Rate My Professor Michael Chee

Professor Michael Chee Wei Liang is a Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), and serves as Director of the Centre for Sleep and Cognition. He received his MBBS from NUS in 1983 and completed specialist training in internal medicine and neurology. He undertook a Fellowship in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1990 to 1992, which sparked his interest in MRI, further developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital NMR Centre. Prior to his current role, he was Professor in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School from 2006 and served as Director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Visiting Consultant at Singapore General Hospital from 2014.

Professor Chee’s research focuses on the neurobehavioral and imaging correlates of sleep deprivation, cognitive ageing, and strategies to mitigate the effects of restricted or degraded sleep on cognitive performance, well-being, and health span. His work employs objective measures of sleep, cognition, mood, and physiological markers, alongside tools such as wearable devices and smartphone-based phenotyping. He has received the BMRC-NMRC Senior Clinician Investigator Award in 2005, the NMRC Singapore Translational Research Investigator (STaR) Award in 2008 (renewed in 2013 and 2020), the National Outstanding Clinician-Scientist Award in 2009, and was inaugurated as a Fellow of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in 2020. His contributions have been cited in scholarly journals and featured in international media including Time Magazine, The Economist, and BBC. Professor Chee also engages in science advocacy and mentorship of junior researchers.