High Impact Thesis
Episodes
44. Hilary Ma - Transforming Senior Care with Art
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we measure the value of a smile? Dr. Hilary Ma joins us to discuss her research on participatory arts and the aging experience. From the galler...
43. Abu Bakr Azam - The Revolution in Underwater Robotics
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to High Impact Thesis!This episode dives beneath the surface, exploring the 70% of our planet that remains largely hidden. We speak with...
42. Zhou Qinrou - The Relational Bureaucrat: Balancing Zuoren and Zuoshi
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Zhou Qinrou, a PhD student from NTU School of Social Science, whose research is challenging the foundational assumption...
41. Alka Luqman - From Industry to PhD: A Journey into Federated Learning
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode of "High Impact Thesis," we sit down with Alka Luqman, a final-year PhD student at NTU's College of Computing and Data Science. Be...
40. Pritish Mishra - The PhD Journey: From Perovskites to TEDx
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Impact Thesis, we talk to Dr. Pritish Mishra, who recently completed his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at NTU. Pri...
39. Nicole Yao - Representing Ruins: Literature, Film, and Modern China
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Impact Thesis, we speak with Nicole Yao, a PhD student from NTU’s School of Humanities, whose research explores the represe...
38. Wu Tong - Impacts of "Sharing Good News"
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome Wu Tong, a Ph.D. candidate in Leadership, Management, and Organisation at NTU, whose research explores the family-work int...
37. Michael Yuhas - Ensuring Autonomous Vehicle Safety
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Michael Yuhas, a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme at Nanyang Technological University, whose...
36. Suhas Raghavendra Kulkarni- Towards Metamaterials, Rehabilitation and Wearable Robots
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Suhas is a recent graduate from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from NTU. His research work focuses on preparing versatile wear...
35. Ellice Wu: Angelica Kauffman’s London Self-Portraits- A detailed analysis
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ellice Wu is a recent graduate from the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. Her research delves into the life and works of t...
34. Lin Shicong: Turning Pages, Shaping Minds: Vera Lin's Research into Children's Literature
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lin Shicong (Vera) is a PhD candidate from the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. Her research focused on children's litera...
33. Mohammad Malik: Towards building an improved Raman Spectrometer
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Malik was a PhD candidate from the school of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at NTU. His research was on developing a high-perfor...
32. Chan Wen Kiat: Improving Perovskite Using Heterostructure Innovation
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Chan Wen Kiat is a PhD graduate from the School of Chemistry, Chemical and Biotechnology Engineering (CCEB). Dive deep into his groundbreaking res...
31. Pak Hui Ying: Water Turbidity Sensing with Drones
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pak Hui Ying is a PhD candidate from the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI), which is part of the Interdisciplinary Graduate P...
30. Ahmed Hussein [Founder]: Future Power Conversion
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ahmed Hussein graduated with a PhD from the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE). He talks to us about the need and development of po...
29. Dr. Christopher Luwanga [Founder]: Decoding the Ionosphere
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christoper Luwanga is a PhD graduate from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and one of the founders of HIT podcast. Embark...
28. Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim [Founder]: Enhancing Perovskite Solar Cells
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, a PhD graduate from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), shares his research journey focused on enhancing t...
27. Hasnain Ali: Advancing Airport Traffic Control
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hasnain graduated with a PhD from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE). He talks to us about building machine learning models from...
26. Jwalapuram Pratyusha: Getting Better Translations
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jwala graduated with a PhD from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE). She talks to us about assessing Natural Language Processing (NL...
25. Gopi Tejasri: Fabric Dye-Eating Microbes
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gopi is a post-doctoral researcher at the school of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). She was a PhD student from the Interdisciplinary Graduate...
24. Alvin Chua: Ceramic Earthenwares from Southeast Asia
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alvin Chua Sern Hao is a Ph.D. candidiate at the School of Humanities (SOH) at NTU. He studies earthenwares from different archaeological sites in ...
23. Syed Saqline: Cleaner Conventional Energy
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Syed is a Ph.D. student at Nanyang Technological University's School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB - formerly SCBE). He t...
22. Aditi Narang: Solar Array Power Extraction
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aditi is a Ph.D. student at Nanyang Technological University's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE). She talks to us about her resear...
21. Bernardo de Noronha: Soft Wearable Exosuits
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bernardo is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Research Centre in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in NTU. In this episode he tal...
20. Anik Naha Biswas: Rainfall Forecast Using GPS Satellites
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anik Naha Biswas is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at NTU. He works on weather prediction forecast and f...
19. Nandish Chattopadhyay: Robust Machine Learning
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nandish Chattopadhyay is a Ph.D. student at the School Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) at NTU. In this episode, he talks to us about his work ...
18. Rajat Bandejiya: Structural health monitoring
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rajat Bandejiya is a Project Officer doing research at NTU. In this episode, he talks to us about his work on monitoring the health of civil structure...
17. Ruchi Choudhary: Epigenetic changes associated with cancer
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ruchi Choudhary is a Ph.D. student at the school of biological sciences (SBS) at NTU. In this episode, she talks to us about her work in epigenetic ch...
16. Mohamed Ragab: AI Guided predictive maintenance of machines
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mohamed Ragab is a Ph.D. student at the school of computer science and engineering (SCSE) at NTU. In this episode, he talks to us about his research o...
15. Shilpa Manandis: Rainfall prediction using GPS
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shilpa Manandhar is a researcher at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. In this episode she talks to us about her r...
14. Kashyapa Naren Athreyas: Satellite Control Systems
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kashyapa Naren Athreyas is a Post-doc at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) in NTU. In this episode, he talks to us about his r...
13. Elinor S. Meredith: Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elinor Meredith is a Ph.D. student at the Earth Observatory of Singapore in NTU. In this episode, she talks to us about her research on predicting the...
12. Rohit Pratyush Behera: Bioinspired Ceramics
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rohit Behera is a Ph.D. student at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NTU. In this episode he talks to us about his research ...
11. Krishnan U Ambikakumari Sanalkumar: Self-Sensing Concrete
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Krishnan U Ambikakumari Sanalkumar is a Ph.D. student at the School of Civil Engineering at NTU. He speaks to us about his research on self-sensi...
10. Shravan Kalyankar: Wireless Communication Systems
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shravan Kalyankar is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in NTU. In this episode he talks to us about his res...
9. See Wee: Electromagnetic Shielding
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
See Wee is a Ph.D. student at School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NTU. In this episode he speaks to us about his research on engineering...
8. David Berend: AI Standards
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Berend is a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at NTU. He speaks to us about his research on Artificial Intelligenc...
7. Mahdi Esfahani: Intelligent Robots
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mahdi Esfahani is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in NTU. In this episode he talks to us about his research on ...
6. Parikshit Pareek: Power Infrastructure
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Parikshit Pareek is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in NTU. He talks to us about his research on "the world's l...
5. Hicret Atilgan: Brain Neuroplasticity
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hicret Atilgan is a Ph.D. student at the School of Social Sciences in NTU. She speaks with us about her research on brain neuroplasticity and some of ...
4. Rishabh Gupta: Psychoacoustics
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rishabh Gupta is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in NTU. He talks with us about his research on spatial audio e...
3. Anna Korsakova: DNA/RNA Nanopore Sequencing
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Korsakova is a Ph.D. student at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in NTU. She speaks with us about her research on DNA/RNA nanopor...
2. Sarthak Srivastava: Gravity Waves
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sarthak Srivastava is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in NTU. He shares with us about his research on Gravity W...
1. Mahasweta Paul: Pulmonary Drug Delivery
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mahasweta Paul is a Ph.D. student at the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering in NTU. She speaks to us about her research in Pulmonary Drug D...