Dr. Lua Eng Keong
Dr. Lua Eng Keong is the Senior Director, Education Programmes, Science Centre Singapore, and Adjunct Faculty of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA. Prior to returning to Singapore, he was the full-time Faculty of the CMU and CMU CyLab research centers in USA and Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK), M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications with Distinction from University College London (UCL), UK, and both the Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching in Higher Education and B.A.Sc degree in Computer Engineering with Merit from Singapore. At Cambridge, he received Microsoft Research fellowship and UK EPSRC e-Science research scholarship. He had completed 6-month research internship at the Intel Research, USA. He was awarded the University of Cambridge College Senior Scholar prizes in Computer Science research, a highly coveted accolade that is bestowed to one scholar with research work that was deemed by the Tutorial Committee to be truly outstanding. He was the inaugural recipient of prestigious 2003 Australia-Asia awards, presented by the Australian government to promising Asia research scholar for research activities and collaborations in Australia. Since 1993, he had several years of academic experience in Singapore, and worked in the international consulting industry and research laboratories for many years - R&D/Consulting Manager on international assignments at the Hewlett-Packard R&D/Consulting, Assistant Director of Singapore government telecommunications policy and regulatory agency, and Senior Member of Strategic Research in the NTT Laboratories at Tokyo, Japan. His research areas include Internet-scale architecture for live online multimedia content communications and multi-player gaming; Information network security; social media engineering and networking; cloud-based computing and engineering; and future Internet architecture design. He has over 50 research publications and 7 filed patents.. In 2008, he co-authored and co-published a new book on "Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications", by Dr. John F. Buford, Dr. Heather Yu and Dr. Lua Eng Keong, Morgan Kauffman, ISBN 0-12374-214-5. 

Prof. Chew Yong Tian
Chew Yong Tian is a Past President of IES and Past President of the Biomedical Engineering Society Singapore. He is a Professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prof Chew received a BEng degree, with First Class Honours, under the Pahang Consolidated Company Limited scholarship, and a MEngSc degree, both from the University of Western Australia (UWA), in 1972 and 1973, respectively. He obtained a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1976, under a Hackett scholarship from UWA, and a Pochobradsky scholarship from Churchill College in Cambridge. Prof Chew joined NUS in 1978. At NUS, he held several administrative positions including that of Deputy Director of the Office of Research, Vice-Dean In-Charge of Graduate Studies and founding Director of the BTech programme. Prof Chew is Chairman of the Board of Examiners, Singapore Institute of Aerospace Engineers; and former Member of the Professional Engineers Board and the Engineering Accreditation Board. He has completed more than 80 consultancy projects for clients in Singapore and Malaysia, on Wind Effects On Tall Buildings, Hydraulic Modelling, etc. His research interests include Turbulence Measurements, Bluff Body Aerodynamics, Bio-Fluid Dynamics, and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Prof Chew is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluids and Structures, and was the Chairman/Co-Chairman of more than 10 international conferences. He has authored more than 300 international journal and conference publications, and has trained 18 PhD and 15 MEng graduates