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.

Dr. KOH was the Programme Director/Principal Research Scientist at Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University (NTU) leading the national technology consortium, Smart Grid and Power Electronics Consortium Singapore, translating Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) intellectual properties and know-how to industries for economically viable commercialization solutions. In addition, he has curated the Standards Development Organisation at NTU in partnership with Enterprise Singapore and contributed as one of the steering committee members. He has several patents and technological disclosures in the power and energy domain.

Dr. KOH has been supervising post-graduate students in the sustainable smart city domain. The Singapore University of Social Sciences has awarded him a five-year Lecturer Service Award for serving as an Adjunct Professor. He has lectured post-graduate students as an Adjunct Faculty with Newcastle University in Singapore.

Before joining the IHLs, he held several managerial positions in multi-national companies and small & medium enterprises with expertise in industrial automation.

He has graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class) and Doctor of Philosophy from NTU and was awarded book prizes and scholarships.

Ms Leow Guat Hiong assumed the appointment as Deputy Director in the Administration Department at the National Metrology Centre in April 2018. As Deputy Director, Ms Leow leads the Administration Department to provide customer support to about 500 customers and to provide professional administrative support and office management to colleagues and supervisors for matters related to HR, Finance and IT to ensure all procedures comply with the Finance, HR and IT policies. She also plays a key role in implementing and maintaining an effective quality system according to the international standard on General Requirements for competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories.

Ms Leow also plays the role as the key co-ordinator for NMC to be peer reviewed by the international experts so as to fulfil the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) requirements. Ms Leow was also one of the key personnel in handling Health, Safety and Environment activities to comply safety requirements to create safe workplace till Year 2014.
Ms Leow graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University and received the Long Service Medal National Day Awards in Year 2014.

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 Ooi Thian Ngan assumed the appointment as Deputy Director in the Research Development Unit at the National Metrology Centre in January 2022. As Deputy Director, Dr Ooi works closely with the team on research road mapping and strategic planning to steer the R&D activities in the right direction. He also works with researchers to craft R&D proposals and oversees project management SOPs and policies.

He plays a key role in leading the effort in Additive Manufacturing (AM) as AM is identified as one of the strategic focus areas of the institute. He is also being tasked to guide and motivate researchers for R&D planning to develop measurement solutions in Quantum Metrology, Digitalisation in Metrology and Sustainability.

Dr Ooi graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Applied Science from the Department of Materials Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. Dr Ooi’s doctoral studies focused on the isotope exchange studies of oxidation mechanisms in nickel-base superalloys using FIB-SIMS techniques.

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 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 Head of Electromagnetics and Time Metrology Cluster 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.

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 Head of Acoustic, Chemical and Temperature Metrology Cluster in Sep 2023. 

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.

Mr Lee Shih Mean is currently the Head of the Mass, Flow & Mechanical Metrology cluster, in-charge of the Mass & Force, Pressure & Flow laboratories at the National Metrology Centre, A*STAR. He has over 30 years of experience in various mechanical measurement fields and is responsible for the scientific work related to the establishment, maintenance and dissemination of the SI measurement quantity for mass, force, fluid flow (liquid & gas), pressure, vacuum in Singapore as well as the metrology related R&D activities in NMC. 

He is a qualified SAC-SINGLAS  and HKLAS  technical assessor, involved in the assessment of laboratories seeking accreditation. He is also an established internationally recognised metrology expert and has over the years been invited to assessed various national metrology institutes around the world, namely, the Standards and Calibration Laboratory (SCL, Hong Kong), the Vietnam Metrology Institute (VMI, Vietnam), the National Metrology Laboratory - SIRIM (NML-SIRIM, Malaysia), the National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA), the National Institute of Metrology of China (NIM), the National Metrology Institute of Indonesia (Puslit KIM-LIPI) and the National Metrology Institute of Australia (NMIA). He has also been invited by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) as a technical expert in the evaluation team organized by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany to support & strengthening regional cooperation & integration in the field of quality infrastructure for south Asian countries in Bhutan & India.

He was the Quality Manager for NMC from 2002 to 2006 and was responsible for implementing the ISO/IEC 17025 based quality system in the Centre, arranged and coordinated the international peer assessment of the NMC from 2004 to 2005 to fulfil the requirements of the CIPM MRA . 

He was the Chairman of the Technical Committee for the Mass & Related Quantities (TCM) in the Asia Pacific Metrology Programme (APMP) from 2015 to 2018. He also actively represented NMC at the Consultative Committee for Mass and Related Quantities (CCM) and its Working Groups held in the International Bureau for Weights & Measures (BIPM) that discusses international mass & related quantities metrology issues. 

Over the years, he has also published and presented more than 20 technical papers in various international journals and international conferences, winning the Best Paper Award at the NCSL International Workshop & Symposium 2008, held in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Dr. Yu Shengkai is the Assistant Head of Optical Metrology Cluster, National Metrology Centre (NMC) at A*STAR. He is also a Senior Scientist focusing on dimensional metrology, metrology for digital transformation, and metrology for additive manufacturing. Currently he is a member of the Technical Committee for Nanotechnology of Singapore Chemical Industry Council (SCIC), a member of ASTM Committee F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies, a member of APMP focus group on Digital Transformation in Metrology, and also an authorized technical assessor for the Singapore Accreditation Council - Singapore Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (SAC-SINGLAS). 

Before joining NMC in 2017, Dr. Yu had 17 years’ R&D experience on data storage systems and devices, especially on ultra-thin film, and nano-scaled interface system. His research areas include surface and thin film characterization, nano-mechanics and tribology, aerodynamics, heat transfer and thermal analysis, and multidisciplinary design optimization, etc.

Dr. Yu graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Engineering degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and obtained his PhD from School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Nanyang Technological university, Singapore.