GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON DEEPENING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
10 -11, MAY 2023, SINGAPORE (9 AM TO 5.30 PM)
VINUE : NTU@ONE NORTH, SINGAPORE
WITH SITE/INSTITUTIONAL VISIT ON 12 MAY 2023
Are you finding it increasingly challenging to Strengthen,enhance, and Deepen International Collaborations?
Are you looking for new & Innovative ways for deepening International Collaborations?
THEME:
To catalyse, Facilitate, and deepen collaborative spirit among Academic Institutions, Industries and Professional organisations
is currently the founder and Executive Director of the Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) Foundation, India. He has also been the President of IFEES (International Federation for Engineering Societies) from 2010 to2012. Dr. Vedula is well recognized globally for his contributions to engineering education, research, administration, and outreach and for his research in processing and properties of materials for high temperature applications. He has been Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and former Dean Emeritus, Francis College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Metals (ASM) and a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Vedula has B. Tech (IIT Bombay, 1967), M.S. (Drexel University, 1969) and Ph.D. (Michigan Tech University, 1980) degrees in Materials Engineering. He has over 40 years of academic teaching and research experience in materials science and engineering as well as engineering administration, at Case Western Reserve University, Iowa State University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In July 2020, he returned to India to devote full time to the IUCEE Foundation, India with the objective of improving quality and global relevance of engineering education in India
Dato’ Captain Razali Yaacob graduated with a Master’s Degree in Maritime, Education & Training (Nautical) from the World Maritime University at Malmo, Sweden and is a qualified Master Mariner. Dato’ Captain Razali has spent over 46 years of his career in the maritime industry. He sailed with Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) for 11 years before coming ashore and served Malaysia Maritime Academy (Akademi Laut Malaysia) as Senior Lecturer and later on Head of Department for the next 11 years. He subsequently worked at Esso Production (M) Incorporated as Marine Supervisor and in 1997, Dato’ Captain Razali co-founded PELORUS SERVICES and served as its Training, Research and Consultancy Director. He then founded Pelorus Intelligence and Technology Academy in 2000 and became the R & D Director and Managing Director. In 2010, Dato’ Captain Razali founded Netherlands Maritime Institute of Technology (NMIT), a leading maritime higher education institution in Malaysia and has since led the Institute as its Executive Chairman. NMIT is now formerly known as Netherlands Maritime University College after being upgraded to University College status in 2020. Dato’ Captain Razali has designed and developed many pioneering programmes in the country and has served as consultant for many national and international projects in Asia and the Middle East. Dato’ Captain Razali is also an international speaker, and had conducted lectures and run training programmes in the Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, France, Germany, Canada, Portugal, and others in the maritime related subject areas of his expertise.
Professor Essam Elkordi is the President of Alamein International University and professor of Structural Analysis at Faculty of Engineering at Alexandria University. He is Former President of Alexandria University (2016-2020) and Former Consul and Director of Cultural and Educational Affairs at the Consulate General of Egypt in Montreal, Canada (2014-2015). Over the course of his career, he assumed many leadership posts including: Vice President of Community Service and Environment Development (2015-2016); supervising the Cultural and Educational Affairs Office at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington D.C., U.S. (2014); Secretary General of the Education Development Fund, Cabinet of Ministers (2009-2012); Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Alexandria University (2008-2009); and Executive Manager of the Project Management Unit at Alexandria University (2006-2009); and member of the Board of Trustees of the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) (2017-sep-2020). and the Bibliotheca Alexandria (2016-sep-2020). He is currently a member of the Council of Private Universities.
Professor Seeram Ramakrishna : Former Vice President (Research Strategy), National University of Singapore
Jennifer Howell is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) at UWA. With over 21 years’ experience in higher education, she is deeply connected to delivering value in global organisations through improving the student experience and stewarding international partnerships both within learning and teaching and research collaborations. She joined UWA in 2022.
Prof. Ibrahim obtained his B.Eng. (Hons) degree in Chemical Engineering from University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 1987. After completing his degree, he joined Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) as an Assistant Lecturer in 1988. In 1990, her pursue his postgraduate studies in Process Integration at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and completed his Masters in 1991 and PhD in 1995. He rejoined UTM as a Senior Lecturer in Process System Engineering. In 1997, he joined the Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) as a Senior Lecturer and was later promoted to Associate Professor in 2002 and Professor in 2014 respectively. Prof. Ibrahim is also a Fellow of IChemE UK and recognised as a Chartered Engineer by the UK Engineering Council. He is also recognised as a Professional Technologist in the area of Chemical Technology from the Malaysian Board of Technologists. An active researcher, he has published over 202 journal papers with an H-index of 40 and has won numerous awards.At UTP, Prof. Ibrahim has held several senior management positions and was also highly instrumental in the formulation of the UTP Transformation Plan aimed at developing UTP into a globally recognised research university. In July 2013, he was appointed as the Dean of Faculty of Engineering and assumed the management position of Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic in April 2016. In May 2016, he was appointed as the Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) in the discipline of Engineering & Computer Sciences. He is currently the board member of the Malaysia Board of Technologies and Member of National Science Challenge (NSC) Steering Committee ASM.
He was previously the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students & Education) at the University of Tasmania from early 2011 and led many initiatives leading to the establishment of the Children’s University in Tasmania, which is now also operating in Western Australia. David is a Principal Fellow (PFHEA). He is currently Chair of Universities Australia DVC A Executive and leads UA’s work on academic integrity; teaching recognition and stakeholder relationships with TEQSA. David is also Chair of the Australian Awards (Program Awards) for University Teaching. In the UK, David was Director (Networks) for the Higher Education Academy and before that Director of the Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (CSAP) at the University of Birmingham. David is a UK National Teaching Fellow (2005). David’s academic specialism is in crisis decision-making in international security, and he worked for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a Senior Research Officer in Arms Control and Disarmament from 1988-1992, embracing many aspects of the end of the Cold War. David is a life fellow of the RSA and a former Council member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).
Hrridaysh is the member of Governing Body & Board of Management of the University. He is the Director of Ajeenkya DY Patil Group and Grand Port Hospital, Mumbai. He spearheaded India Design Mark program in cooperation with Good Design Award, Japan and in association with the India Design Council (IDC) (a national strategic body of Government of India established under the aegis of Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion). He has been the jury member for world’s largest student design competition – Taiwan International Student Design Competition in 2015 and 2017.
Dr. Archana Mantri is Vice Chancellor of Chitkara University, Punjab, having extensive experience of over three decades in Industry and academia. She is a thought leader, and enabler and spearheads several initiatives related to research, innovation, and entrepreneurship at the University. Her research interests include Augmented and Virtual reality and their pedagogical interventions for achieving better learning outcomes. Dr. Mantri
Prof. Alphones has 35 years of research experience. He has published and presented over 320 technical papers in peer reviewed International Journals/ Conferences. He was involved many IEEE flagship conferences held in Singapore and General Chair of APMC 2009, MWP 2011, TENCON 2016 and APMC 2019. He was the chairman of IEEE Singapore section during 2015-2016, 2018, 2023 and a senior member of IEEE. He is Singapore representative of IEICE(Japan). He is also the panel member of IEEE Confer- ence Application Review Committee. Since 2001 he is with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Techno- logical University, Singapore. His current interests are electro-magnetic analysis on planar RF circuits and integrated optics, microwave photonics, visible light communication and positioning, metamaterial based leaky wave antennas and wireless power transfer technologies. A Alphones received his B.Tech. from Madras Institute of Technology in 1982, M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1984 and Ph.D. degree in Optically Controlled Millimeter wave Circuits from Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan) in 1992. He was a JSPS visiting fellow from 1996-97 at Japan. During 1997-2001, he was with Centre for Wireless Communications, National University of Singapore involved in the research on optically controlled passive/active devices.
Dr. Mohammed Aboud :Co-Founder and CEO, Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship,VP for Business Development, Idea space, IEEE TEMS VP for MMC, COMESA Innovation Council Board Member IEEE YP Egypt Co-Founder, IEEE TEMS Egypt Chapter Co-Founder
Dr. Anthony Yee is the Executive Director of AHT Syngas Asia PLC, this company is the Asian Headquarters of AHT GmbH, a 150-year-old German company, specializing in medium size gas power stations. Dr. Yee is the Chair of the Board of Governors, MDIS Malaysia, and an Executive Council Member of MDIS, Singapore. He is also an academic, currently lecturing at Teesside University, Singapore Campus. Prior adjunct teaching and FYP supervision were at Ngee Ann and Singapore Polytechnic. Dr. Anthony Yee Started his career with Keppel Shipyard performing both onboard marine electrical systems installation and repairs, as well as maintaining onshore HV electrical systems. He also worked as a Senior Electrical Engineer at MacDermott SEA Pte. Ltd, where he was in charge of offshore HV Generation and Distribution Systems. He later joined ABB as Project Division Manager, where he oversaw HV projects and equipment installation and repairs. Dr. Yee has served as Expert Witness in several Singapore High Court Cases. Dr. Yee is a Life Senior Member of the IEE, he served for 8+ years on the PES Committee and later as Chair of Membership at Singapore Section. His area of specialization is Power Systems and Electromagnetics. His other affiliations are Fellow Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology UK (FIMarEST), Fellow Institution of Engineering and Technology, formerly IEE UK (FIET), Fellow Institution of Science and Technology UK (FIScT), Fellow of The Royal Commonwealth Society UK. Dr. Yee served The Singapore Armed Forces as a Reservist Officer for 33 years. He commanded a reservist Combat Battalion and retired with the rank of Major. He is a recipient of The SAF Good Conduct Medal and The Reserve Medal with Bar.
He has served on various committees in professional bodies such as Chair of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Power & Energy Society (PES) Chapter, Singapore, and Chair of the IEEE Education Society Chapter Singapore. He is a recipient of the IEEE-PES Outstanding Power Engineers’ Award 2003 and SP Green Buddy Award 2004. Dr. Waikar has been associated with Singapore Certified Energy Manager’s programme for more than a decade. He has also been an advisory committee member of the Indo-Universal Centre for Engineering Education (IUCEE).Dr. Waikar has facilitated several collaborations between Academic Institutions, Industries, and Professional Institutions. He has over three decades of international experience in education, training, research, & management and delivered keynote/ plenary/panel session presentations globally.
Ir Dr. Azim is a Registered Professional Engineer (Board of Engineer Malaysia) with over 20 years of experience in Product Research, Design, and Development. Ir Dr. Azim started his career with Shimano Components (M) Sdn Bhd and he then worked with SONY EMCS Malaysia Sdn Bhd in Mechanical R&D TV/LCD division. He’s one of the innovators of TV with a woofer system. He’s also a member of the pioneer group in designing LCDs for SONY. Currently, Ir Dr. Azim works with Steelcase Office Solutions (M) Sdn Bhd as a Product Engineering Director leading the team in Asia Pacific for Product Development.
Dr. Li Fang is an Executive Committee Member of the IEEE Education Society, Singapore Chapter. She has been actively involved International collaboration with researchers in Singapore, Japan and China. She served as Program and/or Conference Chair and Technical Program committee member for several international conferences. She had been a keynote speaker for various International conferences. Dr. Li Fang has over 30 peer-reviewed publications in this field and her research has received awards from a variety of venues, e.g., best paper award in The 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS2018). Dr. Li fang is an Associate Editor for The international journal Information System Frontiers (ISF). Dr. Li joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as a faculty member in 2002. She received a BEng. in Computer Science at Southeast University, China, as well as a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include Image processing, Image retrieval, computer networks, and network security Pattern recognition, Health care, Education.
He is an industrial engineer with experience as a transnational project leader for Airbus. He was responsible for product modifications in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the USA, and China. He received several prizes and scholarships and holds a patent together with Mercedes-Benz. Currently, he is a research associate and doctoral candidate at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany, in collaboration with Composite Technology Center (An Airbus Company) in Stade, Germany. His research focuses on organizational and methodological aspects of Digital Twins in manufacturing companies. He has published multiple scientific articles and presented the research results at worldwide conferences, e.g., in Vancouver, Canada, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is conducting further research on Digital Twins with the University of Cambridge and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT). He also supports the Association of German Engineers (VDI) in creating a standard for Digital Twins in factories and assists the board of the German Academic Association for Production Technology (WGP).
Prior to 2011, Prof. Xie was with the National University of Singapore for 20 years, where he joined as one of the first recipients of LKY research fellow. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate education in Sweden, and he first entered the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 14 with the highest score in the nationwide examination for the gifted program. He has carried out extensive research in quality, reliability, and industrial statistics, and published over 300 journal papers and 10 books. He has advised 60 Ph.D. students, now working in industry or academia in different continents. Prof Xie was elected fellow of IEEE in 2005 and was recently elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Dr. Hans Jürgen Hoyer serves as the Executive Secretary of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) and the Secretary General of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES). He also works in close partnerships with over 18 multinational corporations (Airbus; Boeing; Siemens; Dassault Systemes; & more). Dr. Hoyer has served with Nelson Mandela on the board of directors of El Taller, a global civil society network headquartered in Tunisia. He currently serves as an Advisory board member in UNITAR (United Nations) Division of Prosperity), and on the Governing Board of the International Center for Engineering Education/UNESCO/ Tsinghua University. He has been and continues to be a keynote speaker for conferences globally focusing on engineering education and capacity building. Dr. Hoyer has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Studies at MIT, a Fellow at Harvard’s School of Education, and a visitor at the Kennedy School of Government. He started his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer and high school teacher in Linares and Talca, Chile, and has lived in over twenty countries in Asia, Latin & South America, and Africa. Over his extensive career, he has visited 153 countries, is fluent in four languages, and is conversant in additional five languages. He has written and published on a broad range of subjects related to engineering education; international development, strategic planning; politics, health, and education.
Er. Deepak Vadhwa:Entrepreneurial Drive – Intellectual Curiosity , Solution Development , Commercial and Operational Excellence, Relationships. 30+ years of international experience: ERM (current), Jacobs, Air Liquide, Siemens, Emerson.
Hossam Elhamy Shaker, Chief Technical Advisor, Hawkleap, Cairo, Egypt has over 15 years of experience in various capacities in the Aviation Sector. He was involved in a special committee appointed by the Minister in the Planning Sector of Egypt Air for finalizing a 25 Million Dollar investment in 2012. He also has Market Technical Advisory experience in engineering software and machine learning techniques at Machine Learning and Simulation, Egypt. He is in the final stages of his Ph.D. with the research topic “Aviation Management with Airline Uncertainty Operations” at EJUST University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Dr. Wan is Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. Prior to joining NTU, he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kyungpook National University, Korea. His research interests cover aerosol sciences, building energy, smart buildings, indoor environmental quality, catalytic oxidation systems and numerical simulations. Dr. Wan led numerous government- and industry-funded research projects ranging from fundamental studies of fundamental thermos-fluids sciences, aerosol sciences and impacts of indoor environmental quality on occupant cognitive function. He has also been working on development of novel green building technologies such as high-performance Cool materials for buildings and pavements, advanced building control and automation systems, integrated dimmable lighting and dynamic shading system, chilled ceiling system and other technologies for energy efficiency and occupant well-being. Dr. Wan has published over 100 international refereed journal and conference articles and is inventor of 3 patents. He is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Chemical Society (ACS) and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
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Dr. Shete is a renowned academician, researcher in the field of Signal processing & soft computing. He is member of Board of Management, MIT Art, Design Technology University, Director MIT School of Engineering, Chairman IETE, Pune center, Chair, IEEE Education Society Chapter, Pune Section, Senior IEEE Member, Fellow of Institute of Engineers. Dr. Virendra Shete received his Doctorate from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum. He published more than 100 research papers in reputed National & International Journals & conference proceedings. He has authored two books in the field of Electronics & Communication (E&C) Engineering. An Authority expert in the field of E&C, he is affiliated to several universities offering his expertise as an Expert Advisor on the Board of studies. He has been invited as a Scholar to university for seminars and conferences. To bridge the Gap between Industry academia his contribution towards making memorandum of understanding is remarkable. He also worked and contributed to generating consultancy worth 2 crore with industry in the field of E-vehicles by upskilling programs in the University. He has travelled Nationally & Internationally to present his pioneering research on diverse themes.
Mr. Tripathi has worked in more than 10 countries in various Multinational firms. He has 28+ years of work experience and is managing approximately S$300 million dollars plus a listed company in Singapore called SEVAK Limited which operates in the areas of Telecom, Information Technology/System Integration, and Electric Vehicles. He is an active member of various organizations and is on the Executive Committee of SGTech, a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), Singapore Computer Society (SCS), Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SVCA), Singapore Business Federation (SBF), Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF) and an advisor at FundedHere the first Crowd Funding platform in Singapore. Maneesh Tripathi is an Engineering Graduate by qualification with a Degree in Electronics and Telecom and has a PGCGM/Management graduate from (IIM) India Institute of Management, Calcutta, India.
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