Prof Jo-Han Ng is currently the Director of Research Management Centre (RMC) at the University of Southampton Malaysia, after relinquishing his previous duties as the Head of Academic Quality & Innovation, Director of the Foundation Programme & Head of Quality Assurance, and Head of Research. He is a Green Engineer (or Greengineer as he would like to call it) with research interests on green technologies, while also trying to reach out to high school students to increase interest in STEM-related subjects. Dr Ng has published over 90 original peer-reviewed research articles, involved in 20 research grant/industrial projects and has won awards from SEAMEO (ASEAN), Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), TORAY Foundation (Malaysia-Japan), Autoliv (Sweden/USA) and Elsevier (Netherlands). He is also a Fellow of the Advance Higher Education Academy (UK).

Being the academic at heart, he is also pioneering the use of science-themed Escape Rooms in Malaysia through the Creative and Playful Learning (CPL) pedagogical approach. He is also the first Malaysian to be a Microsoft Minecraft Global Mentor in 2017. His passion in engaging with students has also led him to establish the Institution of Mechanical Engineers student chapter to provide support for chartership. He also conducts courses for academics in the art of teaching, and regularly implement innovative teaching methods in his Thermofluids/Thermodynamics modules.