Vacancies for PhD candidates (with scholarships/sponsorships) for Jan 12/Aug 12 intake The School of Mechanical & Aerospace

Engineering, NTU currently has vacancies for PhD candidates (with scholarships/sponsorships) for the Jan 12/Aug 12 intake. If you are interested, please email to the professors. You can log on to NTU website http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/graduate/R-Programs/BeforeApplyingResearch/Pages/ChoosetheRightProgramme.aspx for details on application criteria and procedures. The minimum criteria is a Bachelor's degree with 2nd class honours upper. Vacancies for Jan 12 intake Appt Assoc Prof Faculty Ooi Kim Tiow Research Areas/Interests Solar thermal/air-cond Email mktooi@ntu.edu.sg

Vacancies for Aug 12 intake Appt Prof Assoc Prof Assoc Prof Assoc Prof Asst Prof Prof Assoc Prof Prof Prof Assoc Prof Faculty Anand Asundi Murukeshan Vadakke Matham Seah Leong Keey Zhong Zhaowei Sathyan Subbiah Lam Yee Cheong Leong Kah Fai Yue Chee Yoon Lua Aik Chong Xiao Zhongmin Precision engineering and laser processing 3D additive manufacturing and welding Sports research Naval architecture and marine engineering Research Areas/Interests Email MASUNDI@ntu.edu.sg Optical and laser engineering (Computational Optics, Nan scale Optical Engineering, Precision Optics, Laser Structuring and Processing). MMURUKESHAN@ntu.edu.sg MLKSEAH@ntu.edu.sg MZWZHONG@ntu.edu.sg SATHYANS@ntu.edu.sg MYCLAM@ntu.edu.sg MKFLEONG@ntu.edu.sg MCYYUE@ntu.edu.sg MACLUA@ntu.edu.sg

Fracture Mechanics (Failure Analysis and Prevention) Investigation for Advanced Structures and Materials with Applications in Marine Engineering. MZXIAO@ntu.edu.sg Fundamentals in impact and crashworthiness of structures and materials, which can be applied to design of vehicle structures such as automobiles and aircraft. Behaviour of novel sandwich panels subject to impact and blast loadings, buckling of nanotubes and mechanics of cells.

Assoc Prof

Lu Guoxing

GXLU@ntu.edu.sg

Assoc Prof Assoc Prof Assoc Prof Asst Prof

Ng Teng Yong Tan Ming Jen

Variational and Finite Element Techniques for Structural Analysis; Dynamic Stability, Vibration and Control of Plates and Shells; Composite Laminates and Functionally Graded Materials; Smart Materials: Piezoelectric / Magnetostrictive / Shape Memory Alloys; Development of Meshless (Element-Free) Techniques; Mathematical Modeling of Hydrogel-Based BioMEMS Devices; Computational Nano-Science Multiscale Simulation; Modeling and Simulation of Quantum Dot Growth and Characteristics; Chaos and Control of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems; Structural Optimization - via Genetic Algorithms (GA); Nanomedicine Modeling (Nanoparticle Drug/Gene Delivery Systems) MTYNG@ntu.edu.sg

Aluminum, Magnesium & Titanium alloys; Metal-Matrix Composites; Metallic Glasses; Superplastic flow and heat transfer. Flow boiling phenomena, two-phase flow in evaporator, MMJTAN@ntu.edu.sg Two phase Forming. condenser and capillary tube expansion devices, heat driven pump and pulsating heat pipe for Wong Teck Neng electronic cooling. Micro-scale heat transfer and fluid flow. Two-fluid electroosmotic pump for mtnwong@ntu.edu.sg Small scale fluid dynamics, microfluidics and bio-locomotion. Estimation theory, System identification, Intelligent autonomous systems, Statistical signal processing, Information processing in distributed and multi-agent systems (e.g., sensor networks) Avishy Carmi Kinematic and Dynamic Synergies of the Upper Limb.The work involves theoretical as well as experimental aspects including kinematic analysis of human movements, biomechanical characterization of human-machine Domenico Campolo interaction, computational neuroscience. Magnetic field modeling, Mechatronics (design and control of electromechanical systems), Robotics and Automation, Sensing methodology, bio-medical imaging sensor; Unmanned Vehicle System (UVS), System dynamics and Vibration analysis,Nonlinear system and Control Marcos marcos@ntu.edu.sg

Asst Prof

ACarmi@ntu.edu.sg

Asst Prof

D.CAMPOLO@ntu.edu.sg

Asst Prof

Son Hungsun

HSSon@ntu.edu.sg

Asst Prof

Fei Duan

Kinetics of phase changes; Evaporation drying process; Aggregation effects on nanofluids; Spray cooling and thermal management; Development of smart materials in the thermal field. FeiDuan@ntu.edu.sg Electroactive polymer actuator, micro-air vehicles, Micro-and-nano electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), compliant mechanism, multiphysics modeling and topology optimization. Low temperature micro solid oxide fuel cell (-SOFC), MEMS fuel cells, nanothin film materials for SOFC, atomic layer deposition coatings. Design of customized and sustainable products and services, universal design for human variability, strategic and multidisciplinary design optimization, and service design and management for smart grid. Cyborg insect: remote radio control of insect flight, walking Biofuel cell implantable into a living organism C33Nano/Micro fabrication processes for 3D structures Mathematical optimization and nonconvex analysis, with a focus on analyzing and designing algorithms for mixed-integer, nonlinear, nonconvex programs.

Asst Prof Asst Prof

Lau Gih Keong Su Pei-Chen

MGKLAU@ntu.edu.sg peichensu@ntu.edu.sg

Asst Prof Nanyang Asst Prof Asst Prof

Moon Seung Ki

skmoon@ntu.edu.sg

Hirotaka Sato Jitamitra Desai

hirosato@ntu.edu.sg jdesai@ntu.edu.sg