School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Research Interests
Thermal Imaging / Thermography
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Imaging
Computational Turbomachinery / CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Numerical Heat Transfer
Micro-scale Cooling
Human Physiology
Human Eye Biomechanics
Burn Injury Thermal Physics
Breast Cancer Detection via Thermography
Professional Affiliations
- Lead Editor-in-Chief for ISI Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (since 2000)
- Founding Editor-in-Chief for ISI indexed Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics
- Strategy Associate Editor-in-Chief for World Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Associate Editor for eight refereed international journals including International Journal of Rotating Machinery
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal
- Chinese Journal of Medicine
- The Open Medical Informatics Journal
- Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering
- The Open Numerical Methods Journal
- and Journal of Healthcare Engineering
- Guest Editor for International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
- Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
- and International Journal of Medical Systems
- President of IETI Singapore Society
- Panel Member for the Biomedical Standards Committee
- Singapore
- Fellow of SAF-NTU Academy
- Adjunct NUH Scientist
Academic Honors
- Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Austria)
- European Academy of Sciences (Greece)
- Fellow (Life) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME-USA)
- Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE-USA)
- Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET-UK)
- Fellow of International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI-HK)
- Academician of Asia-Pacific Technological Sciences Academy (APTSA-HK)
- Distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI-HK-CN)
- Inaugural Fellow of National Academy of Technology (NAT-USA)
Professional Experience
B.Eng (Class I) from University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) / Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering from University of Cambridge (UK) with Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship / PG Diploma in Teaching Higher Education from National Institute of Education (NIE-NTU)
B.Eng (Class I) from University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) / Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering from University of Cambridge (UK) with Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship / PG Diploma in Teaching Higher Education from National Institute of Education (NIE-NTU)
Biography
1992–Present: Faculty member, progressing to Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore / Also serves as Assistant Chair (Alumni) within the same school
Awards & Recognition
- 2024 AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2024 induction
- 2024 2nd IETI Ramesh Agarwal Lifetime Achievement Award in Science
- Engineering or Technology
- 2022 Alumni Highly Commended Award from the Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle upon Tyne University
- Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship (for PhD)
- Included in the Stanford list of the World''s top 2% Scientists since 2019 (ranked <80 out of 64
- 425 as 0.001% in the field of Biomedical Engineering)
- Ranked #5 Worldwide in Google Scholar (h-index: 68) under Biomedical category
Publications & Representative Works
Complete Bibliography
and biomedical engineering. He has co-invented 3 US patents for early breast cancer detection and his work on eye biomechanics is applied in space suit thermal protection.
Prof. Eddie Yin-Kwee Ng is an Associate Professor at NTU''s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a globally recognized expert in thermal imaging
