Chou Siaw Kiang

Prof. Chou Siaw Kiang is Executive Director of Energy Studies Institute and Head of the Energy and Bio-Thermal Systems Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NUS. From 1998 to 2003, he was Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. From 1992 to 2000, Prof. Chou served as Director of the Industry and Technology Relations Office (INTRO), NUS, and concurrently from 1995 to 2000, the Managing Director of NUS Technology Holdings Pte Ltd (NUSH), a wholly-owned NUS company having equities in new technology start-ups from university research and inventions. Prof. Chou’s research interests are in energy performance of buildings, clean energy systems, micro combustion and micro power generation, and cryosurgical thermal processes. He is credited with having developed the formulation of the Envelope Thermal Transfer Value (ETTV) and the Residential Envelope Transmittance Value (RETV) criteria in the present building energy standards used in the Singapore Green Mark Scheme. His research team has been cited for its pioneering work on portable power generation based on the micro combustor-thermophotovoltaic system. He serves on the journal editorial board of Applied Energy and The International Journal of Energy Research.