Su Guaning (Chinese: 徐冠林; pinyin: Xú Guànlín) is a Singaporean college administrator and academic who served as the president of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) between 2003 and 2011.
[1] A President's Scholar and Colombo Plan Scholar, Su graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, California Institute of Technology, and Stanford University respectively.
Su began his career in 1972 as one of the first research engineers in Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MINDEF).
He became Director of the Defence Science Organisation (DSO) in 1986, building it into Singapore's largest research and development institute.
[3] Su became an adjunct associate professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS)'s Department of Electrical Engineering in 1991 and taught radar systems and signal processing there.