The student involved in the stabbing of a lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has been identified as a David Widjaya, according to a report that appeared in the Lianhe Wanbao.

The student, who committed suicide after stabbing the professor, Prof Chan Kap Luk, was a fourth year engineering student.

Prof Chan was alleged to be his supervisor on a project.

The stabbing occurred at about 10.35am Monday, at S1A, a nine-storey building in the engineering faculty at NTU.

Police recovered a 10-cm-long knife at the scene, believed to be the weapon with which Widjaya used to attack Prof Chan.

According to the Chinese daily, the student was alleged to have stabbed Prof Chan outside his office on the sixth floor. He then ran to the fourth floor and slit his wrists, before jumping off the building.

The motivation for the attack is still unknown, pending further investigations by the police.