LEADERSHIP TEAM

Mr Phua Han Tian is currently an advisor for Industrial Internet-of-Things Innovation programme (I³), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He was the founding programme director for this initiative. Han Tian served as a member of the steering committee for Future of Manufacturing (FoM) in 2016 as was asked to assist in starting IIoT programme in 2017.

He has four decades of industry experience at companies including Hewlett-Packard, Singapore Airlines & Eastman Kodak.  He was Corporate VP & Global GM at HP for business inkjet printers, covering R&D, marketing, manufacturing, quality, service & support functions with worldwide P&L responsibility. He started as an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard & was the first local R&D Director for HP Singapore, playing a key role in building its inkjet printer R&D team. He served on Institute of Technical Education (ITE) Board of Governors for nine years & chaired its Finance & Investment Committee. He also chairs ITE’s Electronics & Infocomm Technology Academic Advisory Committee since 2010.

He obtained his BS in Computer & Communications from University of Essex in 1980, part-time MS in Electrical Engineering from NUS in 1986, and attended the Executive Program at University of Michigan Business School in 2001.

Dr Daniel Cheong is currently the Programme Director for A*STAR’s Industrial IoT Innovation (I³) programme.  Daniel played a key role, first as the Business Development Manager, in setting up this initiative and establishing industry partnerships in 2017. He assumed his current appointment in April 2020.

Prior to I³, Daniel was a Senior Scientist at A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) between 2015 and 2017 and also from 2006 to 2013 where he focused on molecular simulations of soft matter systems, such as surfactants, polymers, and peptides and held appointments as Team Leader of Computational Chemistry and Programme Manager for Consumer Care.  Daniel has also worked in Medlinx Acacia, a medical device start-up developing surgical implants where he was the Business Development Director, as well as Covidien PLC, a medical device MNC, which was acquired by Medtronic in 2015.

Daniel graduated with a Bachelor of Science (with University Honours) from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University in 2006. He also obtained his Master of Business Administration from Singapore Management University in 2014.

Dr Yuan Zhimin is Deputy Director in charge of Technology Team at Industrial IoT Innovation (I³) Programme. The team develops capabilities for building up IIoT ecosystems and driving IIoT adoption by local industry. The team works closely with A*STAR RIs and IHLs on emerging technology development, such as, low power IoT edge devices, energy harvester, harsh sensors, embedded sensors, indirect sensing, and sensor fusion, etc.

Prior to his current appointment, Dr Yuan was Principal Scientist and Assistant Division Manager at Data Storage Institute (DSI). He worked in the areas of nano-metrology & instrumentation, integration of magnetic recording system, micro-magnetic modeling & electromagnetic simulation. He was Engineering Manager of DSI Thin Drive Programme led head, media, recording physics, head disk interface, servo, coding & channel, motor, and drive mechanics teams on individual technology development and prototyped 4mm thin drive from 2011 to 2015. He also led HDD technology roadmap development in DSI since 2005.

He held adjunct position in ECE department of NUS from 1998 to 2012. Dr Yuan holds over 40 patents and has 200 journal and conference publications in the area of magnetic recording for HDD applications.

Mr Pan Kia Teng assumed the appointment as Process & Infrastructure Manager in the Industrial Internet Internet-of-Things Innovation (I³) programme in November 2017. Kia Teng provides the process & governance of project management, manages I³ private network, finance budget reporting, as well as managing the facilities and second phase space expansion.

Kia Teng has more than 25 years of experience in the industry. He has worked in product R&D in a leadership position in Epson and various companies – including Kodak and HP - developing products from conceptualization to mass production, project management and product planning. Before joining I³, he was with Fuji Xerox and managing its service delivery operations in Singapore.

Kia Teng graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical and Production Engineering from the Nanyang Technology University and has a Diploma in Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

Ms Alice Ang is presently the Resource Manager at Industrial Internet-of-Things Innovation (I³). As Resource Manager, Alice is responsible for operations and finance, human resource (HR), and administrative support. She works closely with the HR partners at HQ on HR matters, Finance and Procurement partners based at Biopolis as well as ARTC Operations team on the shared services for I³.

Alice came from the hospitality and travel industries, with more than 20 years of experience in Sales and Marketing. She has worked with hotel brands like Shangri-La and Four Seasons; with Singapore Airlines Group, and more. Recent years of her career prior to joining Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), she also assumed operations and administration roles. 

Alice holds a Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from Singapore Institute of Management (SIM).

Mr Tey Wee Tiong joined Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Industrial Internet-of-Things Innovation (I³) in April 2019 as a Solutions Specialist and is now working as a Project Manager. His role includes the scoping of use case requirements, technical solutions and the delivery of POC projects to industry users and collaborators.

He has 20 years of working experience in the technology sector, of which the last 9 years, was in the IoT industry. First, as a Regional Field Application Engineer with Digi International that provide technical support for IoT RF & Cellular devices and Cloud based device management platform to AP customers.

Prior to joining A*STAR, he was the IoT Product Specialist at Singtel, providing Pre-Sales & Post-Sales support of IoT Connectivity, Fleet Management and Video Analytics solution to Singtel customer base.

Lok Chee Wei’s role as a Business Development Manager includes leading the business development team in recruiting and managing industry partners for industry-driven IIoT technology and processes, developing business plans, membership roadmaps and partnership programmes. 

Prior to joining Industrial Internet-of-Things Innovation (I³), Chee Wei worked at Dell Technologies as a program manager leading cross functional global teams and managing strategic, hardware, software, mobile and cloud solution programs. He was the program manager of the world’s first Windows Mixed Reality headset by Dell and led the complexity-reduction strategy for Dell Displays portfolio (US$4B). In addition, he ran a startup from 2010 to 2014, sourcing and distributing photography and studio accessories in Singapore. 

Chee Wei graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) from National University of Singapore and is also a PMP and PSM certified professional.