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SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE
RP'S EXPERTISE IN AGRI-FOOD INNOVATION Plant Physiology Nutrient Management Genetics and Breeding
Ritu Bhalla PhD (Botany)
OUR R&D EXPERIENCE
Plant physiology
Hydroponic growth of plants for research
Plant growth and development
Research on metabolic pathways to improve plant
Plant functional genomics
quality
Food and medicinal plants
Mutagenesis of rice plants for high yield Fatty acid production in Jatropha plants for bioethanol
Gan Eng Seng PhD (Biological Science) Plant development
Research and optimisation on environmental factors
Plant molecular biology
that increase crop yield
Plant physiology
R&D at commercial farm Molecular genetics of flowering genes
David Hu PhD (Plant Molecular Biology) Indoor farming technology
Research on agriculture 4.0 and unmanned urban
Plant molecular and cell
farming system
biology
Design of high density vertical farming system
Plant functional genomics and
(aquaponics and hydroponics) to improve crop
epigenomics
productivity, including light recipe for crop growth, plant nutrition, seed selection and automation
Plant Physiology Nutrient Management Genetics and Breeding
Jenny Chau PhD (Physiology)
OUR R&D EXPERIENCE
Molecular genetics
Growing of microalgae
Molecular cloning
Cellular signaling for DNA damage
Cellular signaling Transgenic and knockout
Gu Keyu PhD (Genetics and Plant Breeding) Molecular plant pathology
Isolation of beneficial growth promotion fungi in
Plant-Microbe interaction
vegetable
Plant genetics and breeding
Rice bacterial blight disease resistance genes Xa27
Plant biofuel and
and Xa10 cloning and mechanism analysis
bioengineering
Bioengineering of biofuel plant Jatropha Curcas
Plant molecular and cell biology
Ventris D'souza PhD (Biochemistry)
OUR R&D EXPERIENCE
Microbiology
Hydroponic cultivation of fruiting crops
Biochemistry
Biofertilisation of hydroponically grown crops for
Molecular genetics
increased productivity Protein structure-function studies in bacteria and yeast
Antara Chakroborty MBBS, PhD (Microbiology) Growth inhibition and
Development of plant model of infection
antimicrobial susceptibility
Shelf life study of fresh produce
testing of plant pathogen (bacteria and fungi)
Steven Fong PhD (Neuro Development Biology) Systems design (RAS &
Commercial farming
hydroponics)
Aquaponics
Aquaponics
Fish development biology
Molecular genetics
Cloning of disease resistance genes
Fish breeding (CITES certified)
Plant Physiology Nutrient Management Genetics and Breeding
Subha Vij PhD (Plant Molecular Biology)
OUR R&D EXPERIENCE
Plant genetics and genomics
Genomics, evolution, developmental biology,
Molecular characterisation of
barcoding, transgenics and functional
abiotic stress genes and gene
characterisation of genes responsive to abiotic stress
families
Use of novel zinc-finger transcription factor genes in conferring abiotic stress tolerance in rice
Teo Shuan Hao MSc (Horticultural Science) Plant ecophysiology
Area-wide pest management of diamondback moth
Plant-water relationship
Relationships between transpiration, functional traits
Integrated pest management
and environment
Crop production optimisation
Impacts of plant growth regulator application on
Vegetable grafting
tomato grafting
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
RP'S EXPERTISE IN AGRI-FOOD INNOVATION Engineering Sensors Energy Audit and Environmental Control Automation
Hong Ling Tim MSc (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) OUR R&D EXPERIENCE Industrial Internet of Things
Grading and sorting of harvests with deep
(IoT)
learning
Programmable Logic Circuit
Autonomous feeding and monitoring system for
(PLC)
local farms
Automation
Shrimps grading and sorting machine
Huang Jingfeng PhD (Materials Science and Engineering) Hydroponics and
Modular green house farming system
greenhouse systems
Cooling and monitoring of water pipes on HDB
Automation of nutrient
rooftops
delivery
Growing of moss as food alternatives
Environmental sensors and
Sea water based plant roof with automated watering
IoT
system
Engineering Sensors Energy Audit and Environmental Control Automation
Tony Tan MSc Science (Engineering)
OUR R&D EXPERIENCE
Environmental sensors
Artificial growth light predictive software
Artificial growth light
with analytics features and automated
IoT
control management
Papia Sultana PhD (Energy and Bio Thermal Systems) Energy efficient HVAC
Strategical improvement of energy efficiency of
Energy and mass transfer
building HVAC systems and low energy environmental
analysis for thermal systems
solution for urban farming
Climate control and environmental solutions for buildings and agriculture
Melvin Ng MSc Science (Smart Product Design) IoT
Grading and sorting of harvests with deep learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) /
Deep Learning for warehouse process
Machine learning Computer vision
SCHOOL OF INFOCOMM
RP'S EXPERTISE IN AGRI-FOOD INNOVATION Artificial Intelligence (AI) Internet of Things (IoT) Data Analytics
Tan Wee Siong MSc Business (Information Technology) BSc (Mathematics) OUR R&D EXPERIENCE IoT
Smart IoT in urban farming
B2B payment system with IoT
Wee Kah Huat MSc Business Administration (IT) BSc Science (Computing) (Hon) Data analytics AI / Machine learning IT system development
Plant growth optimisation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Internet of Things (IoT) Data Analytics
Hew Ka Kian BSc Engineering (Electrical & Electronics) OUR R&D EXPERIENCE Computer vision
Plant disease detection using computer
AI / Machine learning
vision
Neuro linguistic processing Chatbot
Yong Yoke Fong BSc (Computer Science and Information Systems) Post Grad Dip (Strategic IT) Grad Dip (Training & Development) Data analytics AI / Machine learning Text analytics Data visualisation Enterprise systems Business analysis Project management (PMP)
Plant growth optimisation