Dr. Phang Siew Moi, FASc is a distinguished professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Postgraduate) at UCSI University. She was formerly a full professor at the Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya. She was also the founding director of the Institute of Ocean & Earth Science; currently, Dr. Phang is an Honorary Advisor and professor emerita.

She has been featured in a special edition of the Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish documentary series on Astro AEC.

Dr. Phang won the Newton Prize in 2017 for her work on developing an integrated microbial fuel cell prototype using tropical algae from wastewater. She was also on Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% of Scientists for her work in 2021.