Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore Ltd

Illinois ARCS

Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore Ltd.

The Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore Ltd. (Illinois ARCS) is an affiliated Singapore company of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) with its research center led by Illinois faculty and a Singapore-based research and administrative team. Its core research programs are supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program and the Singapore Food Agency, a statutory board under Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment. Current research programs at Illinois ARCS focus on breakthrough innovations in interactive cyber-infrastructures and precision fermentation-based food production.

 

Illinois ARCS Staff & Research Leadership

Dr. Jonas Joerin
Managing Director

Prof. David M. Nicol
Director of Research (Cyber); Herman M. Dieckamp Endowed Chair in Engineering; Director, Information Trust Institute,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Prof. Yong-Su Jin
Director of Research (Future Foods); Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Core Programs

Trustworthy and Secure Cyber-Plexus for Digital Communities (TSCP-DC)

The TSCP-DC program addresses its mission to drive scientific and economic impacts on the cyber-physical infrastructures of our communities by providing technologies, methodologies for creating technologies, and means of security evaluation both in testbeds and at scale. Towards these ends TSCP-DC defines four separate but inter-related thrusts.

  • Cyber-plexus Protection: Develop core cyber-security technologies and their prototypes focused on unique security requirements of digital communities.

  • Trust Assurance: ·Develop and demonstrate methodologies to be applied while developing cyber-security technologies in order to endow them with mathematically based assurance of trustworthiness.

  • Cyber-plexus System Analysis: Develop methodologies and tools that enable security assessment of systems too large to be evaluated in a lab or testbed.

  • Evaluation: Develop data-focused methodologies for testbed-based evaluation of security technologies such as those that TSCP-DC is developing.

Centre for Precision Fermentation and Sustainability (PreFerS)

PreFerS aims to develop the safe, cost-effective, and sustainable production of nutritious and delicious foods through precision fermentation. The Centre will support Singapore's national strategy to strengthen food security and sustainability, including the goal of producing 30% of the nation's nutritional needs locally by 2030. A key research focus is to address micronutrient insecurity-also known as "hidden hunger"-by enabling the microbial production of essential vitamins and trace metal-binding proteins. The two supporting research thrusts are:

  • Microbial Cell Engineering: Engineer food-grade microorganisms to maximize the yield of target food ingredients while minimizing undesirable by-products.

  • Bioprocess Engineering: Develop scalable fermentation and downstream processing strategies, supported by techno-economic analysis (TEA), to optimize the production of target food ingredients.

Contact Us

Website: https://illinois-arcs.edu.sg
Where to find us: 1 Create Way, #14-02 Create Tower Singapore 138602