2019

President's Science Award

Professor Toh Kim Chuan

Department of Mathematics and Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, National University of Singapore

“For his fundamental contributions to the theory, algorithms, and applications of convex optimisation, especially the development of algorithms and software for semi-definite and conic programming” Download Full Citation

Associate Professor Audrey Chia

Co-Head, Myopia Research, Singapore Eye Research Institute
Co-Director, Myopia Centre @ Bedok, Singapore National Eye Centre
Vice-Chair, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Programme (ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School
Head, Paediatric and Strabismus Service, Singapore National Eye Centre & KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital

Professor Saw Seang Mei

Co-Head, Myopia Research, Singapore Eye Research Institute
Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
Joint Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Professor Roger Beuerman

Senior Scientific Advisor, Singapore Eye Research Institute
Professor, SRP in Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders, Duke-NUS Medical School
Professor, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School
Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences ACP, Duke-NUS Medical School

Adjunct Professor Donald Tan

Adjunct Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences ACP, Duke-NUS Medical School
Senior Scientific Advisor, Singapore Eye Research Institute
Visiting Senior Consultant, Singapore National Eye Centre
Senior Partner, Eye & Retina Surgeons, Camden Medical Centre

“For their dedicated research spanning over three decades in the field of myopia, which resulted in public health strategies and interventional myopia control therapies which help decrease the rates of myopia/high myopia, and myopia-related blindness in Singapore” Download Full Citation

President's Technology Award

Dr Poh Hee Joo

Senior Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR

Dr Koh Wee Shing

Senior Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR

Mr Fachmin Folianto

Senior Research Engineer, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR

Mr Tan Sze Tiong

Director, Centre of Excellence for Environmental Sustainability Research, Housing & Development Board

“For their development of the Integrated Environmental Modeller, an advanced modelling tool that is capable of integrating combined wind-solar-noise environmental factors, their interrelationship, and their total impact on an urban setting” Download Full Citation

Young Scientist Awards

Physical, Information & Engineering Sciences Category

Dr Lim Ci Wen, Charles

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Centre for Quantum Technologies, NUS

“For his research on quantum cryptography that paves the way to practical quantum-safe networks” Download Full Citation