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SMART CAMPUS SMARTER THINKING The Hive ENGINEERING | BUSINESS | SCIENCE | HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | EDUCATION | MEDICINE The NTU Smart Campus is a living testbed of tomorrow’s NTU Singapore technologies set among one of the world’s most Preparing for the Collaborate and catalyse. beautiful university campuses. A model of sustainable Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological living, NTU has 57 Green Mark-certified (equivalent to 4th Industrial Revolution Partnerships with industry. University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 33,000 LEED-certified) building projects comprising over 230 undergraduate and postgraduate students in NTU is home to a critical mass of talent and NTU attracts a host of major companies such as Alibaba, buildings, of which 95% are certified Green Mark Platinum. engineering, business, science, humanities, arts, social infrastructure in the key areas shaping the SenseTime, HP, Volvo, Delta Electronics, and Singtel, sciences, education and medicine. 4th Industrial Revolution. collaborating in artificial intelligence, data science, Besides its main campus in the western part of Singapore, robotics, smart transportation, computing, personalised NTU also has a medical campus in Novena, Singapore’s NTU is home to world-class institutes – the National The top university in the world for citations in artificial medicine, healthcare and clean energy. healthcare district. Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of intelligence (Nikkei and Elsevier 2017) between 2012 to International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, 2016, NTU also has three professors Bo An, Erik Cambria Its seven national Corporate Laboratories are: and Sinno Jialin Pan named among AI’s 10 to Watch list Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences » HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab Engineering, and Wealth Management Institute – NTU Smart Campus by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2018. » Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab as well as leading research centres such as the NTU Singapore has a vision to be a Smart Campus that State-of-the-art buildings such as the Hive and the Arc Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute demonstrates how innovative digital and tech-enabled » Delta-NTU Corporate Lab for Cyber-Physical Systems incorporate flipped classroom pedagogy within smart and Energy Research Institute @ NTU. solutions can support better learning and living classrooms designed for greater interaction, and course » Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab experiences, the discovery of new knowledge, materials are optimised for learning on electronic for Enterprises and the sustainability of resources. devices. In addition, undergraduate students take core » SJ-NTU Corporate Lab educational modules in digital literacy to prepare for a At the same time, NTU is launching a new interdisciplinary new world shaped by digital technologies. » SMRT-NTU Smart Urban Rail Corporate Lab platform to explore the contemporary impact of technology on society, the NTU Institute of Science and » ST Engineering-NTU Corporate Lab In 2021, NTU will launch Asia’s largest wooden building Technology for Humanity. which supports NTU’s vision to be the greenest university campus in the world. A hub of smart learning, the new academic building will house the Nanyang Business School and also provide learning and research spaces for other colleges and schools. The Arc Our Leadership A new model Professor Subra Suresh for medical President schools An eminent American scientist, engineer and entrepreneur, In 2018, inaugural graduates of Prof Subra Suresh became President the Lee Kong Chian School of of NTU Singapore and also its Medicine, Singapore’s newest inaugural Distinguished University medical school, received their Professor, in January 2018. degrees jointly awarded by NTU and Imperial College London. He has served as Director of the US National Science Foundation, Welcoming the Combining NTU’s core President of Carnegie Mellon University and Dean of the School of strengths in engineering and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. world’s top talent business with Imperial’s world- renowned medical expertise, Prof Suresh is elected to all three US national academies of Sciences, NTU Singapore is at the crossroads the school prepares students Engineering and Medicine, for his research in materials science and of the most dynamic and diverse for the demands of 21st-century engineering, mechanics and biomedicine. region in the world today. 13th healthcare, and has introduced A cosmopolitan university, innovations and a new model for medical education in Singapore. it has more than 100 nationalities Professor Ling San Provost comprising world-acclaimed faculty and students. Prof Ling San is a mathematician and was Dean of the College of 1ST 8TH Science at NTU, before becoming In 2018, NTU launched a bold Provost in January 2018. five-year action plan to attract talent at all levels A passionate educator and a distinguished scholar, Prof Ling has been recognised for his contributions to science and education and » 350 new two-year ‘post-doc’ is a Past President of the South East Asian Mathematical Society. positions Prof Ling’s research focuses on applications of algebra, number theory, coding theory and cryptography. » Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship for outstanding US News & World Report 2019 early career researchers » Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme for exceptional young 3rd IN ASIA faculty » 300 faculty hires over the five-year period from vacancies Most Beautiful Campus in the World arising from projected changes in demographics of faculty members TOP 10 TOP 15 » Creating up to 100 new named World’s Most Most Beautiful professorships for top faculty Photogenic Schools Around Universities the World (Quacquarelli (Business Insider) Nanyang Technological University NTUsg Symonds) 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 World’s Most Tel: (65) 6791 1744 www.ntu.edu.sg Most Beautiful Beautiful Universities in Universities © 2018 Nanyang Technological University Printed on environmentally-friendly paper in support of a sustainable earth. East Asia (Times (Travel and Jun 2020 Higher Education) Leisure).