SPEAKERS

Chaw Sing is the CEO of NAMIC, a Singapore government platform he co-founded that focuses on translational research to develop and scale industrial adoption of digital additive manufacturing technologies.

Before joining the public sector, he spent 16 years in the private sector. He was Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at HP Singapore, Printing and Personal Systems Group and the Global Head for Consumer Inkjet Supplies Business Operations, overseeing manufacturing supply chain operations and product innovation. He began his career in the semiconductor foundry industry with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (now part of GlobalFoundries), in various customer-facing technology and engineering operation leadership roles.

Chaw Sing is active in the deep-tech startup scene and global AM community. He co-chairs the ISO/TC 261 Additive Manufacturing Chair’s Advisory Group and Singapore Standards AM Technical Committee. He also serves as a Scientific and Technology Advisor at CREATE’s Singapore-Hebrew University Alliance for Science and Technology among others. A prolific inventor in his early career, Chaw Sing holds several U.S. and internationally issued patents. He earned his Ph.D. and Bachelor’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore, where he also lectures part-time as an Adjunct Professor at NUS College of Design and Engineering. Chaw Sing is an ASTM International board member.

David Rosen was a Professor in the Engineering Product Development (EPD) Pillar and is a co-Director of the Digital Manufacturing and Design (DManD) research centre. Prior to joining SUTD, he was a Professor and Associate Chair for Administration in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served as Director of the Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing Institute.  He received his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts in 1992 in mechanical engineering.  His research interests include computer-aided design, additive manufacturing, and design methodology.  He has industry experience, working as a software engineer at Computervision Corp. and a Visiting Research Scientist at Ford Research Laboratories.  He is a Fellow of ASME and has served on the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division Executive Committee.  He is the recipient of the 2013 Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award and the co-author of a leading textbook on AM.

Dr. Alex Liu is the Director, Advanced Manufacturing Programs – Asia Region at ASTM International. In his role, he works closely with National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) in Singapore, one of the ASTM AM CoE strategic partners to curate AM programs in APAC that will lead to standards development. He has a B.Eng in Mechatronics and Robotics Automation and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, focusing on process and materials characterization for metal additive manufacturing. He has received and managed grants more than $10M and works closely with various industries and government agencies for establishing automation and communication within an AM set up. He is also a reviewer for Materials Characterization Journal and has co-authored more than 10 peer reviewed publications with more than 35 technical and business presentations around Asia. He has received a total of 10 awards and patents in the area of additive manufacturing.

Prof. Zhou is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He currently serves as Associate Chair (Research) in the school and Programme Director (Marine & Offshore) in Singapore Centre for 3D Printing. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Tsinghua University, China and his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University, USA and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, USA.

Prof. Zhou has been conducting multidisciplinary research at the crossroads of mechanics, additive manufacturing, materials science, and molecular physics. He was elected Fellow of European Academy of Sciences as well as Fellow of American Physical Society, Institute of Physics (UK), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK), Royal Aeronautical Society (UK), Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), and Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (UK).

Prof. Zhou has authored more than 500 journal articles and two books "Metal Powder–Based Additive Manufacturing" (320 pages, Wiley, 2023) and "Molecular Dynamics Simulation: Fundamentals and Applications" (345 pages, Elsevier, 2022) and filed six US patents. Since 2022, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field by Clarivate.

Prof. Zhou has founded the journal Smart Manufacturing and serves as its Editor-in-Chief. He has also co-founded Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics and serves as its Co-Editor-in-Chief. In addition, he serves as an Associate Editor / Editorial Board Member of several reputable international journals, including International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Mechanics Research Communications, Materials Today, Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, Friction, and International Journal of Fatigue.

Prof. Zhou is devoted to educating young researchers. His Ph.D. students received awards for their outstanding research theses from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in three consecutive years. More than 40 of his former Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers have become faculty members in academia.

Prof. Zhou was General Chair of the 30th International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences held in Singapore during August 3-6, 2024, which has attracted over 1,300 participants worldwide.