Louis Phee
Professor
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Biography
Dr Louis Phee is a Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is the Chair of the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at NTU. He graduated from NTU with the B.Eng (Hons) and M.Eng degrees in 1996 and 1999 respectively. He obtained his PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy in 2002 on a European Union scholarship. His research interests include Medical Robotics and Mechatronics in Medicine. Currently, Dr Phee is the Principal Investigator of a few interdisciplinary projects. He had served as the Program Manager of A*STAR’s inaugural MedTech Program. Currently, he is also the CEO of EndoMaster Pte Ltd, a company he co-founded to commercialize a surgical robotic system he developed. Dr Phee was awarded the Young Scientist Award (2006), the Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award (2007), the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award (2011), Nanyang Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award (2013) and the President’s Technology Award (2012). In 2005, he was awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. He has published over 50 international journals, book chapters and a few licensed intellectual properties.
Research Interest
Medical Robotics and Mechatronics in Medicine
Publications
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T.N. Do*, T. Tjahjowidodo, M.W.S. Lau , S.J. Phee, “An Investigation of Friction-Based Tendon Sheath Model Appropriate for Control Purposesâ€, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing#, vol. 42, issue1-2, pp. 97-114, 2014. [IF=2.465]
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P.W.Y. Chiu, S.J. Phee, Z. Wang, Z. Sun, C. C. Poon, T. Yamamoto, I. Penny, J.Y.Y. Wong, James Y.W. Lau, K.Y. Ho, “Feasibility of Full Thickness Gastric Resection using Master and Slave Transluminal Endoscopic Robot and closure by Overstitch - A preclinical studyâ€, Surgical Endoscopy#, volume 28, issue 01, pp. 319-324, 2014 [IF=3.427]
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L. Lin, C.F. Yang, K.J. Wong, H. Yan, J.W. Shen, S.J. Phee “An Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Multi-hop Swallowable Body Sensor Networksâ€, Sensors, Oct 2014, Vol. 14(10), pp. 19457-19476
