PROFESSOR TAI LEE SIANG Deputy President-Designate and Head of Pillar, Architecture and Sustainable Design, Director, DesignZ, Programme Director, Design and Artificial Intelligence, and Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor Professor Tai Lee Siang is the Head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) Pillar – a role he has held since 2021. He also oversees the Design and Artificial Intelligence (DAI) degree programme that is now seeing a profound impact in the fields of design. In 2022, he was appointed as Centre Director of DesignZ – the next generation design centre of SUTD. Prof Tai graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) from NUS in 1987 and has been practising as an architect and urban designer since 1990. As a partner at DP Architects Pte Ltd, his projects won local and international awards, and he was featured in URA’s ‘20 under 45’ young architects’ exhibition in 2004. He served as President of the Singapore Institute of Architects from 2007 to 2009 and became the first Chairman of the Design Alliance of Singapore in 2009. In 2013, he was elected President of the Design Business Chamber Singapore and launched the Singapore Good Design Mark in 2014. From 2010 to 2016, he was Group Managing Director of Ong&Ong Group, a multidisciplinary design firm. In 2011, Prof Tai was elected President of the Singapore Green Building Council and established Singapore’s first green building product certification scheme. He joined the World Green Building Council as a Board Director in 2013 and was elected Chairman in 2016, initiating the global “Advancing Net Zero” campaign. After his tenure at the World Green Building Council, he joined the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) as Executive Director of BuildSG, leading a nearly 100-strong team and spearheading industry transformation. PROFESSOR LOW HONG YEE Head of Pillar, Engineering Product Development Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Chair Professor in Healthcare Engineering Professor Low Hong Yee is Head of Pillar for Engineering Product Development at SUTD. Prior to this, she served as Associate Head of Pillar and also held the role of Director for the Digital Manufacturing and Design (DManD) Centre. Prior to joining SUTD in 2013, Prof Low spent about 13 years at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) under A*STAR. She served as a founding group head for the Patterning and Fabrication Capability Group between 2007 and 2010 and the Director for Research and Innovation between 2010 and 2012 at IMRE. Her research interest is primarily in polymer science and engineering, with a focus on nanoscale engineering. Prof Low has co-authored more than 120 peer reviewed publications and is a co-inventor for 25 granted patents in the topic of biomimetic nanoimprinting. For her work in biomimetic nanoimprinting, she received the 2010 L’Oreal for Women in Science National Fellowship. Two of her patents had been licensed to Nanovue Pte. Ltd, a Singapore start-up which had entered IPO in Australia in 2018. In her professional activities, Prof Low has served as a member of the scientific advisory panel for SABIC Innovative Plastics, The Netherlands (2013-2017), founding advisory member for Materials Horizon (Royal Society of Chemistry, London), jury member in L’Oreal for Women in Science National Fellowship (2015 to current), and panel member for A*STAR Industrial Alignment Fund-Pre-positioning programme (2023-current). Since joining SUTD, her research activities have expanded to include high resolution 3D fabrication, responsive micro, nano-surfaces, multi-materials and multi-scale digital manufacturing in applications ranging from passive carbon capture to healthcare wearables. p. 21 ANNUAL REPORT 2023/24
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