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Dr Vivien ChiongChief Communication Officer
Dr Vivien Chiong is Chief Communication Officer at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, ranked the world’s best young university by Times Higher Education in 2024. Dr Chiong leads the team that manages NTU’s reputation, brand, media relations, creative and marketing activities, alumni and donor communication, and the University archives. Her brand positioning and campaigns for NTU have been recognised with over 100 industry awards and more than 10 individual awards since 2010. An early adopter of new digital technologies in communication, Dr Chiong has guided her team in launching innovative applications of augmented reality and AI in communications. A former journalist, Dr Chiong has headed communication teams in diverse industries ranging from broadcasting to water and the environment. She received her PhD from NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information and has served as an adjunct professor. In 2020, she received the National Day Silver Medal for Administration from the President of the Republic of Singapore.
A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 35,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Business, Computing & Data Science, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Medicine, Science, and Graduate colleges.
NTU is also home to world-renowned autonomous institutes – the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering – and various leading research centres such as the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute and Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N).
Ranked amongst the world’s top universities, the University’s main campus is also frequently listed among the world’s most beautiful. Known for its sustainability, NTU has achieved 100% Green Mark Platinum certification for all its eligible building projects. Apart from its main campus, NTU also has a medical campus in Novena, Singapore’s healthcare district.
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Smart campus, smarter thinking
The NTU Smart Campus is a living testbed of tomorrow’s technologies that demonstrates how innovative digital and tech-enabled solutions support better learning and living experiences, the discovery of new knowledge, and the sustainability of resources.
Home to a critical mass of talent and infrastructure in the key areas that are shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution, NTU Singapore is working with industries and the government to spearhead innovations for the betterment of society.
In 2024 NTU launched the College of Computing and Data Science, to deepen its investment and efforts in artificial intelligence, computing, and data science. Through a suite of cutting-edge programmes and state-of-the-art research facilities, the college aims to groom the next generation of leaders, thinkers, and innovators for the digital age.
Mission and vision
Mission
To nurture leaders and create societal impact through education, research, and service.
Vision
A great global university founded on science and technology.
Global Reach
NTU’s international outreach is broad and strong and includes more than 570 academic and research partnerships with institutions across the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific and beyond. The University has over 250 industry partners, including more than 20 corporate and joint labs set up with industry leaders such as Alibaba and Rolls-Royce. Two-thirds of NTU’s faculty and research staff are international, representing more than 70 countries.
In 2017, NTU joined the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), a consortium of more than 60 research-intensive universities linking the Americas, Asia and Australasia. NTU is also a founding member of the Asian Science and Technology Pioneering Institutes of Research and Education (ASPIRE) League, which comprises 5 leading technological institutions in East Asia working together to enhance collaboration in research and exchange of students and faculty.
Sustainable Innovation
In October 2021, NTU unveiled a 15-year sustainability manifesto with a pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035, halve net energy utilisation and launch new sustainability courses, among other initiatives. NTU also became the first university in the world to issue a sustainability-linked bond.
The University’s main campus hosts eight zero-energy buildings, the most among organisations in Singapore. These include two of Asia’s largest wooden buildings, Gaia and The Wave.
NTU is the winner of two sustainability awards – the Whole Systems Approach Excellence Award conferred by the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) which recognises the university’s sustainable practices in the areas of research, education, community engagement, and infrastructure developments, and the EuroCham Sustainability Award in the Environmental, Social and Governance Investments category where NTU was the only Institute of Higher Learning among the finalists.
Research Strategy
NTU performs cutting-edge research through various strategic national and international research programmes. The University hosts two out of seven national Research Centres of Excellence (RCEs) – the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering and Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science, all conducting research aligned with the long-term strategic interests of Singapore.
NTU is also the lead local partner in 7 out of 9 national CREATE centres, set up with elite international universities.
Research in NTU is carried out within and across the colleges/schools and RCEs, supported by 36 university-level research institutes.
Research Clusters
NTU’s research plan is anchored by six clusters from Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM), as well as Social Sciences, Humanities & the Arts for People & the Economy (SHAPE).
These interdisciplinary clusters are aligned to NTU’s Humanity Grand Challenges and mapped to strategic priorities:
- Health & Society
- Resilient Urbanisation & Natural Ecosystems
- Artificial & Augmented Intelligence
- Future of Industry
- Brain & Learning
- Culture, Organisations & Society