Invited Speaker

WISH: Wearable Integrated Sweat-analytics for Healthcare – On-Skin Biosensors

Le Yang (Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE))

Biography: Dr Le Yang received a PhD (Optoelectronics, Physics) from the University of Cambridge, under the A*STAR National Science Scholarship. In Cambridge, under the tutelage of Prof Sir Richard Friend, she and her colleagues discovered a new emission mechanism in a class of new materials, leading to a breakthrough and record-efficiency organic LEDs, useful for next-generation printable display technology. The work was published in Science, validated in international patents, and highlighted in a few journals and media outlets. Le is now working in the Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE, A*STAR) on luminescent materials, optoelectronics, flexible electronics and biosensors, leading the “PROFESS” Group (Printed Organic Flexible Electronics & Sensors). Besides publications in estabilished peer-reviewed journals eg Science, Joule, Nature Photonics, Advanced Materials, ACS Energy Letters etc, her team has also produced numerous technology disclosures (IP/patents) since 2020. More recently she has taken up an adjunct assistant professorship with the Department of Materials Sci & Eng at NUS, and a deputy department head position in the newly established Strategic Research Initiatives department in IMRE. Le has been keenly involved with the local and global materials research ecosystem, eg executive committee member of the Materials Research Society-Singapore and chairing several conferences/symposia. Lastly, Le is a recipient of the Career Development Award (2019), the Central Research Fund (2021), the Young Individual Research Grant (2023), the National Research Foundation Fellowship (2023) as well as being a Finalist in the Singapore L’OReal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship (2018), Finalist in the Young Scientist Award (2022), and being awarded the Singapore 100 Women in Tech Award (2021).