The Hip Laboratory
Kedar Hippalgaonkar's Materials by Design Lab
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
STAFF SCIENTISTS
Chellappan Vijila
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
High throughput optical diagnostics of thin films, Machine Learning guided material property prediction and optimization.
Email: c-vijila[at]imre.a‐star.edu.sg
Lim Yee Fun
Deputy Head of Department, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Building high throughput automated synthesis tools, Developing machine learning algorithms for experimental optimization
Email: limyf[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Balamurugan Ramalingam
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Design and implementation of continuous flow approach for rapid data acquisition in polymer synthesis, Data curation for machine learning workflow
DV Maheswar Repaka
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Solid State Physics, Magnetic Materials, Thermoelectric effects in hybrid materials, instrumentation and measurements using PPMS.
Email: repakadvm[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Pawan Kumar
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Thermal, electrical and thermoelectric Transport in bulk materials, high frequency AC transport, Low temperature measurements using PPMS/cryostat.
Email: pawankumar[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Beatrice Soh
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Data-based approach to predict and control dynamic systems, Design and implementation of microfluidic setup for acquisition of dynamic polymer data with changing environment.
Email: beatrice_soh[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Ooi Zi En
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Optoelectronic instrumentation, Cryogenic instrumentation, Ultrafast spectroscopy, 2D semiconductors, Quantitative phase imaging, Organic semiconductors, Solar cells
Email: ooize[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
RESEARCH STAFF - IMRE
Jonathan Khoo Zi Hui
Specialist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
High throughput Automated Thin Film Experiment, Electrocatalysis, Optimization of experiments using machine learning models
Email: jonathan_khoo[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Zhai Wenhao
Specialist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Solid State Physics, Thermoelectric materials, Ferromagnetism in 2D Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors, Electrical transport measurements
Email: zhai_wenhao[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Leong Chang Jie
Specialist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Energy storage materials, Photovoltaics
Email: leong_chang_jie[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Zavier Goh You Jin
Specialist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Rare-earth magnetic and electronic materials, Materials characterisation and analysis
Email: zavier_goh[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
RESEARCH STAFF - NTU
Dai Haiwen
Research Fellow, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests
Aerosol-based high-throughput nanomaterials design and phase optimization.
Email: haiwen.dai[at]ntu.edu.sg
Maung Thway
Research Fellow, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests
With the use of high throughput automated synthesis tools and machine learning algorithms, establish a methodology to accelerate material discovery.
Email: maung.thway[at]ntu.edu.sg
Jose (Pepe) Recatala
Research Fellow, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests
Combining materials informatics and machine learning to develop design guidelines towards discovering novel solid-state materials synthesized via high-throughput methods.
Email: joserecatala.gomez[at]ntu.edu.sg
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Andy Paul Chen
Research Fellow, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests
First-principles calculations of defects, grain boundaries, and interfaces in materials, Management of databases and workflows.
Email: andypaul.chen[at]ntu.edu.sg
Eleonore Vissol-Gaudin
Research Fellow, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests
Development and implementation of Unconventional Computing and Machine-Learning methods (Evolutionary Computation, Bayesian Optimisation, Evolution in Materio,…) to optimise the synthesis and manipulation of static and dynamic nanomaterials in high-throughout experiments.
Email: eleonore.vg[at]ntu.edu.sg
Shreyas Dinesh Pethe
Research Associate, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests
Laboratory workflow automation, High throughput experimentation, Solution processing of perovskites, Robotics for materials dispensing and patterning.
Email: shreyasdinesh.pethe[at]ntu.edu.sg
Cynthia Chew
Project Officer, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Email: cynthia.chew[at]ntu.edu.sg
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Daniil Bash
Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore,
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research
(co-supervised by Prof. Sir Konstantin Novoselov)
Research Interests
Flow synthesis and characterization of hybrid electronic composites, Development of high-throughput experimentation tools, CAD, 3D-printing, Rapid prototyping
Email: daniil.bash[at]u.nus.edu.sg
Tan Jin Da
Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore,
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research
(co-supervised by Prof. Saif A. Khan)
Research Interests
High-Throughput Experimentation, Polymer Synthesis and Design, Organic Synthesis, Catalysis, Machine Learning
Email: e0004151[at]u.nus.edu
Raymond Zhu Ruiming
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Machine Learning in Materials Science, Inorgance Crystal Material Properties, Accelerated Material Discovery
Email:
zhur0007[at]e.ntu.edu.sg
Nong Wei
School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
(co-supervised by Dr. Yang Shuowang and Dr. Wu Gang from Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science Technology and Research)
Research Interests
2D materials for energy storage/conversion devices,
Thermoeletrics and thermoelectrical materials, ML/AI-based materials discovery
Email: NONG0003[at]e.ntu.edu.sg
Syed Shah
University of Southampton,
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research
(co-supervised by Assoc. Prof. Iris Nandhakumar)
Research Interests
Email:
s.z.h.shah[at]soton.ac.uk
Pritish Mishra
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests
Quantum Photonics, Multiscale materials simulation techniques, Machine Learning in materials science, Electron microscopy, and Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots.
Email:
pritish001[at]e.ntu.edu.sg
Aniket Chitre
University of Cambridge,
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research
(co-supervised by Prof. Alexei Lapkin)
Research Interests
ML methods and molecular modelling for liquid formulations + automated, high-throughput experimentation
Email:
ac2349[at]cam.ac.uk
Andre Low
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research
(co-supervised by Dr Lim Yee Fun)
Research Interests
Machine learning in experiment design, bayesian optimization, constrained multi-objective optimization
Email: kaiyuana001[at]e.ntu.edu.sg
Sabrine Hachmioune
University College London,
Institute of High Performance Computing, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research
(co-supervised by Prof. David Scanlon from UCL and Dr Michael Sullivan from IHPC, A*STAR)
Research Interests
Thermoelectrics, defects, solid-state materials modelling, density functional theory (DFT), calculation of transport properties and phonons
Email: sabrine.hachmioune.21 [at]ucl.ac.uk
Nuttawat Parse
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Department of Physics, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
(co-supervised by Dr Supree Pinitsoontorn)
Research Interests
Machine learning applications on thermoelectric materials.
Email: n2208177l[at]e.ntu.edu.sg
Darshit Trevadia
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
(co-supervised by Prof Nripan Mathews)
Research Interests
Machine Learning in Materials Science, solar energy conversion through perovskite photovoltaics, battery materials
Email: n2203002g[at]e.ntu.edu.sg
ALUMNI
Wu Jing
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Fellow, NUS
Research Interests
Novel Physics in 2D materials (TMDCs), thermal, electrical and TE properties, nanofabrication
Email: wujing[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Ng Hong Kuan
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology
Research Interests
Thermoelectrics in 2D Materials, fabrication, Boltzmann Transport Equations.
Email: hong_kuan_ng[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
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Lakshminarayanan Madhavkrishnan (Madhav)
Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Machine learning algorithms to study charge transport in organic semiconductors, Polymer vectorization for property prediction and screening.
Email: madhavkris[at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Sharath Ram Kumar
PhD Student, NUS-Grenoble
Research Interests
Building an instrument for the high-throughput characterization of thin film thermoelectric materials, Material preparation
Email: sharath.ramkumar[at]outlook.com
Anas AbuTaha
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Thermoelectrics in oxides, conjugated polymers and hybrid materials
Now: Scientist at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Email: anasabutaha[at]gmail.com
Ady Suwardi
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Thermal, electrical and thermoelectric Transport in bulk materials, Machine Learning for Thermoelectrics, Low temperature measurements using PPMS/cryostat, VO2 oscillators
Email: ady_suwardi[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Wong Swee Liang
Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Research Interests
Process optimization for guided exploration, Applied machine learning for experiment datasets, Time-efficient large volume data preprocessing and analysis.
Email: wongsl[at]imre.a-star.edu.sg
Jayanta Kumar Mishra
Research Fellow, School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Research Interests
Thermoelectric properties of 2D heterostructures and the role played by interlayer excitons, Optoelectronic properties of perovskite TFT
Email: jkmishra[at]ntu.edu.sg
Yunshan Zhao
Department of Electrical Engineering
National University of Singapore
(co-supervised by Prof. John Thong and Prof. Baowen Li)
Research Interests
Thermal and thermoelectric properties of 1D nanowires, instrumentation, fabrication, TEM/SEM, FIB, thermal conductivity measurement technique
Now: Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
Email: yunshanz[at]nus.edu.sg
Liu Yi
Department of Electrical Engineering
National University of Singapore
(co-supervised by Prof. John Thong and Prof. Qiu Cheng-wei)
Research Interests
Thermal and thermoelectric properties of 2D materials, Raman Spectroscopy, EBL, nanofabrication, instrumentation
Email: yiliu[at]u.nus.edu.sg
