Cai Yu (caiyucai)

SPS Head Mentor - Senior Mentor

Physics & Mathematics

• Quantum Bell's inequality(CGLMP), polytope and dimension witness

• General physics especially quantum mechanics
• Crytography

Le Phuc Thinh (lephucth)

Senior Mentor

Physics

• Quantum Crytography (Reference Frame Independent Protocol)

• Nonlocality (Quantum Set and Bell's inequality)
• Quantum mechanics and relativity

Sandar Felicity Lim (sandarfe)

Senior Mentor

Physics

• 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

• Quantum field theory

• Theoretical physics
• Quantum field theory
• Quantum decoherence
• Integrable models in statistical mechanics
• Quantum information/computing

Thong May Han (thongmay )

Senior Mentor

Physics

• Distribution of galaxies
• Quantum Electrodynamics and Gauge Theories
• Physics of Black Holes

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• Astrophysics
• Cosmology
• Nuclear and particle physics

Yang Tzyh Haur (tzyhhaur)

Graduate Mentor

Physics

• Quantum Mechanics - Looking for symmetry in a non-symmetrical lattice (in short, looking for a needle in ocean)

• Funny funny and crazy crazy stuff in Quantum Mechanics- Entanglement, Teleportation, Decoherence , No cloning theorem, quantum-classical correspondence....
• Group theory and symmetry in physics

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• Organic Chemistry

Jessie Peh (pehjessi)

Senior Mentor

Chemistry

• Graphene Field Effect Transistor
• Protein 2D NMR
• Computational Chemistry Using Gaussian and Molpro
• Ab-initio Kinetic Modeling Using PREDICI of Radical Polymerization

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• Computational chemistry
• Organometallic chemistry
• Physical chemistry

Wu Jiang (wujiangw)

Graduate Mentor

Chemistry

• Catalytic Activity of Mixed Transition Metal Cluster

• Computational Chemistry based on density functional theory

Chiang Wei Min Sylvia (chiangwe)

Senior Mentor

Life Sciences (Biomedical Science)

• Unfolded Proteins

• Microbiology
• Cancer
• Unfolded protein response

Chin Wei Mun Eunice (chinweim)

Senior Mentor

Life Sciences (Biomedical Science)

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• 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)

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• Natural product isolation
• Drug discovery from natural products
• Cardiovascular diseases/ platelet aggregation/ plasma coagulation

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

• Environmental sensing and motility of hMSC cells on three dimensional nanotopography

• 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)

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• Mainly lie in the biology section, more inclined to corals of marine biology.

• Worked on profilic small interfering screening of host factors responsible for EV71 replication
• Virology

• Neurology
• Pharmacology
• Stem cells

Tan Kai Sen (tankaise)

Senior Mentor

Life Sciences (Biomedical Science)

• Influenza virus, primarily focusing on antiviral research

• 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

• 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)

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• Complex systems
• Fractal geometry
• Chaotic dynamics
• Cellular automaton
• Patterns in plants
• Computational biology
• Real/complex analysis and probability

• 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

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• Particle physics
• General relativity

• Biophysics
• General relativity
• Quantum information
• Atomic physics
• Neuroscience

• 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

• Device independent estimation

• Computational physics
• Quantum entanglement

• The Definition of A Second and the Atomic Clock
• Stellar Interferometer Using Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect

• Towards Higher Detection Efficiency of Correlated Photon-pairs from the Process of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

• Quantum Optics
• Optics
• Light interactions with matter, such as spectroscopy, etc

• The Definition of A Second and the Atomic Clock
• Stellar Interferometer Using Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect
• ISM: Advanced General Relativity

• Quantum Entanglement in Axially Symmetric Curved Spacetime

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• 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

• Distributed Multipole Analysis (Computational Chemistry)

• 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

• 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

• Analysis of Ubiquitin

• Molecular Biology

• Ant-plant Interactions
• Yellow Crazy Ants Invasion in Singapore

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• Biological Invasions
• Interspecific interactions: Parasitic, mutualistic complexes
• Epidemiology: Transboundary diseases spread and legislation on control

• 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

• Proteomic analysis of molecular signaling pathways involved in the protection of the myocardium from ischemic-reperfusion injury by postconditioning using an in vitro model

• 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

• 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

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• Immunology

• The Definition of A Second and the Atomic Clock
• Stellar Interferometer Using Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect

• 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

• Calculus