The Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore Ltd. (Illinois ARCS) is an affiliated Singapore company of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) with its research center led by Illinois faculty and a Singapore-based research and administrative team. Its core research programs are supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program and the Singapore Food Agency, a statutory board under Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment. Current research programs at Illinois ARCS focus on breakthrough innovations in interactive cyber-infrastructures and precision fermentation-based food production.