The Singapore government has awarded a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor for helping develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Professor Thomas Magnanti, who has also served as the founding president of the SUTD, received the Public Administration Medal on Singapore’s National Day on August 9.
The Singapore-based university is a pioneer institute focused on design across several fields and innovation-based technology. Magnanti, who became its president in October 2009, signed a memorandum between MIT and SUTD to partner in education and research.
“I am quite pleased. It’s quite an honor to receive it,” Magnanti said about the award.
Magnanti, who is a professor of operations research at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is known for helping develop the Singapore-MIT Alliance and a research enterprise established in 2007 between MIT and the National Research Foundation of Singapore.
