NTU CEE alumna | Class of 2018: Dr. Dong Yiwen

NTU CEE alumna Dr. Dong Yiwen was a former president of the CEE Club and graduated from NTU CEE in 2018 with the Gold Medal awarded by the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore. 

She expressed her deepest gratitude to her academic mentor - Associate Professor Qin Xiaosheng for his encouragement that cultivated her leadership and guidance in her academic career. She is extremely grateful for his continuous trust and support.

Her undergraduate journey at NTU paved the path for her to pursue the dream of being a professor, allowing her to pass on the positive undergraduate experience at NTU to the younger generation. 

After graduation, she earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University. Her research aims to empower civil structures with the ability to sense human health through the integration of structural dynamics, biomechanics, and human-centered AI. Her pioneering work on human/animal gait monitoring through footstep-induced structural vibrations has made real-world impacts in tracking neuromuscular diseases in children and long-term health monitoring for pigs. Her work has garnered recognition through publications in top-tier conferences and journals across civil, electrical, biomedical, and agricultural engineering, earning her multiple best paper and presentation awards.

She is now appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in UIUC Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, leading the “Health Intelligence Living Lab”, aiming to develop AI-assisted intelligent systems that empower our daily living spaces to sense, model, and react to human health and well-being. She is recruiting 2-3 Ph.D. students for Autumn 2025, if you are interested in joining, you can email Dr. Dong Yiwen.