Institution:

NTU, Singapore

Current Positions:

Co-Director, NTI-NTU Corporate Laboratory
Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Associate Chair (Faculty), School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
Deputy Director, CNRS- International-NTU-Thales Research Alliance (CINTRA)

Professional Qualification

PhD Nanyang Technological University – 1999
MSc (ElectEng) National University of Singapore – 1989
BEng (Hons) CL 2A National University of Singapore – 1985

Professional Membership

Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Singapore (since 2007)
Senior Member, Institution of Engineers, Singapore (2005-2006)
Member, Institution of Engineers, Singapore (1997-2004)
Member, American Vacuum Society, USA (since 2001)
Member, Materials Research Society of Singapore (since 2002)
Member, IEEE, USA (1993-1996)

Awards and Honors

2022 – Prof Tay Beng Kang – Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials, 2022-2025, in recognition for his contribution to “Deposition Techniques”, from International Association of Advanced Materials, awarded in Aug 2022
2018 – Dr Lim Yu Dian (supervised by prof Tay Beng Kang) – Doctorate Research Excellence Award, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University
2015 Prof Tay Beng Kang The Long Service Medal from Singapore National Day Awards (MOE) To recognize who have rendered outstanding service.
2015 Dr Wang Xingli – Chinese Government Award for Outstanding self-financed Students Abroad – from China Scholarship Council (2015)
2014 Dr Lu Cong Xiang – Chinese Government Award for Outstanding self-financed Students Abroad – from China Scholarship Council (2014)
2007 IES Prestigious Engineering Awards (by The Institution of Engineers Singapore) In recognition of an outstanding project, Nano-Engineered Carbon Hybrid Systems, which has made significant contributions to Singapore’s development.
2003 NTU Alumni Service Award To recognize alumni who have rendered outstanding service and contributed significantly in furthering the interests of the University and its alumni.
2000 Singapore National Technology Award (by National Science & Technology Board) For their outstanding contributions in R&D on a new Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc Technology
1997 ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award (by AEFO, ASEAN Federation Engineering Organizations) For their outstanding contributions in R&D on a new Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc Technology
2010 Poster Award 10th International Conference on Applied Surface Engineering / 5th International Conference of Surface and Interface Science and Engineering, Singapore
2005 ”Diplomas of Distinction” for Student Papers, 13th POLYCHAR World Forum on Advanced Materials, Singapore
2003 Best Paper Award – International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings & Thin Films (ICMCTF), San Diego, USA
2004, Honorable Professor, East China Normal University, China

Biographical details

Professor Tay Beng Kang received his B.Eng (Hons) and M.Sc. degrees from the National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1989, respectively, and was awarded Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 1999. He joined the School of EEE of NTU as a Lecturer in 1992 and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Full Professor in 1998, 1999, and 2006, respectively.

Prof Tay is active in research and he is a pioneer in Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc (FCVA) technology. He has made many contributions in thin film materials especially in amorphous carbon, carbon nanotubes, nanocomposites and 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC). His current research includes the growth and applications of carbon based, 2D TMDC materials for thermal and high frequency applications such as thermoelectric, EM isolation, waveguides, etc. To date, Prof Tay has secured more than S$15M of research funding in which S$11.4M as the PI. He has published more than 420 journal papers with a Google Scholar H-index of 74 and 6 book chapters. Prof Tay is also the co-inventor of 17 patents in which some of these patents were exclusively licensed to Nanofilm Technologies Pte Ltd, which was established in 1999 as a spin-off from NTU. The research team was subsequently awarded the ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Award and National Technology Award in 1997 and 2000 respectively for their outstanding R&D contributions on a new Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc Technology. In addition, he was awarded the NTU Alumni Service Award in 2003, the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards in 2007, the Long Service Medal (Singapore National Day Awards) in 2015 and has been the IES Fellow since 2007.

Prof Tay’s research has been recognized internationally where he works closely with companies such as Nanofilm Technologies International, Excelitas Technologies, Thales Solution Asia where he also supervised several EDB Industry Postgraduate Programme (IPP) students. He has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences and universities. At present, he is the Deputy Director of CINTRA (since 2014) (https://www.ntu.edu.sg/cintra), sub-committee member of NTU Research Council (since 2017) and a member of NTU Senate Committee on Faculty (since 2020).