Tiauw Hiong Go obtained his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1994 and 1999, respectively. After finishing his doctoral program, he worked at MIT’s Man-Vehicle Laboratory and Center for Transportation and Logistics as a Postdoctoral Associate and later on as a Research Engineer.

His work at MIT includes dynamics and control of aircraft wing rock, spacecraft attitude control using geomagnetic field, simulator motion effects on airline pilot training, and environmental impact of aviation. In December 2005, he joined the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as an Assistant Professor. During his tenure there until 2012, he has successfully guided students in various projects involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), which led to excellence in various international UAV competitions, and secured significant research fund in the area of UAV dynamics and control.

Since January 2013, Dr. Go has been an Associate Professor with Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering department, Florida Institute of Technology. His research interest includes unconventional flight dynamics and control, UAV systems, and multiple flight coordination.

B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Bandung, Indonesia, 1990

S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1994

Sc.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1999

Publications

1. Zhao, W. and Go, T. H., Quadcopter Formation Flight Control Combining MPC and Robust Feedback Linearization, Journal of the Franklin Institute (accepted Oct. 2013), doi: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2013.10.021.
2. Chiew, S. H., Zhao, W., and Go, T. H., Swarming Coordination with Robust Control Lyapunov Function Approach, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (accepted Oct. 2013), doi: 10.1007/s10846-013-9998-0.
3. Rao, D. M. K. K. V. and Go, T. H., Automatic Landing System Using Sliding Mode Control, Aerospace Science and Technology (accepted Oct. 2013), doi: 10.1016/j.ast.2013.10.001.
4. Rao, D. M. K. K. V. and Go, T. H., Perching Trajectory Optimization Using Aerodynamic and Thrust Vectoring, Aerospace Science and Technology (accepted Sep. 2013), doi: 10.1016/j.ast.2013.08.020.
5. Alikhan, M., Peyada, N. K. and Go, T. H., Flight Dynamics and Optimization of Three-Dimensional Perching Maneuver, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, doi: 10.2514/1.58894, 2013.
6. Lie, F. A. P. and Go. T. H., Reconfiguration Control with Collision Avoidance Framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in 3-D, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 26, Issue 3, 2013.
7. Maqsood, A. and Go, T. H., Aerodynamic Estimation of Annular Wings Based on Leading-Edge Suction Analogy, AIAA Journal, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2013.
8. Maqsood, A. and Go, T. H., Multiple Time Scales Analysis of Aircraft Longitudinal Dynamics with Aerodynamic Vectoring, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 69, No. 3, doi: 10.1007/s11071-011-0300-3, 2012.
9. Maqsood, A. and Go, T. H., Optimization of Transition Maneuvers through Aerodynamic Vectoring, Aerospace Science & Technology, doi: 10.1016/j.ast.2011.09.004, 2011.
10. Ariff, O. and Go, T. H., Waypoint Navigation of Small Scale UAV Incorporating Dynamic Soaring, The Journal of Navigation, Vol. 64, No. 1, 2011.
11. Go, T. H., Lateral-Directional Aircraft Dynamics under Static Moment Nonlinearity, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2009.
12. Go, T. H. and Lie, F. A. P., Analysis of Wing Rock due to Rolling Moment Hysteresis, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2008.

Prof. Holzapfel’s (b. 1974) research field is flight system dynamics. His four key interests are flight control of manned and unmanned systems, trajectory optimization, sensor technology, data fusion and navigation and modeling, simulation and parameter estimation. Prof. Holzapfel takes a holistic approach to teaching and fosters close cooperation with a number of aerospace companies, mainly in Bavaria. After studying aerospace engineering at TUM and working in flight control, Prof. Holzapfel returned to the Chair of Aeronautical Engineering and Control at TUM to complete his doctorate under Prof. Gottfried Sachs (2004). After that, he spent several years working in the industry (IABG, Ottobrunn) before accepting an invitation from TUM in 2007. Prof. Holzapfel is a member of the AIAA and heads up the Flight Control expert group at the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR). He is also an agent of the DGLR executive committee for collaboration with the AIAA.

Publications

1. F. Holzapfel, M. Heller, M. Weingartner, G. Sachs, O. da Costa: “Development of control laws for the simulation of a new transport aircraft”. Journal of Aerospace Engineering. 2009; 223(2): 141-156. Abstract
2. F. Holzapfel, I. Sturhan und G. Sachs: “Pilot in the Loop Flight Simulation – A Low-Cost Approach”. AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference. Providence. 2004; RI, 16. – 19. August. AIAA-2004-5156.
3. M. Heller, F. Holzapfel, S. Myschik und G. Sachs: “Angles of Attack and Sideslip Determination Based on Navigation Data”.
 European Journal of Navigation. 2003; 1(1): 57-63.

SENIOR BUSINESS INTRAPRENEUR / ENTREPRENEUR WITH OVER 20 YRS APAC EXP.

• Proven success in exceeding yearly top-line/bottom-line, and business re-engineering growth strategies in Fortune 500, Gov, SME and Startups dynamic environment
• Extensive experience in developing many new businesses in Asia; strong acumen in understanding critical business drivers of multiple high-tech industries, and highly successful relationship builder with mid-top level decision makers.
• Led various international and regional multi-cultural teams comprising 10 – 400 staff, with few hundred millions P&L and budget.
• Founder of 5 Start-ups, and advises Entrepreneurs, Startups and Venture Capitalist/Angels.

Currently, he is the co-founder and COO of AIDA Technologies, with its multi-awards winning proprietary AI and Machine Learning engines that provide predictive analytics solutions to financial institutions and e-commerce companies.

Formerly the Director for Industry Development Group at A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council. A*STAR is the National R&D Agency that supports enterprises in Singapore and also attract overseas enterprises with its 5400 scientists. The council manages eight research institutes and centres researching in Infocomm, data storage, materials, chemicals, computational sciences, microelectronics and advanced manufacturing. He oversees this science business, bridging research to commercialization to support government agencies, MNCs and local companies to deepen their technological capabilities and creating a more fertile eco-system across every industry value chain. Lead a team of 80 Directors/Managers to engage companies internationally. In three years, he spearheaded >$300M worth of collaboration deals with global MNCs, launch enterprise innovation centres and government national programmes in Data Analytics, Robotics, and all areas of Infocomm and high-tech related technologies.

Prior to joining A*STAR, he founded and sold a regional Startup that offers clean-tech solutions and was awarded Singapore Brand Award – acquired by an Indonesian conglomerate in 2011. He also sold a plastic waste recycling company in 2008. His first high-tech Startup was in 1999 with government stakeholders.

In 2007, he was Group VP&GM at a $100M revenue SME Group (Enterprise50) with eight technology subsidiaries. Some of his achievements in that role included developing a partnership agreement with Applied Materials USA to provide equipment servicing services across SEA, setting up a MEMS manufacturing company achieving sales of $3M in a year. He also turned a loss-making semiconductor equipment business into a $1M profit company within a year and conducted a few pre-IPO funding for its subsidiaries.

In 2000, he worked at Air Products & Chemicals Inc, a Fortune 300 company in various Regional Head roles. The company expatriated him to their US Headquarters and later to Barcelona, London and Shanghai for short stints. After these postings, he returned to Asia to set-up their E-business, Healthcare, Strategic Planning & Business Development divisions. His implementation of ICT technologies to enable their E-business was deployed across 55 entities in Asia and was awarded the prestigious “Asia CIO 100” award in 2003.

He is currently the Chairman and sits on the Board of Advisors for Chartered Institute of Technology, a renowned Singapore-China Education Provider, and is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia for its Doctorate Business Program. He also advises many SMEs, Startups, VC/Angels in the Infocomm technologies, medical, microelectronics and many other areas. He is a technology committee member at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCCI), and a Mentor at Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and Singapore Management University (SMU), and has participated in judging many competitions in INSEAD, Singapore IT Federation, NUS Start-up, etc. He was awarded the “Certificate of Recognition” in 2001 by SEMI for his contributions to the regional semiconductor industry. He is also a member of IEEE, MMIS, CIM and FSE. He has been on several roundtables he was also featured in several business magazines like “Intelligent Enterprise Asia” in 2004.

Andrew obtained his MBA from University of Hull before earning his International Business Ph.D. from University of South Australia for his revolutionary innovation in Corporate Strategy.