Ching Chiuan Yen

BIO

A/Prof YEN Ching Chiuan is the Co-Director of Keio-NUS CUTE Center, Deputy Director of NUS Centre for Additive Manufacturing (AM.NUS) and was the founding Head of Division of Industrial Design (DID) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also holds joint appointments with the Smart Systems Institute and Centre for Additive Manufacturing (AM.NUS) at NUS. His research interests lie in methodologies for design, and he champions a “pluralistic dimension” of design study and research, in particular, in the area of design for healthcare and medicine. He has worked with many renowned companies including: ABBOT, ASUS, BMW Designwork USA, Coca Cola, Creative, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, DELL, Estee Lauder, OSIM, National University Hospital, Samsung, Swarovski, Tupperware, and VISA, etc. He has successfully received over S$ 30M grant as PI/Co-PI/Collaborator from government agencies, universities and industries. His supervision in design is highly regarded and has received more than 50 top international or regional design awards, including, to name a few, the, Stanford Longevity Technology Prize 2015, Braunprize 2007, Luminary, red-dot award: design concept 2006, ACM CHI Student Competition 2016 and James Dyson Award (Singapore) 2012.

• DEGREES

• Doctor of Philosophy, Architecture & Building & Planning

• University of Central England in Birmingham, UK, Architecture & Building & Planning, UNITED KINGDOM 1999

• Master of Arts, Others

• Manchester Metropolitan University,UK, Others, UNITED KINGDOM 1994

• Diploma, Others

• Min-Chi Institute of Technology, Taiwan, Others, TAIWAN1987