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India Outreach 2015 NTU Supervisors & Projects (School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) S/N Supervisor Appointment Email Contact Title and Short Abstract of Proposed Ph.D. Project 1 BATES, Roderick W. Associate Professor [email protected] Organic Synthesis 2 CHEN, Gang Assistant Professor [email protected] Biophysical Chemistry; Single-Molecule; Detection & Nanomanipulation; RNA Structures, Properties, & Functions 3 CHEN, Hongyu Associate Professor [email protected] Synthetic Methodology for Nanostructures; Applications of Nanomaterials 4 CHI, Robin Yonggui Associate Professor [email protected] Catalysis & Organic Synthesis; Peptides, Proteins, Polymers & Nanoscale Structures; Functional Materials 5 CHIBA, Shunsuke Associate Professor [email protected] Synthetic Organic Chemistry 6 ENGLAND, Jason Nanyang Assistant Professor [email protected] Inorganic Chemistry & Organometallics
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India Outreach 2015
NTU Supervisors & Projects (School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences)
S/N Supervisor Appointment Email Contact Title and Short Abstract of Proposed Ph.D.
Project
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BATES, Roderick W.
Associate Professor
Organic Synthesis
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CHEN, Gang
Assistant Professor
Biophysical Chemistry; Single-Molecule; Detection & Nanomanipulation; RNA Structures, Properties, & Functions
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CHEN, Hongyu
Associate Professor
Synthetic Methodology for Nanostructures; Applications of Nanomaterials
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CHI, Robin Yonggui
Associate Professor
Catalysis & Organic Synthesis; Peptides, Proteins, Polymers & Nanoscale Structures; Functional Materials
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CHIBA, Shunsuke
Associate Professor
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
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ENGLAND, Jason
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Inorganic Chemistry & Organometallics
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GARCÍA, Felipe
Assistant Professor
Inorganic Synthesis
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HIRAO, Hajime
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Computational Chemistry; Bioinorganic Chemistry; Medicinal Chemistry
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KINJO, Rei
Nanyang Assistant Professor
p-Block Chemistry; Homogeneous Catalysis
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KUWATA, Mikinori
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Atmospheric Chemistry; Aerosol Science
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LEE, Soo Ying
Professor
Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy; Molecular Reaction Dynamics
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LEONG, Weng Kee
Associate Professor
Organometallic Clusters; Bioorganometallic Chemistry & Catalysis
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LEUNG, Pak Hing
Professor
Asymmetric Synthesis; Organometallic Chemistry
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LI, Tianhu
Associate Professor
Nucleic Acid Chemistry; Natural Product Isolation
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LING, Xing Yi
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Nanomaterials; Material Chemistry
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LIU, Xuewei
Associate Professor
Carbohydrate Chemistry; Medicinal Chemistry; Cell Surface Chemistry
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LOH, Teck Peng
Professor
Organic Synthesis; Green Chemistry; Chemical Genetics; Biomass Conversion
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LOH, Zhi Heng
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Attosecond Dyanamics in Molecules; Nanomaterials
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MATHEY, François
Professor
Organophosphorus Chemistry; Transition Metal Chemistry; Homogeneous Catalysis
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PHAN, Anh Tuan
Associate Professor
Biophysics; Structure of DNA & RNA; Engineering of Nucleic Acids & Proteins
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PUMERA, Martin
Associate Professor
Graphene Electrochemistry; Nanotoxicity; Nanorobots
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SHAO, Fangwei
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Nucleic Acid BioChemistry
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SO, Cheuk Wai
Assistant Professor
Organometallic Chemistry
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SOO, Han Sen
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Inorganic Chemistry & Organometallics; Nanomaterials & Material Chemistry
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STUPARU, Mihaiela
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Synthesis of Non-planar Extended Aromatic Monomers; Polymer Synthesis; Host-Guest Interactions; π-Conjugated Molecular Ribbons & Wires
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TAN, Choon Hong
Associate Professor
Synthetic Organic Chemistry; Green Chemistry
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TAN, Howe Siang
Associate Professor
Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy; Femtochemistry & Femtobiology
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VIDOVIC, Dragoslav
Assistant Professor
Inorganic Synthesis Main Group; Organometallics
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WEBSTER, Richard D.
Associate Professor
Analytical Chemistry & Electrochemistry; Environmental Chemistry
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XING, Bengang
Associate Professor
Fluorescent Imaging; Nano-biotechnology; Chemical Biology; Biomaterials
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YAMANE, Motoki
Assistant Professor
Synthetic Organic Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry
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YEOW, Edwin
Associate Professor
Single-Molecule Detection; Materials Chemistry; Polymer Physics; Nano Devices; Drug Interaction
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YOSHIKAI, Naohiko
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Synthetic & Physical Organic Chemistry; Catalysis; Organometallic Chemistry
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ZHANG, Dawei
Assistant Professor
Computational Biology; Molecular Biology
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ZHAO, Yanli
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Functional Nanomaterials; Molecular Machines; Nanoelectronics; Organic Synthesis
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ZHOU, Steve
Assistant Professor
Asymmetric Catalysis & Mechanistic Studies; Solar Cell; Medicinal Chemistry; Enzymatic Mimetics
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CHAN, Song Heng
Assistant Professor
Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory His research interests lie primarily in Number Theory, Combinatorics and Special functions, in particular, sums of squares formula, the partition function and various related functions, and q-series which includes modular forms, theta functions, and basic hypergeometric series.
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CHEN, Ning
Associate Professor
Discrete Mathematics, Game Theory, Optimisation, Theoretical Computer Science His research is mainly focused on applying algorithm and mechanism design ideas to problems with economic applications (e.g. sponsored search auctions, truthful mechanism design, optimal pricing, market equilibrium, social networks, etc.).
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ADAMS, David Henry
Assistant Professor
Lattice Gauge Theory Atiyah—Singer Index Theory, which relates the solution space of certain types of partial differential equations (PDEs) to topological data of the PDE, is a highlight of modern mathematics. It also has major physical consequences in gauge theories of particle physics where it implies a connection between fermionic zero-modes and gauge field topology. Thisexplains, e.g., the large mass of the eta’ meson in the theory of the strong nuclear interactions. Furthermore, a families version of index theory elucidates
the anomalies whose presence spoils the consistency of certain types of quantum field theories known as chiral gauge theories (which includes the unified standard Model of particle physics). This leads to anomaly cancellation conditions which restrict the allowable particle contents of such theories. Currently the only first principles approach to gauge theories (beyond perturbative expansions) is to formulate them on a space—time lattice. However, it is a major challenge to determine if and how the physical implications of index theory are captured in the lattice formulation. This amounts to developing a discrete version of index theory, a topic of major mathematical interest in its own right. It is a subtle problem, because straightforward discretization leads to vanishing index due to the appearance of spurious rough solutions of the discrete PDE. However, ways to deal with these have been developed, and progress towards a discrete version of index theory is promising. This is the main focus of my current research.
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CHEE, Yeow Meng
Professor
Computational Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, Mathematics of Biological Science, Theoretical Computer Science His research interests lie in the interplay between combinatorics, computer science, engineering, and biology, especially the following: a) Combinatorics of nanotechnology: low-power design, thermal-aware design, crosstalk issues, and test pattern generation for deep submicron and nanometer-scale circuits, oligonucleotide sequence design for DNA computing, quantum error-correcting codes. b) Designs, codes and cryptography: triple systems, block designs, pairwise balanced designs, group-divisible designs, t-designs, Latin squares, error-correcting codes, erasure-resilient codes, deletion codes, codes for non-conventional channels, combinatorial cryptography, algorithms and computational methods, applications in computer science, engineering and biology. c) Extremal set systems: Turán-type problems, packings and coverings, cover-free systems, applications in computer science and engineering.
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CHEN, Xin
Assistant Professor
Discrete Mathematics, Mathematics of Biological Science His research interests fall into the general areas of computational biology and bioinformatics, i.e., developing mathematical methods to solve biological problems. His current research topics include: ortholog assignment, operon prediction, and the minimum common integer partition problem. He is also interested in gene expression data analysis, protein-to-protein interaction, and promoter binding sites identification.
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CHUA, Chek Beng
Associate Professor
Convex Analysis, Optimisation His research interests are in continuous optimisation and convex analysis. The focus is on the design and analysis of interior-point algorithms for structured convex optimisation problems, the study of representations of convex sets with applications in convex optimisation, and the study of algebraic, geometric and analytic structures of convex cones.
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HOANG, Viet Ha
Assistant Professor
Multiscale problems, Numerical Analysis, Probability, Applications in Solid and Fluid Mechanics Hoang Viet Ha's research in Computational Mathematics concentrates on efficient numerical methods for problems with multiple scales and stochastic partial differential equations. In particular, he has been using sparse finite element methods to reduce complexity in solving high dimensional problems arising in these fields. For multiscale problems, together with his collaborator he has developed an algorithm that reduces significantly the complexity of solving periodic multiscale problems. He hopes to extend the method to non-periodic problems. For stochastic partial differential equations, he has been developing methods that achieve the same complexity as for a single deterministic partial differential equation. Hoang Viet Ha's research in Partial Differential Equations is mainly on periodic and random homogenization, and on bounding the effective coefficients. He is also interested in partial differential equations with a forcing term driven by white noise. He also maintains an interest on free boundary value problems, especially those that can be solved exactly by conformal mapping methods.
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KLAUCK, Hartmut
Assistant Professor
Theoretical Computer Science, Computational Complexity, Quantum Computing My research interests revolve around the quantum and classical versions of the communication complexity and decision tree models, in particular general methods to prove lower bounds for these models, as well as their applications and structural properties. Such lower bound methods are often based on combinatorial and algebraic properties of (Boolean) matrices resp. the Boolean cube. A particularly useful (but often hard to prove) property of some complexity measures is that several computations on independent inputs cannot be combined with significant savings. Investigating this is a recurring theme in my research. Recently I have also become interested also in the design of data streaming algorithms.
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KRICKER, James Andrew
Associate Professor
Topology The focus of his research is Low Dimensional Topology: the study of knots, three-manifolds, four dimensional structures and so on. His speciality is the study of topological invariants associated to quantum field theories (“Quantum Topology”) and their many connections with algebra, geometry and combinatorics.
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LIAN, Heng
Assistant Professor
Statistics He is most interested in Bayesian approach to inferences on change point model, its asymptotic properties, efficient computational methods, and its potential applications in statistical genetics, such as copy-number estimation for CGH arrays. He is also interested in a novel approach to nonlinear functional data analysis within the framework of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS). One other research project he is currently involved in is the statistical analysis of Chip-Seq technology.
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LING, San
Professor
Discrete Mathematics His research interests include: number theory and the application of algebra, number theory and combinatorics to coding theory, sequences and cryptography. His current projects include: algebraic coding, codes over rings, quantum codes, secret sharing schemes, cryptanalysis of hash functions, etc.
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NG, Keng Meng
Assistant Professor
Computability theory and algorithmic information theory This area aims to understand the relationships between the nature of computation and mathematical concepts. One can do this by studying the algorithmic content of sets of natural numbers (degree theory), sets of strings (algorithmic randomness) and generalize to the study of algebraic structures.
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OGGIER, Elise Frédérique
Associate Professor
Discrete Mathematics Her current research interests include applications of algebra and number theory to coding theory and different aspects of information theoretical security.
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PAN, Guangming
Associate Professor
Statistics His research interests include random matrices theory and high dimensional statistical inference. Currently, he is also interested in wireless communications, particularly large system performance and statistical signals detection.
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PEYRIN, Thomas
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Cryptanalysis, Symmetric-key Cryptography and Lightweigth Cryptography His favorite research topic is symmetric-key cryptography, in particular hash functions, block ciphers and cryptanalysis. He also recently got interested in lightweight cryptography, aimed for very constrained environments. Notably, he is one of the designers of LED and PHOTON, currently the smallest known block cipher and hash function. He was involved in the NIST SHA-3 competition as one of the main designers of the candidate ECHO, which has been selected for the second round of the process. He also proposed BPS, a format-preserving encryption scheme, which is currently being standardized by the American National Standards Institute.
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PRIVAULT, Nicolas
Associate Professor
Financial Mathematics His research interests are in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance, including pricing and hedging by the Malliavin calculus and sensitivity analysis, interest rate models and their associated derivatives, as well as exponential Brownian functionals.
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PUTINAR, Mihai
Professor
Operator theory, function theory of several complex variables, complex geometry, approximation theory Analytical homology of topological algebras Hilbert modules over algebras of analytic functions offer a semi-global framework for studying classification invariants (of curvature type). Methods of complex analytic geometry and operator theory are blended in this way in a novel, very promising framework. See for details the recent article S. Biswas, G. Misra, M. Putinar, Unitary invariants for Hilbert modules of finite rank, J. reine angewandte Mathematik 662(2012), 165-204. For the near future, we plan to extend our expertise to arithmetical geometry, and study the analytical K-theory of Hilbert modules of analytic functions.
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ROBINS, Sinai
Associate Professor
Computational Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory His research areas include Discrete and computational geometry, the combinatorial geometry of polytopes, analytic number theory and modular forms, and secure communications / cryptography. His current research interests include the growing interplay between the continuous volume of a polytope and its discrete volume, the latter defined by the number of integer points that are contained in the polytope. Many branches of combinatorics, discrete geometry,
and number theory can be unified using this interplay. Indeed, one of the main problems in encryption is to find the number of integer points that are contained inside a given parallelepiped whose vertices have rational coordinates. Some of his recent research deals with extensions of angles to higher dimensions, where generalized angles – called solid angles – play a role in defining new discrete volumes of polytopes. Some of the Number Theory that comes into the general analysis consists of Dedekind Sums and their many higher dimensional generalizations. Among the applications of the theory of discrete volumes of polytopes are the Frobenius coin exchange problem, the enumeration of doubly-stochastic matrices, new volume formulas for the Birkhoff polytopes and related transportation polytopes, and algorithms for integer flow networks.
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SCHMIDT, Bernhard
Associate Professor
Discrete Mathematics He is working on the existence theory of finite combinatorial structures (sequences, finite geometries, codes) with "nice" algebraic properties. To obtain constructions or nonexistence proofs, any useful methods are welcome, but the main tools he uses come from Algebra and Number Theory. This approach is often combined with heavy computer searches.
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WANG, Desheng
Assistant Professor
Computational Mathematics, Mathematics of Biological Science His major research areas are in the application of geometry modeling, numerical simulations techniques to problems in science and engineering. The focus is on the following three core problem areas: modeling and mesh generation, computational electromagnetics and computational biomedical engineering.
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WANG, Huaxiong
Associate Professor
Cryptography, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory His research areas are in cryptography, information security, coding theory and combinatorics. His current research interests include authentication codes, public-key cryptosystems, digital signature schemes, hash functions, provable security, broadcast encryption, secret sharing, secure multiparty computation, key distributions, Private Information Retrieval, stream authentication, cover-free families, perfect hash families etc.
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WANG, Li-Lian
Associate Professor
Computational Mathematics His research interest generally spans two areas of applied mathematics: numerical analysis and scientific computing, with a focus on the design, analysis and implementation of high-order, flexible and adaptive computational methods for a collection of challenging problems arising from physical and engineering applications.
Recently, he is working on the development of spectral/spectral-element methods for problems in unbounded domains and/or in complex geometries with particular applications in computational electromagnetics and fluid dynamics.
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WU, Guohua
Associate Professor
Discrete Mathematics His research interests focus on logic, computability theory and complexity theory. He works mainly on the algebraic properties of the structure of Turing degrees, undecidability, the effective aspects of analysis, algebra and combinatorics. He also has interest in reverse mathematics and set theory.
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WU, Hongjun
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Cryptography and Computer Security I am interested in analyzing and improving the security of communication and computer systems. I am working on the design and attack of symmetric key ciphers; and I am interested in analyzing the security of computer software. I am interested in exploiting security flaws in computer software. Software is the basic component of operating system and many applications. Finding software flaws is important for improving the security of computer system.
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XIANG, Liming
Assistant Professor
Statistics She is generally interested in the development of statistical methods with applications to scientific problems in the areas of medicine, epidemiology, public health and quality management. Her particular interests in methodological research lie in generalized linear mixed models, mixture models, survival analysis, statistical diagnostics and robust estimation. Other interests include multivariate analysis and statistical quality control.
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XING, Chaoping
Professor
Cryptography, Discrete Mathematics His research interests include: number theory, algebraic curves and applications to coding, cryptography, low-discrepancy sequence, sphere-packings. Some of his current projects are: constructions of block codes from algebraic geometry, quantum coding, space-time coding and sphere packings.
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CHIA, Elbert Ee Min
Assistant Professor
Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy of 2D dichalcogenides We will use ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy to study the dynamics of transition-metal dichalcogenides, to extract important parameters such as carrier density, carrier mobility and quantum yield. We will also study the free carrier recombination dynamics, as well as the interplay between the free carrier and excitonic populations.
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PATEREK, Tomasz
Assistant Professor
Quantum correlations in space and in time The project involves working out the relations between correlations obtained by measuring multipartite quantum systems and correlations in sequential measurements on a single system evolving in time. Besides their fundamental importance the finding may prove useful in certain distributed computations.
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SENGUPTA, Pinaki
Assistant Professor
Computational studies of frustrated quantum magnets We'll use computational methods to study models of interacting quantum spins on lattices with geometric frustration. The goal is to search for novel quantum phases with unique and controllable functionalities. We'll use our results to explain experimentally observed exotic phases in real quantum magnets.
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BARBOT, Sylvain
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Physics of earthquakes and tectonics - Short-term tectonics: Physics-based predictive models of the earthquake cycle in South Asia - Numerical modeling: Adaptive multi-grid
models of dynamics ruptures and the earthquake cycle
- Short-term tectonics: Physics-based inversion of geophysical data
- Short-term tectonics: Constraints on viscoelastic structure of continents from hydrological cycles
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DE LA MAISONNEUVE, Caroline Bouvet
Assistant Professor
Understanding volcanic activity and transitions in eruption styles through combined field studies, textural analyses, petrology, geochemistry and numerical modelling - Magma Degassing and Controls on Eruption
Style - Assessing the Hazard from Sumatran
Volcanoes - Linking magmatic processes to geophysical
signals at Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) - Investigating the controls on eruption style at
Merapi (Java)
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RODRIGUEZ COSTA, Fidel
Assistant Professor
Conditions (pressure, temperature, volatile contents) and processes that magmas experience below active volcanoes and how these relate to volcanic unrest phenomena. - Understanding volcanic unrest at caldera
systems with the 1971-present deformation and seismic crisis at Rabaul
- Reconstructing the plumbing systems and dynamics of magmatic processes below active volcanoes
- Crystal zoning database (CRYSTALdat) as a means of understanding magmatic processes and volcanic systems
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GOODKIN, Nathalie
Nanyang Associate Professor
Climate Change, Paleo-climate, Ocean Carbon Cycle - Vietnam upwelling and climate history of the
past 500 years - Northern Philippine upwelling and climate
change of the past 500 years - ECF impacts on Boron isotope paleo-pH
record
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HILL, Emma
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Geodesy, tectonic deformation, earthquakes, sea level
- 20th Century Sea Level Variability As
Recorded By Coral Microatoll on the Sunda Shelf
- Spatial variations in sea level and mass change from GRACE gravity data
- Sumatran Fault Monitoring (SuMo) campaign GPS project
- Sumatran Tectonic Geodesy (SuGAr)
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HUBBARD, Judith
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Active faulting and tectonics, structural geology, earthquake hazard assessment - Structure and seismic hazard of the Ventura
Avenue Anticline and Ventura fault, California - Building a Community Fault Model (CFM)
and Community Velocity Model (CVM) in the Sichuan basin and Longmenshan
- Geometry and kinematics of the Main Frontal Thrust, Himalaya
- Bangladesh: Active faults in the Chittagong-Tripura fold belt
- Active faults and seismic hazard in Myanmar - Uplift of the Longmenshan and the Tibetan
Plateau - Structural setting of the 2008 M7.9
Wenchuan, China, earthquake
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KOH, Tieh Yong
Associate Professor
Atmospheric Dynamics and Modelling Dispersion and Mixing of Atmospheric Tracers
- Southeast Asian Weather Studies - Regional climate modeling - Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) in
Southeast Asia - Fundamental Tropical Atmospheric
Dynamics
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KUWATA, Mikinori
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Atmospheric chemistry
- Laboratory experiments on haze originated from wildfires
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RUBIN, Charles Martin
Associate Professor
Paleoseismology and earthquake hazards - Paleotsunami history of northwestern Aceh
Province, Sumatra, Indonesia - Ground Penetrating Radar of Paleo-Tsunami
Deposits from Phra Thong Island, Thailand
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SIEH, Kerry Edward
Professor
Paleoseismology
- Sumatran Paleoseismic study - Earthquake geology of New Guinea - Earthquake Geology of Myanmar - Post-earthquake investigations - Taiwan - Sumatra - Mono craters - San Andreas fault - Los Angeles urban tectonics - Alaska
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WANG, Xianfeng
Nanyang Assistant Professor
Paleoclimatology, Isotope Geochemistry. - Coral-based Climate Variability in the
Eastern Bay of Bengal during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age
- Tectonics, sea level and climate change in northen Red Sea: a coral perspective from Tiran Island, Red Sea
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TAISNE, Benoit
Assistant Professor
Fluid mechanics applied to magma transports. Understanding volcanic processes through field data analysis - Using an infrasonic array in Singapore to
monitor volcanoes - Using corals as tape recorders of past
volcanic activity - Anticipating and measuring the explosivity of
volcanic eruptions - Dynamics of the deeper part of explosive
volcanic systems - Using seismic data to track magma transport - Volcanic ash as a hazard to aviation in
Southeast Asia
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TAPPONNIER, Paul
Professor
Tectonics and earthquake research Continental dynamics and tectonics, particularly in the Asian and Mediterranean regions; active faulting and seismotectonics; earthquake hazard assessment; quantitative geomorphology; state-of-the-art determination of current rates of active deformation processes; and rock mechanics and rock deformation physics. - Discrete Element Modelling of Fault
Nucleation and Propagation in Collision Zones
- Earthquake ruptures in China: testing seismic faults behaviour models
- Kinematics of the Bengal-Assam Syntaxis - Nepal Seismotectonics
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WEI, Shengji
Assistant Professor
My research interests are mainly focused on earthquake source studies both in real time and later in-depth research. Slab structures and their impact on source studies are also part of interest. Besides working on waveform modeling, I also include results from geodesy such as optical and SAR imaging of ground deformation in earthquake study. My research experiences cover both natural and man-made earthquakes. My approach for resolving the kinematic nature of earthquakes involves the combination of geodesy, geology and seismology to better constrain the spatial-temporal evolution of seismic rupture properties. Besides reconciling various datasets, I have developed techniques that
allow waveform inversions to be extended to the higher frequency (>1Hz) range of relevance for damage assessment. Path calibrations also allow us to report earthquake source parameters more accurately in real time, and warnings can be issued based on these information. - real time seismology in Southeast Asia - earthquake focal mechanism inversion
kinematic finite fault inversion, involving joint constraints from geodetic, seismological, tsunami and field observations strong ground motion simulation with 3-dimensional velocity structure and their potential application to earthquake engineering
- crustal to upper mantle scale velocity structure study, aim to establish path calibrations for earthquake studies and image slab structure in the subduction zones
