Dr. Meng-Hiot Lim joined the faculty at the School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in 1989 and is currently an Associate Professor. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD from the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the university, he worked as a Reliability Engineer for International Rectifier. This company is based in California and specializes in power MOSFETS. During 1999-2000, he was on a sabbatical with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla as a Visiting Associate Professor.

He is holding a concurrent appointment of Deputy Director of the Centre for Financial Engineering, a multi-disciplinary research centre anchored at the Nanyang Business School. The Centre, besides promoting multi-disciplinary research, oversees the highly regarded M.Sc. in Financial Engineering program. As one of the founding directors of the Centre, Dr. Lim has played a significant role in the planning and formulation of the curriculum of this program.

At the moment, his major funded project is with ST Engineering where he is involved in the development of an integrated problem solving environment and the development of algorithms for application in unmanned aerial vehicles. Before that, in 1990, he initiated the School of EEE's first National Science and Technology Board (now known as A*Star) funded project. As the principal investigator of the funded project in collaboration with Seiko Instruments Inc., he developed an on-line fuzzy-neural diagnostic system to help improve on the overall productivity of a critical process in the manufacture of crystal quartz resonators. In 1996, he won first prize in the AI Challenge Trophy competition organized by the Singapore Computer Society with his winning program, an evolutionary algorithm producing the best outcome for an operational research problem.

During his tenure with NTU, he has offered technical consultancy for companies and delivered specialized short courses. In 1997, he was engaged by SingTel Yellow Pages to undertake the development of a large-scale computerized resource allocation system. Within a pressing schedule of 6 months, he single-handedly implemented the turnkey system based on a multi-stage computational intelligence techniques tailored specifically for the problem. The system was successfully deployed and commissioned on the Company's mainframe machine. The solution replaced the tedious and time-consuming manual chore of balancing resources, which earlier required a significant number of personnel. Recently, he has been playing an active role in nurturing and supporting an internet startup to commercialize proprietary IP, both as principal investigator of collaborative R&D projects and as an advisor to the company.

Dr Lim is a regular participant/organizer of major international conferences and publishes his works regularly in technical journals. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man an Cybernetics – Part C, since 2004. He was the Local Arrangement Chair of the highly successful ICONIP/SEAL/FSKD-2002 held in Singapore. More recently, he has served as Asian Liaison in the organizing committee of IJCNN-03, held on July 2003 in Portland, Oregon. For the past few years, he has been cited in the Marquis Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who’s Who in Science & Engineering, and Asia Pacific Who's Who. He is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi and previously held executive committee positions with IEEE Singapore Section and IEEE Computer Chapter. He is a firm believer of the educational paradigm that veers towards empowering students to explore and challenge norms beyond classroom reality.