Principal Investigator

CHUA Kian Jon Ernest

Office: E1-07-09

Labs: Air-Conditioning Lab (E1-03-01)/ Energy Conversion Lab (E2-B-02)

Associate Professor – Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Science Programme (Associate)
Dean’s Chair (2017 to 2020)
Dean’s Chair (2020 to 2023)

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
National University of Singapore
9 Engineering Drive 1
Singapore 117575
Tel: (65) 6516 2558
Fax: (65) 6779 1459
Email: mpeckje@nus.edu.sg

Ernest received his B.Eng. (Honours) and M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1994 and 1997, respectively. In 2001, after 3.5 years, he was conferred his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering also from the National University of Singapore. Following this, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2002-2006) in Mechanical Engineering, NUS. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore in August 2009 as an Assistant Professor, and then was promoted to an Associate Professor in January 2016.

 

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Yanagi Hideharu
Dr. Bui Duc Thuan
Dr. M Kum Ja
Dr. Oh Seung Jin

 

Dr. Wan Yangda
Dr. Cui Xin
Dr. Shao Yunlin
Dr. Antonius Yudi Sendjaja

 

Dr. Balaji Mohan

 


Research Engineers

Kyaw Minn Htun

Nyan Nay Oo

Feng Chen

Wong Yonghui

Aqdas Nida

Current Post-Graduate Students

  • Vivekh Prabakaran (President’s Graduate Fellowship)
  • Chen Weidong
  • Soh Kang Yang Alexander
  • Huang ZhiFeng
  • He ZhiYuan

Alumni (former PhD/MEng students)

  • Samuel Devraj Arulmani (Senior Manager in India Multi-National Company)
  • Xu Jia (Manager in Chinese Multi-National Company)
  • Zhao Xing (Senior Principal Engineer in Schlumberger Singapore)
  • An Hui (Assistant Professor in Singapore University of Technology and Design)
  • Vallinayagam Raman (Research Scientist in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
  • Vedharaj Sivasankaraling (Research Scientist in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
  • Ge MengYi (Assistant Professor at University of Southern China)
  • Duan Bin (Senior Research Engineer in a Chinese Multi-National Company)
  • Shao Yunlin (Post-Doctoral Fellow at ME Dept, NUS)
  • Cui Xin (Associate Professor at Xi’an JiaTong University)
  • Jiang DongYue (Associate Professor at Dalian University of Technology)
  • Lin Jie (Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Oxford)
  • Chen Qian (Scientist in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)