He received his B.Eng. with first class honours in Electrical Engineering and subsequently completed his Ph.D. in 2009, both from National University of Singapore. Prior to joining NUS in 2012, James was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Nanomedicine & Nanobiology Laboratory at NUS. His current research interests focus on understanding the nano-bio interface and developing nanodevices with smart interface strategies to effectively probe and modulate biological processes for diagnostic and therapeutic applications particularly in cancer and infectious diseases