Biography
Dr Andy Tay graduated in 2014 from NUS with a First-Class Honors in Biomedical Engineering. He later headed to the University of California, Los Angeles for his PhD studies and graduated in 2017 as the recipient of the Harry M Showman Commencement Award. Andy next received his postdoctoral training at Stanford University before heading to Imperial College London as an 1851 Royal Commission Brunel Research Fellow. He is currently a Presidential Young Professor in NUS.
Andy is listed as a Forbes 30 Under 30 (US/Canada, Science), World Economic Forum Young Scientist and Top 2% Scientist in the World by Stanford University. He recently won the President’s Science and Technology Award Young Scientist Award, the highest national accolade for researchers under 40 in Singapore.
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