Professor (Dr.) Aaron Thean is the Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was previously the Founding Dean of NUS College of Design and Engineering, and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, where he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds several technical leadership responsibilities at the University including the Director of Singapore Hybrid-Integrated Next-Generation μ-Electronics Centre, Director of Hybrid Integrated Flexible Electronic Systems research program, and Co-Director for A*STAR SIMTech-NUS Joint Lab on Hybrid Flexible Electronics. Prior to NUS, Aaron was the Vice President of Logic Technologies at IMEC, where he forged partnerships with the industry’s foremost companies such as Intel, Apple and Samsung, and directed R&D operations in such areas as materials research, process technology and system-technology co-design.

Aaron graduated from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, USA, where he received his B.Sc. (Highest Honors), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (Edmund J. James Scholar). He has published over 400 technical papers and holds more than 50 US patents. Among his notable recognitions, he and his IMEC team received the 2014 Compound Semiconductor Industry Innovation award for their III-V Nanodevice work. He was also recognised for his research contribution to Samsung with the 2013 Samsung Collaboration Award from the Samsung LSI EVP.