After obtaining his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, T. Y. Ng joined the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC). In 2002, he left IHPC to join the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, as faculty.

His specific areas of interests include the following:

Variational and Finite Element Techniques for Structural Analysis; Dynamic Stability, Vibration and Control of Plates and Shells; Composite Laminates and Functionally Graded Materials; Smart Materials: Piezoelectric / Magnetostrictive / Shape Memory Alloys; Development of Meshless (Element-Free) Techniques; Mathematical Modeling of Hydrogel-Based BioMEMS Devices; Computational Nano-Science - Multiscale Simulation; Modeling and Simulation of Quantum Dot Growth and Characteristics; Chaos and Control of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems; Structural Optimization - via Genetic Algorithms (GA); Nanomedicine Modeling (Nanoparticle Drug/Gene Delivery Systems)