Active SPS mentors (In alphabetical order)

Student Mentors

Physics

Cai Yu
Le Phuc Thinh
Sandar Felicity Lim
Thong May Han
Yang Tzyh Haur

Chemistry

Cai Jinhong
Jessie Peh
Wu Jiang

Life Sciences

Chiang Wei Min Sylvia
Chin Wei Mun Eunice
Ching Jianhong
Edison
Goh Shijie
Luo Weiwei
Sew Wei Xin Genevieve
Tan Chong Yew
Tan Kai Sen

Mathematics

Fan Yuguang

Junior Mentors

Physics

Han Weiding
Kwong Chang Jian
Law Yun Zhi
Lin Yicheng Kelvin
Tang Zhongkan Kamiyuki

Chemistry

Ouyang Fengcong John

Life Sciences

Koh Wei Chuan Elvin
Lee Gang
Lee Yew Mun
Teh Hong Ying

Mathematics

Foo Wei Guo

Cai Yu (caiyucai)

SPS Head Mentor - Senior Mentor

Physics & Mathematics

Current Research
  • Quantum Bell's inequality(CGLMP), polytope and dimension witness
Academic Interests
  • General physics especially quantum mechanics
  • Crytography

 

Le Phuc Thinh (lephucth)

Senior Mentor

Physics

Current Research
  • Quantum Crytography (Reference Frame Independent Protocol)
Academic Interests
  • Nonlocality (Quantum Set and Bell's inequality)
  • Quantum mechanics and relativity

 

Sandar Felicity Lim (sandarfe)

Senior Mentor

Physics

Past Research
  • Brownian Motors: Statistical Mechanics Simulation with *C
  • Superdeformation in Lead-192 and Evidence for Hyperdeformation: Nuclear Physics Data Analysis
  • Quantum Dots in Solar Cells: Material Science, Characterization and Growth
  • Lie Groups, Lie Algebra and Representation Theory
Current Research
  • Quantum field theory
Academic Interests
  • Theoretical physics
  • Quantum field theory
  • Quantum decoherence
  • Integrable models in statistical mechanics
  • Quantum information/computing

 

Thong May Han (thongmay )

Senior Mentor

Physics

Past Research
  • Distribution of galaxies
  • Quantum Electrodynamics and Gauge Theories
  • Physics of Black Holes
Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Nuclear and particle physics

 

Yang Tzyh Haur (tzyhhaur)

Graduate Mentor

Physics

Current Research
  • Quantum Mechanics - Looking for symmetry in a non-symmetrical lattice (in short, looking for a needle in ocean)
Academic Interests
  • Funny funny and crazy crazy stuff in Quantum Mechanics- Entanglement, Teleportation, Decoherence , No cloning theorem, quantum-classical correspondence....
  • Group theory and symmetry in physics

 

Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Organic Chemistry

 

Jessie Peh (pehjessi)

Senior Mentor

Chemistry

Past Research
  • Graphene Field Effect Transistor
  • Protein 2D NMR
  • Computational Chemistry Using Gaussian and Molpro
  • Ab-initio Kinetic Modeling Using PREDICI of Radical Polymerization
Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Computational chemistry
  • Organometallic chemistry
  • Physical chemistry

 

Wu Jiang (wujiangw)

Graduate Mentor

Chemistry

Current Research
  • Catalytic Activity of Mixed Transition Metal Cluster
Academic Interests
  • Computational Chemistry based on density functional theory

 

 

Chiang Wei Min Sylvia (chiangwe)

Senior Mentor

Life Sciences (Biomedical Science)

Current Research
  • Unfolded Proteins
Academic Interests
  • Microbiology
  • Cancer
  • Unfolded protein response

 

Chin Wei Mun Eunice (chinweim)

Senior Mentor

Life Sciences (Biomedical Science)

Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Biomedical sciences and terrestrial ecology, having done my '71 and '72 on the former (combination therapy agianst influenza infection) and am currently undertaking a UROPS project investigating the effect of colour and shape on avian foraging behaviour.

 

Ching Jianhong (chingjia)

Graduate Mentor

Life Sciences (Biomedical Science/Medicinal Chemistry)

Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Natural product isolation
  • Drug discovery from natural products
  • Cardiovascular diseases/ platelet aggregation/ plasma coagulation

 

Past Research
  • Profiling of DNA Methylaiton in A Tumor Suppressor Gene in Colorectal Cancer
  • Phospholipids Profiling in Taxus cuspidata Using HPLC-MS/MS
  • Lipidomics Approach to Ovarian Cancer Biomarker Discovery
  • Role of Lipid Modifying Enzymes in Ovarian Cancer
  • Identification of Lipid Mediators in FcGammaReceptor Signalling
  • Understanding Chemotaxis and Metastasis from Lipid Perspective
Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Cancer biology (e.g. carcinogenesis, cancer biomarkers, tumor microenvironment, etc)
  • Lipid biology and lipidomics
  • In general, cell biology and system biology

 

Goh Shijie (gohshiji)

Graduate Mentor

Life Sciences

Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Cellular and Molecular Biology, particularly:
    • Developmental Biology, from the zygote to the embryo (transcriptional regulation)
    • Cell Death, how cells trigger programmed cell death, and the signaling cues and pathways involved
    • Cell Biology, the regulation of cell cycle, mechanics of cell function in terms of gene and protein level regulation
    • Reactive Oxygen Species, effects of ROS on cell function, particularly in cell survival
  • Tumour biology, cell signaling, molecular genetics. Broadly speaking anything that is molecular biology.

 

Luo Weiwei (luoweiwe)

Graduate Mentor

Computational Biology

Current Research
  • Environmental sensing and motility of hMSC cells on three dimensional nanotopography
Academic Interests
  • Mechanobiology: the study of molecular, cellular and tissue Mechanics
  • Working to identify, measure, and describe how the forces for motility and morphogenesis are expressed at the tissue, molecular and cellular level.
    • Cell Migration and Actin Cytoskeleton
    • Cell Adhesion to Extracellular Matrix and other cells
    • Microtubules and molecular Motors
    • Signaling in Cell Mechanosensing, Polarization and Migration
  • Computational biology: computational modelling of cell signalling pathways

 

Sew Wei Xin, Genevieve (sewweixi)

Senior Mentor

Life Sciences (Biology)

Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Mainly lie in the biology section, more inclined to corals of marine biology.

 

Current Research
  • Worked on profilic small interfering screening of host factors responsible for EV71 replication
  • Virology
Academic Interests
  • Neurology
  • Pharmacology
  • Stem cells

 

Tan Kai Sen (tankaise)

Senior Mentor

Life Sciences (Biomedical Science)

Current Research
  • Influenza virus, primarily focusing on antiviral research
Academic Interests
  • Virology, particularly in antiviral components against viral infection, immune responses against viral infection, mechanism of viral infection and replication and viral mutations.
  • My strengths are in fields of cell biology and microbiology and I'm also interested in animal biology.

 

Fan Yuguang (fanyugua)

Senior Mentor

Applied Mathematics

Past Research
  • Math modelling on queuing phenomenon on campus
  • Brownian Motion Theory
  • Brownian Motor (Computational)
  • Sensitivity Analysis in Bayesian Network
  • Stochastic Differential Equations on Feynman-Kac Formula (Theory)
Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Complex systems
  • Fractal geometry
  • Chaotic dynamics
  • Cellular automaton
  • Patterns in plants
  • Computational biology
  • Real/complex analysis and probability

 

Past Research
  • An Investigation of the Existence of Closed Timelike Curves and the Feasibility of Time Travel
  • Making Sense of Time Travel Paradoxes in Van Stockum Space-time
Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Particle physics
  • General relativity

 

Kwong Chang Jian (changjia)
Junior Mentor
Physics
Kwong Chang Jian
Past Research
  • Properties and Condition to Sustain A Traversable Wormhole
  • Quantum Carnot Engine
Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Biophysics
  • General relativity
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic physics
  • Neuroscience

 

Past Research
  • Quantum Dot - Carrier Relaxation Dynamics and Its Application in Solar Cell
  • Investigation Into the Correlation Between ZnO Nanowires Morphology in DSSC and Environmental Luminance Distribution
Current Research
  • Device independent estimation
Academic Interests
  • Computational physics
  • Quantum entanglement

 

Past Research
  • The Definition of A Second and the Atomic Clock
  • Stellar Interferometer Using Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect
Current Research
  • Towards Higher Detection Efficiency of Correlated Photon-pairs from the Process of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion
Academic Interests
  • Quantum Optics
  • Optics
  • Light interactions with matter, such as spectroscopy, etc

 

Past Research
  • The Definition of A Second and the Atomic Clock
  • Stellar Interferometer Using Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect
  • ISM: Advanced General Relativity
Current Research
  • Quantum Entanglement in Axially Symmetric Curved Spacetime
Academic Interests
  • Unknown

 

Past Research
  • Solvation Free Energies of Amino Acids using the Cluster Continuum Model (Computational Chemistry)
  • Monomer Synthesis of Telomerase-Inhibiting Ligand for Binding to Telomeric RNA G-Quadruplex (Chemical Biology)
  • Literature Review on Dye Sensitised Solar Cells
Current Research
  • Distributed Multipole Analysis (Computational Chemistry)
Academic Interests
  • Computational Chemistry: Distributed Multipoles, Solvation Studies
  • Keen on writing programs for comp chem. using Fortran
  • Would not mind venturing into physical chemistry or inorganic chemistry as well

 

Past Research
  • Effects of Water Flow on Feeding Behaviour and Mucus Secretion of Vermetid Gastropods (Vermetidae)
  • Erosion of Dental Enamel
  • Alzheimer's Disease: Clinical Insights and Molecular Pathways
  • Monomer Synthesis of Telomerase-inhibiting Ligand for Binding to Telomeric RNA G-Quadruplex
Current Research
  • Analysis of Ubiquitin
Academic Interests
  • Molecular Biology

 

Past Research
  • Ant-plant Interactions
  • Yellow Crazy Ants Invasion in Singapore
Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Biological Invasions
  • Interspecific interactions: Parasitic, mutualistic complexes
  • Epidemiology: Transboundary diseases spread and legislation on control

 

Past Research
  • Studying the Roles of Novel Protein, Aph2, in DNA Damage Signalling Pathways
  • Tissue engineering of skin and blood vessels
  • Stem cell research in zebrafishes
  • Ischemic-reperfusion Injury in Cardiomyocytes
Current Research
  • Proteomic analysis of molecular signaling pathways involved in the protection of the myocardium from ischemic-reperfusion injury by postconditioning using an in vitro model
Academic Interests
  • Understanding and elucidating protein signalling pathways which are important for the proper development of an organism
  • Identifying cellular survival cascades that are activated by respective treatments to protect the cell from further injuries, leading ultimately to cell death
  • Cellular DNA damage signalling cascade and DNA repair mechanisms
  • Autophagic processes of the cell
  • Cellular functions of miRNA in an organism

 

Past Research
  • Ecological Study on the Impact of the Invasive Ant, Yellow Crazy Ants to the Ecosystem in Singapore
  • Study on the Effects of MKP2 (MAP Kinase Phosphatase-2) on the Regulation of the Innate Immunity
Current Research
  • ?
Academic Interests
  • Immunology

 

Past Research
  • The Definition of A Second and the Atomic Clock
  • Stellar Interferometer Using Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect
Current Research
  • ISM: Investigating Positive Roots of General Solutions to the Second Order Differential Equation of the Form y"+(x^n)y=0 for all integers n
Academic Interests
  • Calculus