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SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE

RP'S EXPERTISE IN AGRI-FOOD INNOVATION Plant Physiology Nutrient Management Genetics and Breeding

Ritu Bhalla PhD (Botany)

OUR R&D EXPERIENCE

Plant physiology

Hydroponic growth of plants for research

Plant growth and development

Research on metabolic pathways to improve plant

Plant functional genomics

quality

Food and medicinal plants

Mutagenesis of rice plants for high yield Fatty acid production in Jatropha plants for bioethanol

Gan Eng Seng PhD (Biological Science) Plant development

Research and optimisation on environmental factors

Plant molecular biology

that increase crop yield

Plant physiology

R&D at commercial farm Molecular genetics of flowering genes

David Hu PhD (Plant Molecular Biology) Indoor farming technology

Research on agriculture 4.0 and unmanned urban

Plant molecular and cell

farming system

biology

Design of high density vertical farming system

Plant functional genomics and

(aquaponics and hydroponics) to improve crop

epigenomics

productivity, including light recipe for crop growth, plant nutrition, seed selection and automation

Plant Physiology Nutrient Management Genetics and Breeding

Jenny Chau PhD (Physiology)

OUR R&D EXPERIENCE

Molecular genetics

Growing of microalgae

Molecular cloning

Cellular signaling for DNA damage

Cellular signaling Transgenic and knockout

Gu Keyu PhD (Genetics and Plant Breeding) Molecular plant pathology

Isolation of beneficial growth promotion fungi in

Plant-Microbe interaction

vegetable

Plant genetics and breeding

Rice bacterial blight disease resistance genes Xa27

Plant biofuel and

and Xa10 cloning and mechanism analysis

bioengineering

Bioengineering of biofuel plant Jatropha Curcas

Plant molecular and cell biology

Ventris D'souza PhD (Biochemistry)

OUR R&D EXPERIENCE

Microbiology

Hydroponic cultivation of fruiting crops

Biochemistry

Biofertilisation of hydroponically grown crops for

Molecular genetics

increased productivity Protein structure-function studies in bacteria and yeast

Antara Chakroborty MBBS, PhD (Microbiology) Growth inhibition and

Development of plant model of infection

antimicrobial susceptibility

Shelf life study of fresh produce

testing of plant pathogen (bacteria and fungi)

Steven Fong PhD (Neuro Development Biology) Systems design (RAS &

Commercial farming

hydroponics)

Aquaponics

Aquaponics

Fish development biology

Molecular genetics

Cloning of disease resistance genes

Fish breeding (CITES certified)

Plant Physiology Nutrient Management Genetics and Breeding

Subha Vij PhD (Plant Molecular Biology)

OUR R&D EXPERIENCE

Plant genetics and genomics

Genomics, evolution, developmental biology,

Molecular characterisation of

barcoding, transgenics and functional

abiotic stress genes and gene

characterisation of genes responsive to abiotic stress

families

Use of novel zinc-finger transcription factor genes in conferring abiotic stress tolerance in rice

Teo Shuan Hao MSc (Horticultural Science) Plant ecophysiology

Area-wide pest management of diamondback moth

Plant-water relationship

Relationships between transpiration, functional traits

Integrated pest management

and environment

Crop production optimisation

Impacts of plant growth regulator application on

Vegetable grafting

tomato grafting

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

RP'S EXPERTISE IN AGRI-FOOD INNOVATION Engineering Sensors Energy Audit and Environmental Control Automation

Hong Ling Tim MSc (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) OUR R&D EXPERIENCE Industrial Internet of Things

Grading and sorting of harvests with deep

(IoT)

learning

Programmable Logic Circuit

Autonomous feeding and monitoring system for

(PLC)

local farms

Automation

Shrimps grading and sorting machine

Huang Jingfeng PhD (Materials Science and Engineering) Hydroponics and

Modular green house farming system

greenhouse systems

Cooling and monitoring of water pipes on HDB

Automation of nutrient

rooftops

delivery

Growing of moss as food alternatives

Environmental sensors and

Sea water based plant roof with automated watering

IoT

system

Engineering Sensors Energy Audit and Environmental Control Automation

Tony Tan MSc Science (Engineering)

OUR R&D EXPERIENCE

Environmental sensors

Artificial growth light predictive software

Artificial growth light

with analytics features and automated

IoT

control management

Papia Sultana PhD (Energy and Bio Thermal Systems) Energy efficient HVAC

Strategical improvement of energy efficiency of

Energy and mass transfer

building HVAC systems and low energy environmental

analysis for thermal systems

solution for urban farming

Climate control and environmental solutions for buildings and agriculture

Melvin Ng MSc Science (Smart Product Design) IoT

Grading and sorting of harvests with deep learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) /

Deep Learning for warehouse process

Machine learning Computer vision

SCHOOL OF INFOCOMM

RP'S EXPERTISE IN AGRI-FOOD INNOVATION Artificial Intelligence (AI) Internet of Things (IoT) Data Analytics

Tan Wee Siong MSc Business (Information Technology) BSc (Mathematics) OUR R&D EXPERIENCE IoT

Smart IoT in urban farming

B2B payment system with IoT

Wee Kah Huat MSc Business Administration (IT) BSc Science (Computing) (Hon) Data analytics AI / Machine learning IT system development

Plant growth optimisation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Internet of Things (IoT) Data Analytics

Hew Ka Kian BSc Engineering (Electrical & Electronics) OUR R&D EXPERIENCE Computer vision

Plant disease detection using computer

AI / Machine learning

vision

Neuro linguistic processing Chatbot

Yong Yoke Fong BSc (Computer Science and Information Systems) Post Grad Dip (Strategic IT) Grad Dip (Training & Development) Data analytics AI / Machine learning Text analytics Data visualisation Enterprise systems Business analysis Project management (PMP)

Plant growth optimisation