Prof Chua is the Associate Provost for Research and Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor at SUTD. He joined SUTD as the Head of the Engineering Product Development pillar from 2019 to 2022. He was previously from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where he was a Full Professor and previous Chair of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He was also the Executive Director of the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing from 2014 to 2019. Professor Chua has been an active contributor to the additive manufacturing (AM) field for over 35 years. He began his journey into AM in 1990. His research area is in 3D Printing & Rapid Prototyping or Additive Manufacturing. Now, his ongoing research is concerned mainly with powder bed fusion processes such as selective laser sintering and selective laser melting, bioprinting, electronics printing, 4D printing and food printing. He is the foremost expert in Singapore in this area and was awarded the prestigious International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award in 2018 and was honoured with the Award of Excellence (Education) by ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) in 2024 for his continuous and outstanding contributions to the field of additive manufacturing. Prof Chua is also the most published and most cited scientist in “Rapid Prototyping / Additive Manufacturing” (3D Printing) according to the Web of Science in 2022 and 2023. As of 2024, he has contributed more than 500 technical papers, generated more than 30,000 citations. He is currently also the Editor-in-Chief of Virtual & Physical Prototyping, as well as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Bioprinting.