Rate My Professor Yik Ying Teo

Professor Yik Ying Teo is Dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and concurrently serves as Vice President (Global Health) at NUS. He previously held positions as Vice Dean (Research) and Domain Leader for the Biostatistics and Modelling Domain at the school, iOmics Programme Leader at the Life Sciences Institute, Associate Faculty Member of the Genome Institute of Singapore, Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, and Founding Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research.

Professor Teo holds a BSc in Mathematics from Imperial College London, an MSc in Applied Statistics with Distinction from the University of Oxford, and a DPhil in Statistical Genetics from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the development and application of mathematical and statistical techniques to understand the genetic causes of human diseases and genetic evolution in worldwide populations, including large-scale genomic studies on populations from Africa, Europe, and Asia. He chairs an international consortium investigating the genetic diversity of cosmopolitan and indigenous populations in Asia. Professor Teo has received numerous awards, including the Singapore Youth Award (2011), the Young Scientist Award by the Singapore National Academy of Science (2010), the NUHS-Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Young Achiever Award (2015), and the Outstanding Young Persons of the World award in the category of Academic Leadership and Achievements (2015). He has also been recognized with multiple teaching excellence awards from NUS and Oxford.