Dr Gan is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Nanyang Technological University. He is currently the Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education) and Executive Director of Office of Research & Technology in Defence & Security (ORTDS). He is also a Fellow of Renaissance Engineering Programme (REP), as well as a Fellow of NTU Teaching Excellence Academy. He had previously held the position of Assistant Chair of Alumni and Head of Materials Science Division in School of MSE, Chairman of NTU Teaching Council, Director of REP, Director of Temasek Laboratories@NTU and Deputy Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education). Dr Gan was awarded the National Day Award Bronze Medal (Administration) in 2013, the Nanyang Education Award (University, Gold) in 2015, the Defence Technology Prize (Team R&D) in 2016, and the Defence Technology Prize (Individual R&D) in 2018.

Dr Gan received his B.Eng (Electrical) from the National University of Singapore in 1999, and Ph.D in Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems under the Singapore-MIT Alliance Program (SMA) in 2003. His research interests include the reliability study of GaN-on-Si devices, failure analysis of microelectronics devices, development of advanced packaging materials and technology for harsh environment electronics, and development of ceramic pastes for 3D printing. He has received a number of best paper and poster awards at international conferences, as well as being an invited, keynote and plenary speaker at these conferences. His research on using copper nanostructures for low temperature bonding in electronics packaging and other applications has led to the spin-off of a NTU start-up company, Kuprion Inc. in 2016.

Outside of NTU, Dr Gan is a Senior Member of IEEE and past Chairman of IEEE Singapore Reliability/ED/CPMT joint chapter. He is also currently the Chairman of the International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) Board.