Guan Cuntai
President’s Chair in Computer Science and Engineering & Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Director, Centre for Brain-Computing Research, NTU
Prof. Guan Cuntai is the President's Chair in Computer Science and Engineering and Deputy Dean of the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He also holds a courtesy appointment at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
Prior to joining NTU, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, where he established the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research initiative and founded the Department of Neural and Biomedical Technology. His research interests span BCI, machine learning, neural signal and image processing, and artificial intelligence.
He has authored over 420 refereed journal and conference papers and holds 26 granted patents and applications, of which 17 have been licensed to companies in Singapore and the United States. His contributions have been recognised with the International Annual BCI Research Award (First Prize), King Salman Award for Disability Research, Nanyang Research Award, and the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award. Professor Guan is a Fellow of the IEEE, National Academy of Inventors (NAI, USA), Singapore Academy of Engineering (SAEng), and AIMBE.