Dr Karina Yew-Hoong Gin is an Independent Non-Executive Director of VICOM Ltd. She is a member of the Technology Committee.

Dr Karina Gin is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and has been appointed Provost’s Chair by NUS from 2025 to 2027. Her research specialisation is in the area of water quality and ecosystem processes, with a particular interest in understanding the fate and transport of emerging microbial and chemical contaminants of concern, including antimicrobial resistance in the urban water cycle and harmful algal blooms in tropical waters. Her research focuses on developing sensitive detection methods to study the prevalence of target contaminants, elucidating their mechanisms of action and interactions with other chemical and biological species in natural water bodies through field and laboratory experimentation, and using this knowledge to develop environmental models for prediction and management purposes.

Dr Karina Gin was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) (COVID-19) and the COVID Resilience Medal in 2023, and the Dean’s Chair Award (NUS)  from 2017 to 2019. She co-authored the book on “The Environment in Asia Pacific Harbours”, which received a UN Atlas of the Ocean award in 2006, and was co- recipient of the Technology Enterprise Challenge (TEC) Innovator Award in 2005. She has also served on several WHO Expert Panels/Meetings to address the issue of antimicrobial resistance and microbial safety of water in food, drinking water and water reuse.

Dr Karina Gin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Master in Engineering from the National University of Singapore. She also holds a Doctor of Science (ScD) degree jointly awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States of America.