Regular biography
Prof Tan Ooi Kiang is Deputy Provost (Education) at Nanyang Technological University. He is Professor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He joined the Nanyang Technological Institute in 1987 and held various leadership roles, including Sub-Dean for Students Affairs (1991-2000), Head of the Division of Microelectronics (2001-2006), and Associate Chair for Curriculum & Graduate Studies (2006-2010). He has also served in multiple administrative capacities at NTU. His research interests include Sensors, Actuators, and Smart Materials, Nanoelectronics, and Functional Materials and Devices. His work focuses on the design for electronics, bio-medical, functional sensor, and actuator applications.
Scholar-generated biography
Ooi Kiang Tan is a researcher at Nanyang Technological University with a focus on electronic materials and devices. His work explores semiconductor gas sensors, including the development of metal oxide semiconductor gas sensors and their applications in environmental monitoring. He investigates sensing mechanisms for carbon nanotube-based NH3 gas detection and the low-temperature growth of SnO2 nanorod arrays for hydrogen sensing. His research also includes the fabrication of TiO2-coated filters for photocatalytic degradation of gaseous pollutants and the synthesis of perovskite-type nanostructures for enhanced photocatalytic properties. Additionally, he studies piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers and their integration with microhotplate technologies for sensor applications.