Track One LOACA2016 Keynote Speakers

Luke Lee Director, Global Health Research and Technology (BIGHEART), NUS Professor Luke P. Lee joined NUS in 2016 as Director of the Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology (BIGHEART) and appointed as Associate President (International Research and Innovation) in the Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology). He is also appointed a Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor and holds joint appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics. Professor Lee received both his BA and PhD from UC Berkeley. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1999 after more than a decade of industry experience. He became the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering in 2005. He also served as the Chair Professor in Systems Nanobiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zürich) from 2006 to 2007. He became Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor in 2010 and was reappointed again in 2015. His work at the interface of biological, physical, and engineering sciences for medicine has been recognized by many honours that include the IEEE William J. Morlock Award, NSF Career Award, Fulbright Scholar Award, and the HoAm Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). His current research interests include quantum electron transfers in living organisms, molecular diagnostics of infectious and neurodegenerative diseases, and in vitro neurogenesis, with a focus both on studying fundamental quantum nanobiology and on solving ill-defined problems of global healthcare.
Nam Trung Nguyen Professor/Director, Griffith University Nam-Trung Nguyen received his Dip-Ing, Dr Ing and Dr Ing Habil degrees from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, in 1993, 1997 and 2004, respectively. In 1998, he was a postdoctoral research engineer in the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (University of California at Berkeley, USA). From 1999 to 2012, he was a faculty member of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Since February 2013, Dr. Nguyen has been serving as a Professor and the Director of Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre at Griffith University. His research is focused on microfluidics, nanofluidics, micro/nanomachinin technologies, micro/nanoscale science, and instrumentation for biomedical applications. He published over 260 journal papers and filed 8 US patents, of which 3 were granted. Among the books he has written, the first and second editions of the bestseller "Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics" co-authored with S. Wereley were published in 2002 and 2006, respectively. The second edition of the bestselling book "Micromixer" was published by Elsevier in 2012. Dr. Nguyen is a Fellow of ASME and a Member of IEEE.
Fan-Gang Tseng Distinguished Professor, National Tsing-Hua University Dr. Tseng received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from UCLA, USA, in 1998. He is currently a distinguished professor of ESS Dept., Dean of Nuclear Science, and the Deputy Director of the Biomedical Technology Research Center at National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. He was elected an ASME fellow in 2014. His research interests are in the fields of BioNEMS, Micro/Nano-Fluidics, Biosensors, and Fuel Cells. He received 60 patents, wrote 8 book chapters, published more than SCI 210 Journal papers and 360 conference technical papers. He received several awards, including National Innovation Award twice, Outstanding in research award twice, and Mr. Wu, Da-Yo Memorial Award from MOST, Taiwan, and more than 20 best paper and other awards.