Academic Profile : Faculty

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Asst Prof Hen-Wei Huang
Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Dr. Hen-Wei Huang received his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University, in 2011 and 2012, respectively. In 2018, he received his Ph.D. in robotics from ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Bradley J. Nelson. His doctoral research focused on engineering soft reconfigurable micromachines that can emulate the locomotion and shape adaption to the local environments of their natural counterparts like Trypanosoma brucei and Caenorhabditis elegans. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he was an R&D engineer in a startup company developing a pocket-size cuffless blood pressure monitor from 2013 to 2014. He joined the MIT Langer Lab to conduct his postdoctoral research in 2018 where he was focusing on introducing robotics into controlled drug delivery to enable automated closed-loop therapies. He is also co-founder of AIO Therapeutics since 2021, focusing on using robotics to enhance patients' adherence to their medication. Before joining NTU Singapore, he was a faculty member of the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 2021. Currently, he is a Nanyang Assistant Professor at NTU, Singapore. He is also affiliated with the LKC Medicine. His current research interests involve robotics and AI for emergency medicine, therapeutic decision-making, and non-invasive diagnosis and treatment.
Medical Robotics, Translational Medicine, Ingestible/Implantable Electronics, Controlled Delivery, Non-Invasive Diagnosis
 
  • Revolutionizing The Diagnostic and Therapeutic Paradigms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease via Ingestible Robotics
  • AI-Powered Capsule Endoscopy: Human-Eye-Inspired Machine Vision for Boosting the Spatial-Temporal Resolution
Awards
2023
Best Paper Award, Computer Science Salon of International Congress of Basic Science

Best Oral Presentation Award, IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems

Outstanding Best Paper Award, Journal of Controlled Release

2022
McGraw Opioid Innovator award, Brigham Research Institute

Makrauer IBD Fund Award, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

2020
The 100 Greatest Innovations of 2020, Popular Science
 
Courses Taught
Introduction to Robotics and Mechatronics, ETH Zurich