A*STAR NMC Leadership Team

Prof. Goh is the Executive Director of the National Metrology Centre at A*STAR.  Before this appointment, he was Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering at A*STAR and had held appointments such as Director of the Strategic Research Office and also Head of the Ceramics Materials department. Prof. Goh is the Covering Focal Point for the Sub Committee on Materials Science and Technology that is part of the ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation.  He has also held an adjunct position in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the Nanyang Technological University since 2005.

In 2017 to 2019, Prof. Goh held a concurrent appointment as Director of Special Projects in the Science and Engineering Research Council, A*STAR, where he scoped future R&D programmes and also oversaw electrification of transport and related matters in the Urban and GreenTech Office.  He also represented A*STAR on various working committees such as Land and Liveability, Smart Urban Habitat and the biennial MND Urban Sustainability R&D Congress. In addition, Prof. Goh is the founding chair of the Singapore Battery Consortium.

In the years before taking up management responsibilities, Prof. Goh led R&D projects under the 1st and 2nd Joint A*STAR-MND Green Building Thematic Strategic Research Programmes and also served as the Programme Manager for the 2nd programme.  He also initiated and led research collaborations with overseas institutions such as Tohoku University, University College London and the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focused on the deposition of functional and electroceramic films and nanostructures which can be utilised in self-cleaning, heat reflection and also electrochemical applications.  He has delivered over 30 invited lectures and has served on the Scientific Advisory Committees of international conferences in Asia and Europe.  He is an inventor of several Singapore, PCT, Japan and US patent applications. 

Prof. Goh graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (1st Class Honours) and Master of Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara on an IMRE Fellowship. Prof. Goh’s doctoral studies focused on developing a new, low temperature method for forming films of electronic ceramics while his master degree research investigated the fabrication of ceramic cutting tools.

Dennis Tan is the Director of Corporate Services at the National Metrology Centre, A*STAR. He is responsible for the smooth functioning of the institute's corporate and administrative processes, aligning them with statutory and research operations, and supporting the implementation of strategic directions and programs.
Prior to his current appointment, Dennis held leadership positions at A*STAR, including Director of the Organisational Excellence Division and subsequently Director of Leadership and Organisational Development (L&OD) division, driving initiatives to enhance organizational effectiveness, nurture talent within A*STAR and championing initiatives for the personal, professional, and career development of A*STAR staff.
Before joining A*STAR in 2014, Dennis spent over ten years in the in the technology and aerospace sector, and five years in other public sector agencies. He took on various roles in business analysis, innovation, organisational excellence and market development.
Dennis graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (First Class Honours) from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the National University of Singapore

Reshmy Pillay heads the Industry Development Office(IDO) at the National Metrology Centre, A*STAR.  Her main responsibility for her role in IDO is to lead the industry development activities including  planning & strategizing industrial development for research groups, including initiation and project management for industry projects, market & commercialize researchers’ R&D outcomes, industry, Legal contract & project agreement negotiation and Customer relationship management. She started her work at NMC in May 2019, and was in charge of the Research & Development Unit (RDU) where she was responsible to facilitate and coordinate research activities within NMC and in assisting the research institute in forging links with other research organizations. 

Reshmy started her career in the private sector in 1995, working in Hitachi Semiconductor for 12 years heading the quality functions covering incoming materials, in process QC, customer quality control, total quality management and failure analysis. 

Her first exposure to the Public sector was in Year 2007 at Exploit Technologies Pte.Ltd (current Enterprise Division of A*STAR), the commercialization arm of A*STAR, managing grants and project management for Flagship projects. She has successfully managed many projects funded under this umbrella. After transferring to the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in year 2010, she was responsible for managing the SnFPC unit that covered 12 labs in characterization and fabrication, and during her tenure at IMRE improved cross training of staff members on multiple equipment, utilization rates for equipment and project management and services function for inter-RI and also to the industry. 

Prior to her current appointment, Reshmy has worked at the Singapore Institute of Technology, between 2014 and Apr 2019, during which she focused in assisting the Programme Directors in the Academic clusters in strategic planning and commencement of new Degree Programmes and was the main liaison between the University and public agencies, including MOE.

Reshmy graduated with a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Chemical Engineering (1st Class Honours) from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kerala, India and obtained her Master degree in Business Administration, specialising in Entrepreneurship, from the University of Louisville in year 2000. She was selected and sponsored by the Economic Development Board for the Talent Conversion programme to Semiconductor wafer fabrication and was trained in both the National University of Singapore and in wafer fabrication training facilities in Renesas Japan (duration: 1.5 years) for the same. Reshmy was sponsored for several commercialization related programmes by A*STAR and has successfully completed the 6-month long Commercial law programme sponsored by A*STAR held in Temasek Polytechnic.

Dr Chua is the Head and Principal Metrologist and leads the Electrical Metrology Cluster in the development and maintenance of national electrical measurement standards in the scope of electromagnetic spectrum to establish international equivalence for Singapore’s national measurement infrastructure. He is overseeing the SI units’ realisation and traceability dissemination of electromagnetic measurement units through calibration and measurement services to the industry. Working with a dedicated team, he leads the Cluster to undertake R&D to advance metrology and deliver measurement solutions, provide metrology training, consultancy, and proficiency testing to the industry. His research interests are in the field of dc and low frequency electrical metrology and his current work are mainly related to the primary standards of voltage and resistance, ac-dc transfer, and energy efficiency measurement systems, and has published and co-authored more than 58 technical papers. 

Dr Chua has been involved in metrology for more than 32 years since he joined the Measurement Standards Centre (the predecessor of NMC), the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (SISIR), in 1990. He was involved in various national metrology infrastructure projects, such as SISIR’s Calibration and Measurement Centre, the UNDP/UNIDO’s project “Harmonization of Voltage Metrology in ASEAN Member Countries” that set up the first regional quantum based voltage primary standard in Singapore. He organised an Asian Productivity Organization (APO) funded review of Singapore’s national metrology programme and a MTI follow-up review on chemical metrology infrastructure needs in Singapore. He plays a key role in spearheading national electrical metrology capability development projects since 1990 and propel NMC’s electrical metrology Calibration and Measurement Capabilities (CMCs) to attain CIPM global metrology CIPM MRA acceptance in 2005. 

Dr Chua represents NMC at the Consultative Committee on Electricity and Magnetism (CCEM) and Asia Pacific Metrology Programme Technical Committee on Electricity and Magnetism (APMP TCEM). He was the inaugural Chairman of the TCEM from 1999 to 2002, Chairman of CCEM Regional Metrology Organisations (RMO) TCEM Chairs Group in 2005 and Working Group for RMO Coordination (CCEM-WGRMO) from 2007 to 2009. He was a member of APMP Executive Committee and Treasurer from 2007 to 2010 and was responsible for the liaison work for APMP in APEC’s Sub-Committee on Standards and Conformance (SCSC) and Specialist Regional Bodies (SRB). He received an APMP Award in 2013 for his contributions to APMP.  He has been invited to conduct peer assessments on electrical metrology capabilities for national metrology institutes and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in support of the CIPM MRA requirements. He is actively involved in standardisation and conformance assessment work and is currently a member of the Singapore Standards Council’s  Electrical and Electronic Standards Committee (EESC) and IEC National Committee, and a registered Technical Assessor for the Singapore Accreditation Council Singapore Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (SAC-SINGLAS). He co-chaired the Technical Committee on Thermal Imager from 2003 to 2011 that developed the world’s first Technical Reference for human body temperature screening using a thermal imager. He was a member of the Council Committee on Laboratory Accreditation (SAC CCLA) from 2006 to 2012, Chairman of SAC SINGLAS Calibration and Measurement Technical Committee (CMTC) from 2003 to 2006. He received a Distinguished Technical Assessor Award in 2005 and Quality & Standard Merit Award from SPRING in 2010. 

Dr Chua graduated with a BSEE (High Honor) from University of Arkansas, USA, in 1987, MSEE from Ohio State University, USA, in 1989, and Phd in Manufacturing and Engineering Systems from Brunel University, UK in 1998 under a SISIR’s scholarship, attached to the National Physical Laboratory, UK undertaking a project to develop ac resistance standard based on the quantum Hall effect.

Dr Cui Shan graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (1st Class Honours) and obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 

She joined A*STAR’s National Metrology Centre in Oct 2009 and assumed the role as the Director of Chemical, Temperature & Mechanical in Sep 2025. 

Dr Cui co-leads one of NMC’s R&D focus areas in RIE 2025 on Metrology in Digital Transformation. She initiated research in data-driven metrology for the emerging field of IIoT. As the principal investigator, she developed a data-driven sensing quality assurance technology for applications in demand-controlled ventilation (DCV), which demonstrated energy savings of 20% for a ventilation system in a Green Mark Platinum building; data-driven metrology for online measurement assurance in cyber-physical production system for a reliable intelligent factory of the future; and metrological evaluation of direct-write sensors for structural health monitoring. With her expertise in sensing quality assurance for building energy efficiency, Dr Cui Shan represented Singapore in an international task group dealing with the monitoring, sensing and control technology of the International Energy Agency's Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA EBC) Programme, and promoted A*STAR’s technologies for building energy efficiency. Dr Cui Shan is also a Steering Group Member of the Asia Pacific Metrology Programme’s Focus Group on Digital Transformation in Metrology.
 
Dr Cui Shan was included in the Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) List 2023 by the Singapore Computer Society. Her project on DCV in collaboration with the Singapore Management University was shortlisted as one of the four finalists under the most sustainable category in the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Awards 2022. She also received the Assessor Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards by the Singapore Accreditation Council in 2020, 2016 and 2014, respectively.

Dr Meng Yusong received the B.Eng. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. 

He joined the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore in 2009, where he is currently a Senior Principal Scientist I and Director of Electromagnetics, Time and Dimension at A*STAR’s National Metrology Centre and is responsible for overall operation and leading R&D activities in high-frequency metrology area including RF & Microwave and Time & Frequency (atomic clocks and related time transfer techniques). From 2012 to 2014, He was seconded to Psiber Data Pte. Ltd., Singapore, where he was involved in metrological development and assurance of a handheld cable analyser, under a national Technology for Enterprise Capability Upgrading (T-Up) scheme of Singapore. 

Concurrently, he is the Chair of Technical Committee on Electricity and Magnetism (TCEM) of the Asia Pacific Metrology Programme (APMP) from 2021 to 2024 and also serves as a Technical Assessor for the Singapore Accreditation Council-Singapore Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (SAC-SINGLAS) in the field of high-frequency metrology. His research interests include electromagnetic metrology, electromagnetic measurements and standards, and electromagnetic-wave propagations where he has authored/co-authored around 130 scientific papers and invented/co-invented 2 patents and 5 technology disclosures. Currently he is focusing on the development of next-generation optical atomic clock and its applications with local lead researchers.

Dr Meng is a Senior Member of IEEE and URSI. He was a recipient of the APMP Iizuka Young Metrologist Award in 2017 and the T-Up Excellence Award in 2015. He also received a Best Student Paper Award (First Prize) in 2017 as co-author, and the SAC Assessor (Bronze, Silver and Gold) Awards in 2016, 2019 and 2022 respectively.