Tutorial 2

Wearable Health Monitoring Electronic Skins

Benjamin C.K. Tee
National University of Singapore (NUS)

Abstract: The hyper-connected environment where humans, smart devices and robots live in synergy together is rapidly being realized within our lifetimes. Flexible, wearable sensors and systems are generating greater amounts of data for AI algorithms to understand. I will discuss materials design and strain optimization techniques to develop electronic materials with stretchability, sensitivity and remarkable self-healing properties. In addition, I will also discuss our recent progress in developing new soft materials systems for soft devices and robots. We envisioned that such materials and technologies can be tremendously useful in distributed conformable electronic skins, neuro-prosthetic devices and robots in the increasingly digitally augmented future.

Biography: Dr. Benjamin C.K. Tee is appointed President's Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore and recipient of the National Research Foundation Fellowship. He obtained his PhD at Stanford University, and was a Singapore-Stanford Biodesign Global Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow in 2014. He has developed and patented several award-winning electronic skin sensor technologies. He is an MIT TR35 Innovator (Global) in 2015 and listed as World Economic Forum's Young Scientist of the year in 2019.

His leads his research group: Sensors.AI to develop technologies at the cutting edge of materials science, mechanics, electronics and biology, with a focus on sensitive electronic skins that has tremendous potential to advance global healthcare technologies in an increasingly Artificial Intelligence (AI) era. He can be found on www.benjamintee.com