Join us at the Faculty of Science 95th Anniversary Symposium, a flagship event organised to celebrate the contributions and achievements of our faculty, alumni and students in research, education, entrepreneurship and social impact!
The programme will feature exciting talks by our distinguished faculty members, covering innovative educational practices and research discoveries in the life, physical, and mathematical sciences. Our alumni and students will share on wide-ranging topics of interest, including their entrepreneurial adventures, and the impact of student-led activities and programmes, to name a few. There will also be poster presentations and networking opportunities.
Date: Saturday, 28 September 2024
Time: 8.30 am – 3.30 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatres 27, 28 and 29
Faculty of Science
Explore the frontiers of science through our specially curated programme!
Download our comprehensive booklet for detailed programme information and the abstracts of our poster competition participants.
Statistics and Mathematics (2004)
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Statistics and Data Science
Group Chief Data Officer
GXS Bank (GXS)
PhD (2004)
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Provost Chair Professor
Duke-NUS Medical School
Chemistry (1991, 1994)
Director, Forensics Centre of Expertise
Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX)
Assistant Dean (Research and Development)
Faculty of Science
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Dr Geraldine Wong is Group Chief Data Officer at GXS Bank (GXS), one of the two successful digital full bank licence applicants in Singapore. GXS is backed by a consortium comprising Grab and Singtel.
At GXS, Dr Wong is responsible for driving and building the bank’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data strategy with the goal of leveraging ecosystem data assets, promoting data-driven financial inclusion and reimagining the way customers engage and experience the digital economy. Her career spans across industry and academia, where she has led teams in developing and executing regional AI initiatives across the public, transport and infocommunications sectors.
Dr Wong was named in the SG100 Women in Tech list (2021) by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in recognition of her contributions to Singapore’s technology industry. For her data analytics achievements, she was recently named one of the global top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics by Business of Data (2022).
She is currently part of the Technology Advisory Committee at Synapxe, Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Future-Enabled Skills workgroup and an Adjunct Associate Professor at NUS’ Department of Statistics and Data Science. She also seeks to inspire and nurture the next generation, through her active mentoring for Girls in Tech and NUS’ Uplift mentorship programme, as well as being an ExCo member of the Free and Open source software group at the Singapore Computer Society.
Dr Wong holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Prof Lok Shee Mei is a Provost’s Chair Professor in the Emerging Infectious Diseases programme in Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She was also a National Research Foundation (NRF) fellow (2009 to 2014) and an NRF Investigator (2016 to 2021).
Prof Lok is a structural virologist specialising in X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy. Her research focuses on the structural and therapeutics aspects of flavivirus such as dengue and zika viruses.
Her laboratory made significant discoveries in the morphological diversity of dengue virus particles, neutralisation mechanisms of potent antibodies against flavivirus particles, the flavivirus assembly process and also the structures of the secreted dengue NS1 - an important factor that causes severe dengue disease.
Prof Lok obtained her MSc and PhD in NUS and did her postdoctoral training in Purdue University, United States, under the supervision of the late Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences Michael Rossmann.
Assoc Prof Giorgia Pastorin received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2004 from the University of Trieste, Italy. After a research fellowship at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France, she joined NUS where she is currently an Associate Professor at NUS’ Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Assistant Dean (Research and Development) at the Faculty of Science and Director of the NUS Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Centre.
Her main research interests include production, characterisation and evaluation of cell-derived nanovesicles (CDNs) as novel biocompatible and targeted drug delivery systems of bioactive molecules such as Pt-based anticancer complexes.
She is the editor of two books related to drug delivery and author of > 160 articles of internationally peer-reviewed journals. She has received both university-level and international awards for the work performed by her BioNanotechnology group.
“We have barely scratched the surface of Timor-Leste’s biodiversity. New discoveries can have profound impacts on conservation and policy-making.”
In August 2022, we led an expedition to Timor-Leste in collaboration with Conservation International and the government of Timor-Leste. The Museum’s herpetologist, Dr CHAN Kin Onn, discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko which was named Cyrtodactylus santana, in reference to the Nino Konis Santana National Park, in which the gecko was discovered.
