Dr. Judith L. Swain is currently the Executive Director of the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences within A*STAR, and the Lien Ying Chow Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.  Prior to coming to Singapore she was the Dean for Translational Medicine and the Founding Director of the College of Integrated Life Sciences (COILS) at the University of California, San Diego.  She maintains an appointment at UC San Diego as an Adjunct Professor of Medicine.  Dr. Swain previously served as Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University and held the Arthur Bloomfield and George E. Becker Professorships.  Prior to her appointment at Stanford, she was the Herbert C. Rorer Professor of Medical Sciences, Professor of Genetics, and Director of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Swain received her undergraduate education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her medical education at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to Duke University for training in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine.  She then joined the faculty at Duke where she became widely known in the field of molecular cardiology, and pioneered the use of transgenic animals to understand the genetic basis of cardiovascular development and disease. Her current research interests are centered on assessing and enhancing human performance in extreme environments. 
  
Dr. Swain has served in a number of national leadership roles, including president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.  She has served on the NIH Director's Standing Committee on Clinical Research, the NIH National Advisory Research Resources Council and the NRC Commission to evaluate the organization of the National Institutes of Health.  She served as a member of the Defense Science Research Council and currently serves on the Board on Army Science and Technology.  Dr. Swain has served on international advisory committees including those of the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Association, and UK Medical Research Council, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.  She currently serves on the International Advisory Panel for Graduate Education of the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research, as a Director of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and on the SAB of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and as a member of the Academic Research Council in Singapore.  She serves as a director or member of the scientific advisory boards for a number of biomedical technology companies, and is co-founder of Synecor, LLC a medical device incubator company.  Dr. Swain has been elected to a number of honorary societies including the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Institute of Medicine. 

Keynote Speaker 2

Prof Dim-Lee Kwong

Executive Director of Institute of Microelectronics (IME)

Prof. Dim-Lee Kwong is the Executive Director of Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds the Earl N. and Margaret Brasfield Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Kwong is the author of more than 410 referred archival journal and 350 referred archival conference proceedings publications, has presented more than 60 invited talks at international conferences, and has been awarded with more than 25 U.S. patents. Professor Kwong was the founder of Rapro Technology in 1986, Micro Integration Corporation in 1988 and ASECTO in 2001. He has been consultant to semiconductor IC manufacturers, and materials and equipment suppliers in US and overseas. His current areas of research interests include Si narrow-wire based CMOS nano devices and applications, Si-based ultra-sensitive biosensors and lab-on-chip, and Si micro- and nano-photonics technology. 50 students received their Ph.D. degrees under his supervision.