Outstanding Service Award

"I believe in identifying talented staff, giving them challenging tasks, empowering them to take responsibility while cheering them on."

• Made major contributions to engineering education, research, science and technology management in Singapore
• Responsible for the establishment and rapid development of numerous research institutes and research centres in strategic disciplines relevant to the nation
• Helped to elevate NUS from a teaching institution to a research-intensive university, especially in the field of engineering
• Contributed significantly to the administration of the University previously as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Director of Research

• Director, Engineering Systems Initiative, since 2005
• Director, Centre for Management of Science & Technology, since 2004
• Chairman, China Initiatives Steering Committee, since 2004
• Co-Director, Singapore-MIT Alliance, 1998 to 2002
• Deputy Vice-Chancellor, 1994 to 2000
• Director of Research, 1994 to 1999
• Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1990 to 1994
• Vice-Dean, Faculty of Engineering, 1985 to 1994

• Chairman of the Board of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), since 2001
• Chairman, Intellectual Property Academy, since 2002
• Chairman, Growing Enterprises with Technology Upgrade Initiative, 2003
• Executive Deputy Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2001 to 2003
• Chairman, Health Sciences Authority, 2001 to 2003
• Chairman, Singapore Science Park Pte Ltd, 2001 to 2003
• Executive Director, Science and Engineering Research Council, A*STAR, 2001 to 2002
• Chairman, National Skills Council, 2001 to 2002
• Board Member, Defence Science & Technology Agency, 2000 to 2002
• Board Member, Economic Development Board, 2000 to 2001
• Director, DSO National Laboratories, 1997 to 2000
• Chairman, MOE External Curriculum Review Team, 1997
• Deputy Chairman, National Science and Technology Board, 1991 to 1999
• Chairman, Institute of Microelectronics, 1991 to 1996

• Panel member, International Review of UK Engineering Research, 2005
• Chairman, Automatica Best Paper Selection Committee of International Federation for Automatic Control, 2005
• Membership Chairman for Engineering, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, since 2004
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, since 1999
• Member, Council of International Federation of Automatic Control, 1993 to 1999
• Principal Editor (Adaptive Control), Automatica Journal, 1992 to 1999

• Foreign Member, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, 2000
• Honorary Senior Fellow, IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin, US, 2000
• Fellow, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 1999
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, US, 1998
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical Engineers, UK, 1990
• Fellow, Instrumentation and Control Society, Singapore,1989
• Fellow, Institute of Engineers Singapore, 1986

• IES/IEEE Medal of Excellence, 2004
• Distinguished Fellow of Singapore-MIT Alliance, 2004
• National Science and Technology Medal, 2000
• Public Administration Medal (Gold),1998