Dr. Davy CheongDr Davy Cheong is currently the Director of IMRE’s Entrepreneurship Office. Prior to this appointment, Davy was the Division Director of the Polymeric and Organic Materials Division at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE). Davy is also the Director of the Singapore Battery Consortium (SBC). He graduated with a Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Sydney (USYD). He was awarded the Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2004, Silver prize for the Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Awards in 2012 and the A*STAR Scientist-Entrepreneur Award in 2014. He obtained a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1997. After working as a research engineer at DSO National Laboratories, he pursued a Ph.D. degree in 1999 and joined IMRE as a research engineer in 2005. He was the Chief Technology Officer for a A*STAR spin-off company from 2012 to 2016. His main interests are in product prototype development and scaling up and commercialisation of research outcomes.
