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The Straits Times featured Prof Panda’s team work in developing smart socket system for plugged-in devices. In this Tech News item, the innovative Smart Electrical Outlet/Socket (SEOS) technology developed under the SinBerBEST programme was described as having the capability to provide users to remotely switch off appliances or even configure user’s electrical sockets to automatically shut down gadgets that draw too much power.

The innovative Smart Electrical Outlet/Socket (SEOS) technology developed at National University of Singapore (NUS) under the SinBerBEST programme by Associate Professor Sanjib Kumar Panda's team was featured by NUS Faculty of Engineering in the article "Smart sockets for a smarter nation". Congratulations to the team for their commercialization efforts to produce real-world impact from SinBerBEST research. Complete article can be accessed here. 

In October 2020, Berkeley Engineering featured a civil and mechanical engineering ingenuity, a stronger concrete with less carbon emission, that was created by SinBerBEST Theme C researchers including Claudia Ostertag, Hayden Taylor, Brian Salazar, Parham Aghdasi, and Ian Williams. The research team utilized a 3D printer to create polymer-based octet lattices, and then poured ultra-high performance concrete, which is four times sturdier than traditional concrete in compaction, into the lattices.