Low Hong Yee

Head of Pillar, Engineering Product Development Director, Digital Manufacturing and Design Centre at Singapore University of Technology and Design

Low Hong Yee is Head of Pillar for Engineering Product Development at SUTD. Prior to this, she served as Associate Head of Pillar. She is also concurrently holding the role of Director for the Digital Manufacturing and Design (DManD) Centre.

Prior to joining SUTD in 2013, she spent about 13 years at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Her research interest is primarily in polymer science and engineering. She has co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed publications and is a co-inventor for 25 granted patents in the topic of biomimetic nanoimprinting. In 2010, under the funding support from A*STAR, she led an industrial consortium on nanoimprinting consisting four members from Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL) and 15 international industrial members. She had also served as a founding group head for the Patterning and Fabrication Capability Group between 2007-2010 and the Director for Research and Innovation between 2010-2012 at IMRE. Since joining SUTD her research activities have expanded to include high resolution 3D fabrication, active and transformative micro, nano-surfaces and machine learning design of micro-, nano-surfaces and carbon capture films.