erika Fille Computing Science Structure of flexible nanomaterials, Mechanical properties of nanostructured materials, in particular biological hard tissues such as bone and seashell, Magnetic properties of nanostructured materials for data storage Surface, interface chemistry jhonmh@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Hydrodynamic study of wastewater treatment process; multiphase flow modelling; thermal and fluid flow modeling for thermal spray process; industrial applications using CFD. Research interest includes nanophotonics, photonic crystals, plasmonics, passive and active semiconductor devices, quantum mechanics and solid state physics. Bubble and drop dynamics and how to simulate them using boundry elements methods Intense electron-beam nanostructure interactions, Charged particle beam transport theory and particle-in-cell simulations, Computational micro- and nanoelectronics, Photonic-electronic device integration 1. Time Series Analysis for Rare Event Detection 2. Emerging Parallel Programming Techniques for Heterogeneous Multicore 3. Computational Techniques for Numerical Optimisation 4. Computational Linear Algebra and Numerical Algorithms Computational Mechanics; Computational fluid dynamics; Fluidstructure interactions; High Performance Computing; Biophysics; Mechanics of cell membrane; Numerical methods Application of Artificial Intelligence in multi-disciplinary problems Machine Learning Data Mining Bioinformatics Complex Systems Modelling and Optimization, (Big) Data Science, Computational Social Science (understanding socio-technical systems), Urban Complexity kangcw@ihpc.astar.edu.sg jinhm@ihpc.astar.edu.sg khooeh@ihpc.astar.edu.sg evert@ihpc.astar.edu.sg kohws@ihpc.astar.edu.sg kuosh@ihpc.astar.edu.sg ledv@ihpc.astar.edu.sg leekk@ihpc.astar.edu.sg legaraeft@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Jan 2015 Full list of supervisors Research (transportation and landuse) Leong Fong Yew Fluid Dynamics 1. Bio-fluid mechanics 2. Heat and mass transfer 3. Aerosol science and technology Computational geometry; surface reconstruction leongfy@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Lim Chi Wan, Calvin Computing Science Lim Soon Thor Electronics & Photonics Silicon nano-photonics, Nanophotonic biosensors limst@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Lim Materials Science & Engineering Surface reactions, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Consumer Care limch@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Liu Chiang Huay Freda Enxiao Electronics & Photonics liuex@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Liu Ping Engineering Mechanics Liu Zhengtong Electronics & Photonics Lou Jing Fluid Dynamics Lu Mian Computing Science Computational Electromagnetics, High-Speed Interconnect Modeling, Electrical Modeling of Electronic Packaging • Low-dimension quantum structures • Carbon nanotube-based nanodevices • Cell dynamics Photonic and plasmonic nanostructures, metamaterials, computational electromagnetics, multiphysics modeling, parallel computing, ellipsometry, graphene Multiphase flow and mass/heat transfer modeling; Fluid-structure interaction; Coastal pollution and ecosystem modeling; Nonlinear wave-current dynamics; Bio fuid mechanics; CFD applications High performance computing, BigData applications Mak Weng Kin Adrian Matthew Rogerio Materials Science & Engineering makwk@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Ng Kuang Chern Nathaniel Materials Science & Engineering Ng Man Fai, Andy Materials Science & Engineering Ong Phuong Khuong Materials Science & Engineering Electronic structure theory, Clean energy applications, Free radical chemistry 1. Colloid and interfacial science 2. Bubbles and drops interactions 3. Numerical simulations 1. Phase Field Models for Microstructural Evolution 2. Experimental Studies in Ferroelectric Perovskites & Polymers Optical/Electronic/Electrical properties of nano-scaled materials and large organic molecules Ab initio studying of electronic and physical properties of materials; Computational design new materials; Metal-insulator phase transitions / Solid state Physics: Manica Independent Investigatorship limcw@ihpc.astar.edu.sg liuping@ihpc.astar.edu.sg liuz@ihpc.astar.edu.sg loujing@ihpc.astar.edu.sg lum@ihpc.astar.edu.sg manicar@ihpc.astar.edu.sg ngkc@ihpc.astar.edu.sg ngmf@ihpc.astar.edu.sg ongpk@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Jan 2015 Full list of supervisors Pei Qing Xiang Engineering Mechanics Png Ching Eng, Jason Electronics & Photonics Poh Hee Joo Fluid Dynamics PONNAMBALA M Loganatha n Computing Science Qin Zheng Quek Boon Kiat Quek Quek electronic, magnetic, optic properties of inorganic materials; Materials science; DFT Modeling and simulation of nanostructures and nanomaterials, Modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes, Finite element and molecular dynamics simulations, Coupled structural, thermal, and fluid flow analysis, Modeling of biomolecular system Silicon Photonics, Integrated optics, Biophotonics peiqx@ihpc.astar.edu.sg pngce@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Computational Fluid Dynamics, Green Buildings, Fuel Cell Renewable Energy, Basic and Application Study in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer Supply chain disruption modeling, Agent-based modeling , Infectious disease modeling, Spatio-temporal data mining and Network-based modeling pohhj@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Distributed Computing (Computing Science) Social & Cognitive Computing Department Cloud computing, data analytics, MapReduce/Hadoop, parallel and distributed systems Computational Social Cognition: computational models of social information processing of affective and cognitive states and other sociocognitive constructs (e.g., motivations, emotions, action tendencies, personality, attitudes, behaviour); connectionist and localist-connectionist networks; cognitive modelling and simulation Robotics: autonomous unmanned vehicles; autonomous system survivability; multi-agent systems; control architecture design for autonomy; fuzzy logic control and inference; system engineering and integration; computer vision; machine perception; wireless networking; artificial cognitive systems qinz@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Siu Sin, Jerry Materials Science & Engineering quekss@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Su Ying IHPC Independent Investigatorship Dislocation dynamics, Interfacial dynamics, Computational mechanics, Thin film mechanics Electronic Structure and Transport from First Principles; Nanoscale spintronics, thermoelectrics, ponnaml@ihpc.astar.edu.sg quekbk@ihpc.astar.edu.sg queksy@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Jan 2015 Full list of supervisors photovoltaics and catalysis Ramli Muhamad Azfar Computing Science Complex Networks, Random Processes, Multi-Agent Systems, ramlimab@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Reddy Chilla Damodara Engineering Mechanics reddy@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Rutkevych Pavlo Materials Science & Engineering Saerbeck Martin Computing Science Mechanical properties of graphene and carbon nanotubes Mechanical and thermal properties of two-dimensional nanomaterials 1. Plasma physics 2. MD simulation 3. Hydrodynamics Human-machine interaction; robotics; artifical intelligence Sorkin Viacheslav Engineering Mechanics sorkinv@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Srinivasan Bharathi Madurai Engineering Mechanics Su Yi Computing Science Sullivan Michael Brian Materials Science & Engineering 1. Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes on quartz substrate surfaces 2. Multi-scale Modeling of Materials 3. Quantum Monte Carlo 4. Phase Transitions 5. Scientific Visualization 1. Plastic deformation 2. Dynamic Fracture 3. Pattern formation on surfaces Automatic quardrilateral and hexahedral mesh generation; Nonmanifold and mixed-dimensional mesh generation; Mesh enrichment and adaptive mesh generation; Computational geometry; Scientific visualization Chemistry of Materials, Catalysis, Interfacial Chemistry Tang Wai Teng Computing Science High performance computing techniques, GPGPUs, performance modeling, big data analytics tangwt@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Teo Soo Kng Computing Science Biomedical engineering, Computational biomechanics using numerical techniques (finite element method) teosk@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Tong Joo Chuan Social & Cognitive Computing Department Social computing, sentiment analysis, social innovation, biomedical informatics tongjc@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Turangan Cary Kenny Fluid Dynamics cary@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Wang Yi Computing Science Detonation modelling (compressible flow), Cavitation Bubble Collapse, Computational Cancer Mechanics Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics Wang Zhaoxia Social & Cognitive Computing Department Social data analytics, intelligence systems, pattern recognition, risk/fault prediction and analysis, wangz@ihpc.astar.edu.sg rutkevychp@ihpc.astar.edu.sg srinivasan@ihpc.astar.edu.sg suyi@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Michael@ihpc.astar.edu.sg wangyi@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Jan 2015 Full list of supervisors data mining and applications, and urban mobility Wong Chiong Teck Materials Science & Engineering Elucidating reaction mechanisms of organocatalyst-catalyzed reactions wongct@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Wong Wei Hin IHPC Micromechanics-based fracture mechanics wongwhm@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Wu David Materials Science & Engineering Theory and modelling of nucleation, crystallization and grain growth vidwu@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Wu Gang Materials Science & Engineering wug@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Yang Shuowang Materials Science & Engineering Yang Yinping Independent Investigatorship Ye Jun IHPC Heat conduction and heat controlling in low dimensional systems; Molecular dynamics method and Non-equilibrium Green’s function method; Vibrational properties and Raman spectra of nano-materials; Theoretical investigation of thermoelectric materials; Predict the material properties using density functional theory; Gradientcorrected EAM potentials. First principle calculations on nanostructures such as nanotubes, nanowire and nanoclusters, Theoretical investigation molecular electrical conductivity and magnet, Surface adsorptions and reactions, Chemical thermodynamic and kinetics simulations. # E-Negotiation System Design, User Behavior, and Success # The Business Model of Cloud Computing # Strategies and Persuasion in Negotiation Electron/hole/exciton-phonon interaction and quasi-particle dynamics/transport in organic semiconductors. First-principle calculations and quantum chemistry in organic semiconductors. Theoretical and computational nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Excitonic energy transfer. Self-assembly supramolecular structures and physical chemistry at interfaces. Molecular dynamics simulations of polymeric materials. Force-field development for organic (small molecule/polymeric) materials. yangsw@ihpc.astar.edu.sg yangyp@ihpc.astar.edu.sg yej@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg Jan 2015 Full list of supervisors Yim Wai-Leung Independent Investigatorship Yu Zhigen Materials Science & Engineering Zaw Zaw Oo Electronics & Photonics Department / Radio Frequency Engineering Group Zhang Jia Materials Science & Engineering Zhang Yong-Wei Engineering Mechanics Zhang Zhiqian Engineering Mechanics Zhao Weijiang Electronics and Photonics Zheng Jianwei Materials Science & Engineering chemical reactions on surfaces, multiscale modeling, phonon properties in low dimensions Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and optoelectronic devices, Semiconductor thin film technology and process, p -type ZnO fabrication and applications, Molecular modeling for materials · Multi-physics modeling & analysis in electronic packages and systems · Complex modeling of electromagnetic scattering & radiation in large platform · New technology and prototype for LED lighting and display Computational modeling of electronic properties of nanomaterials; Computational modeling of surface and surface catalysis Modelling and simulation of mechanical properties and morphological evolution of nanomaterials, soft materials and biomaterials. Soft matter (e.g. dielectric elastomer); Advanced numerical methods (such as FEM, Meshfree Methods) for nonlinear solids and structures, Fluid-Structure Interactions; Shape/Topology Optimization Electromagnetic Compatibility; Antennas and Electromagnetic Scattering; Computational Electromagnetics Photocatalysts, Li-ion battery materials, functionalization of nanotube and graphene yimwl@ihpc.astar.edu.sg yuzg@ihpc.astar.edu.sg zawzo@ihpc.astar.edu.sg zhangj@ihpc.astar.edu.sg zhangyw@ihpc.astar.edu.sg zhangz@ihpc.astar.edu.sg zhaow@ihpc.astar.edu.sg zhengjw@ihpc.astar.edu.sg Jan 2015