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Professor

Han Tong LOH

PhD, MS (Mechanical Engineering), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
Cluster:
Engineering
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Biography

Professor Loh Han Tong is a faculty member from the Engineering cluster. As a Colombo Plan Scholar, who graduated with a first-class honours bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1979, he went on to obtain his Masters of Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1985 and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America in 1989 under the NUS Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship.

Prof Loh was the Deputy President (Technical Development) of the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) from 2019 to 2021. Prior to this, Prof Loh was the university’s Deputy President (Academic) and Provost, where he played an instrumental role in steering the strategic development of the university’s degree programmes and the transformation of the overseas degree programmes into joint programmes with overseas university partners.

Prior to joining SIT, Prof Loh spent over 30 years as an academic staff in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the NUS. During his 30-year tenure with NUS, he held several academic leadership positions, including Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Deputy Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director of Education in the Design Technology Institute Limited and Director of Bachelor of Technology Programme (BTech Programme) in the Faculty of Engineering. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Singapore MIT Alliance. Prof Loh’s research interest is in the area of product design through computer technologies. He has more than 80 publications in internationally refereed journals and has two patents to his name.

Prof Loh is active in community service. He was the Chairman of the Moulmein Watten Neighbourhood Committee, a member of the Moulmein Constituency Citizen Consultative Committee, Vice Chairman of the Moulmein-Kallang GRC NC Task Force, and a pioneer member of the People’s Association (PA) Neighbourhood Committee Coordinating Council. For his outstanding service to the Moulmein Constituency, Prof Loh was awarded the Commendation Service Award in 2008 and the Merit Service Award by PA in 2013.

For his dedication to the educational sector, Prof Loh was awarded the Pingat Bakti Setia (Long Service Award) by the Prime Minister’s Office in 2013. In recognition of his strong academic leadership at SIT, Prof Loh was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) on National Day 2018.

SIT Appointments

  • Deputy President (Technical Development)
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  • Deputy President (Academic) & Provost
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  • Vice-Provost
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Education

  • PhD, MS (Mechanical Engineering)
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , United States
  • Master of Engineering
    National University of Singapore , Singapore
  • Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honors)
    University of Adelaide , Australia

Achievements

  • Public Administration Medal (Silver), National Day Awards 2018
  • Pingat Bakti Setia (Long Service Award), Prime Minister’s Office
  • IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award for “Development of Rapid Prototyping Technologies and Applications to Precision and Biomedical Engineering”
  • Honorable Mention (joint second), KDD2002 (Knowledge Discovery and Data-mining) Cup Competition
  • NUS Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship
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  • Colombo Plan Scholarship 1976 – 1979

Research Interests

  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Robust Design
  • Data Mining
  • Optimization and CADCAM

Past Projects

  • Principal Investigator, Co- Principal Investigator or Collaborator in more than 19 research projects awarded by government agencies, industry or university totaling more than S$4.5m in grants
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  • Key architect of the proposal which led to the formation of the Design Technology Institute which was given funding of $32m over the 2001-2005 period by EDB and MoE
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Journal Papers

  • K Zhu, YS Wong, HT Loh, WF Lu (2012), 3D CAD model retrieval with perturbed Laplacian spectra. Computers in Industry 63 (1), 1-11.

  • C He, HT Loh (2010), Pattern-oriented associative rule-based patent classification. Expert Systems with Applications 37 (3), 2395-2404.

  • J Zhan, HT Loh, Y Liu (2009), Gather customer concerns from online product reviews–A text summarization approach. Expert Systems with Applications 36 (2), 2107-2115.

  • Y Liu, HT Loh (2007), Corpus building for corporate knowledge discovery and management: a case study of manufacturing. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 542-550.

  • HT Loh, C He, L Shen (2006), Automatic classification of patent documents for TRIZ users. World Patent Information 28 (1), 6-13.

  • Y Tang, HT Loh, JYH Fuh, YS Wong, SH Lee (2005), An algorithm for disintegrating large and complex rapid prototyping objects in a CAD environment. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 25 (9-10), 895-901.

  • LR Cui, HT Loh, M Xie (2004), Sequential inspection strategy for multiple systems under availability requirement. European Journal of Operational Research 155 (1), 170-177.

  • M Mahesh, YS Wong, JYH Fuh, HT Loh (2004), Benchmarking for comparative evaluation of RP systems and processes. Rapid Prototyping Journal 10 (2), 123-135

  • F Xu, YS Wong, HT Loh (2001), Toward generic models for comparative evaluation and process selection in rapid prototyping and manufacturing. Journal of Manufacturing Systems 19 (5), 283-296.

  • CJ Ong, YS Wong, HT Loh, XG Hong (1996), An optimization approach for biarc curve-fitting of B-spline curves. Computer-Aided Design 28 (12), 951-959.

  • W Cheng, JYH Fuh, AYC Nee, YS Wong, HT Loh, T Miyazawa (1995), Multi-objective optimization of part-building orientation in stereolithography. Rapid Prototyping Journal 1 (4), 12-23.

  • PY Papalambros, HT Loh (1991), Computational implementation an tests of a sequential linearization algorithm for mixed Discrete Nonlinear Design Optimization. Journal of Mechanical Design 113, 335-345.

  • Research published includes more than 80 internationally referred journal papers and 90 conference papers. I have contributed to 5 chapters in 3 books and been granted 2 patents.