Teck Boon is Research Fellow in the Office of the Executive Deputy Chairman, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the Coordinator of the Science and Technology Studies Programme (STSP) from October 2017 to September 2020. His research covers science and technology policy, disruptive technology and urban innovation. He received his Ph.D. from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS). He also holds a Master of Social Science from the Department of Economics, NUS, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Philosophy from the State University of New York, USA. Prior to joining RSIS, Teck Boon held research positions at both the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics, NUS.

• Smart Cities
• Emerging Science and Technology
• Urban Innovation and Adaptive Capacity

Policy Reports

• Lethal Highs: Abuse of Novel Designer Drugs and Policy Interventions

  25 March, 2019

• Public Policy Implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Singapore

  20 December, 2017

Commentaries

• Unmanned Systems: The Threat to Public Safety

  24 August, 2023

• Policing with Big Data: More Security or Anxiety?

  14 June, 2022

• Small States in the New Space Age: Policy Lessons from UAE and Luxembourg

  28 October, 2021

• The New Space Age: Impact on Strategic Policy

  26 August, 2021

• Altcoins: Hidden Gems or Outright Scams?

  28 July, 2021

• Is Bitcoin Junk?

  28 May, 2021

• CO18138 | Portable Drone Jammers: An Assessment

  17 August, 2018

• CO18074 | A World Free of Chemical Weapons: Why It Is So Difficult

  30 April, 2018

• CO18049 | Carfentanil: World’s Most Dangerous Opioid

  22 March, 2018

• CO18044 | Ketamine Antidepressant: Breakthrough or Potential Hazard?

  15 March, 2018

• CO17055 | Do We Need A Broader Smart Nation Narrative?

  27 March, 2017

• CO16313 | Artificial Intelligence-enabled Technologies: Policy Implications

  27 December, 2016

• CO16264 | The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Coping With Disruptive Change

  21 October, 2016

• CO16226 | 11 September 2016 - Remembering 9/11: Are We Any Safer Today?

  09 September, 2016

• CO16214 | Telemedicine: Modern Marvel or Technological Disaster?

  24 August, 2016

• CO16143 | Pitfalls of the “Internet-of-Things”

  13 June, 2016

• CO16119 | Rebalancing Encrypted Messaging Apps

  19 May, 2016

• CO16083 | Artificial Intelligence: Policy Implications For Small States

  13 April, 2016

• CO16052 | South Korea’s Demographic Dilemma: Impact on Economy and Security

  04 March, 2016

• CO16036 | We, Citizens of Smart Singapore: Data Protection in Hyper-connected Age

  17 February, 2016

• CO15193 | A Super-aged Singapore: Policy Implications for a Smart Nation

  10 September, 2015

Journal Articles

• “Smart Cities: A New Age of Digital Insecurity” (with Yu-Min Joo) in Survival, Vol. 60, Issue 2, 2018. pp. 91-106
• “Taking Stock of Smart Nation Development in Singapore” in Panorama, N/A, N/A, 2018, 57-67

Edited Books / Special Issues

• Smart Cities in Asia: Governing Development in the Era of Hyper-Connectivity (with Joo Yu-Min), Eds. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Singapore’s Digital Defence” (with Benjamin Ang) in Alan Chong (Ed.), Forward Engagement – RSIS as a Think Tank of International Studies and Security in the Asia Pacific. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2018, pp. 76-154
• Tan Teck Boon and Benjamin Ang, "Singapore's Digital Defences" in Forward Engagement: RSIS as a Think Tank of International Studies and Security in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Alan Chong (Singapore: World Scientific, 2017), 65-71
  
  

Op-Eds

• “What can Singapore Do to Counter Rogue Drones and Airport Incursions?” (with Nandhakumar Gunasekaran), TODAY, 24 June 2019
• “Are Smart Cities Safe?” (with Yu-Min Joo ), Global-is-Asian, 3 April 2018
• Teck-Boon Tan and Shang-Su Wu. “Policy Ramifications of Industry 4.0.” Global-Is-Asian, 30 January 2018. http://global-is-asian.nus.edu.sg/index.php/policy-ramifications-industry-4-0/
• Tan Teck Boon, "Demystifying artificial intelligence and its repercussions", TODAY, 18 December 2016
  http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/demystifying-artificial-intelligence-and-its-repercussions
• Ramakrishna, Kumar and Teck Boon, Tan - "September 11, 2016 – Remembering 9/11: Are We Any Safer Today? – Analysis", Eurasia Review, 11 September 2016
  http://www.eurasiareview.com/11092016-september-11-2016-remembering-911-are-we-any-safer-today-analysis/
• Tan Teck Boon, "Striking a balance between the risks and benefits of the Internet-of-Things" TODAY, 8 June 2016
  http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/striking-balance-between-risks-and-benefits-internet-things
  
• Teck Boon, Teck - "Artificial Intelligence: Policy Implications For Small States – Analysis", Eurasia Review, 14 April 2016
  http://www.eurasiareview.com/14042016-artificial-intelligence-policy-implications-for-small-states-analysis/
• Tan Teck Boon, "Breaking unbreakable encryption apps", TODAY, 6 April 2016
  http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/breaking-unbreakable-encryption-apps