Program schedule
08:30 - 09:00
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Registration
Audience to be seated at 9 am sharp |
09:00 - 09:15
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Welcome Speech
Opening of symposium |
09:15 - 10:00
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Keynote Speech
Prof. TOO Heng-Phon Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department, NUS Founder of local start-up MiRXES Awardee of Commercialization & Technology Grant and GAP funding by A*STAR. Keynote title: "A journey worth considering – a personal experience in forming a Singapore spin-off" |
10:00 - 10:30
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Tea Break and Poster session
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10:30 - 11:15
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Student Presentations
GUO Shanshan “Green and Non-toxic Antifouling Strategies” CHENG Xiaoqin “Modulation of Time Perception by Eye Movements” YAP Hong Kai “Soft Wearable Robotics – An Interdisciplinary Research Path” |
11:15 - 12:00
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Industrial speakers Dr. LIN Wei Liang Co-Founder, T.Ware "Tware: From research to autism to mass market" Professor David VIRSHUP Professor and Director, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS “Dare You Search for a Magic Bullet?” |
12:00 - 13:30
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Lunch and Poster Session
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13:30 - 14:45
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Panel Discussion
Dr. WANG Fei Chief Executive Officer, AeroLion Technologies Dr. LI Guangda Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, ViSenze Dr. Melissa FULLWOOD Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Technological University Principal Investigator at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, and a joint Principal Investigator at the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR Dr. Srinivasa RAO Investigator-III, Drug Discovery Unit, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases |
14:45 - 15:30
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Student Presentations
Indu Prasad BODALA “Merging Engineering with Cognitive Science – Research on Cognitive Enhancement” Soumya SARKAR “Tuning the Quasiparticles in MoS2 by Direct Growth on Transition Metal Oxides” NG Yan Cheng “Erythrocyte Aggregation May Promote Uneven Spatial Distribution of NO/O2 in the Downstream Vessel of Arteriolar Bifurcations” |
15:30 - 15:45
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Tea
Break
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15:45 - 16:30
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Student Presentations
Norrapat SHIH “Variegin: A Novel Anticoagulant Drug” FU Jie “DrMAD: Distilling Reverse-Mode Automatic Differentiation for Optimizing Hyperparameters of Deep Neural Networks” Derrick Johnston ALPERET “Influence of Temperate, Subtropical and Tropical Fruits Consumption on the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in an Asian Population” |
16:30 - 17:00
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Prize
Giving Ceremony
Closing Ceremony |