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Prof Yeo Yee Chia is currently the Deputy Chief Executive (Innovation & Enterprise), A*STAR. He provides strategic leadership and oversight of the Innovation & Enterprise Group and National Platforms. He orchestrates A*STAR's industry approach and priorities to ensure that A*STAR's translational activities achieve significant national impact and outcomes.

Prior to this, he was Assistant Chief Executive (Innovation & Enterprise), where he strengthened A*STAR's industry partnerships and commercialisation efforts. Prof Yeo also held various leadership roles in A*STAR, including Executive Director (IP Management) and Executive Director of the Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC). He leads substantial research efforts at A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics, working on frontier microelectronic devices and key challenges in semiconductor technology. He plays a significant role in Singapore's Future of Microelectronics initiative to steer next-generation microelectronics strategy.

Prof Yeo is a renowned scholar in academia and a technology leader in the semiconductor industry, with expertise in transistor architecture, device modelling and simulation, materials, tools and processing technologies.

He spent 10 years at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). He was Director of Research and Development (R&D) at TSMC where he led organisations spanning research, pathfinding, and development. He co-developed TSMC's industry-leading 7 nm, 5 nm, and 3 nm technologies, which has impacted the world in areas such as high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics.

In academia, he is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of òòò½Íø(NUS), where he was an award-winning, high impact researcher with an outstanding track record of achievements. He published over 700 research papers and is an inventor of 289 US patents. 44 PhD students graduated under his tutelage.

He received his PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, and MEng and BEng degrees in Electrical Engineering from NUS.