Kie Teo

Kie Leong Teo is the Acting Dean of the College of Design and Engineering. He also concurrently holds the portfolio of Deputy Dean (Academic Affairs and Education), a position he has held since the formation of the College in January 2022. Before his current appointment, he was the Deputy Dean (2019-2021) and Vice-Dean, Research & Technology (1999-2021) at the Faculty of Engineering at NUS. In this capacity, he oversaw the Faculty planning and performance in terms of teaching, research, enterprise and associated activities of the Faculty. He managed an average of S$100M annually in competitive research grants and responsible for academic programme planning & development and in top talent management.

A leading expert in spintronics, his research group works on the development of low-power non-volatile memory. At the national level, he has served in the National Research Foundation and A STAR research review committees. He has also served on many research/technical review panels, and conference organisation committees. Prof. Teo is also a member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the recipient of the Public Administration Medal (Bronze), National Day Award, 2019.