Six collaborative research partnerships were established at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of Waterloo Workshop on Biomedical Imaging, Devices and Robotics held earlier this month on Waterloo’s campus.
The partnerships between the two universities support student mobility and joint supervision, research and potential publications. The new agreements complement the five established between NUS and Waterloo professors at a workshop hosted by NUS in Singapore last November.
A total of 24 faculty members took part in the Waterloo workshop hosted by Rick Culham, Waterloo’s vice-dean of engineering and associate dean, international.
NUS representatives also held a presentation for engineering doctoral and post-doctoral students who might be interested in participating in NUS’s new entrepreneurial incubator program called Start-up Runway. The initiative is designed to train doctoral students and post-docs in starting a company based on their research expertise and results.
Workshop participants from left to right — front row: Chua Kee Chaing, dean of engineering NUS, Rick Culham, vice-dean of Waterloo Engineering, and Teo Kie Leong, vice-dean of engineering NUS; second row: Zhiwei Huang, NUS professor, Teng Joon Lim, NUS professor, and Haoyong Yu, NUS professor; third row: Hamid Tizhoosh, Waterloo Engineering professor, Alfred Yu, Waterloo Engineering professor, Nanguang Chen, NUS professor, Anqi Qiu, NUS professor, and Ning Jiang, Waterloo Engineering professor; fourth row: Christina Lim, vice-dean of engineering NUS, Tom Willet, Waterloo Engineering professor, James Kah, NUS professor, Evelyn Yim, Waterloo Engineering professor, Yi Chin Toh, NUS professor, and John S. Ho, NUS professor; back row: Jon Kofman, Waterloo Engineering professor, and Marcelo Ang, NUS professor. Missing from photo: Pearl Sullivan, dean of Waterloo Engineering, and Dana Kulić, Karim Karim, Cao Shi, James Tung, Alex Wong and John Yeow, all Waterloo Engineering professors.