Biographical Information

Eddie Ng was born in Pulau Tekong, an island of Singapore with wonderful childhood. He worked as Marine Engineer in Exxon Tankers Fleet from 1983-1985 after obtained his Diploma from Singapore Polytechnic and then proceeded to obtaining a B.Eng (1st CL) from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1988. Eddie pursued his Ph.D (1992) at Queens' College and Whittle Research Laboratory at Cambridge University (England) with Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship, ORS Award and Tan Kah Kee PGS etc. He further obtained the PGDip. in Teaching Higher Education from National Institute of Education (S'pore). Eddie is an Assoc. Professor & Assist. Chair (Alumni) at the Nanyang Technological University in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Senior Hall Fellow for Hall of Residence 5.

He is a:

·         co-Editor-in-Chief  (Since 2006-) for the Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, The first Journal to Publish Original Research Articles in ALL Fields of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology;

·         Editor-in-Chief  (Since 2011-) for the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics;

·         Strategy Assoc. Editor-in-Chief (2010-) for World Journal of Clinical Oncology, (Open-Access, China);

 

·         Adjunct National University Hospital Scientist (an honorary basis till 2008, it aims in sharing the vision of translating scientific findings for the benefit of patients in health care for Singaporeans).

·         Regional Editor (since 1998, South East Asia) of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Journal based in Japan;

·         Associate Editor (2004-) for the Int. Journal of Rotating Machinery (USA).

·         Guest Editor (Special Issues in Computational Mechanics, 13(6), 2000) for the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology;

·         Guest Editor (Special Issues in Biomedical Engg. & IT, 21(2), 2004) for the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology;

·         Associate Editor (2001-2006, Asia) for the Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (JMMB) which is based in Michigan, USA by World Scientific Press;

·         Member of Editorial Board (Nov. 2005-) for Chinese Medical Journals, Chinese Journal of Medicine, (Zhonghua Xilie Yixue Zazhi, China),

·         Editorial Board Member of (Jan. 2010-) for International Journal of Breast Cancer (USA);

·         Editorial Board Member of (2009-) for J. of Bionanoscience (www.aspbs.com/jbns), and, J. of Scientific Conf. Proceedings, (USA) (www.aspbs.com/jcp);

·         Editorial Board Member of The Open Medical Informatics Journal (Dec 2007-), Bentham Science Publishers, http://www.bentham.org/open/tominfoj/EBM.htm

·         Editorial Board Member of The Open Numerical Methods Journal (2008-): http://www.bentham.org/open/tonumj/EBM.htm

·         Editorial Board Member (Jun. 2009-) for Journal of Healthcare Engineering, (UK): http://www.multi-science.co.uk/jhe.htm ,

 

o   Member of the Inter. Advisory Committee of the XIII Int. Conf. on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (Taiwan, 2003).

·         Member for both the International Scientific Committee of 1st Int. Symposium on Micro & Nano Technology (http://www.ismnt.com, Hawaii, USA), and, 15th Int. Symposium on Transport Phenomena (Bangkok, 2003). Also, the Technical Committee Member of the Int. Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 2003 Symposium on MEMs.

·         International Scientific Committee for The 2nd International Symposium on Micro & Nano Technology, March 2006 Hsinchu, Taiwan. (ISMNT-2, http://www.mems.nthu.edu.tw/ismnt-2)

·         International Scientific Committee for 15th Int. Conf. on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (Singapore, Dec. 2006).

·         Co-Chairman for 15th Int. Conf. on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (Singapore, Dec. 2006).

·         Technical member (invited speaker) of the Ad-hoc Technical Ref. Cmtte. on Thermal Imagers for SARS screening (parts 1&2) under Medical Technology Standards Cmtte. By SPRING, S’pore (representing NTU).

·         M.o.Env. S’pore Green Labelling Scheme Tech. Workgroup Cmtte on photocopying machine.

·         Reviewers for several international journals, conferences such as The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and International Gas Turbine Institute.

·         Co-chairman of the working group (WG) on thermal imagers under Medical Technology Standards Committee by SPRING, S’pore, (handling the international standardisation aspects for thermal imagers, 2006-..).

·         Member of International Advisory Panel for International Conference on Energy and Environment at UNITEN’ (ICEE2006, Malaysia) from 28-30 August 2006.

·         International Scientific Committee Member for The 1st Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow held in Xian, China, October 18-21, 2007.

 

Invited Papers (Invited Speaker):

 

[1]        National Conference on Thermometry Techniques for SARS Screening, “Principle of Infrared Thermography and its Applications”, SPRING, Singapore (30th May 2003).

[2]        Int. Symposium on Cardiovascular Systems,Perfusion Analysis of the LV Myocardium using Non-invasive Methods

”, Southern Taiwan Univ. of Technology and MoE, Taiwan (11th Nov. 2003).

[3]        1st Int. Infra-Matrix Conference, “IR Imaging for Healthcare: Early Breast Cancer Detection & Febrile Subjects”,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (1st – 3rd Sept. 2004).

[4]        Workshop cum Seminar on Multi-Physics Modelling: FEMLAB & Grid-Enabled FEMLAB, “Computational Modelling of Bio-Potential Fields in Female Breasts”, IHPC, NGO & i-Math, Singapore, (5th Jan. 2005).

 [5]       Workshop Speaker on Advances of Infrared Imaging in Medicine for 27th IEEE Int. Conf. for Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Shanghai “Advanced Technique in Thermogram Analysis”, (31st August 2005 – whole day). It was well received by >100 audiences, NIH of US representatives in particular.  “The proposal of ROC for Advanced Technique in Thermogram Analysis would help to push the acceptance of IT Imaging for medical community” as quoted from the workshop chair: Dr. N.A. Diakides, President, Advanced Concepts Analysis, Inc.

 [6]       Invited Speaker on Minisymposia for Emerging Medical IR Imaging in the 21st Century, “IR Analysis of Breast Cancer with Integrated Technique” The 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS-2005), Shanghai, China. Sept.1-4, 2005.

 [7]       2nd International InfraMatrix Conference-2005, “Artificial Intelligence & Bio-statistical Methods in Febrile Thermogram Analysis - Advanced integrative thermography program development”, K.L., Malaysia. (14th –16th Sept. 2005).

[8]        The "Most Innovative Speaker" Award for 3rd International InfraMatrix Conference cum Workshop-2006, “Numerical Predictions of the Ocular Temperature as an Alternative to IR Thermography”, K.L., Malaysia. (8th –10th Nov. 2006). Voted by the >150 delegates from Sweden, Hong Kong, England, Australia, M’sia, Thialand etc.

[9]        Keynote lecture for The 1st Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow held in Xian, China, October 18-21, 2007.

[10]      Invited lecture speaker for the 3rd Annual Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit - Drug Delivery Technology held in November 28-30, 2007 in San Francisco, CA, USA, (http://www.gtcbio.com/conference/m3d_agenda.aspx).

[11]      Invited keynote lecture speaker for the 16th Int. Conf. on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology held in July 23-26, 2007 in Pittsburgh, PA, CA, USA, (http://www.pitt.edu/~icmmb16/).

 

Text-books

 

·         Cardiac Perfusion and Pumping Engineering by Dhanjoo, N. Ghista and Ng E.Y-K., World Scientific Press Co. Press, ISBN: 978-981-270-696-6 and 981-270-696-8, Singapore (April 2007, see http://www.worldscibooks.com/engineering/6460.html).

 

·         Compressor Instability With Integral Methods by Ng E.Y-K. and NY Liu, Springer Sciences, ISBN: 978-3-540-72411-7, Germany, (May 2007). see http://www.springer.com/west/home?SGWID=4-102-22-173738307-0&changeHeader=true

Also: http://www.amazon.com/Compressor-Instability-Integral-Methods-Eddie/dp/3540724117/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195542322&sr=1-1

 

·         Image Modeling of the Human Eye, by R.U. Acharya, Ng E.Y-K. and J.S. Suri, Artech House, Massachusetts, ISBN: 978-1-59693-208-1, USA (April 2008)

http://www.artechhouse.com/Default.asp?Frame=BookList.asp&T=books+INNER+JOIN+BooksCategories+ON+BooksCategories%2Eid+%3D+BOOKS%2Eid&F=eBooks%2C+isbn%2C+isbn13%2C+title%2C+year%2C+author%2C+avail&C=SUBSTRING%28BooksCategories%2ECategory%2C1%2C2%29%3D%2783%27+GROUP+BY+eBooks%2C+isbn%2C+isbn13%2C+title%2C+year%2C+author%2C+avail&srccat=Bioengineering

 

·         Performance Evaluation in Breast Imaging, Tumor Detection and Analysis, Ng E.Y.K. R.U. Acharya and Jasjit Suri, 2010, American Scientific Publishers, CA, USA. ISBN: 1-58883-156-6, (2010). NTU library call: RC280.B8P438. see http://www.aspbs.com/bc

 

·         Distributed Diagnostics and Home Healthcare, vol. 1, Rajendra Acharya U, Toshiyo Tamura, Ng E.Y.K., Lim C.M., Jasjit Suri, , American Scientific Publishers, CA, USA, 2009 (ISBN: 1-58883-158-2). NTU library call: RA645.3.D614, see http://www.aspbs.com/d2h2

 

Hitherto, he has published more than 250 papers in refereed international SCI-IF journals (155); international conference proceedings (85) and others (22) over the last years. Those high SCI journals include: Physics of Fluids; Computational Mechanics; Medical Physics; Numerical Meth. in Engg.; Microvascular Research; Engg in Medicine; Micromechanics and Microengg; Numerical Heat Transfer, Burns; Medical Engg & Physics; Numerical Meth. in Fluids; Medical Engineering & Technology and Computer & Fluids etc. Eddie has been listed in the followings:

o    More than 5 transactions by MARQUIS of Who's Who in the World,

o    Finite Element People, and more than 4 transactions by International Biography Center, Cambridge.