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December
2016
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Asia/Singapore

Tech review lauds young innovators

Two young outstanding NUS researchers have been honoured as “Innovators Under 35” by EmTech Asia, in association with MIT Technology Review.

NUS Computer Science’s Assistant Professor Prateek Saxena was recognised for his contribution in cybersecurity. His work on symbolic tracing has been used to discover security flaws in Microsoft’s largest web product. In addition, his research on auto-sanitisation of web programs to make them robust against attacks has been adopted in Google Chrome’s extension platform and Google’s web compilation infrastructure.

Assistant Professor John Ho from NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering was selected for his pioneering research on developing wireless technologies for bioelectronics. When incorporated into tiny sensors and stimulators, they can be used to help treat diseases such as cancer and diabetes. By enabling smaller and deeper bioelectronic systems that control organs for better efficiency, these technologies could one day allow doctors to prescribe a tiny, wireless device instead of a pill.

The annual “Innovators Under 35” pays tribute to 10 exceptional researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs under the age of 35 from Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan. The list acknowledges their contribution in transforming the nature of technology to solve global problems in industries such as biomedicine, computing, communications, energy, materials, web and transportation. These young innovators will also automatically qualify for the global 35 Innovators Under 35 list.

EmTech Asia is MIT Technology Review’s annual conference on emerging technologies that matter, hosted annually in Singapore.