Shi Xuan Leong
Nanyang Technological University
Biography
Shi Xuan Leong is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where she leads research in digital (electro)chemistry. Her work integrates artificial intelligence and laboratory automation to build intelligent, adaptive tools for autonomous reaction discovery and chemical informatics. She received both her B.Sc. (2018) and Ph.D. (2023) in Chemistry from NTU, where her doctoral research focused on developing surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) platforms for detection at the nano-bio interface.
From 2023 to 2025, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto under the Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent (START) scheme, where she worked on multimodal scientific data digitalization. She is the recipient of several awards, including the DAAD AInet Fellowship (2024), the Dr and Mrs Alex Tan Pang Kee gold medal (2023), the Goh Lai Yoong Award (2023), and the SNIC-Prof Lee Soo Ying Young Chemist Silver Award (2023).
RSC journal affiliations
Associate Editor, Digital Discovery