Kie Leong TEO is currently the Acting Dean of the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) and Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering (1997) from NUS. He was a visiting scholar (1995-1996) and a post-doctoral fellow (1997-1998) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Department of Physics, UC Berkeley.

A leading expert in spintronics, his research group works on the development of low-power non-volatile memory. He was the Vice-Dean, Research & Technology (1999-2019) at the former Faculty of Engineering at NUS and Deputy Dean (2020-2022) at CDE. At the national level, he has served in the National Research Foundation and A*STAR research review committees. He has also served on many research/technical review panels, and conference organisation committees. Prof. Teo is also a member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the recipient of the Public Administration Medal (Bronze), National Day Award, 2019.