About

Received my Bachelor and Master degrees from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, New York in 2005 and 2007. Obtained my Ph.D degree from Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics Department, Michigan Technological University in 2012. After spending 10 years in cold weather region, decided to go back to tropical region to experience some hot weather. Current he is Principle Engineer (or Research Fellow) in Satellite Technology and Research Centre in National University of Singapore (NUS).

Being introduced by Prof Andy Khong to Prof Kay-Soon Low by coincidently during the interview, I had the opportunity to work as a research fellow in Satellite Research Centre, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). I joined the team and successfully experience a full development cycle for VELOX-II (6U nanotsatellite) project, partial developement cycle for VELOX-I (3U nanosatellite) and ground operation for VELOX-PII (1U cubesat). I am luckily to have the opportunity to use my expertise to generate required mission planning software script for VELOX-II, and also provided the requirement for ground station software to enable the fully automated groundpass using VHF/UHF band communication. All of these has been verified after the VELOX-II satellite launched and extensively utilized. Besides that, I have the opportunity to lay my hand on X-SAT (first Singapore made satellite) groundpass operation, to help X-SAT operator to download the housekeeping data and WOD when the operator is away. I would consider myself a lucky person who has the chance to tried on various size of satellite ground operation, from pico to microsatellite.

After more than 4 years of serving in NTU, I had felt that I need to proceed to my next milestone. While continue my luck on academic position application, I was also receiving offer from ex-boss in NUS. Due to some reason, I decided to join there and continue the research fellow journey (or I would use Principle Engineer title for most of time). However, this is also a good experience as both NTU and NUS serve a totally different management culture even though they are in Singapore. This probably could give myself a more preparation in the future career.