Singapore University of Technology and Design: SUTD-ZJU Research Collaboration

SUTD-ZJU Research Collaboration

SUTD-ZJU Research Collaboration Grant

In the first phase of collaboration, over 40 projects were awarded under the SUTD-ZJU Research Collaboration Grant.

SUTD-ZJU Research Collaboration Grant - Pilot Projects

Project Title	SUTD PI	ZJU PI
Graphene Nanoribbons-Based Transistors for Glucose Detection (concluded)	YANG Huiying Associate Professor, Engineering and Product Development	YAO Shaniing Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Intelligent Rehabilitation Wheelchair Design (concluded)	SOH Gim Song Associate Professor, Engineering and Product Development	YING Fangtian Associate Professor, International Design Institute of Zhejiang University
Cognitive effects control in monolingual and bilingual adults and the elderly (concluded)	YOW Wei Quin Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts and Social Science	XU Qinmei Professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
Living in an Aging World: In Search of New Elderly Housing and Neighbourhood Design Typology (concluded)	CHONG Keng Hua Associate Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design	WU Jing Associate Professor, Department of Architecture
Understanding fine particles adhesion to indoor surfaces under environmentally relevant conditions in Singapore and China (concluded)	Riginald THIO Assistant Professor, Engineering Product Development	YAN Keping Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Interactive Video for Education: The Next Generation Video Technologies and Interactivity (concluded)	CHEUNG Ngai-Man Associate Professor, Information Systems Technology and Design	YU Lu Professor, Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
Modelling Cities in China under Complexity and Uncertainty (concluded)	Andres SEVTSUK Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design	HAN Haoying Associate Professor, College of Public Administration
Coherent control of ultrafast electron pulse emitted from sharp tip for localized nanometer scale imaging and diffraction (concluded)	Ricky ANG Professor and Head, Science, Mathematics and Technology	ZHAO Daomu Professor, Department of Physics
Categorization of Spermatozoon (concluded)	TAN U- Xuan Assistant Professor, Engineering Product Development	Yang Wan-xi Professor, Institute of Cell & Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences
Explore Lanthanide-doped Perovskite Oxide Materials for Biomedical Applications (concluded)	YANG Shengyuan Associate Professor, Science, Mathematics and Technology	LU Yunhao Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Comparative Study of Medical Device, Electronics and Advance Manufacturing Innovation in Singapore and China (concluded)	LUO Jianxi Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	Can HUANG Professor, School of Management
Location Privacy in Smart Cities (concluded)	Martin OCHOA Assistant Professor, Information Systems Technology and Design	Shibo HE Professor, Colleage of Control Science and Engineering
Development of Test Platform and Evaluate PCM-based Neuromorphic Chip (concluded)	ZHAO Rong Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	HUANG Kejie Principal Investigator, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering

SUTD-ZJU Research Collaboration Grant - Research Projects

Project Title	SUTD PI	ZJU PI
Chemical and biological profiling of bio-fertilizers (concluded)	YONG Wan Hong, Jean Associate Professor, Education	Xin CHEN Professor, School of Medicine Associate Director, Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Green Communications with Cognitive Radio (GreenComms) (concluded)	YUEN Chau Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	ZHANG Zhaoyang Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Chair, Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Principles and Foundations of Wireless Energy Distribution Sensor Networks (concluded)	GU Yu Assistant Professor, Information Systems Technology and Design	CHEN Jiming Chanrjiang Scholars Professor, College of Control Science and Engineering Vice Dean, Faculty of Information Technology
Hierarchical Assembly of TiO2 Nanorods on Lithium Cryptomelane-type Manganese Oxide Nanowires: New Cathode Material for Lithium Ion Battery (concluded)	YANG Huiying Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	YANG Hui Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
A Formal Method for Quality Assessment of Large Scale Software Systems (concluded)	SUN Jun Associate Professor, Information System Technology and Design	YANG Xiaohu Professor, Colleage of Computer Science and Technology Director, Blockchain Research Centre
Design, modelling, and fabrication of nanostructured materials and sensing devices for healthcare monitoring-Sensors based on electrospun nanocomposites for diabetes (concluded)	WU Ping Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	XU Zhi-Kang Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
Development of an Automatic and Configurable Non-invasive System for Enhanced Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) (concluded)	FOONG Shaohui Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	FU Xin Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Accurate Hemodynamic Data Assimilation with MRA/CBV Imaging (concluded)	YEUNG Sai-Kit Assistant Professor, Information System Technology and Design	HU Zhenghui Assistant Professor, Department of Optical Engineering
Chip-scale frequency generation using inorganic-organic hybrid nonlinear optical materials (concluded)	Dawn TAN Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	QIAN Guodong Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Low Carbon Footprint Supply Chains: Leveraging Operational Flexibility to Optimize for Cost and Environmental Impact (concluded)	Karthik NATARAJAN Professor and Associate Head, Engineering Systems and Design	ZHOU Weihua Professor and Associate Dean, Research and International Affairs, School of Management Director, Institute of Supply Chain Finance Executive Director, International Institute of Operations Research and Management Science
Privacy-Assured Demand-Response towards Smart Consumption and Green Energy Integration in Smart Grids (concluded)	David YAU Professor, Information System Technology and Design	SUN Youxian Professor, Department of Control Science and Engineering
Designing Transgenic Fungi as Bio-pesticides to Combat Mosquito-Borne Human Infections (concluded)	Rajesh CHANDRAMOHANADAS Assistant Professor, Engineering Product Development	FANG Weiguo Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Colleague of Life Science
Self-Stabilizing Electric Personal Mobility Device for First and Last Mile Transportation (concluded)	SOH Gim Song Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development Director, Graduate Studies	YING Fangtian Professor, International Design Institute
Random oxide and metal nano-crystal based switching devices for low-power, high-performance applications (concluded)	PEY Kin Leong Professor, Engineering Product Development Associate Provost, Undergraduate Studies and SUTD Academy	WONG Hei Professor, Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Crossbar-Memristor-based Neuromorphic System for Learning in Spiking-Based Neural Network (SNN) (concluded)	ZHAO Rong Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	ZHAO Menglian Associate Professor, Institute of VLSI Design
Wireless Information and Energy Transfer for Self-Sustainable Networks (concluded)	Tony QUEK Professor and Head, Information System Technology and Design	HUANG Aiping Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Towards Universal Use of Advanced 3D Modeling Design Technology through Novel User Interaction (concluded)	Hyowon LEE Assistant Professor, Information System Technology and Design	ZHANG Dongliang Professor, International Design Institute
Green Wireless Networks with Energy and Communication Cooperation (concluded)	DUAN Lingjie Associate Professor, Engineering Systems and Design	WANG Wei Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
A Novel Radiofrequency (RF) System for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with Enhanced Safety and Improved Image Quality Using Advanced RF Technology (concluded)	HUANG Shaoying Assistant Professor, Engineering Product Development	CHEN Hongsheng Professor and Vice Dean, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Low-power high data rate millimetre-wave systems based on nano-scale CMOS technology (concluded)	YEO Kiat Seng Professor, Engineering Product Development Associate Provost, Research and International Relations	TAN Nianxiong, Nick Professor, College of Electrical Engineering
Engineered tools to control soil erosion in large watersheds (concluded)	Stefano GALELLI Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Design	RAN Qihua Professor and Head, Department of Hydraulic Engineering
Advanced LDPC Coding Techniques for Fast and Reliable Information Storage and Retrieval of Solid State Drives (concluded)	CAI Kui Associate Professor, Science, Mathematics and Technology	ZHENG Shi Associate Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Enhancing Quality Control for Scale-Up of Self-Assembled Nano-Manufacturing: Statistical-Physical Optimization Approach (concluded)	Nagarajan RAGHAVAN Assistant Professor, Engineering Product Development	YANG Qing Professor, College of Optical Science and Engineering
Rethinking connectivity for the next billion devices in IoT (ongoing)	Tony QUEK Professor and Head, Information System Technology and Design	ZHANG Zhaoyang Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Chair, Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Scalable distributed learning and semantics in IoD (ongoing)	LIN Shaowei Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Design	Zhongfei (Mark) ZHANG Qiushi Chaired Professor and Director, Data Science and Engineering Research Centre, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Power efficient oriented high data-rate VLC system (ongoing)	CHEN Jer Ming Assistant Professor, Science, Mathematics and Technology	ZHUO Cheng Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
High performance IC designs for VLC system (ongoing)	YEO Kiat Seng Professor, Engineering Product Development Associate Provost, Research and International Relations	SUI Wenquan Professor, Department of Information Science and Technology
Aggregation of distributed energy resources in power distribution systems (ongoing)	XU Yunjian Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Design	YANG Zaiyue Professor, College of Control Science and Engineering
Systainability-aware EV routing and sharing in a Transportation network (ongoing)	Costas Courcoubetis Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Design	Yibing WANG Professor, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture Vice Director, Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Design, optimization, form finding methods for space frame structures (ongoing)	Felix RASPALL Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design	JIANG Tao Associate Professor, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Testing procedures and equipments for space frame structures (ongoing)	David ROSEN Professor, Engineering Product Development Research Director, Centre for Digital Design and Manufacturing	LUO Yaozhi Professor and Dean, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture
3D printed space frame system: integration into architecture, engineering and construction (ongoing)	Carlos BANON Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design	Xian XU Associate Professor, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Development of theories and improved algorithms for deep learning at the edge (ongoing)	Tony QUEK Professor and Head, Information System Technology and Design	Yiming LI Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Hangguan Shan Associate Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Development of improved hardware framework for deep learning at the edge (ongoing)	ZHAO Rong Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	Kejie HUANG Principal Investigator, College of Information Science and Electronics Engineering

In the second phase of collaboration, SUTD-ZJU Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Alliance (IDEA) offers the following grants:

SUTD-ZJU IDEA Grant for Visiting Professor

The aim of the SUTD-ZJU IDEA Grant for Visiting Professors is to continuously foster closer research ties between SUTD and ZJU. The programmes include but are not limited to the following areas:

Internet Intelligence
Nanostructure and Smart Integrated System
Design Intelligence.

The typical funding amount is S$100,000 for up to 3 years. View the list of awarded projects below.

SUTD-ZJU IDEA Seed Grant

The SUTD-ZJU IDEA Seed Grant aims to promote research collaborations between the faculty members of SUTD and ZJU. The primary consideration in funding the seed research project is the originality of research and the potential of resulting in further external funding.

The typical funding amount is S$10,000 for one year. View the list of awarded projects below.

SUTD-ZJU IDEA Grant for Visiting Professors - Awarded Projects

Project Title	SUTD PI	Visiting Professor from ZJU
Signal character oriented design for intelligent wireless sensing system (ongoing)	YEO Kiat Seng Professor, Engineering Product Development Associate Provost, Research and International Relations	YU Xiaopeng Professor, Institute of VLSI Design, School of Microelectronics
2D materials based electronics and photonics (ongoing)	Ricky ANG Professor and Head, Science, Math and Technology Director, SUTD-ZJU IDEA	LI Erping Distinguished Professor and Dean, ZJU-UIUC Institute
Intelligent video surveillance system design based on mobile edge networks (ongoing)	Tony QUEK Professor and Head, Information System Technology and Design	Hangguan SHAN Associate Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Device and system-level detection and identification of IoT attacks (ongoing)	David YAU Professor, Information System Technology and Design	CHENG Peng Professor, College of Control Science & Engineering
Massive access for cellular internet of things (ongoing)	ZHAO Rong Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	HUANG Kejie Principal Investigator, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Institute of Cyber Security Research
A defence framework for ICS using learning and hardware-based attestations (ongoing)	Binbin CHEN Associate Professor, Information System Technology and Design	Fan (Terry) Zhang Associate Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Exploring the paradoxical parrondo effect in city planning (ongoing)	CHEONG Kang Hao Assistant Professor, Science, Mathematics and Technology	CHANG Jie Professor, College of Life Sciences Executive Director, Research Centre for Sustainable Development Vice Director, The Centre for Climate Change Law Vice Director, Institute of Ecology
Ultrafast ordered three-dimensional nanomaterial development and circuit integration of in-memory logical system with further AIMD simulation (RAPID) (ongoing)	Desmond K. LOKE Assistant Professor, Science, Mathematics and Technology	SHEN Haibin Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - enabled and origami-based reconfigurable metamaterials/metasurface for tunable electromagnetic properties (ongoing)	HUANG Shaoying Assistant Professor, Engineering Product Development	CHEN Hongsheng Professor and Vice Dean, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, The Electromagnetics Academy
Design of ONOO-fluorescent probes for biosensing and bioimaging to investigate the brain ischemia stroke (ongoing)	Xiaogang LIU Assistant Professor, Science, Mathematics and Technology	Xin LI Associate Professor, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Reliability and failure analysis of RRAM and FinFET devices for neuromorphic computing architecture applications (ongoing)	PEY Kin Leong Professor, Engineering Product Development Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies and SUTD Academy	DONG Shurong Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering

SUTD-ZJU IDEA Seed Grant - Awarded Projects

Project Title	SUTD PI	ZJU Collaborator
Simulation and modeling of 2D-materials based nanostructures (concluded)	Ricky ANG Professor and Head, Science, Mathematics and Technology Director, SUTD-ZJU IDEA	LI Erping Distinguished Professor and Dean, ZJU-UIUC Institute
A nature-inspired design approach to representing interoceptive signatures in service robots (concluded)	Mohan Rajesh ELARA Assistant Professor, Engineering Product Development	JIANG Hao Lecturer, International Design Institute
Data analytics for image and text (concluded)	LU Wei Associate Professor and Associate Head, Information Systems Technology and Design	LI Xi Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology
3D hierachical defect-rich NiMo3S4 heterosheet arrays on carbon textiles as anodes for high-performance sodium ion batteries (concluded)	YANG Huiying Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	ZHAO Xinbing Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Advanced bamboo structures using 3D-printed components (concluded)	Felix RASPALL Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design	JIANG Hao Lecturer, International Design Institute
Secure control for sensor networks in smart cities (concluded)	Roland BOUFFANAIS Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	HOU Dibo Professor and Deputy Dean, College of Control Science and Engineering
Stable blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for the application in organic light emitting diodes (concluded)	Xiaogang LIU Assistant Professor, Science, Mathematics and Technology	ZHANG Qisheng Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
Mobile parenting in China - The social impact of the use of homework communication mobile apps (concluded)	Sun Sun LIM Professor and Head, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences	GAO Fangfang Associate Professor, College of Media and International Culture
Green wall design for concrete 3D printing (concluded)	Felix RASPALL Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design	Weishun XU Lecturer, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Generative design of tropical sustainable spaces (concluded)	Carlos BANON Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design	Weishun XU Lecturer, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Automatic attack suite generation for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) using code-coverage-assisted learning and fuzzing (ongoing)	Binbin CHEN Associate Professor, Information Systems Technology and Design	Fan (Terry) Zhang Associate Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
Paradoxical cooperative games in traffic networks simulation (ongoing)	CHEONG Kang Hao Assistant Professor, Science, Mathematics and Technology	CHANG Jie Professor, College of Life Sciences Executive Director, Research Centre for Sustainable Development Vice Director, The Centre for Climate Change Law Vice Director, Institute of Ecology
Developing self-sensing conductive patterns on knitted textile (ongoing)	HUANG Shaoying Assistant Professor, Engineering Product Development	LI Erping Distinguished Professor and Dean, ZJU-UIUC Institute
Sketching with deep neural networks: Optimizing design ideation (ongoing)	Immanuel KOH Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design	SUN Lingyun Professor and Deputy Director, International Design Institute
Investigate the properties of rotated hyperbolic metamaterials (ongoing)	Robert E. SIMPSON Associate Professor, Engineering Product Development	CHEN Hongsheng Professor and Vice Dean, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, The Electromagnetics Academy
Distributed learning over unreliable networks (ongoing)	Tony QUEK Professor and Head, Information Systems Technology and Design	An LIU Professor, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering

For more information, please contact idea@sutd.edu.sg.