One North Stories

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Turn all the knobs at once and use AI to figure it out.  This was the inspiration for Kedar Hippalgaonkar to bring AI into the scientific discovery process.  Kedar is a Materials Scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR with cross appointment at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) . ...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast GAIA Tech joined the ARTC Startup Challenge Cycle 4, looking to improve and deploy their HyperCool Solution into manufacturing environments.  HyperCool uses an in-house developed AI model, along with GAIA’s proprietary iVAV controller appliance to achieve mesh optimisation air the HVAC airside. Through the Startup Challenge, they embedded...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast After deciding he wanted to do a start-up company, Shin spent two years hanging out in the start-up scene, learning as much as he could and then assembled his founding team.  Wanting to work at the intersection of Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality and Robotics, he left the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre , A*STAR and starte...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Innovating to reduce battery pack fires.  Leong from Matwerkz Technologies in Singapore joins to share his founding story.  Leong spotted the opportunity for materials discovery and formulation as the COVID19 supply chain crisis hit Singapore.  He left the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) , A*STAR to start M...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Data Interconnect.  The buzz is 15+ years old.  The problem still exists and the performance of compute systems is still following Moore’s Law.  Meet New Silicon Corp, a Singapore start-up working to usher in a new paradigm to connect memory and your GPU, TPU, CPU or other processing unit.  Interconnect channels enabled by G...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Digitalizing waste?  As easy as emptying the trash bin in your computer?  Not quite.  But one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, especially if they meet each other on Circular Unite’s industrial symbiosis marketplace. Emmanuel Tay, co-founder of Circular Unite joins One North Stories to share about his founding journey into h...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Creating Deep Tech Startups. Product market fit, building teams and getting technology ready to launch.  This is what the Venture Creation Team within A*STAR does on a day-to-day basis.  Who better to share the pulse of the trends going into 2025.  Mayank Gurnani and David Sher join host Chia Pei Ling in a flowing conversation on...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Digital biomarkers from human body motion.  Via an iPad. CareCam, a spin-off from the Instituteof Infocomm Research (I2R) , A*STAR uses a single camera and 3D AI technology to provide unique insights across frailty, musculoskeletal and neurological diseases including cardio-ageing, stroke and Parkinson’s disease. This episode is from...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast AI-for-X.  You’ve heard this story a hundred times over the past several years.  This one is different.  Qritive’s moat is that they’ve made it to market in a highly regulated industry.  The Singapore start-up is supporting pathologists to optimize patient outcomes.  Their clinical-grade AI-powered solutions support pat...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Regenerative medicine to cure diabetes?  BetaLife is working to make that a reality.  A spin-off the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) , A*STAR ,  BetaLife is developing cell replacement therapy using human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) based pancreatic beta cells – cells in our body that secrete insulin. Thi...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast One North Stories, an A*Start Central Podcast, was at SWITCH 2024.  To wrap up this early season interlude, we have a brief retrospective from the A*STAR Booth . Did you miss SWITCH 2024?  Listen to our 10 micro-episodes to get a flavour.  Want even more, get in touch and we can connect you. Learn more about A*STAR, A*Start Centr...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast One North Stories, an A*Start Central Podcast, the A*STAR Booth at SWITCH 2024.  We have 10 micro-episodes for you to meet the scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs working hard to bring tomorrow’s technology to market today.  We hope you enjoy! To learn more, visit the A*STAR Booth at SWITCH 2024.  Registration is free. If you...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Jake Berber and DJ Tan join to share a brief introduction and update on Prefer Coffee.  Their bean free coffee start-up has come a long way over the past year.  One North Stories had previously hosted Jake and DJ for episode 13 ( Apple and Spotify ). Visit the A*STAR Booth at SWITCH 2024 to try it out. Learn more about Prefer, Jake, D...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Jiah Shin Chin, from the A*STAR Skin Research Labs joins to share about the hydrogel they’ve developed to accelerate the healing of chronic wounds.  This could be a game changer, especially for those facing amputation for non healing wounds. Visit the A*STAR Booth at SWITCH 2024 to find out more. If you cannot make it, reach out and we wil...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Huang Weimin of the Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R) and Zhong Liang of the National Heart Centre Singapore, join to share about Apollo, a ground breaking AI enabled physician assist to read and interpret 3D medical images.  This was developed in partnership with the Bioinformatics Institute (BII). Visit the A*STAR Booth at SWITCH 2024...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Chayaporn Suphavilai (Nok) of the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) joints to share about a new infectious disease diagnostics test kit.  Based on genomics, the kit enables both precision and speed.  This can be a game changer for immunocompromised patients who need accurate and timely diagnostics. Visit the A*STAR Booth at SWITCH 2...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Liangli Zhen of the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) joins to share about leveraging AI to help patients with eczema better manage their condition.  This disease affects 20% of children and 10% of adults worldwide. They have developed an app to help diagnosed patients better monitor their condition and seek appropriate treatm...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Sun Xianchong of the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) joins to share about a novel method to fabricate cooling structures for energy storage systems (aka battery packs).  In partnership with the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC), they fabricate stainless steel micro port tubes (SS-MPT) to effici...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Doris Ng and Weiguo Chen of the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) join to share about their AI trained gas sensor. They’ve developed a gas channel on a silicon chip and leverage a non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) measurement technique to quantify CO2.  This can also be used for CH4.  Through wafer-based fabrication, the device ca...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Nicholas Ng, CTO and Co-Founder of BotMind joins to introduce his new start-up endeavor.  Botmind works to integrate robotics and fleet management into company workflows.  They have integrated a cut-edge navigation stack to optimize resource management while reducing errors and thus costs. Visit the A*STAR Booth at SWITCH 2024 to find...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Ernest Tan of the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC) joins to share about optimizing 5G networks for Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT).  They have developed a web based tool to evaluate a physical space and optimally design a wireless connectivity network fit for purpose. Visit the A*STAR Booth at SWITCH 2024 to find...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Amol Amrute and Liu Yan from the Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE²) join to share about the technologies they’re working on towards our net zero future. Amol and team are working on catalyst discovery leveraging AI.  Leveraging AI, automation and high throughput experimentation, they’ve significantly...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast We are back with Season 2.  Our lineup is about half full.  If you’d like to partner on an episode telling part of Singapore’s Deep Tech Story, please reach out. Thank you for listening. If you like what you’ve heard, please share with a friend. After that, please subscribe and review us wherever you get your podcasts. Check out A*STA...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Making the previously impossible, possible.  Loong Wang joins to share about QDX . The Singapore based start-up is has built a massive compute platform leveraging hyperscaler level hardware for quantum molecular dynamics.  They predict and model how molecules move and interact through time and space.  The first application is dru...

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Vivek Ramachandran joins to share about his career in cybersecurity and his latest venture SquareX . The Singapore based start-up is focused on building web browser security tools.  SquareX has developed the code base.  They’ve tested its performance and are now selling into enterprise, looking to land a couple key accounts and then i...