Rate My Professor Andy Tay

Andy Tay Kah Ping is a Presidential Young Professor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) College of Design and Engineering. He also serves as Principal Investigator at the NUS Institute of Health Innovation & Technology and the NUS Tissue Engineering Programme. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering with First Class Honours from NUS in 2014. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2017, where he received the Harry M Showman Commencement Award. He undertook postdoctoral training at Stanford University and held an 1851 Royal Commission Brunel Research Fellowship at Imperial College London before joining NUS.

His research focuses on immunoengineering, biomaterials, phage therapy, and immune organoids, with applications in cancer, inflammatory disorders, and infectious diseases. He develops nano-transfection tools, magnetic hydrogels, microneedles, and organoid models to modulate immune responses and enhance drug delivery. Tay has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Science (US/Canada), a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, and a Top 2% Scientist worldwide by Stanford University. In 2025, he received the President’s Science and Technology Award Young Scientist Award, Singapore’s highest national accolade for researchers under 40. His work appears in journals such as Advanced Materials, Biomaterials, and ACS Nano, and his Google Scholar profile shows over 4,000 citations.