We visited Assistant Professor Changsheng Wu’s lab at the National University of Singapore, where we saw the diverse research projects his team is advancing. We previously interviewed him when he joined the NUS GRTII-Tsinghua Medicine Joint Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and AI Healthcare. These two visits together reveal his research vision as a materials scientist: instead of confining intelligence to screens, models and algorithms, he seeks to integrate sensing, power supply and computing into physical systems capable of motion, deformation and continuous interaction with the real world.

This year, Dr. Wu Changsheng, Presidential Young Professor at NUS Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor (Courtesy) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Principal Investigator at NUS GRTII, was named to MIT Technology Review’s 2026 Asia-Pacific “35 Innovators Under 35” list in the Inventors category. More than this award, his team is translating these ideas into tangible, testable devices for real-world use.