Prof. S.K. Ong obtained her PhD from the National University of Singapore. Currently, she is an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. In 2003, Prof. Ong was selected by the American Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) as one of the world’s best young manufacturing engineers in 2004, becoming the first female engineer in ASEAN to receive the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. In 2012, she was elected as a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering Research (CIRP), the first female scholar in Asia to be elected as a member of the academy. Her research interests include virtual and augmented reality applications in advanced manufacturing, augmented reality applications in assistive technology and rehabilitation engineering, sustainable product design and manufacturing, life-cycle engineering/assessment, distributed and collaborative manufacturing, augmented learning in Industry 4.0, and the development of computer-based teaching tools.