Dr. CHIEN Szu-Cheng is a building scientist and educator working in the fields of lighting for built environment and urban farming. He joined the Cluster of Engineering, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) in 2017 as Assistant Professor and was later named Associate Professor in 2022. Before joining SIT, he was a visiting scholar in UC Berkeley in 2016. He had worked with Nanyang Technological University and NRF CREATE SinBerBEST Program (Singapore) as a research fellow from 2011 to 2016. Previously in Austria, he was a senior researcher in TU Vienna and visiting researcher in Austria Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2011. He has led and participated in a variety of research and design activities related to the topics of lighting, visual comfort, urban farming, sustainable/ intelligent buildings in Austria (FWF), Singapore (MOE, SFA, LTA, NRF, BCA), USA. He works closely with Singapore’s government agencies and various industry collaborators on exploring the best practices of visual performance, human-centric and horticulture lighting in tropical built environment. His research team has received NMRC Clinician Innovator Development Award (CIDA) in Singapore in 2021. He is the members of Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Committees, namely i) Daylighting and ii) Aged and Partially Sighted Lighting.He is a certified BIM professional and Green Mark Manager in Singapore. His professional affiliations include membership in several international associations, including IES, IBPSA, WSSET, and APEC Lighting Working Group. He obtained his PhD in Architecture from TU Vienna, MFA (Arch) from TNNUA, and BSc (Arch) from NCKU in Taiwan respectively.

Mr. Chris Teo started his career path from sales, then to Project Management, and now a Lighting Consultant. Driven by his passion to provide innovative & cost-efficient solutions, Lux Consultancy Pte. Ltd. was created in October 2012 and now known as Lux Consultancy Singapore Pte. Ltd. To date, he has worked with Architects like A-Dlab, RT&Q, WOW, SCDA, Woha, ECOid etc. As for Interior Designers, he has worked with Museum IDs’, ID Departments, Jane Yeo Designs etc. Through the years of having hands-on experiences, he has excelled & perfected his capabilities of lighting design to better serve his clients. Through self-taught, he succeeded in presenting his ideas through Dialux to his clients, inclusive of both architects & designers. He is also a certified Dialux trainer since August 2013 and joined the Dial trainers network from Aug 2013 to 2019.