Louis Phee 

Professor Louis Phee is the Vice President (Innovation & Entrepreneurship) and the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Concurrently, he is the Chairman of NTUitive Pte Ltd, the Tech Transfer Office of NTU, and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore.  

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Louis was Dean of the College of Engineering, NTU, from 2018–24. He is the co-founder of two NTU start-ups and is an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurial faculty and students.  

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He was awarded the Young Scientist Award (2006), the Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award (2007), the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award (2011), the President’s Technology Award (2012), the Nanyang Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award (2013) and the Nanyang Alumni Achievement Award (2017). He was also a recipient of the prestigious National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigator Award. 

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Louis obtained his PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2002 on a European Union scholarship. He graduated from NTU with the B.Eng (Hons) and M.Eng degrees in 1996 and 1999, respectively. His research interests include Medical Robotics and Mechatronics in Medicine.