Prof. Louis Phee’s Lab
Professor Louis Phee is the Vice President (Innovation & Entrepreneurship) and the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Concurrently, he is the Acting Chairman of NTUitive Pte Ltd, the Tech Transfer Office of NTU, and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He was Dean of the College of Engineering, NTU, from 2018 till 2024. He graduated from NTU with the B.Eng (Hons) and M.Eng degrees in 1996 and 1999 respectively. He obtained his PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy in 2002 on a European Union scholarship. His research interests include Medical Robotics and Mechatronics in Medicine. He was a recipient of the prestigious National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigator Award. He is the co-founder of 2 NTU start-ups and is an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurial faculty and students. He was awarded the Young Scientist Award (2006), the Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award (2007), the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award (2011), the President’s Technology Award (2012), the Nanyang Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award (2013) and the Nanyang Alumni Achievement Award (2017).
Highlights
Our Research
Our research works focus on Medical Robotics, Soft Robotics and Mechatronics in Medicine, with a special emphasis on the following areas:
- Magnetically Actuated Ingestible Weight Management Capsule
- Advanced Medical Robotics for Minimally Invasive Surgery
- SGSR: An Extra Dimension of Grasping
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Robotic Thyroidectomy
Our Spinoffs
We are seeking to bolster innovation and entrepreneurship at NTU
Our Team
Our team is composed of talented researchers and students from diverse backgrounds.