Rate My Professor Suan Hui Pu

Professor Suan Hui Pu is Professor and Head of School (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) at the University of Southampton Malaysia, part of the University of Southampton's Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences where he serves as visiting academic staff. He obtained his MEng degree with First Class Honours in 2006 and PhD in 2010, both from Imperial College London. Before joining UoSM, he worked as a semiconductor manufacturing engineer at Infineon Technologies. Currently, he leads the Smart Manufacturing and Systems Research Group (SMSRG) and has extensive experience in senior academic leadership, including chairing the Academic Advisory Board and Special Considerations Board, and leading undergraduate and PhD engineering programmes. In 2023, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September to December. He maintains research collaborations with institutions such as UTM and MIMOS in Malaysia, A*STAR SIMTech in Singapore, and MIT in the USA. Professor Pu is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of AdvanceHE UK (FHEA), and a reviewer for journals including IOP Smart Materials and Structures, IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Sensors and Actuators A, and IOP Flexible and Printed Electronics. He has secured multiple research grants as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator, such as MOHE Malaysia FRGS/1/2022/TK10/USMC/02/1, NRF Singapore NRF2014NRF-POC002-035, and UoS Internationalisation Fund Award.

His research specializations encompass printed electronics and sensors, wearable sensors for health monitoring, MEMS/NEMS sensors and actuators, and energy harvesting. Key projects include wearable technology for sensing human dehydration, printed sensors for wearable health monitoring, triboelectric nanogenerators, and wearable technology for myopia prevention. He supervises PhD students on topics such as inkjet printed sensor materials, laser-induced graphene, smart composite materials, and wearable health applications. Notable publications include 'A review on coupled MEMS resonators for sensing applications utilizing mode localization' (2016), 'A force sensor based on three weakly coupled resonators with ultrahigh sensitivity' (2015), 'A three degree-of-freedom weakly coupled resonator sensor with enhanced stiffness sensitivity' (2015), 'Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Room Temperature Syntheses toward Commercial Viability' (2020), and 'Self-assembly of a robust hydrogen-bonded octylphosphonate network on cesium lead bromide perovskite nanocrystals for light-emitting diodes' (2019). His consultancy expertise covers printed/flexible sensor development, MEMS fabrication, and MEMS/NEMS modelling and design. He teaches modules including Introduction to Engineering Design, Mechanics, Structures and Materials, Mechanical Systems Analysis, and Mathematics.