Biography: Dr. Wong Nyuk Hien is currently working as Professor at Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has completed his Ph.D. in Building Performance and Diagnostics from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has been the Principal Investigator for a number of research projects funded by the various Singapore government agencies to study natural ventilation and thermal comfort of residential buildings, hawker centers and schools.
Prof Wong has also carried out extensive research in the Urban Heat Island effect in Singapore and to explore the various mitigation measures such as the effective utilization of urban greenery and cool roof materials. Prof Wong received honors includes Local Merit Scholarship, Public Service Commission, Singapore, Building Science Gold Medal, National University of Singapore, NUS Excellent Teachers award, and Excellent Teachers award three times since AY2003/2004. He also supervised number of graduate students. He has published 151 research articles in journals, and 21 book/ monograph contributed as author/co-author. He is member of much national and international advisory board and editor board. He also delivered number of Invited presentations at scholarly meetings/ workshops.