January 11, 2024, Professor Ng Yin Kwee (Nanyang Technological University) was named the winner of the 2024 2nd IETI Ramesh Agarwal Lifetime Achievement Award in Science, Engineering or Technology. This award honors individuals with lifetime achievements in research, education, and service towards the advancement of any discipline of engineering and technology.

The award committee believes that the reason for his award is: For outstanding contributions in non-invasive, contactless, early detection of human health abnormality economically with infrared physics technology & advanced AI novel analysis.

About the winner:

Dr. Eddie obtained Ph.D. at Cambridge Univ. with a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship.

He is elected as:

Academician for European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EU-Austria);

Fellow (Life) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (USA);

Fellow of International Engineering and Technology Institute;

Distinguished Fellow for Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence;

Fellow (Academician) of Asia-Pacific Technological Sciences Academy and

Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (USA).

Eddie received 2022 Alumni Highly Commended Award from the VC of Newcastle upon Tyne University, UK for his contributions to the society and achievements as academia. Since 1992, he works as Faculty in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is included in the Stanford list of the World's top 2% Scientists since 2019 (ranked <80 out of 64,425 as 0.001% in the field of Biomedical Engineering). The ranking method is calculated by removing the self-citation of the literature. His Google Scholar h-index: 70+.