Dr Swee Leong Sing is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interest is in additive manufacturing for biomedical applications, focusing on materials creation and development, qualification and certification of additive manufactured medical devices. His doctoral thesis focuses on laser-based powder bed fusion processing of a novel titanium alloy for medical applications. The doctoral thesis and related research is awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award in 2017 by the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 2017, the same thesis is also awarded the Springer Theses Award. He has co-authored 39 peer reviewed articles in the field of additive manufacturing or 3D printing. As of Jan/Feb 2020, six of these articles are highly cited papers that received enough citations to place them in the top 1% of their academic field, based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year. He is also the co-inventor for two patents on the powder bed fusion process.
