Teaching Team

Assoc Prof Danny Poo

Assoc Prof Danny Poo brings with him 35 years of Software Engineering and Information Technology and Management experience. A graduate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, Dr Poo is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University, Dr Poo was with the System Operations at DBSBank, Singapore.

A Steering Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Dr Poo is actively involved in Information Management and Healthcare Analytics research. A well-known speaker in seminars, Dr Poo has conducted numerous in-house training and consultancy for organizations, both locally and regionally. Dr Poo is the author of 5 books on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Java Programming language and Enterprise JavaBeans.

Dr Poo notable teaching credentials include:

• Data Strategy
• Data StoryTelling
• Data Visualisation
• Data Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Data Management
• Data Governance
• Data Architecture
• Capstone Projects for Business Analytics
• Software Engineering
• Server-side Systems Design and Development
• Information Technology Project Management
• Health Informatics
• Healthcare Analytics
• Health Informatics Leadership.

Industry Credentials

• Deutsche Bank
• Gemplus
• Micron
• NCR
• PIL
• PSA
• Rhode-Schwarz
• Standard Chartered Bank
• ST Electronic
• Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Infocomm Development Authority
• National Library Board
• Ministry of Manpower
• Nanyang Technological University
• Nanyang Polytechnic
• National University Hospital.

Assoc Prof Ng Teck Khim

Assoc Prof Ng Teck Khim is an associate professor of practice in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore.

My research interest is mainly in geometrical computer vision such as 3D reconstruction from images and other geometry related computer vision topics. Application wise, I am interested in computer vision related technologies such as Markerless Augmented Reality (AR) and sports video analytics. I obtained my Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. My thesis topic was on reconstructing 3D large scenes from 2D images. My bachelor and master degree education was obtained from National University of Singapore, in 1992 and 1988 respectively.

I was with the defence R&D for the Ministry of Defence of Singapore for almost my entire career before joining NUS. I also served a year in Media Development Authority as a Program Director in the Interactive Digital Media R&D Programme Office in 2007/8. Prior to joining NUS, I was the Head of Signal Processing Lab, DSO National Laboratories Singapore. My lab was doing image processing, computer vision and audio processing research for military applications.

Assoc Prof Terence Sim

Explain. Demonstrate. Experiment. Inspire.
The above sums up Dr Terence Sim’s teaching and research philosophy. Over the years, Dr Sim has had the pleasure of teaching many courses – Introductory Programming, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Digital Visual Effects, Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia, Analysis of Multimedia – and interacting with many talented students. He is currently teaching a freshmen module in Discrete Structures, and a graduate module in Biometrics Authentication.

For research, Dr Sim explores several areas related to Visual Computing: Facial image analysis, Multimodal biometrics, Facial rendering, Computational photography, Continuous authentication, Music transcription, to name a few. He combines machine learning with physics-based modeling and graphics rendering to tackle the challenges in research. Dr Sim also provides consultancy in biometrics, which can be in the form of training, feasibility study, or technical assessment.

Dr Sim has published over 100 papers in top international journals and conferences. He is active both as Reviewer and as Senior Program Committee Member in numerous conferences. He is also an IEEE Member. He served as President of the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association in Singapore from 2014 to 2016, and was also Vice President from 2010 to 2014. Dr Sim also strongly believes in International Standards and served as Chairman of Workgroup 6: Cross-Jurisdiction and Societal Issues of the Biometrics Technical Committee in Singapore from 2006 to 2014.

Dr Sim considers it a blessing and privilege to have attended, and graduated from three top universities in the world: He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering in 1990 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his Master of Science in Computer Science in 1991 from Stanford University, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from Carnegie Mellon University.

Assoc Prof Xavier Bresson

A/Prof Xavier Bresson is an international leader in the field of deep learning. Particularly, he co-pioneered a new machine learning technology called graph neural networks (GNN), which combines graph theory and neural network techniques to tackle complex data domains. He has organised several international conferences and tutorials on graph deep learning such as the recent UCLA’21 workshop on “Deep Learning and Combinatorial Optimization”, the MLSys’21 workshop on “Graph Neural Networks and Systems”, the UCLA’19 workshop on “New Deep Learning Techniques”, and the NeurIPS’17, CVPR’17 and SIAM’18 tutorials on “Geometric Deep Learning on Graphs and Manifolds”. He has been a speaker at the top machine learning conferences KDD’21, AAAI’21, ICLR’20 and ICML’20. In 2002, he co-developed with Turing award winner Yoshua Bengio a new class of expressive GNN. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, which have been cited 13,500+.

A/Prof Bresson has been the main lecturer of undergraduate deep learning courses since 2015 at EPFL, NTU and NUS, and has received outstanding evaluations for his teaching material and engaging style. He has also taught graduate courses on advanced deep learning at NUS and was a guest lecturer for Turing award winner Yann LeCun’s course at NYU. He has provided industrial short courses on AI and Deep Learning to Fortune 500 companies s.a. Deloitte, UnitedHealth and university alumni training centres at UCLA, EPFL, and NTU.

Dr Ai Xin

Dr Ai Xin is currently a Lecturer with the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has many years’ experience on teaching Artificial Intelligence and Data Science courses, e.g. machine learning, deep learning, data mining and etc.

She graduated from NUS with a PhD degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research focused on Game Theoretical Modelling, Optimization Methods, Algorithm Design and Wireless Networks.

She worked in BHP Billiton Marketing Asia for eight years and gained a lot of industry experience through different functions, e.g. risk management, supply chain management, sales and marketing planning and etc.

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning with the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to SoC, he was a Senior Lecturer in NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) teaching AI and Data Science to adult learners. Before joining the NUS, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, where he was serving as a professor of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He was born in Isfahan, Iran. He studied towards BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), and Shiraz University respectively. He got his PhD in computer engineering, pattern recognition and image processing, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, in 2005. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, IoT, Data Science, and their applications.

He has taught the artificial intelligence courses, including AI, Advanced AI, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Science since 2005 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded the best university teacher of the province in 2012. He also has studied Learning Management Systems, E-Learning, and E-Learning for workplaces since 2007.

Dr Monajemi has registered a few patents in the fields of AI, Machine Vision, and Signal Processing applications, including an AI and machine vision-based driver drowsiness detection system and a low power consuming spherical robot. He also has published more than a hundred research papers in peer-reviewed, indexed journals and international conferences (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and so on), and supervised several Data Science, IoT, and AI industrial projects in various scales, including Isfahan intelligent traffic system delivery and testing, and red light runners detection. He is experienced in different sub-domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from theory to practice, including Deep Learning, Logic, and Optimisation.

Dr Edmund Low

Dr Edmund Low is currently Senior Lecturer with the NUS College at the National University of Singapore.

He has nearly 20 years of academic and professional experience in the use of data-driven tools to answer questions in public health and the environment. His past projects include applying AI techniques and machine learning models for environmental modelling and impact assessment. He currently heads the quantitative reasoning domain at USP, and teaches courses on statistical methods, data science and machine learning. As an educator, Edmund is a multiple recipient of both the USP Teaching Excellence Award, as well as the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award. Edmund holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University.

Dr Lek Hsiang Hui

Dr Lek Hsiang Hui is a Specialist in Data Analytics, System Analysis and Development. He is an IT techie who is passionate about computer systems and technology.

He is involved in a few startups and is constantly looking into innovative IT solutions which can be translated to business ideas, with the recent one in the area of Big Data Analytics. He is also a mobile application developer and has produced more than 10 mobile apps.

Dr Lek has been teaching various undergraduate courses and executive courses in National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2006. Some of these modules include programming methodology, enterprise system analysis and development, and data mining. During this period, he has won a number of teaching awards such as NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18) and NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Honor Roll (2018/19), Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17), and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Honor Roll (2017/18).

Dr Lek received his Doctor of Philosophy (Information Systems) from NUS in 2013. His research area is in Natural Language Processing (Sentiment Analysis). He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree (1st class Honors) in Computer Engineering from NUS.

Industry Credentials

Shopping Malls (UOL, Marina Square, ION), Healthcare (SingHealth), Government (STB), various SMEs in F&B, Apparels, Cleaning Solutions, Photography, Health Products, Baby Products

Dr Manoranjan Dash

Dr Manoranjan Dash is a Senior Data Scientist in Data Science Consortium at the National University of Singapore. Before joining the NUS, he was with A*Star as a senior scientist and with NTU as an assistant professor.

Dr Dash has extensive experience both in teaching machine learning topics and implementing machine learning (data science) related industry projects. He has taught machine learning and its related subjects for more than 10 years. He has also published more than 70 machine learning related technical papers in reputed conferences and journals. You can see a partial list of publications here.

Dr Natarajan Prabhu

Dr Natarajan Prabhu is currently a lecturer in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. He has 10+ years of experience in teaching for master’s degree programs, undergraduate modules, and continuing education courses. Before joining NUS, he was teaching at DigiPen Institute of Technology, where he taught AI for Games, Digital Image Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Structures, etc. In DigiPen, he developed a master’ degree program for Computer Vision that primarily prepares graduate students to work in the CV industry. After joining NUS as a lecturer, he is currently working on developing and teaching an AI module for non-CS students in Blended learning.

He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from NUS in 2013, a master’s degree, and a bachelor’s degree from Anna University in 2008 and 2006, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was about automatically controlling and coordinating multiple active cameras in surveillance networks. During this time he has gained rich experience in building multi-camera surveillance systems. He has received “Best PhD Forum Paper” award from International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (Hong Kong, 2012) and “Research Achievement Award” from School of Computing, NUS (2012).

Mr Raju Chellam

Mr Raju Chellam is a Fellow of Advanced Computing for Executives (ACE) at the NUS School of Computing. He is the Chief Editor of the AI E&G BoK (AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge), an initiative by the SCS (Singapore Computer Society) & IMDA (Infocomm Media Development Authority).

He is Hon Chair of Cloud & Data Standards at IT Standards Committee (IMDA/ESG). He is also on the APEC DARE (Data Analytics Raising Employment) International Advisory Panel, and on the Credence DTRS (Data Trust Rating System) Expert Panel. He was conferred as an SCS Fellow in March 2018.

Raju is Hon Vice President of the SCS Cloud Chapter, and former Vice Chair of SGTech’s Cloud & Data Chapter. He is Vice President (New Technologies) at Fusionex Group, a leading software company that specializes in ABC (AI, Big Data Analytics, & Cloud ). Raju has been in the IT industry for 40 years. He was previously Head of Big Data & Cloud Practice – as well as Healthcare & Government solutions – at Dell EMC South Asia (covering Asean, IndoChina, Mongolia & all South Asian countries except India).

Prior to Dell, he was Managing Director of TechTrenders Asia, an advisory that helped companies migrate legacy apps to the cloud. He has previously worked in Hewlett-Packard (APJ Director of Comms), AMI Partners Inc (APAC Vice President) and as the BizIT Editor of The Business Times, Singapore, for a decade.

Mr Mario Favaits

Over the past 25 years, Mario held several sales and operations (P&L) leadership positions at various multinationals across different industries including Enterprise, Automotive, Public Transport, and Software. Currently, he serves as the Executive Director of Services Sales APJ at Crayon, a fast-growing, listed, Oslo-based IT powerhouse. Crayon helps customers to innovate with scalable AI.

Prior to joining Crayon, Mario held leadership positions at Alstom, Continental, Siemens, Oracle, and SMRT, Singapore’s largest Public Transport Operator. Between 2014 and 2019, he was a member of SMRT’s executive leadership team. In 2019, Mario joined the AI and IoT startup scene as an advisor and/or investor.

Mario is the co-chair of EuroCham’s Digital Economy Committee and is the author of an online AI course for Executives, in collaboration with Deloitte.

He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of Brussels, an MBA from the University of Antwerp Management School, and a Master of Laws from the University of Liverpool.

Assoc Prof Danny Poo

Assoc Prof Danny Poo brings with him 35 years of Software Engineering and Information Technology and Management experience. A graduate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, Dr Poo is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University, Dr Poo was with the System Operations at DBSBank, Singapore.

A Steering Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Dr Poo is actively involved in Information Management and Healthcare Analytics research. A well-known speaker in seminars, Dr Poo has conducted numerous in-house training and consultancy for organizations, both locally and regionally. Dr Poo is the author of 5 books on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Java Programming language and Enterprise JavaBeans.

Dr Poo notable teaching credentials include:

• Data Strategy
• Data StoryTelling
• Data Visualisation
• Data Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Data Management
• Data Governance
• Data Architecture
• Capstone Projects for Business Analytics
• Software Engineering
• Server-side Systems Design and Development
• Information Technology Project Management
• Health Informatics
• Healthcare Analytics
• Health Informatics Leadership.

Industry Credentials

• Deutsche Bank
• Gemplus
• Micron
• NCR
• PIL
• PSA
• Rhode-Schwarz
• Standard Chartered Bank
• ST Electronic
• Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Infocomm Development Authority
• National Library Board
• Ministry of Manpower
• Nanyang Technological University
• Nanyang Polytechnic
• National University Hospital.

Dr Ai Xin

Dr Ai Xin is currently a Lecturer with the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has many years’ experience on teaching Artificial Intelligence and Data Science courses, e.g. machine learning, deep learning, data mining and etc.

She graduated from NUS with a PhD degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research focused on Game Theoretical Modelling, Optimization Methods, Algorithm Design and Wireless Networks.

She worked in BHP Billiton Marketing Asia for eight years and gained a lot of industry experience through different functions, e.g. risk management, supply chain management, sales and marketing planning and etc.

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning with the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to SoC, he was a Senior Lecturer in NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) teaching AI and Data Science to adult learners. Before joining the NUS, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, where he was serving as a professor of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He was born in Isfahan, Iran. He studied towards BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), and Shiraz University respectively. He got his PhD in computer engineering, pattern recognition and image processing, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, in 2005. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, IoT, Data Science, and their applications.

He has taught the artificial intelligence courses, including AI, Advanced AI, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Science since 2005 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded the best university teacher of the province in 2012. He also has studied Learning Management Systems, E-Learning, and E-Learning for workplaces since 2007.

Dr Monajemi has registered a few patents in the fields of AI, Machine Vision, and Signal Processing applications, including an AI and machine vision-based driver drowsiness detection system and a low power consuming spherical robot. He also has published more than a hundred research papers in peer-reviewed, indexed journals and international conferences (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and so on), and supervised several Data Science, IoT, and AI industrial projects in various scales, including Isfahan intelligent traffic system delivery and testing, and red light runners detection. He is experienced in different sub-domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from theory to practice, including Deep Learning, Logic, and Optimisation.

Ms Samantha Sow

Ms. Samantha Sow is currently a Senior Lecturer in the department of Information Systems and Analytics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has over 8+ years of experience in Business Analytics and Data Science and she conducts training for both government agencies and corporate clients. Before joining NUS, she lectures at Temasek Polytechnic, teaching Business Analytics and Data Science to professionals, managers and executives (PMEs). Prior to being an academia, Samantha worked in the research and development at Infineon Technologies. Her research and project areas include Business Analytics, Data Mining, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics.

She has a passion for engaging and inspiring participants to enhance their workplace analytics capabilities and increase business intelligence quotient within their organisations. Her interests lie in the applications of data analytics, predictive modelling and optimization techniques to derive actionable insights for commercial effectiveness. She is familiar with typical analytics tools such as Python, R, and SAS, SPSS and Tableau. She also has working knowledge in the area of Analytics, Data Science and Machine Learning.

Samantha completed her Master of Education from University of Sheffield and graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor’s in Engineering, First Class Honours. She has also completed THEC (Teaching in Higher Education) and ACTA (Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment). She is a member of the adult associate educator (AEN) by Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), Singapore.

Her certifications include:

Microsoft Certified Azure Data Scientist Associate. Microsoft Certified Data Analyst Associate. SAS Certified Predictive Modeller in SAS Enterprise Miner. Tableau Certified Desktop Specialist.

Mr Shashank Shekhar Tripathi

Mr Shashank Shekhar Tripathi is an Instructor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics (DISA) at the School of computing, National University of Singapore. He teaches “Application development for business analytics” and “Systematic trading” to the undergraduate students. He holds the designation Chartered Market Technician (CMT)and Certified Financial Technician(CFTe) . Prior to this, Shashank worked as a Senior Software Engineer at the NUS Fintech Lab where he worked on developing applications related to financial technology. He has a vast experience in oil and gas industry in the domain of corporate finance, financial evaluations, and simulations. He has a huge interest in financial markets, blockchain technology and data analytics. He researches extensively to design, develop and test strategies for algo trading utilizing machine learning, fundamental analysis, and technical analysis. He is an experienced trainer and consultant of data visualization, robotic process automation, and algo trading.

Ms Tan Poh Choo

Ms Tan Poh Choo is a senior executive who is deeply involved in business development and is known to be and operations excellence leader and talent developer. She has nearly three decades of working experience with market leaders in the business advisory and data analytics domain. Poh Choo was instrumental in helping organizations to innovate and differentiate themselves in a rapidly evolving technology landscape continuously. She pioneered and championed innovative initiatives to help companies gain a competitive edge, build sustainable revenue streams and growth. Over the years, she has forged extensive and robust network across industry sectors, ready to be tapped on to explore new possibilities. Building high performing teams and nurturing talent has been Poh Choo’s passion. She has directly and indirectly mentored and coached individuals to bring out the best in them and to chart out progressive career paths.

Poh Choo is currently the General Treasurer and Executive Committee member of Tech Talent Assembly, an NTUC Association that aspires to nurture tech talents via a platform for future-ready skills, lifelong learning and sharing. She is also an Adjunct Faculty with the Singapore Management University School of Information Systems. She has recently volunteered as a Workforce Singapore Career Advisor. Poh Choo holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (2nd Upper-Class Honours) from Nanyang Technological University.

Assoc Prof Tan Wee Kek

Assoc Prof Tan Wee Kek is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He is also currently serving as an Assistant Dean (Student Life) in the School of Computing, and a Fellow and EXCO member of the NUS Teaching Academy. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems in July 2013 and a Bachelor of Computing in Information Systems (1st Class Honours) in July 2007, both from the National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he attended Singapore Polytechnic and graduated with a Diploma in Computer Information Systems with Merit in July 2001.

His current primary research interests focus on consumer-based information technology (e.g., online decision aids, social computing, virtual worlds and consumer cloud services). Most of his research is based on design science, a well-established problem-solving paradigm that has been widely adopted in information systems research. His current secondary research interests focus on information systems education.

His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), and Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE). His work has also been presented or is forthcoming in conferences such as ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference (SIGMIS-CPR), IFIP Working Group 8.2 Working Conference (IFIP WG8.2), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), and International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI).

He has won the faculty level Research Achievement Award in 2013 and was a nominee for the ACM SIGMIS 2009 Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year.

His current teaching interests include imparting senior undergraduate students with knowledge and skills to develop enterprise information systems as well as teaching them principles of information security management, and concepts of mobile and ubiquitous commerce.

He has won the University level Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2009 to 2012. In addition to this, he has also won the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2008 to 2011 as well as the Faculty Best Teaching Assistant Award for AY 2007/2008. For his sustained commitment to teaching excellence, he has been placed on the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll for AY 2010/2011 and University level Annual Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll for AY 2012/2013.

He is presently the lead faculty mentor of the NUS BiZiT Society, a student special interest group on business and information technology.

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning with the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to SoC, he was a Senior Lecturer in NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) teaching AI and Data Science to adult learners. Before joining the NUS, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, where he was serving as a professor of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He was born in Isfahan, Iran. He studied towards BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), and Shiraz University respectively. He got his PhD in computer engineering, pattern recognition and image processing, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, in 2005. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, IoT, Data Science, and their applications.

He has taught the artificial intelligence courses, including AI, Advanced AI, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Science since 2005 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded the best university teacher of the province in 2012. He also has studied Learning Management Systems, E-Learning, and E-Learning for workplaces since 2007.

Dr Monajemi has registered a few patents in the fields of AI, Machine Vision, and Signal Processing applications, including an AI and machine vision-based driver drowsiness detection system and a low power consuming spherical robot. He also has published more than a hundred research papers in peer-reviewed, indexed journals and international conferences (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and so on), and supervised several Data Science, IoT, and AI industrial projects in various scales, including Isfahan intelligent traffic system delivery and testing, and red light runners detection. He is experienced in different sub-domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from theory to practice, including Deep Learning, Logic, and Optimisation.

Dr Colin Tan Keng Yan

Dr Colin Tan Keng Yan is a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, NUS School of Computing. He specializes in embedded systems and operating systems related courses. Colin has taught courses on real-time system design, operating systems, programming methodology, and had taught a course on software product development for digital markets. In this course students are given a semester to build three production quality software systems, with the first two being on Facebook and on HTML5, and in the third project students are given free rein on the technologies that they would like to use. The third project is particularly beneficial to students, as they get real first-hand experience in building a software product, from conceptualizing, validating their concept with users, to User Interface (UI) design, UI validation with users, building the system, and finally to marketing their systems to recruit thousands of users before their project submission deadline. Projects completed in this module have spawned startups like Pearcomms, HunQRy and PaperBaton, while alumni in this course have gone on to careers in tech giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft.

Colin, together with two other CS colleagues and three ECE colleagues, is currently teaching a course that gives first-year Computer Engineering students first-hand experience in building non-trivial computer systems like tele-operated robots. Students learn key issues of high-efficiency hardware programming, dealing with electro-mechanical issues like variations in motor and gearbox quality, secure network communications, and real-time mapping of the environment using algorithms like SLAM. They also pick up key skills like performing independent research, and learning how to improvise to solve problems with limited resources. Colin also runs courses in drone design, construction and programming.

Colin has written a lightweight operating system for the Arduino called ArdOS that fits into less than a kilobyte of memory, available at https://bitbucket.org/ctank/ardos-ide/wiki/Home. He has also written several other libraries for the Arduino including smartTimer, a library for writing timer-based embedded systems, which also includes a software-based real-time clock for the Arduino, and smartSerial, a bare-metal bare-bones serial communications library for the Arduino. His Bitbucket repository is available at https://www.bitbucket.org/ctank.

Colin is Lab Coordinator for Makers@SoC, a maker space that was recently set up to give students a chance to immerse themselves in maker culture, which is a blend of DIY and technology. Makers@SoC addresses two key concerns of the industry: that we are producing technology professionals who can only code and cannot build anything physical – a key concern in fields like IoT – and that CS majors may not have a good appreciation of the hardware on which they build their systems. Makers@SoC runs courses in 3D modeling, basic electronics, microcontroller interfacing and programming, circuit design and fabrication, and through-hole and surface-mount soldering.

Colin is Chairperson for the IT Software Solutions for Business trade for Worldskills Singapore 2016 and Worldskills Singapore 2018, and has been a long-time General Secretary for the National Olympiad for Informatics (NOI) competition. Outside of academia Colin reads widely into Catholic theology, is a sponsor and a speaker at the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) Programme, and is a council member and a formation instructor at the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS) in the Roman Catholic Church of Singapore. He is also an avid foodie, a cigar collector, an enthusiast of retro technology, and a somewhat decent and fairly eclectic cook.

Dr Ganesh Neelakanta Lyer

Dr Ganesh Neelakanta Lyer is a Lecturer in in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he worked as a lead DevOps engineer at Salesforce.com. He had also served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering (University first rank) from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India in 2004 and Masters and PhD degrees from National University of Singapore in 2008 and 2012 respectively. He brings in a decade of industry experience in various companies including Sasken Communication Technologies, NXP semiconductors and Progress software. He has handled several roles in the software industry including QA Architect, Technical Support Manager, Engineering development and Technology Evangelist.

He has strong inclination towards Game Theory. He applies game theory for handling conflicts, enforcing cooperation and for multi-agent systems. His technical knowledge and experience are in various areas including Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing Paradigms (including cloud platforms, containers and Kubernetes), Computer Networks, Software Engineering practices (Agile) and Quality Analysis, Economic models (Game Theoretic principles) and current day practices on cloud-based enterprise architectures, Machine Learning and technology for traditional Indian dance (such as Kathakali) popularization. His mathematical interests include game theory, graph theory, optimization principles etc. Over the past several years he has acquired practical knowledge and experience in various cutting-edge software engineering methodologies including Agile framework and has experience formulating and implementing various software engineering principles using Agile for large and small product development teams.

Dr. Iyer is active in doing practical industry-oriented research on the above topics of his interest. He also aspires to do research on technological innovations to popularize traditional classical arts such as Kathakali and Koodiyattam.

He has published two book chapters in the “Encyclopaedia for Cloud Computing” in 2016 in addition to several book chapters, journals and conference publications. Dr. Iyer has delivered several practical workshops and talks on various cutting-edge technology topics in many academic and industry events in several countries including USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. Many of these were on the contributions made by him in his industry engagement for software quality analysis with current day software engineering principles such as Agile for application development involving cloud platforms, mobile platforms and IoT based systems.

Dr. Iyer is an IEEE Senior Member. He has been a reviewer of many internationals Journals including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and several international conferences. He was also the program chair for several international conferences including ICCCI and ICIWE.

Dr. Iyer has strong teaching skills and boundless passion for teaching. He was a visiting faculty at IIIT-H (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad), and has been teaching various subjects including “Game Theory for Computer Science”, “Computer Networks”, “Advanced Computer Networks” and “Scripting and Computer environments” for which, he has framed the syllabus, developed the materials and references, structured the grading scheme and formulated continuous assessment strategies. Further, he was a member of Board of Studies at JNTU-H (a premium university in India) where he participates in framing the syllabus for the university’s upcoming academic year.

He is also an expert in performing Kathakali, a traditional Indian dance. He has composed a story in Kathakali and he spends a considerable amount of his personal time to uplift this traditional art by organizing Kathakali performances, workshops and demonstrations and performance by himself. He has also composed a Kathakali story “Sri Mookambika Mahathmyam” which has been staged in multiple venues in India.

Dr Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker

Dr. Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker joined ECE Dept as a Lecturer on 1 July 2013. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from University of Kerala, India in 2005 and Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2012. He was a Research Fellow at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from Dec 2012-June 2013 and a Teaching Assistant in ECE Dept, NUS from Feb 2010-Dec 2012. He enjoys teaching courses related to digital and embedded systems, and his research interests are in biomedical circuits and systems, embedded systems, signal processing and pattern recognition. He is a member of the IEEE, and a reviewer for several leading international journals and conferences.

Dr Michael Gorriz

Dr Michael Gorriz is an industry acclaimed technology leader who believes that a Digital Transformation must be based on a solid foundation which embraces a capable workforce, a clear structure and a sustainable architecture. This requires the full dedication of the entire organisation and is a multi-year endeavour. Done successfully you can appreciate a seamless end-to-end customer service with low cost-to-serve.

Starting his career as a physicist in the aerospace industry Michael discovered his passion for information technology when he joined the IT department of the car manufacturer DaimlerChrysler in 2000. One of his first duties was the post-merger integration of the finance and procurement systems of the German-American manufacturer. Later he became the CIO of the Mercedes-Benz Car Group and assumed the role of Daimler’s Global Chief Information Officer in 2008. Under his watch the free-floating car-sharing system Car2Go (ShareNow) and the connected car solution Mercedes me connect was created.

In 2015 he moved to Singapore and became the Global Chief Information Officer of Standard Chartered Bank. Michael was responsible for the systems development and technology infrastructure and the definition and implementation of the Bank’s digital and innovation agenda. With technology at the heart of the Bank’s growth strategy, Michael’s capabilities, and experience to drive innovation and change in technology was the key of becoming a digital Bank with a human touch.

He has won numerous awards – including the Global CIO award of the Indian NASSCOM – and is one of the 40 most important people in IT in the last 40 years in Germany. He is a passionate leader who loves to engage with ambitious engineers to help them to develop their full potential.

Dr Gorriz is a physicist and engineer by background and obtained a PhD in Laser Engineering. He is based in Singapore, holds various Board seats and consults companies on their growth path.

Mr Chris Liu

Mr Chris Liu is a cloud computing and cyber security expert. With the passion of cloud computing and security, he has helped many enterprises in the region to build up a more secure and robust IT infrastructure. Currently he is working at a world leading cloud security company as solution architect for ASEAN and GCR region.

He is CCIE Emeritus, holding CISSP, Azure Solution Architect Experts and other renowned certifications in the industry.

Chris graduated from Telecom ParisTech and Tongji University with double master’s degrees in Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering.

In his free time, Chris loves playing tennis and spending time with his family.

Mr Qiu Kai

Mr Qiu Kai is the Chief Technology Officer of ANEXT Bank. He is responsible for designing ANEXT Bank’s IT and digital vision to drive business impact, and has developed a robust technology architecture roadmap that supports the full range of digital SME banking services.

As an experienced IT leader, Mr Qiu Kai manages a team to develop, manage and maintain the overall security and technology infrastructure of ANEXT Bank, including cybersecurity and business continuity frameworks and measures. He also provides the right environment and support for the team to deliver innovative solutions within budget and timelines.

Prior to joining ANEXT Bank, Mr Qiu Kai has worked in various leading software companies and banks including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, to deliver on core banking system implementations across Asia Pacific.

In his most recent role at LaSalle Investment Management Asia (“LaSalle”), Mr Qiu Kai undertook the digital transformation roadmap, overall IT operations, cybersecurity, and business continuity management for Asian countries. He successfully established a technology risk management framework and delivered various digital initiatives for LaSalle.

Mr Qiu Kai holds a Bachelor of Computing from the National University of Singapore.

Mr Tan Keok Tay

Mr Tan Keok Tay is an Associate Director with NUS Information Technology. He is currently leading a digital enablement team to run Digital Enablement Programme in conjunction with the University’s drive to raise the digital dexterity of the staff in NUS.

The programme includes tools such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Data Visualization, Forms & Flows, Survey, and products from Microsoft 365. He conducts workshops and clinic sessions to enable staff to be more effective and productive with the use of the digital tools.

Keok Tay is an alumnus of NUS, having graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Science, and a Master of Science in Management of Technology.

Assoc Prof Liang Zhenkai

Assoc Prof Liang Zhenkai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 2006, and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Peking University in 1999.

His research area is in system and software security, and security in emerging platforms, such as Web, mobile, and Internet-of-things (IoT). He has been publishing high-impact papers in top security and software engineering conferences, and has won several best paper awards, namely, the Outstanding Paper Award at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) in 2003, the Best Paper Award at the USENIX Security Symposium in 2007, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper at the ESEC and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC-FSE) in 2009, and the Best Paper Award at the Web 2.0 Security & Privacy (W2SP) Workshop in 2014. He has been actively served as technical committee members and editorial board members of top security conferences and journals, including ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), USENIX Security Symposium, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TSDC).

He has taught various undergraduate-level and graduate-level modules (courses). He has won the Annual Teaching Excellence Award of NUS in 2014 and 2015, and has been publishing his teaching techniques and philosophy.

Dr Sufatrio

Dr Sufatrio is a Lecturer with the School of Computing (SoC) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from SoC, NUS. Previously, he was a Scientist and Acting Lab Head of the Mobile Forensics & Security Lab, at the Cyber Security & Intelligence (CSI) Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR. Prior to that, he was an Associate Scientist and then a Research Scientist with the Temasek Laboratories at the National University of Singapore (TL@NUS).

He is interested in many areas of computer security, and have published numerous papers on systems, network and mobile security.

Mr Loh Yong Chye

Mr Loh Yong Chye, Adjunct Lecturer, is currently the CEO and Co-founder of ACT:DPI Pte Ltd. He is concurrently an adult educator specializing in PDPA training. He holds an Advanced Certificate in Learning & Performance (ACLP) and is a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)¹.

Yong Chye was the Chief trainer for the SG United Skills Programme for Data Protection Officer (SGUS-DPO). This programme was a collaboration between ACT:DPI and NTUC LearningHub. Since March 2021, 38 PMETs had undergone 6-month programme to become DPOs. He specialises in DP training and has taught close to 1,000 trainees to date on PDPA.

Yong Chye was the Deputy Director (DP Ecosystem) with the Personal Data Protection Commission from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019. Notable achievements during his 7-year stint in PDPC included:

• Successful rollout of both the “Fundamentals of the PDPA” course and the “Practitioner Certificate for Personal Data Protection (Singapore)” preparatory course and examination module;
• Completion of the DPO competency framework and training roadmap, which was officially launched by the Minister of Communications and Information in Jul 2019;
• Development of multiple DP tools, resources and services to help organisations, especially SMEs and non-profit organisations seeking to comply with the PDPA; and
• Having led the DPO team responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the DP policies and procedures within the PDPC, as well as, the communications and outreach team to create awareness of, and promote compliance to, the PDPA in the initial years.

Prior to joining the PDPC, Yong Chye did a 4-year overseas stint with the IDA International (a subsidiary of then-IDA) where he provided eGov consulting services to the governments of Bhutan, Trinidad and Tobago and Moldova.

In the earlier years of his career at the then-IDA, he was the divisional head in charge of organisation development and excellence, and an IT manager of a government agency.

¹ awarded by Skillsfuture Singapore (SSG) and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) respectively.

Dr Guo Charng Rang

Dr Guo Charng Rang served as the founding Programme Director of the National Cybersecurity R&D Lab (NCL) from 2015 – 2021, and an Associate Professor at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore from 2017 – 2021. NCL is a national lab funded by the National Research Foundation hosted in NUS School of Computing. The objective is to support the Singapore cybersecurity community in R&D and education. To this end, NCL runs a computing cluster and provides cloud services and other higher level services to the community. In particular, NCL develops simulated enterprise network with vulnerabilities that has a wide range of applications, such as usage by education institutes to conduct cybersecurity lessons. The lab was officially launched in Feb 2017 and has received multiple rounds of funding. It has supported a large number of projects from academia, industries and government agencies and achieved full utilization for a number of years. Almost all the universities and a number of polytechnics in Singapore are involved in the NCL initiatives, conducting lessons, performing research, or collaborating in other projects. Dr Guo oversees the development and operation of NCL, while the other two faculty members in NUS SoC, A/Prof Chang Ee-Chien and A/Prof Liang Zhenkai, oversee the research aspects of the lab.

Prior to joining NUS, Dr Guo works in DSO National Laboratories and Defence Science and Technology Agency for more than 20 years, specializing in cybersecurity, in particular, in cryptography and trusted system.

Dr Guo has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore and PhD in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Mr Soh Kin Wei

Mr Soh Kin Wei has over 28 years of senior IT leadership experience in global industry-leading companies such as Pfizer, Cargill and Air Liquide. He is now VP, Digital and IT of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health. In Air Liquide Kin Wei is responsible for creating value through digital technology that run, protect and change the business. Prior to Air Liquide he was the Chief Technology Officer of Jaungle, and Chief Information Officer APAC for Cargill, where he directed the organization’s overall IT strategy and provide vision and leadership in all technology operation. Throughout his career, Kin Wei has re-energized century-old businesses through digitally enabled transformations, led enterprise-wide cloud, data and ERP programs, and remodelled global finance and IT shared services operations that aligned to business aspirations. Well-travelled to over 25 countries for work, he is also personally a startup evangelist.

Kin Wei received his MBA with honours from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma. He has a BS degree with distinction in Computer and Information Science from the University of Singapore.

He is passionate in paying it forward by sharing his experience with aspiring ICT professionals.

Mr Tommy Hor

Mr Tommy Hor is a seasoned executive with diverse experience in IT. He graduated with a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Hong Kong in 1985. He had served the National University of Singapore community as the Director of IT and Chief IT Officer for 18 years before stepping down in 2020 to pursue his own professional interests. Throughout his career in NUS, Tommy had led the organic growth of IT for teaching & learning, cutting-edge research and university administrations. He had played a vital role in digital transformation and business innovations in supporting the faculty, staff and students. His expertise in enterprise architecture, high-speed networking, virtualization, Cloud computing, cybersecurity, identity management and data analytics have enabled him to be an effective coach for staff development and troubleshooting in mission critical operations.

For the professionals, Tommy sees strong connection between his past work and teaching. He believes that teaching shall go beyond content delivery or learning facts from the textbooks and classes. The learning environment should foster critical thinking and problem-solving skill as an individual or a team that he had experienced in many real-life scenarios. He sees himself and his work in classes equipping the students with the practical skills as the last mile connector or right on the spot to the current IT workforce. At the executive level, classes shall focus on the high-level understanding of technology, its risks, limitations, options available and priorities. The future leaders need to be digitally fluent and be able to critique a digital proposal and make consequential investment decisions. Tommy’s professional interests are IT governance, leadership development, infrastructure, virtualization, cybersecurity and machine learning.

Mr Dvir Chikvashvili

Mr Dvir Chikvashvili is a cyber security professional specializing in cloud security and currently is the Program Manager at DART.

He started programing at 13 and attained the CCNA certification at 14. He also wrote his first malware at the age of 15.

He has varied experiences both from the IDF and Israel’s wider tech industry.

During his career, he has consistently found a way to integrate his tech skills with his passion for teaching. He has lectured and trained other cyber security professionals in the IDF, Israeli colleges and more recently in Singapore.

He is interested in artificial intelligence, philosophy, woodworking, and biking.

Mr Francis Yeo

Mr Francis Yeo is currently the Chief Partnership Officer and Co-founder of ACT:DPI Pte Ltd. He holds an Associate Adult Educator (AAE) status with IAL/SUSS with professional qualification of ACTA & DACE with academic qualification of a BSc in CIS and a MSc in SWD.

Francis is a Certified Information Privacy Managers (CIPM) where he can deliver advisory and training services for data protection. Concurrently, Francis is an Associate Career Coach with NTUC e2i and SIM on a part-time basis to advise clients on their career path and assist them in employment services.

During his 8-year service as a General Manager with NTUC LearningHub (LHUB) from Feb 2013 to August 2020, he lead the LHUB team in the Data Protection projects that included but not limited to the following:

• To the successful launch of 18 NICF ICT courses under WDA/MDA in late 2013. Those ICT courses covered cyber-security, network management & database management for ICT professional critical towards data protection approach.
• Successful secured the appointment by PDPC for LHUB to deliver the “Fundamentals of the PDPA” course at the initial launch in 2014.
• In 2018, LHUB team won the bid from PDPC to the design, develop and manage the examination system for the “Practitioner Certificate for Personal Data Protection (Singapore)”.
• Started collaboration with PDPC towards the courseware development for the DPO competency framework and training roadmap, which was officially launched by the Minister of Communications and Information in July 2019.

Since 1978, prior to joining LHUB, Francis had acquired four decades of work experience in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) companies serving key customers in a wide range of industries. He is a seasoned strategic consultant, business advisor and senior manager with hands-on experience. Francis has held many different senior manager positions within MNC organizations and corporations over the last few decades.

Certifications

MSc in Skills & Workforce Development
BSc in Computer Information System
Diploma in Adult Continuing Education (DACE)
Advance Certificate in Training & Assessment (ACTA)
Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)
Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection (Singapore) 2020 – PDPC

Mr Gur Sharon

Mr Gur Sharon is a cyber defense expert with practical experience in SOC, IR, forensics, threat assessment and is a Senior Trainer at DART.

He has a deep passion for network security, with extensive knowledge in network protocols, network security products and network traffic analysis.

After several years in the IDF’s cyber units leading Incident Response and Threat Hunting operations, Gur retired and dedicated himself to cyber security training, coaching hundreds of cyber experts all over the world.

In his free time, Gur solves puzzles, plays different instruments and enjoys exploring Singapore on his bicycle.

Mr Ron Suhodrev

Mr Ron Suhodrev is a cybersecurity professional with over 10 years of experience. His first exposure to programming was at 12 years old at Ben Gurion University. At 16, Ron started working as a freelance developer and at 18 joined a prestigious cybersecurity unit in the Intelligence Crops in the IDF.

After his time in the unit, Ron worked as a researcher in leading cybersecurity companies as Trusteer (IBM) and Perception Point while on his spare time tutored computer science university students.

Before moving to Singapore, Ron was the founder of two different startups – one in medical education and another in cybersecurity training and recruitment.

In Singapore, Ron successfully led a two-year-long cybersecurity program and is now acting as Chief Scientist in DART.

Ron’s interests include cutting-edge technology, education, longevity research, philosophy, and diving.

Mr Rony Munitz

After a decade of different operational roles in red teams, incident response, and threat hunting operations, both as an expert and a team leader, Rony dedicated his time training the next generation of cyber experts. He is currently a Program Manager at DART.

As a researcher, he found several vulnerabilities and developed attack techniques on Windows, Mac and IoT devices. During his career he was a researcher and team leader in IDF Intelligence Corps top cybersecurity unit, Accenture, Novartis and XM Cyber.

Rony is a Japanese food enthusiast and a K-drama fan.

Mr Wong Kar Hong

Wong Kar Hong has 30 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) with specialized knowledge in Data Protection and Governance, Hospitality Technology and Geographic Information System. He was a National Computer Board (NCB) scholar and started his career with NCB. He has extensive working experience in China where he held various IT positions with Ericsson China, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) China and Giti Tire China. He is currently the founder and chief consulting officer at Young Technology Consulting Pte Ltd, a company that specializes in data privacy and protection. Kar Hong has a MSc in Bioinformatics, NTU and a MSc in Management of Technology, NUS. He studied computer science, economics, and mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and has a Practitioner Certificate in PDPA (Singapore). He was adjunct lecturer at various educational institutions. He taught at NUS Chinese-MBA program, EMBA at Yongsei University in Seoul, IHG GM Academy, SIT and Temasek Polytechnic.

Mr Zhuang Weiliang

Mr Zhuang Weiliang has more than 10 years of experience in Intelligence, Weiliang started out in Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) as an Intelligence Officer specializing in analyzing information and production of Intelligence products related to the region.

He transited to the Defence Cyber Organisation (DCO) in MINDEF later in his career, dealing with intelligence collection and analysis of cyber threats pertaining to Singapore. He has also set up the collection and analysis systems while he was there.

He later joined Ensign as a Lead Consultant where he started the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team providing intelligence products to clients and kept abreast of potential cyber threats. He was also involved in Incident Response and Malware Analysis during his time in Ensign.

As a Lead Trainer at DART, Weiliang’s focus is to train new cyber experts and researchers.

Outside of work Weiliang spends most of his time in Crossfit, Ultimate Frisbee, and keeping up to date with the latest technologies.

Adj Prof Lai Kok Fung

Adj Prof Lai Kok Fung is a successful entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in mobile advertising, electronic commerce, internet media and start-up investment. He founded and grew BuzzCity into an international powerhouse in mobile advertising, before being successfully acquired in 2016.

Dr Lai is an adjunct professor at the National University of Singapore, lecturing on entrepreneurship, mobile advertising, electronic commerce and internet media. He is a published author and songwriter, combining his keen observations of human nature on the impact of modern-day marketing. In his free time, Dr Lai volunteers at the Dover Park Hospice, where he plays the piano weekly.

Dr Lai graduated with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and obtained his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

KF is a published author and songwriter in the Chinese language, with a large and growing community of global readers.

For more information, please refer to jayoninc.com.

Dr Lek Hsiang Hui

Dr Lek Hsiang Hui is a Specialist in Data Analytics, System Analysis and Development. He is an IT techie who is passionate about computer systems and technology.

He is involved in a few startups and is constantly looking into innovative IT solutions which can be translated to business ideas, with the recent one in the area of Big Data Analytics. He is also a mobile application developer and has produced more than 10 mobile apps.

Dr Lek has been teaching various undergraduate courses and executive courses in National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2006. Some of these modules include programming methodology, enterprise system analysis and development, and data mining. During this period, he has won a number of teaching awards such as NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18) and NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Honor Roll (2018/19), Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17), and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Honor Roll (2017/18).

Dr Lek received his Doctor of Philosophy (Information Systems) from NUS in 2013. His research area is in Natural Language Processing (Sentiment Analysis). He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree (1st class Honors) in Computer Engineering from NUS.

Industry Credentials

Shopping Malls (UOL, Marina Square, ION), Healthcare (SingHealth), Government (STB), various SMEs in F&B, Apparels, Cleaning Solutions, Photography, Health Products, Baby Products

Mr Lee Boon Kee

Mr Lee Boon Kee is a senior lecturer in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his B.Sc. in Information Systems and Computer Science from NUS in 1989. Prior to his teaching career at NUS, Boon Kee has over thirty years of IT consulting experience in expert systems and software development, system integration, and product management while working in ISS, Accenture, Sun Microsystems, HP, EDS, DEC, and NEC. He has been engaged by several companies on their digital transformation journeys to help them move from a project-driven to a product-centric business model in delivering digital products and services. His research interest is digital product management, digital ecosystems and platforms, digital experience platforms, and digital economy.

Assoc Prof Danny Poo

Assoc Prof Danny Poo brings with him 35 years of Software Engineering and Information Technology and Management experience. A graduate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, Dr Poo is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University, Dr Poo was with the System Operations at DBSBank, Singapore.

A Steering Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Dr Poo is actively involved in Information Management and Healthcare Analytics research. A well-known speaker in seminars, Dr Poo has conducted numerous in-house training and consultancy for organizations, both locally and regionally. Dr Poo is the author of 5 books on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Java Programming language and Enterprise JavaBeans.

Dr Poo notable teaching credentials include:

• Data Strategy
• Data StoryTelling
• Data Visualisation
• Data Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Data Management
• Data Governance
• Data Architecture
• Capstone Projects for Business Analytics
• Software Engineering
• Server-side Systems Design and Development
• Information Technology Project Management
• Health Informatics
• Healthcare Analytics
• Health Informatics Leadership.

Industry Credentials

• Deutsche Bank
• Gemplus
• Micron
• NCR
• PIL
• PSA
• Rhode-Schwarz
• Standard Chartered Bank
• ST Electronic
• Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Infocomm Development Authority
• National Library Board
• Ministry of Manpower
• Nanyang Technological University
• Nanyang Polytechnic
• National University Hospital.

Dr Lek Hsiang Hui

Dr Lek Hsiang Hui is a Specialist in Data Analytics, System Analysis and Development. He is an IT techie who is passionate about computer systems and technology.

He is involved in a few startups and is constantly looking into innovative IT solutions which can be translated to business ideas, with the recent one in the area of Big Data Analytics. He is also a mobile application developer and has produced more than 10 mobile apps.

Dr Lek has been teaching various undergraduate courses and executive courses in National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2006. Some of these modules include programming methodology, enterprise system analysis and development, and data mining. During this period, he has won a number of teaching awards such as NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18) and NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Honor Roll (2018/19), Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17), and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Honor Roll (2017/18).

Dr Lek received his Doctor of Philosophy (Information Systems) from NUS in 2013. His research area is in Natural Language Processing (Sentiment Analysis). He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree (1st class Honors) in Computer Engineering from NUS.

Industry Credentials

Shopping Malls (UOL, Marina Square, ION), Healthcare (SingHealth), Government (STB), various SMEs in F&B, Apparels, Cleaning Solutions, Photography, Health Products, Baby Products

Mr Teo Chin Seng

Mr Teo Chin Seng is an experience Senior Technology Executive with more than 33 years of experience, working in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), China, Middle East and USA (LA).

Chin Seng last appointment was the Senior VP of Global IT in DP World. He was leading the digitalization of DP World through the implementation of a Global Digital platform that serves our 78 terminals in 40 countries.

He has been in senior management roles for the last 22 years, leading and transforming organizations through technology. He is a thought leader in the use of technology to transform companies towards greater efficiencies and transforming new business models. His experience spans across Healthcare Industry, Manufacturing, FMCG, distribution Logistics, Free Trade Zones, Customs, Regulatory controls and Maritime Logistics.

In the age of digitalization of Business, it is about transforming to deliver business value:

Business Digitalization, Business Transformation, and Process Re-engineering
The product, Process and Service innovation, and
Achieving business values, improving operations’ efficiencies and creating greater delights in customers’ processes.

Future and Smart City Research and Development. Research and Development of Technology Solutions of Intelligent Cities through different Social-Psychology Profiles, People Behaviors, Person lifecycle and changing needs and social acceptance of solutions.

As a successful practitioner, a thought leader and a technology/ business evangelist, Chin Seng have successful lead and delivers the use of new developments in technology and businesses, to present value, relevance and instills a strong sense of confidence for businesses to execute and implement.

Assoc Prof Oh Lih Bin

Assoc Prof Oh Lih Bin is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Teaching and Degree Programmes) in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, NUS School of Computing. Between 2008 and 2014, Dr Oh was Assistant/Associate Professor of Information Management at the School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in Xi’an, China. He also served as the school’s Academic Director of International Affairs and Programs from 2011-2013. He has held visiting appointments at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Michigan State University Broad College of Business.

Prior to pursuing an academic career, Dr Oh worked as a senior officer (infocomm sciences) in the Science and Engineering Research Council of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He also had adjunct lecturing experience in the off-campus programs of Monash University Gippsland School of Information Technology. He has taught courses in IT and service innovation, information systems leadership, e-commerce, and information ethics at the undergraduate, graduate, and MBA/EMBA levels. Dr Oh obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Information Systems and B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Computer and Information Sciences from NUS.

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning with the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to SoC, he was a Senior Lecturer in NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) teaching AI and Data Science to adult learners. Before joining the NUS, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, where he was serving as a professor of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He was born in Isfahan, Iran. He studied towards BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), and Shiraz University respectively. He got his PhD in computer engineering, pattern recognition and image processing, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, in 2005. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, IoT, Data Science, and their applications.

He has taught the artificial intelligence courses, including AI, Advanced AI, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Science since 2005 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded the best university teacher of the province in 2012. He also has studied Learning Management Systems, E-Learning, and E-Learning for workplaces since 2007.

Dr Monajemi has registered a few patents in the fields of AI, Machine Vision, and Signal Processing applications, including an AI and machine vision-based driver drowsiness detection system and a low power consuming spherical robot. He also has published more than a hundred research papers in peer-reviewed, indexed journals and international conferences (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and so on), and supervised several Data Science, IoT, and AI industrial projects in various scales, including Isfahan intelligent traffic system delivery and testing, and red light runners detection. He is experienced in different sub-domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from theory to practice, including Deep Learning, Logic, and Optimisation.

Dr Charles Phua Chao Rong

Dr Charles Chao Rong Phua is an academic-practitioner of trisector strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship. With 22 years in government and corporate doing various domains (corporate, geopolitical, policy and military) and phases (design, implementation, monitoring/adjustment) of strategy work, he now runs Solaris Strategies Singapore and chairs Solaris Consortium of Management Consultancies with full suite of consulting capabilities. Besides (local and overseas) government and nonprofit consulting, his corporate consulting ranged from strategy development for then $916b tech MNC to $1M start-up to sector/industry transformation to organisational development for 12 organisations. He teaches trisector strategy practicums in 4 Singapore and 1 Swiss universities, and is success coach/program leader for Chief Strategy Officer program with Emeritus and National University of Singapore Business School.

His first PhD was in public policy (strategic pragmatism as strategy) and EdD (soon) on teaching strategy with postgraduate/degrees (including in progress) in international relations, education, security management, accounting, organisational psychology, systems thinking, law, HRM, marketing, economics/finance, strategy and innovation, amongst others. He learnt strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship, marketing and sustainability from top B schools: Harvard strategy, leadership and management, entrepreneurship and innovation, MIT systems thinking, Stanford design, Wharton strategy and entrepreneurship, INSEAD advanced strategy, Babson entrepreneurship, Kellogg marketing, Berkeley open innovation, LBS and Cambridge sustainability, Oxford strategy and scenarios, and fused them in his consulting and teaching/coaching practice. He has won scholarships from NUS (PhD), NTU (EdD), Goldman Sachs (twice), Oxford and Cambridge (partial) and completed fellowships at Brookings Institution, Columbia, Johns Hopkins. He is a Singapore Skillsfuture fellowship awardee and Routledge series editor for strategy, wisdom and skills.

He is amongst 100 global professor/author grade Certified Management Consultant-Academic Fellow (International Council of Management Consulting Institutes); previous winners included heads of business schools and programs. He is author of four and two (forthcoming) books covering geopolitical, policy, and corporate strategy. His 3rd and 4th published books are under consideration for two PhDs in military/security and corporate strategy, by publication. His 5th book seeks to integrate strategy in military, corporate, geopolitical and policy domains; his 6th book on teaching strategy from his EdD thesis; both manuscripts under production. He is currently writing his 7th book on corporate sustainability strategy and 8th book on trisector strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship.

Dr Edmund Low

Dr Edmund Low is currently Senior Lecturer with the NUS College at the National University of Singapore.

He has nearly 20 years of academic and professional experience in the use of data-driven tools to answer questions in public health and the environment. His past projects include applying AI techniques and machine learning models for environmental modelling and impact assessment. He currently heads the quantitative reasoning domain at USP, and teaches courses on statistical methods, data science and machine learning. As an educator, Edmund is a multiple recipient of both the USP Teaching Excellence Award, as well as the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award. Edmund holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University.

Ms Claudia Marcusson

Claudia has over 20 years of financial industry expertise in investment management, insurance and banking having worked in the U.S., U.K., Germany, The Netherlands and Singapore. She worked in various leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank, ING, NN Group, ABN AMRO, and State Street Bank to name a few.

Since August 2022, Claudia is CEO of Germany’s very first crowdfunding platform issuing crypto securities of renewable energy projects. Claudia has been living in Singapore for 7 years where she joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2019 as Strategy & Innovation Lead building out the corporate venture arm and running entrepreneurship & innovation programs for the bank, partners and regulators. In 2021, she became Global Head of Client Experience Center where she led innovative co-creation programs with corporate clients worldwide. Claudia is a licensed instructor and expert in Human-Centred Design & Design Thinking, Lean Start-up, agile methods and a certified SCRUM Master.

Since 2018, Claudia is an Adjunct Lecturer on emerging technologies, corporate innovation & entrepreneurship, digital transformation and sustainability at the National University of Singapore, and gives training to corporates and C-suite executives. She is also a guest lecturer at Singapore Management University and Singapore Academy of Law.

She enjoys working closely with startups & scale-ups focused on FinTech and Sustainability as a Non-Executive Director, board advisor and mentor. She is an investment advisor to Venture Capital funds in Europe and Singapore and a mentor & advisor to several Accelerators in Singapore, Germany, Korea and India.
Claudia holds an LL.M. degree in Chinese Business Law as well as an M.Sc. in Economics and Operations Research.

Mr Zaid Bin Hamzah

Mr Zaid Bin Hamzah is a data and AI practitioner. He is currently Managing Partner behind the brand FutureLaw.ai, a platform that builds capabilities of legal & business professionals in Legal AI/Analytics and Legal Data Science. A technology lawyer with deep transactional experience, Zaid has over 35 years of professional experience in the field of law, technology and intellectual property. He has previously served as (i) Microsoft’s Director for intellectual property and commercial software; (ii) Senior Legal Advisor to Singtel’s JV with Warner Bros and Sony Pictures (iii) Chief Regulatory Legal & Compliance Officer at listed Telekom Malaysia; (iv) Associate, Khattar Wong & Partners (Singapore law firm) and (iv) Singapore Government service. Zaid is an Executive Education Fellow of NUS School of Computing teaching AI Innovation Management, Intellectual Property Rights in AI Innovation, and Commercialisation of AI Innovation. Author of 9 books covering IP/IT law, technology commercialisation, intellectual property and financing, Zaid has in-depth Asian experience and all-round corporate/commercial exposure in Singapore & SE Asia. Zaid is also a Board Member of NIE International which is wholly owned by Nanyang Technological University and he currently serves as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University.

Mr Robin Teurlings

Robin Teurlings has 20 years of expertise at the intersection of the financial industry and IT in Singapore, The Netherlands, Belgium, the United States and Argentina working with large corporates, SMEs and startups across the globe.

Before founding his own company, Robin worked as a management consultant at Accenture and Altran heading large IT projects for MNCs in the insurance and energy sector but also governmental institutions like the Dutch Tax Authority. In 2010 he joined ING Bank where he ran strategic programs across the Benelux. Before moving to Singapore, Robin was responsible for a large EUR 20 m annual budget program to implement system monitoring using data lake solutions and predictive analytics to prevent system-wide outages across 3300 (partially legacy) banking systems.

In 2015, Robin started his own company The Startup Buddy which has grown into South East Asia’s largest online Accelerator as a Service. Through this platform, 3500 entrepreneurs learn how to create a sustainable new business from their initial idea and can connect to a network of more than 1500 global investors. Companies like Standard Chartered, AWS and Temasek Polytechnic use the online Accelerator as a Service to scale up their innovation initiatives.

In 2022, Robin started to set up the Zero Emissions Fund, South East Asia’s first early-stage VC fund investing in companies that develop products and services that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and through their innovative business models contribute to combating climate change.

Robin Teurlings has been an ethical investor for almost 30 years, first in stock listed assets and later on expanded as Angel Investor in IT-related companies. He is currently LP in several VC Funds focussing on blockchain, crypto, metaverse and deep tech companies.

Robin has a Master of Science degree in European Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Twente. He enjoys sharing his knowledge as a lecturer, international speaker and mentor for several startup programs in Asia as well as Entrepreneur in Residence for INSEAD.

Adj Prof Kwong Yuk Wah

Adj Prof Kwong Yuk Wah has a deep passion in teaching. She has been sharing her experience and practical knowledge through her adjunct teaching at the National University of Singapore since 2008 and is currently an Adjunct Professor, Department of Information Systems and Analytics, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.

She has worked in Singapore public sector for over 25 years and has held various management positions. She has played a significant role in major IT initiatives, starting with the Singapore Government’s Civil Service Computerisation Programme (CSCP) and the various Singapore e-Government initiatives. She has established e-Government Leadership Centre (eGL) in Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore and was the founding director in 2006. She has worked as Geographic Information System Consultant and Land Information System/Land Record Automation Expert for United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS).

She was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) from 2008 to 2019. Under her leadership, NTUC is a winner of National Infocomm Awards (NIA) 2014 for the Most Innovative Use of Infocomm Technology in the private sector category which is Singapore’s highest accolade for infocomm innovation. She was also the Chief Data Protection Officer from 2013 to 2019, and Chief Infocomm Security Officer (CISO) from 2016 to 2019 of NTUC and its affiliated unions as well as Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute. During her tenure in NTUC, she concurrently assumed CIO role of NTUC First Campus from 2008 to 2012 and NTUC Club from 2016 to 2019.

She is a Fellow Member of Singapore Computer Society (SCS). She holds the titles of Certified IT Project Manager (Senior), Certified IT Outsourcing Manager (Senior), and Certified AI Ethics and Governance Professional (Senior) of Singapore Computer Society. She served on SCS Executive Council from 2011 to 2022, and held a Vice President role from 2020 to 2021, this is in addition to being a member of AI Ethics and Governance Advisory Committee which is a joint initiative of IMDA and SCS launched in October 2019. At SCS, she helmed the strategic AI ethics and governance initiative and chaired the AI Ethics and Governance Body of Knowledge (BoK) and Certification Committee from 2019 to 2021.

She serves on the Board of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). She was awarded an ASEAN CIO Award 2015 by IDG ASEAN; and is among the “ASEAN’s Top 50 Technology and Digital Chiefs 2019” which is the inaugural CIO50 in ASEAN by IDC, recognising the top 50 senior technology executives driving innovation and influencing rapid change. She is in the inaugural Singapore 100 Women In Tech list (2020) compiled by IMDA and SCS.

She received her Doctor of Business Administration degree (2008) from University of Newcastle, Australia. Her dissertation is Singapore e-Government strategy.

Assoc Prof Danny Poo

Assoc Prof Danny Poo brings with him 35 years of Software Engineering and Information Technology and Management experience. A graduate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, Dr Poo is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University, Dr Poo was with the System Operations at DBSBank, Singapore.

A Steering Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Dr Poo is actively involved in Information Management and Healthcare Analytics research. A well-known speaker in seminars, Dr Poo has conducted numerous in-house training and consultancy for organizations, both locally and regionally. Dr Poo is the author of 5 books on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Java Programming language and Enterprise JavaBeans.

Dr Poo notable teaching credentials include:

• Data Strategy
• Data StoryTelling
• Data Visualisation
• Data Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Data Management
• Data Governance
• Data Architecture
• Capstone Projects for Business Analytics
• Software Engineering
• Server-side Systems Design and Development
• Information Technology Project Management
• Health Informatics
• Healthcare Analytics
• Health Informatics Leadership.

Industry Credentials

• Deutsche Bank
• Gemplus
• Micron
• NCR
• PIL
• PSA
• Rhode-Schwarz
• Standard Chartered Bank
• ST Electronic
• Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Infocomm Development Authority
• National Library Board
• Ministry of Manpower
• Nanyang Technological University
• Nanyang Polytechnic
• National University Hospital.

Assoc Prof Tan Chuan Hoo

Assoc Prof Tan Chuan Hoo is Associate Professor (tenured) and Deputy Head (Administration and Research) in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is the curriculum chair for the department. Prior to joining NUS, he held a tenured faculty position in Hong Kong. Chuan Hoo conducts research in the area of the digital economy, digitalization and future of work with a range of organisations and institutions. His work has appeared in premium journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of AIS, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology, Long Range Planning among many others. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers (http://goo.gl/gZcd47). He serves or has served on the editorial boards of leading journals including MIS Quarterly (Associate Editor), Journal of AIS (editorial board member), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (editorial board members), among others. Chuan Hoo is the recipient of the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award (2013), MIS Quarterly outstanding associate editor award (2016), Journal of AIS best reviewer award (2016), and NUS School of Computing faculty teaching excellence award (2017).

Dr Lek Hsiang Hui

Dr Lek Hsiang Hui is a Specialist in Data Analytics, System Analysis and Development. He is an IT techie who is passionate about computer systems and technology.

He is involved in a few startups and is constantly looking into innovative IT solutions which can be translated to business ideas, with the recent one in the area of Big Data Analytics. He is also a mobile application developer and has produced more than 10 mobile apps.

Dr Lek has been teaching various undergraduate courses and executive courses in National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2006. Some of these modules include programming methodology, enterprise system analysis and development, and data mining. During this period, he has won a number of teaching awards such as NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18) and NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Honor Roll (2018/19), Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17), and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Honor Roll (2017/18).

Dr Lek received his Doctor of Philosophy (Information Systems) from NUS in 2013. His research area is in Natural Language Processing (Sentiment Analysis). He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree (1st class Honors) in Computer Engineering from NUS.

Industry Credentials

Shopping Malls (UOL, Marina Square, ION), Healthcare (SingHealth), Government (STB), various SMEs in F&B, Apparels, Cleaning Solutions, Photography, Health Products, Baby Products

Mr Sarat Mohanty

Mr Sarat Mohanty is a senior global digital business leader lived and worked out of Australia, Singapore, UK, Germany, Dubai & Hong Kong assuming Global, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa & Middle East responsibilities. Sarat is responsible up to 1 bn USD revenue realization & managed 150+ staff globally. Sarat’s core competency includes technology consulting, Delivering & Monetizing Banking technology solution, Digital Transformation in Banking, Banking as a Service (BaaS), Fintech Platform Integration, Business Process Re-engineering, Blockchain & Cloud Application Engineering, ERP Rollout & Fintech advisory. A rare competency (Business & Technology, Banking & Corporate) for someone to have in the digital global leadership role. Domain expertise includes, Banking Pre-Sales, Working Capital Management, Cash & Treasury Management, Supply Chain Management & Trade & Supply Chain Finance Management & Sustainable Financing (ESG).

Sarat holds Digital Transformation Specialization from MIT-USA, MBA degree in Strategic Management (UK), Postgraduate in IT(India), Bachelor’s Degree in Finance. Sarat is an adjunct professor at NUS – AIDF (1st Fintech University in Asia) of Digital Transformation In Banking Industry & at SP Jain Global Management (Singapore) of Supply Chain Sustainability (ESG), Supply Chain Management & Financial Management In Supply Chain. Sarat is also a certified Six Sigma process expert & certified Project Management Professional.

Sarat is an active keynote speaker in reputed industry events, forums, specializing in Digital Disruption, & Blockchain. Sarat is recipient of various industry (BFSI) awards & accolades.

Dr Andreas Raharso

Dr Andreas Raharso is primarily interested in moving from best practice to “NEXT Practice”, an unconventional business playbook for industry 4.0. to realize the business potential of digital realm. He has collaborated with McKinsey, PwC, Accenture, GE, Google, Bosch, Airbnb, Microsoft, IBM and Amazon, and ASEAN Decacorn such as Go-Jek to apply his “NEXT Practice” solution.

He was a Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Business School where he wrote case study for HBR about tech companies and was an Adjunct Professor at INSEAD where he established a new course in digital practice called Organizational Analytics (Org2.0).

Andreas is founder and CEO of Organizational Analytics Limited, a consulting firm with focus on people and technology to turn his clients into leaders of digital transformation and innovation and was the Director of Hay Group Global R&D Centre for People and Strategy Execution based in Singapore. At the helm of Hay Group’s global research arm with regional centres located in Paris, Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, Boston and London. He led the generation of thought leadership in human capital progress and policy implementation faced by corporate and government bodies.

Andreas holds a BA in Economics, MBA in Corporate Finance and Management Science, and PhD in Management. He also completed the Strategy Implementation Programme at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He was invited to share his thought leadership in both Bank Indonesia’s SESPIBI36 & SESTABI4 programmes in 2020, as well as SESTABI5 and SESTABI6 programmes 2021. He is also the Programme Director, Faculty and Project Coach for Toyota Senior Management Programme. His new book ESCAPEFROMSYSTEM1 has been published by Marshall Cavendish in Jan 2022.Dr Andreas Raharso was the former Dean of Hay Group Global Research Centre, an affiliation of Harvard University and funded by the Singapore Government. A thought-leader in disruptive innovation, he created the original 1st People Analytic module at INSEAD Business School, and two postgraduate modules, Next Practice and People Strategy, at the National University of Singapore Business School. Both schools rank among the top business schools globally. Andreas has also collaborated with leading businesses such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Alibaba, Airbnb, GE, P&G and decacorn Gojek. He holds degrees in Economics, Finance and Data Science, and a Ph.D in Management.

His book, Escape from System 1: Unlocking the Science Behind the New Way of Innovation, was published in Jan, 2022.

Dr Dennis Khoo

Dr Dennis Khoo is an accomplished digital business leader, author and speaker in innovation and leadership. Armed with dual experience in Information Technology and Banking, he has a unique advantage in developing and executing strategies for the transformation of businesses in a digital world.

Dennis is author of the bestselling book Driving Digital Transformation in which he describes his experience leading complex digital transformations and the playbook he created (“TaP”) to significantly raise the probability of success of complex digital transformations.

Dennis was a senior banker who had previously run billion dollar businesses as head of consumer banking for Standard Chartered Bank and UOB in Singapore. He was responsible for many of the innovations in the consumer banking industry in Singapore, such as e$aver, XtraSaver (Winner of Asian Banker Best Deposit Linked account in 2007), Retail Bonds, Step-up time deposit, Pay-Any-Card (Winner of Asian Banker Best Payment Product in 2011), 15% Dining Cashback everywhere, 2-day Mortgage Service Guarantee, UOB Income Builder, One Account and UOB Mighty App. Dennis has hands-on experience in every product area in consumer banking and was previously CEO-Designate in one of the consortiums bidding for the digital bank wholesale license in Singapore.

A digital bank pioneer in ASEAN, Dennis was global head of TMRW Digital Group (UOB’s Millennial digital bank), where he was responsible for the strategy, growth and delivery of the TMRW Digital Bank. The first TMRW Digital Bank went live in Thailand in 2019, and the second in Indonesia in 2020. TMRW won Global Finance Most Innovative Digital Bank in Asia Pacific in 2019. Dennis also led the joint venture initiatives into FinTech like Avatec.ai and VUI Pte Ltd as part of the ecosystem to support the growth of TMRW.

Dennis is a WABC (Worldwide Association of Business Coaches) Registered Corporate Coach, a certified Gallup Strengths coach, and accredited in Harrison Assessment Employee Development. Dennis has mentored and coached many successful executives in his long career.

Dennis received his Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) and MBA from the National University of Singapore. He also has a Master in Business Research and PhD from the University of Western Australia. He has attended the Digital Business Leaders Program (DBLP) in Columbia University, New York.

Dr Guo Lei

Dr Guo Lei is an active educator and researcher in data science, behavioural study and design thinking, with extensive experience in delivering practice-based learning programmes and applied research projects with successful results.

Starting her career in Singapore as a marketing practitioner, Dr Guo worked across manufacturing, entertainment and education industries. She was the Chief Representative in China for a Singapore listed company. She was also responsible for setting up Shanghai Office and promoting executive education programmes for NUS Business School in Greater China market.

With the aspiration of bridging the gap between research and practice, Dr Guo pursued her PhD in the UK, where she worked on large-scale research projects with Cambridge University Service Alliance, BAE Systems and China Mobile.

Dr Guo returned to Singapore and joined NUS as a faculty member in 2011. She has particular experience in tackling complex challenges through applied research and education. She was the Principal Investigator for a series of research projects to inform better public transport policy decisions. She consults corporate clients on data analytics, user experience design and service innovation. Dr Guo teaches executive programmes of Data Analytics and Design Thinking at NUS. She has a passion for engaging and inspiring working professionals at all levels by applying the theory to real world business applications.

Dr Guo holds a PhD in Marketing from University of Exeter, an MBA from University of Adelaide University and a BA in Literature from Beijing Normal University.

Dr Yong Hsin Ning

Dr Yong Hsin Ning is an adventurer.

In her 25 years of career, she has experienced the joy (and woes) of being a tax accountant, a management consultant, adult student, an entrepreneur and an educator.

She is currently the co-founder of Change Voyage Consulting, a consulting firm dedicated to help companies manage organisational change through change capability building. She has recently started a second venture, The Biz Lab, which is a consulting firm focused on preparing early-stage startups to grow and scale sustainably.

Hsin Ning is also an Adjunct faculty at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business in the Singapore Management University (SMU). She teaches a variety of business courses to undergraduate students, entrepreneurs and matured SME business owners seeking their next S curve.

Hsin Ning has been recognised for her passion in teaching through multiple awards including the SMU School of Business Top Adjunct Faculty Award (2018-2021). She has recently been nominated for the SMU-X Excellent Teacher Award (2021).

Hsin Ning graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Accountancy. She subsequently pursued her interest in the field of Organisational Behaviour at the University of New South Wales, where she obtained a Masters in Commerce specialising in Organisation and Management Studies. She continued her lifelong learning journey by pursuing a Ph.D. in General Management at SMU where she studied the decision-making anomaly of part-time knowledge workers voluntarily working overtime.

Mr Brandon Phuan

Mr Brandon Phuan is currently serving as Chief Information Officer, overseeing ASM International’s Global IT function. He brings silo-ed business functions together, influences them to collaborate in a coherent manner to transform the digital workplace using cost effective technologies, secures the organisation’s data, protect customers and employees data and transform business processes through an integrated set of business applications towards industry 4.0. He sits on SAP’s Global Industry Advisory Board for Industrial Machinery & Components and is also a founding Committee member of SAP Singapore User Group.

Before ASM, Brandon was global IT Director in Rolls-Royce Marine business, overall responsible for IT that supported 7000 Marine employees worldwide in 90+ locations. In addition to the business IT role, he assumed Group IT responsibility for Asia region, supporting another 1000+ employees of Aerospace and Energy business sector.

Previously, he held leadership positions at companies like Honeywell and Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP). He also worked at companies like Siebel Systems, Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, Parkway Group Healthcare.

He is currently serving as co-op executive committee member of Tech Talent Assembly (TTAB), a non-for-profit association nurturing tech talents in Singapore, leading the Industries 4.0 chapter and previously he has served on the academic advisory committee of ITE, Singapore.

Brandon holds a Bachelor Degree (Honours) in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Mr Choi Jungkiu

Mr Choi Jungkiu is the Manager Director and Partner of the Boston Consulting Group. He is a member of the Financial Institutions practice at BCG specialising in strategy, transformation, business development/M&A/PMI, sales force productivity, and operations improvements. He leads marketing for the firm in Southeast Asia. Recently, Jungkiu has been focusing on digital banking/challenger bank build, coalition loyalty, bank tech/digital transformation, corporate governance/conglomerate strategy, and executive coaching/development.

He has built a number of digital banking channels and digital challenger banks as well as coalition loyalty programs in Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and Southeast Asia; and has led numerous bank tech/digital transformations, and built conglomerate digital ecosystems across Greater China and Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining BCG, Jungkiu worked as Director of Corporate Strategy and Management Development at NURI Management; Head of Financial Institutions Practice Asia Pacific at Kearney; and Group Head of Strategy/Business Development/Reengineering at Standard Chartered Bank.

Jungkiu has a Bachelor of Arts in International Economics from Seoul National University and MBA in Finance from University of California, Berkeley, Walter A. Haas School of Business.

Mr Lim Kuo Siong

Mr Lim Kuo Siong is the Senior Advisor of Singapore Consultancy, Director-Digitalisation of Yellow Pages Singapore, founding VP and General Secretary of Tech Talent Assembly (NTUC), chairman of the thought leadership series, advisor to digital startups, and partner of an angel investment company.

Kuo Siong served as regional and C-suite leadership positions in area of technology, digitalization, marketing, business operations and transformation, managed tech projects portfolio more than US$50 millions and business portfolio more than US$10 billions, for leading institutions – Standard Chartered Bank, Union Bank of Switzerland, Maybank, United Overseas Bank, covering high networth, retail, SME and corporate clients segments, and was based in Asia and Europe region. Kuo Siong was recognized as a Leading Practitioner (Tech & Innovation) by The Asian Banker, MIS Asia CIO 100, and has completed INSEAD (France) advanced management program and masters degree from University of Adelaide (Australia). Kuo Siong is a chartered member of British Computer Society.

Mr Ng Tiong Gee

Mr Ng Tiong Gee was the Senior Vice President for Technology, of Resorts World Sentosa, which he joined in 2013. He also runs the Engineering and Estate Management divisions of RWS at one point. He was the Chief Information Officer as well as the Chief Human Resource Officer of United Test and Assembly Center Ltd from 2008 to 2013 before he joined Resorts World Sentosa. Prior to that, Tiong Gee was with STATS ChipPAC in 2001 and was its Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Information Officer until 2008. Between 1988 and 1992, he held various key engineering positions at Digital Equipment Singapore, now part of Hewlett-Packard. He then went on to work at Siemens Microelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (now known as Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific) for over six years where he last served as Director of Information Systems and Services. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Chief Information Officer of Gateway Incorporated, heading the company’s IT activities in Asia Pacific.

Tiong Gee is the lead independent director of Pacific Radiance Ltd and is the Chairman of its Nomination Committee and a member of its Remuneration Committee. He is an independent director in GYP Properties since August 2007 where he is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee and Audit Committee. He also sits on the board of Y Ventures as an independent director where is the Chairman of Nominations committee and member of Remuneration and Audit committees.

He is currently the Chairman of Yellow Pages Pte Ltd where he is leading the digital transformation of a 50 years old business.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honours from the National University of Singapore and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. He has also attended the Advanced Management Program in Harvard Business School.

He lectures in NUS Advanced Computing for Executives and Strategic Technology Management Institute and is also currently an adjunct CIO of IDC. He is the founding President of Tech Talent Assembly formed together with NTUC to address keeping tech talent relevant and employed. At the same time, he is a director of Ren Ci Hospital and its Chairman of their IT steering committee.

Mr Sarat Mohanty

Mr Sarat Mohanty is a senior global digital business leader lived and worked out of Australia, Singapore, UK, Germany, Dubai & Hong Kong assuming Global, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa & Middle East responsibilities. Sarat is responsible up to 1 bn USD revenue realization & managed 150+ staff globally. Sarat’s core competency includes technology consulting, Delivering & Monetizing Banking technology solution, Digital Transformation in Banking, Banking as a Service (BaaS), Fintech Platform Integration, Business Process Re-engineering, Blockchain & Cloud Application Engineering, ERP Rollout & Fintech advisory. A rare competency (Business & Technology, Banking & Corporate) for someone to have in the digital global leadership role. Domain expertise includes, Banking Pre-Sales, Working Capital Management, Cash & Treasury Management, Supply Chain Management & Trade & Supply Chain Finance Management & Sustainable Financing (ESG).

Sarat holds Digital Transformation Specialization from MIT-USA, MBA degree in Strategic Management (UK), Postgraduate in IT(India), Bachelor’s Degree in Finance. Sarat is an adjunct professor at NUS – AIDF (1st Fintech University in Asia) of Digital Transformation In Banking Industry & at SP Jain Global Management (Singapore) of Supply Chain Sustainability (ESG), Supply Chain Management & Financial Management In Supply Chain. Sarat is also a certified Six Sigma process expert & certified Project Management Professional.

Sarat is an active keynote speaker in reputed industry events, forums, specializing in Digital Disruption, & Blockchain. Sarat is recipient of various industry (BFSI) awards & accolades.

Mr Soh Kin Wei

Mr Soh Kin Wei has over 28 years of senior IT leadership experience in global industry-leading companies such as Pfizer, Cargill and Air Liquide. He is now VP, Digital and IT of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health. In Air Liquide Kin Wei is responsible for creating value through digital technology that run, protect and change the business. Prior to Air Liquide he was the Chief Technology Officer of Jaungle, and Chief Information Officer APAC for Cargill, where he directed the organization’s overall IT strategy and provide vision and leadership in all technology operation. Throughout his career, Kin Wei has re-energized century-old businesses through digitally enabled transformations, led enterprise-wide cloud, data and ERP programs, and remodelled global finance and IT shared services operations that aligned to business aspirations. Well-travelled to over 25 countries for work, he is also personally a startup evangelist.

Kin Wei received his MBA with honours from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma. He has a BS degree with distinction in Computer and Information Science from the University of Singapore.

He is passionate in paying it forward by sharing his experience with aspiring ICT professionals.

Ms Stacey Huang

Ms Stacey Huang is the Co-founder and Director of Change Voyage Consulting, a consulting firm which provides tailored solutions in the areas of organisational and individual change. She specializes in organizational psychology and applies her specialization to support organisations undergoing business and digital transformations. She has 11 years of experience managing large scale change and culture programs in industries such as Defence, FMCG, Healthcare, Insurance and Energy. Stacey is also the Executive Director for PARIMA, a not-for-profit association for risk managers across Asia Pacific focusing on risk, crisis and emergency response.

Stacey has a double degree in Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Business Management from the Singapore Management University (SMU). She has attained 3 years consecutive Dean’s list (2005, 2006, 2007) and graduated with Magna Cum Laude. Stacey also has a Msc. Industrial and Organisational Psychology/ Business Psychology from the University College London (UCL), London.

Ms Tan Shui-Min

Ms Tan Shui-Min was appointed Chief Information Technology Officer on 1 November 2020.

Ms Tan joined NUS IT as Director (Applications) in 2016, and was promoted to Deputy Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO) in 2020. During this time, she oversaw the creation, delivery, and support of applications from all business domains, including Education, Research and Administration. She also played a vital role in strategic planning, guiding daily operations and implementing campus-wide IT policies. She has transformed the IT team to adopt Agile methodology and strengthened the enterprise architecture to achieve evolutionary development and dexterity. Ms Tan believes in the innovative deployment of cutting-edge technology to enable the business and advance NUS’ foray into the digital future.

Prior to joining NUS, Ms Tan held IT management positions in Integrated Health Information Systems and Neptune Orient Lines, where she was instrumental in crafting and delivering strategic technology plans that new capabilities to the business and lowered operational costs. She excels in managing multimillion-dollar mega projects, both at the local and global level.

Ms Tan obtained her Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and Master of Science (Management of Technology) from NUS. She graduated as the top student in her Master’s programme, and was accorded Best Graduate 2003 from NUS Business School.

Dr Jenson Goh

Dr. Jenson is sought after by companies around the world for business and IT consultancy particularly for his insights on business excellence, systems thinking, design thinking and organisational learning. He was awarded the prestigious Business Excellence Green Jacket Assessor by Enterprise SG. He is an expert certified in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Associate Certified Coach by ICF and Professional Coach by SMU, WSQ Advanced Certification in Learning and Performance, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, LEGO® Six Bricks and Playbox facilitator. Dr. Jenson was the former Chief Information & Learning Officer of a public listed company worth $1B operating in Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and the UK. He led the IT function and was also responsible for designing and implementing group-wide learning strategies and programs to cultivate systems thinking based learning culture in the organisation.

Dr. Jenson dedicated more than 2 decades of his career with the National University of Singapore, where he earned his PhD in Information Systems, researching into ways an organisation can strategically renew itself through IT innovation towards social, environmental, and economic sustainability. In his last role in NUS, he was Director of Studies with Residential College 4 where he designed transformative programme to develop students into proficient system thinkers and in the application of innovative teaching methods to drive learning. Prior to that, as the Chief Enterprise Architect/Senior Manager, he led many strategic and mission critical IT initiatives to support the University’s teaching, research, and administration. His work in the University has won more than 20 international and national awards in innovation, quality, case writing and teaching.

Dr. Jenson volunteers passionately in numerous organisations, for example he is the President of Asia Pacific Coordinating Policy Council of System Dynamics Society, co-opted executive member of Tech Talent Assembly, Chairman of Singapore My Home SG75 Competition and board member of Casa Raudha Woman Home to name a few. Most of all, he served his country as the Head, Manpower and Logistics (NS) in the Singapore Police Force and held the rank of Superintendent, one of the highest accolades given to National Servicemen, and was responsible for the operational readiness of 1,600 NSmen for more than 10 years. For his dedication, he received multiple awards from the Commissioner of Police and Division Commander including the most prestigious Home Team NS man of the year award in 2018.

Mr Alvin Aw

Mr Alvin Aw has accumulated 30 years of progressive and dynamic technology experience in the legal and FMCG/ICT industries. He has led IT transformation and system integration projects for legal and FMCG acquisition & merger exercises, drive IT solutions operations / infrastructure and delivery, business continuity planning, disaster planning and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) role for all cybersecurity affairs ranging from strategy to security policy /operations.

Ms Audrey Ling

Ms Audrey Ling is a digital marketing practitioner-cum-mentor. She started her digital marketing journey for 7 years and started mentoring individuals and startups on driving traffic and scaling since 2018.

To date, she has taught over 1000+ learners, from technopreneurs, online business owners to digital marketers, on various different aspects of digital marketing.

She was previously mentored under 500 Startups’ (Venture Capital Firm) Distro Dojo Growth Marketing Program from Silicon Valley.

Ms Cheryl Tang

Ms Cheryl Tang has over 14 years of change management, organization design and learning and performance management experience. She has managed corporate universities for clients in the region, leading development of curriculum, design and delivery of programmes to support performance. She has also been involved in large Business Transformation projects, involving business process re-engineering and systems related change. She has journeyed with clients to prepare their organizations for change and enable business readiness.

Most recently, Cheryl has led two philanthropic foundations as Foundation Director and currently serves on the Board of various non-profit organizations, helping to drive their social impact through strategic planning.

She has a Masters in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and has taught Philosophy at NUS and Non-Profit Leadership at the Singapore Management University.

Ms Debbie Han

Ms Debbie Han is an entrepreneur, design strategist and innovation coach with over 25 years of experience in design, business and the internet. A certified Usability Analyst and Design Sprint Master led by her passion in business, human-centred design, and the transformative value of technology, her mission is to help entrepreneurs design and build online businesses by transforming their mindsets and business into a growth driven, profitable and leveraged model.

Mr Joel Ng

Mr Joel Ng is an IDEO-U certified design practitioner with 20 years of experience in Design Thinking and Service Design in both the private and public sectors. He worked with the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) on Smart Nation (GovTech) Design Thinking projects to benefit underprivileged households (e.g. wheelchair users, seniors living alone) and volunteered with non-profit organisations to mentor youths from lower-income families. Joel invented GRASP™, a holistic innovation framework that combines Design Thinking, Behavioural Insights and Lean, to create more impactful design solutions. He authored Innovation within GRASP™, a step-by-step layman’s guide to using design to tackle wicked issues.

Mr Omid Abbasi

Mr Omid Abbasi is a passionate digital marketer who had helped several companies in eCommerce, online education, B2B and non-profit organization in their digital growth. He has experience in various aspects of digital marketing including Content Marketing, SEO, Landing pages, Social Media marketing and Data Analytics. He is also capable of mentoring and guiding students in learning various aspects of digital marketing and empowering them to take one step forward in their digital marketing journey.

Mr Simon Siah

Mr Simon Siah is an experienced Design Strategist, Business Advisor, and Educator with a track record of working with enterprises, SME businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. An advocate for innovation as the next strategic imperative, Simon is passionate about helping organisations use design as a method to innovate for sustainable growth. His experience spans education, technology, retail, marketing, F&B and culture sectors. He enjoys the breadth of this work as an aspiring Polymath who has an interest in photography, music, fine art, and technology. He holds an MSc in Innovation from Singapore Management University and is currently pursuing his MA in Design Management with Northumbria University.

Mr Thian-Hwei Kung

Mr Thian-Hwei Kung is an IT practitioner, experienced in IT applications and infrastructure for Infocomm and high tech manufacturing industries with more than 30 years in manufacturing environment with MNC like Makino, Sanmina-SCI, Infineon Technologies.

In Makino and Sanmina-SCI, Thian-Hwei served in regional leading role in the organisations, leading teams in area of technology, digitization, leading the organisation in Industry 4.0 efforts. In this role, he worked with business to deliver IT projects, solutions and digitization across the companies. With many years in diverse manufacturing sectors, Thian Hwei has acquired experiences and knowledge in manufacturing processes and systems. He is able to share practices in the use of technologies in the manufacturing industry sector to support businesses.

In the last 12 months, Thian-Hwei is one of the facilitators for the Advanced Manufacturing modules and sharing the concepts and experiences of digitization in manufacturing.

Prof Alex Siow

Prof Alex Siow is currently Professor (Practice) in the School of Computing, NUS.

Prior to the current appointment, Prof Alex was the Managing Director, Health & Public Service at Accenture. Alex started his career as a Structural Engineer in the HDB in 1981 and appointed the Chief Information Officer in 1989. In 2003, Alex joined the private sector and became the Senior Vice-President in StarHub Ltd. He held various portfolios including Head, Business Market, CIO and Head, Enterprise Risk Management.

Prof Alex was very active in the IT Community. He was the President of the Singapore Computer Society from 1997 to 2001. He was the President of ITMA from 1995 to 1999. He was the first President of the Singapore Chapter of the Project Management Institute and served from 2001 to 2012. From 2001 to 2005, Alex was the Chairman of the e-Learning Chapter of SiTF.

Alex is currently Chairman of Toffs Technologies Pte Ltd, a member of Temasek Polytechnic Board of Governors, a member of the Board of Trustees of Singapore University of Social Sciences and a member of Board of Directors of the Ang Mo Kio Thye Hua Kwan Hospital. Previously, he was a director in several boards including National Computer Board, Cleantech Pte Ltd, Certis Cisco Pte Ltd, Singapore Science Centre, e-Cop Pte Ltd, CMC Infocomm Ltd.

Prof Alex’s expertise is in IT Governance, Enterprise Risk Management, Management of Emerging Technology and Technology Roadmap Planning. He is also active in the Fintech and blockchain community. He is currently the ICO and Strategic Advisor to Nexty.io, Azbit.com, Aora.com, Gosama.io, EwaTech.io, Ekkbaz.com and Blackbox.ai.

Industry Credentials

Accenture • Hong Leong Finance Ltd • Temasek Polytechnic • Certis Cisco • Singapore Science Centre Board • Singapore Computer Society • Housing & Development Board • Starhub • National Trust Consult • CX Surbana Pte Ltd • CMC Infocomms

• e-Cop Pte Ltd • Singapore Technologies • Toffs Technologies Pte Ltd • U3 Infotech Pte Ltd • Arista Networks Ltd
• PwC EU Business, Nexty Pte Ltd • PM Partners Pte Ltd Singapore • University of Social Sciences
• ST Electronics (Info-soft) Pte Ltd • EpicLanka Pte Ltd

Prof Rahul Jain

Rahul Jain has been promoted to full Professor from 1 January 2020. He was an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the National University of Singapore (NUS) from July 2013 (Assistant Professor Nov 2008 – July 2013). He obtained his PhD from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India in 2003. He was a post doctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, USA from 2004-2006 and at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo, Canada from 2006-2008. He obtained Bachelor’s degree (B-Tech) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (IIT-B), India in 1997. He is a Principle Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore from Nov. 2008.

Assoc Prof Tan Wee Kek

Assoc Prof Tan Wee Kek is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He is also currently serving as an Assistant Dean (Student Life) in the School of Computing, and a Fellow and EXCO member of the NUS Teaching Academy. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems in July 2013 and a Bachelor of Computing in Information Systems (1st Class Honours) in July 2007, both from the National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he attended Singapore Polytechnic and graduated with a Diploma in Computer Information Systems with Merit in July 2001.

His current primary research interests focus on consumer-based information technology (e.g., online decision aids, social computing, virtual worlds and consumer cloud services). Most of his research is based on design science, a well-established problem-solving paradigm that has been widely adopted in information systems research. His current secondary research interests focus on information systems education.

His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), and Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE). His work has also been presented or is forthcoming in conferences such as ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference (SIGMIS-CPR), IFIP Working Group 8.2 Working Conference (IFIP WG8.2), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), and International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI).

He has won the faculty level Research Achievement Award in 2013 and was a nominee for the ACM SIGMIS 2009 Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year.

His current teaching interests include imparting senior undergraduate students with knowledge and skills to develop enterprise information systems as well as teaching them principles of information security management, and concepts of mobile and ubiquitous commerce.

He has won the University level Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2009 to 2012. In addition to this, he has also won the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2008 to 2011 as well as the Faculty Best Teaching Assistant Award for AY 2007/2008. For his sustained commitment to teaching excellence, he has been placed on the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll for AY 2010/2011 and University level Annual Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll for AY 2012/2013.

He is presently the lead faculty mentor of the NUS BiZiT Society, a student special interest group on business and information technology.

Dr Adrian Kuah

Dr Adrian Kuah is an experienced practitioner of futures and complexity thinking, he leads the Futures Office in the Office of the President, National University of Singapore. As the founding director, he leads his team to ask all sorts of inconvenient questions in order to make sense of the future of higher education by developing scenarios to stimulate alternative thinking on the roles that universities will play – in terms of teaching and research – in this emerging complex world. His research interests include futures studies, complexity science, and political philosophy (focusing on pragmatism). He served in various positions in both public as well as private sectors, notably the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the Centre for Strategic Futures, Strategic Policy Office, Prime Minister’s Office before embarking on an academic career with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP).

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning with the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to SoC, he was a Senior Lecturer in NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) teaching AI and Data Science to adult learners. Before joining the NUS, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, where he was serving as a professor of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He was born in Isfahan, Iran. He studied towards BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), and Shiraz University respectively. He got his PhD in computer engineering, pattern recognition and image processing, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, in 2005. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, IoT, Data Science, and their applications.

He has taught the artificial intelligence courses, including AI, Advanced AI, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Science since 2005 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded the best university teacher of the province in 2012. He also has studied Learning Management Systems, E-Learning, and E-Learning for workplaces since 2007.

Dr Monajemi has registered a few patents in the fields of AI, Machine Vision, and Signal Processing applications, including an AI and machine vision-based driver drowsiness detection system and a low power consuming spherical robot. He also has published more than a hundred research papers in peer-reviewed, indexed journals and international conferences (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and so on), and supervised several Data Science, IoT, and AI industrial projects in various scales, including Isfahan intelligent traffic system delivery and testing, and red light runners detection. He is experienced in different sub-domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from theory to practice, including Deep Learning, Logic, and Optimisation.

Dr Edmund Low

Dr Edmund Low is currently Senior Lecturer with the NUS College at the National University of Singapore.

He has nearly 20 years of academic and professional experience in the use of data-driven tools to answer questions in public health and the environment. His past projects include applying AI techniques and machine learning models for environmental modelling and impact assessment. He currently heads the quantitative reasoning domain at USP, and teaches courses on statistical methods, data science and machine learning. As an educator, Edmund is a multiple recipient of both the USP Teaching Excellence Award, as well as the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award. Edmund holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University.

Dr Ganesh Neelakanta Lyer

Dr Ganesh Neelakanta Lyer is a Lecturer in in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he worked as a lead DevOps engineer at Salesforce.com. He had also served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering (University first rank) from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India in 2004 and Masters and PhD degrees from National University of Singapore in 2008 and 2012 respectively. He brings in a decade of industry experience in various companies including Sasken Communication Technologies, NXP semiconductors and Progress software. He has handled several roles in the software industry including QA Architect, Technical Support Manager, Engineering development and Technology Evangelist.

He has strong inclination towards Game Theory. He applies game theory for handling conflicts, enforcing cooperation and for multi-agent systems. His technical knowledge and experience are in various areas including Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing Paradigms (including cloud platforms, containers and Kubernetes), Computer Networks, Software Engineering practices (Agile) and Quality Analysis, Economic models (Game Theoretic principles) and current day practices on cloud-based enterprise architectures, Machine Learning and technology for traditional Indian dance (such as Kathakali) popularization. His mathematical interests include game theory, graph theory, optimization principles etc. Over the past several years he has acquired practical knowledge and experience in various cutting-edge software engineering methodologies including Agile framework and has experience formulating and implementing various software engineering principles using Agile for large and small product development teams.

Dr. Iyer is active in doing practical industry-oriented research on the above topics of his interest. He also aspires to do research on technological innovations to popularize traditional classical arts such as Kathakali and Koodiyattam.

He has published two book chapters in the “Encyclopaedia for Cloud Computing” in 2016 in addition to several book chapters, journals and conference publications. Dr. Iyer has delivered several practical workshops and talks on various cutting-edge technology topics in many academic and industry events in several countries including USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. Many of these were on the contributions made by him in his industry engagement for software quality analysis with current day software engineering principles such as Agile for application development involving cloud platforms, mobile platforms and IoT based systems.

Dr. Iyer is an IEEE Senior Member. He has been a reviewer of many internationals Journals including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and several international conferences. He was also the program chair for several international conferences including ICCCI and ICIWE.

Dr. Iyer has strong teaching skills and boundless passion for teaching. He was a visiting faculty at IIIT-H (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad), and has been teaching various subjects including “Game Theory for Computer Science”, “Computer Networks”, “Advanced Computer Networks” and “Scripting and Computer environments” for which, he has framed the syllabus, developed the materials and references, structured the grading scheme and formulated continuous assessment strategies. Further, he was a member of Board of Studies at JNTU-H (a premium university in India) where he participates in framing the syllabus for the university’s upcoming academic year.

He is also an expert in performing Kathakali, a traditional Indian dance. He has composed a story in Kathakali and he spends a considerable amount of his personal time to uplift this traditional art by organizing Kathakali performances, workshops and demonstrations and performance by himself. He has also composed a Kathakali story “Sri Mookambika Mahathmyam” which has been staged in multiple venues in India.

Dr Lu Weiquan

Dr Lu Weiquan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing in NUS who examines the User Experience (UX) Design of technologically-empowered learning environments. He designs and utilizes experiential learning technology (such as simulations, Augmented and Virtual Reality) in the courses he teaches, and his education research interests include figuring out how all this technology tangibly and measurably affects human learning using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He also advises the government in the fields of UX design and experiential learning, and he develops Metaverse applications for industry clients. He holds a B.Comp. in Computing and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NUS.

Mr Chia Wai Kong

Mr Chia Wai Kong is the Director and Principal Consultant for Jakkolab Pte Ltd, a business consulting company that specialises in technology training and business process optimisation consulting. Wai Kong has 30+ years of experience in technology and business consulting, and system integration and project management with infocomms technology (ICT) multinational companies such as HP, Agilent, Ericsson, Lithium Technologies and Huawei. He has taken up various roles in these companies as Project Director, Chief Architect, Principal Solution Consultant, Practice Principal and Senior Business Consultant.

He has a truly global consulting experience, having managed project deliveries and done consulting projects on every continent except Antarctica. This included whole of Asia, Australasia, UK, Ireland, Germany, East Africa and South America, with delivery teams coming from SE Asia, China, Japan, Korea, France, Germany, Switzerland and USA.

Key projects include Digital Transformation of Hong Kong Telecoms Enterprise Business, launching Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) for Indonesian operator, Business Case development for fibre-to-the-home launch in Kenya, Business case for enterprise fibre project for Vodafone Germany, Smart Kingdom for Bahrain, Telecom Transformation for Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Project Director of multi-team consulting projects for Smart Communications and a Greenfield service provider in the Philippines, and Project Director for all-India subscriber registry rollout.

As part of HP and Ericsson, Wai Kong was responsible to enforce Consultant Skills Inventory and to build the Global Solution Repositories.

While in Huawei, he has conducted training and workshops in various telecom business processes and technologies related to the above projects. He was also a trainer of the Business Model Canvas (BMC) at Huawei University.

Wai Kong founded Jakkolab with the intent of transferring his extensive international consulting and project management experience to local and regional companies. He has delivered 5G and IOT training to corporations and undergraduates. He has also delivered Digital Transformation training to Myanmar Imperial University MBA class and coached a Myanmar team of undergraduates for the ICAEW Business Challenge 2019. He is an Associate Trainer for a Malaysia-based premium technology provider where he has three 5G courses listed. He is also providing consulting in Business Process Improvement to drive Digital Transformation for SMEs in Singapore and Myanmar.

Wai Kong is a Singapore Certified Management Consultant (SCMC) under Singapore Government’s Consultant Quality Initiative (CQI), under Singapore standards TR 43:2015 using guidelines from international standard ISO 20700.

He also has a Certificate in Digital Marketing from AVADO (jointly developed with Google) and is a Lithium-certified Online Community Manager, and also a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological Institute/National University of Singapore in 1987.

Mr Jim Lim Shien Min

Mr Jim Lim Shien Min is the founder of 59stVentures, a socio-techno network focusing in leveraging expertise, experiences and connections of senior executives globally to contribute back to the society. He is currently also the healthcare sector lead for NCS tasked to build digital healthcare ecosystem and to expand NCS footprint regionally. Jim also sits in the board of startup companies in China, Taiwan, Singapore and India. Prior to this, he was CEO for Good Doctor Technology, a Joint-Venture between PingAn Good Doctor from China and Grab. He joined the company as first employee to setup the entire business in Indonesia and Singapore. Jim is currently also adjunct lecturer for NUS, SUSS, Huawei University and FinTech Academy.

Before Good Doctor, Jim was the Global Senior Director in Group Chief Transformation Office in Huawei Technologies and its Regional Chief Technology Officer for strategic digital transformation projects in APAC, focussing on digital transformation cross industries (e.g. Telco, Smart Nation/City, Retail, Healthcare, Logistics, Agriculture), domains (e.g. Cloud, IoT, Big Data, Mobile Money, Connectivity) and aspects (e.g. Business Modelling, Customer Journey, Design Thinking, Org. Change)

Prior to joining Huawei, Jim was the CBE (Client Business Executive) in Amdocs with full P&L responsibilities from sales, delivery and operations. Jim was with Amdocs for 9 years and was previously the Senior Director, Business Strategy and Sales Engineering in APAC, whom setup the regional delivery team; responsible for all accounts presales and strategic business development activities within Amdocs APAC. Jim was Techmahindra Presales and Delivery Group Head for APAC who set up its regional delivery centers and presales teams. Jim also established partnership with other vendors such as Huawei and Oracle while serving as Country Manager for Greater China. Prior to this role, Jim was Project and JV Manager and Senior Consultant in Accenture, with solid experiences in large-scale business transformation programs in SingTel, Telekom Malaysia and Starhub

With 20+ years of high tech and ICT industry experiences in Business, Customer & Project Management, Jim has proven track records in exceeding client/partners expectations and strong in providing business and strategic advice to complement the technicality of the initiatives and programs

Jim holds a MBA (Distinctions) from Manchester Business School (UK) and B. Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Jim is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a seasoned company spokesman for media and analysts. Jim is currently the Vice President for Cloud Security Alliance Singapore Chapter, a global mentor for PingAn Technology Innovation Center, an industry mentor for ICT with Young NTUC, a Senior Fellow appointed by Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and an Executive Education Fellow appointed by National University of Singapore (NUS).

Mr Ang Leong Boon

Mr Ang Leong Boon is currently the Head of IT Security at NUS Information Technology, responsible for security governance, risk management, security operations, incident response and user awareness across the entire University.

He has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, with a keen interest in security incident handling and response. During his 10 years in NUS, he has led a number of investigations for major cybersecurity incidents, including an APT attack on local universities in 2017. He has also conducted guest lectures in NUS, provided mentorship for startups with the ICE71 Accelerate Programme and spoken at various security conferences.

Leong Boon is an alumnus of NUS, having graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering.

Mr Chris Liu

Mr Chris Liu is a cloud computing and cyber security expert. With the passion of cloud computing and security, he has helped many enterprises in the region to build up a more secure and robust IT infrastructure. Currently he is working at a world leading cloud security company as solution architect for ASEAN and GCR region.

He is CCIE Emeritus, holding CISSP, Azure Solution Architect Experts and other renowned certifications in the industry.

Chris graduated from Telecom ParisTech and Tongji University with double master’s degrees in Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering.

In his free time, Chris loves playing tennis and spending time with his family.

Mr Paul Soon

Paul Soon is a seasoned Information and Communications Technology professional with over 24 years of international work experiences with culturally diverse teams from Asia Pacific to Europe. He has worked for major telecom operators such as Singtel, NTT Docomo, H3G, Orange UK; consultancies such as Praxis High Integrity Systems, Qualphone Europe; device vendor Sony Ericsson; and ICT vendor Huawei. Paul’s work experience covered tech training, business and network consulting, solutioning, technical marketing, mobile device interoperability testing and validation, R&D, and wireless network planning and optimisation.

Paul is presently Principal Consultant and owner of Acmo Consulting, a Singapore registered business providing AI, cloud and mobile training and consultancy services. Concurrently he is an Associate Trainer for Deloitte and Dream Catcher Technologies.

Previously with Huawei, Paul has delivered 4G/5G consulting projects and executive presentations in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to that, he worked on 3G device management, testing and validation for 8 years in the UK and spent a year on-the-job training on early 3G systems in Japan sponsored by the Economic Development Board of Singapore. He has also engaged with the local telecom industry to drive technology leadership such as 5G industry trials, IoT startup accelerator, co-editor of industry task force for IoT/cellular devices security regulatory specifications, and 5G expert speaker at national events such as SkillsFuture Singapore Festival, SGTech Learning Journey Series, National Engineers Day.

Paul has conducted training and workshops on technology topics covering 4G, 5G mobile communications, Cloud, AI-ML, IoT, vertical industry use cases, financial analysis and business modelling to a diverse range of customers such as telecom operator, vendor partner, university adult learning academy, bank, professional society, industry association and government agency.
Paul was a certified Huawei University trainer for new employees on-boarding. To date, he has obtained professional certifications in Huawei Certified ICT Associate – Cloud Service, Google Cloud certified Professional Cloud Architect, Fundamentals in AI by AI Singapore and Data Science Specialization by Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a First-Class Honours degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor degree in Business.

Mr Qiu Kai

Mr Qiu Kai is the Chief Technology Officer of ANEXT Bank. He is responsible for designing ANEXT Bank’s IT and digital vision to drive business impact, and has developed a robust technology architecture roadmap that supports the full range of digital SME banking services.

As an experienced IT leader, Mr Qiu Kai manages a team to develop, manage and maintain the overall security and technology infrastructure of ANEXT Bank, including cybersecurity and business continuity frameworks and measures. He also provides the right environment and support for the team to deliver innovative solutions within budget and timelines.

Prior to joining ANEXT Bank, Mr Qiu Kai has worked in various leading software companies and banks including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, to deliver on core banking system implementations across Asia Pacific.

In his most recent role at LaSalle Investment Management Asia (“LaSalle”), Mr Qiu Kai undertook the digital transformation roadmap, overall IT operations, cybersecurity, and business continuity management for Asian countries. He successfully established a technology risk management framework and delivered various digital initiatives for LaSalle.

Mr Qiu Kai holds a Bachelor of Computing from the National University of Singapore.

Mr Reynels Lee Sze Koon

With more than 25 years’ experience in Internet and ICT industries, Mr Reynels Lee is a proven Enterprise Architect and Advisory Consultant that possesses broad experience and knowledge across Far-and-Wide technologies and Business Strategic Consultancy. With particularly focus on Digital Transformation & Technologies, he has extensive experience as Technology Architect and Business Consultant, on the domain of Digital Services, Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Omnichannel eCommerce, SDP, SOA, API Monetization, Telecommunication, Financial Services and Mobile Commerce.

As a Regional Customer Delivery Director for APAC Region, of Babylon Health an AI power Digital Health company, he is responsible of Programme Management, Customer Relationship and Customer Success Management. Managing the customers through engagement and coordination, to deliver Babylon Technology & Products to multiple territories, ensuring customer satisfaction in alignment to business visions.

Reynels was Chief Technology Officer of Good Doctor Technology (Singapore), that is resulted from a JV between Ping An (China) and Grab (SEA). He is responsible to lead and formulate technology delivery and operation strategy by develop & deliver a strategic technological & business vision and direction for the company, in alignment to delivery of O2O Healthcare Solution in South East Asia.

Prior to joining Good Doctor Technology, he was Sr. Management Consultant of Huawei Consulting, leverage on Machine Learning / AI Technology, to provide consultancy & solutions on Customer Value Management & Digital Operation Transformation.

In Huawei Technologies, Reynels is also a Principal Architect of Huawei Global Solution Elite Team, responsible to deliver solution and consultancy of Digital Transformation with focus on BSS domain and Digital Solutions for Telco. In this role, he engages and delivers Digital Transformation & Operations Transformation strategic solution to address customer’s business visions through understanding and translating of customer needs to concrete and executable technical solutions & business strategies.

In Huawei Technologies, he is also carrying out the responsibilities as the experience Expert Lecturer, participate to involve in course planning, course development, and course lecturing for various cross domain courses.

Prior to joining Huawei, Reynels worked in a variety of Director / Senior Manager positions as Head of Value Added & Digital Services, Head of Enterprise Architects, Head of Digital Innovations and Head of Network Operation Architecture etc across the field of Telecommunications, IT, and FSI, carry out the responsibilities from product development, technical development and operations.

Reynels graduated from Middlesex University London with MSc in Business Information Technology & Interactive Computing System. Reynels is also a certified Enterprise Architect (TOGAF)

Mr Tan Keok Tay

Mr Tan Keok Tay is an Associate Director with NUS Information Technology. He is currently leading a digital enablement team to run Digital Enablement Programme in conjunction with the University’s drive to raise the digital dexterity of the staff in NUS.

The programme includes tools such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Data Visualization, Forms & Flows, Survey, and products from Microsoft 365. He conducts workshops and clinic sessions to enable staff to be more effective and productive with the use of the digital tools.

Keok Tay is an alumnus of NUS, having graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Science, and a Master of Science in Management of Technology.

Assoc Prof Suranga Nanayakkara

Assoc Prof Suranga Nanayakkara has over 10 years of experience developing and teaching Design Thinking courses in University as well as within corporate community in Sri Lanka, Singapore and New Zealand. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems & Analytics, School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS, Suranga worked as an Associate Professor at Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland. Prior to that, he was with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) as an Assistant Professor and was also a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Media Lab.

He received his PhD in 2010 and BEng in 2005 from the National University of Singapore. For the totality and breadth of achievements, he has won many awards including MIT TechReview’s Young Inventor Under 35 award (TR35) in the Asia Pacific region, the Outstanding Young Persons of Sri Lanka (TOYP) award, and INK Fellowship 2016.

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning with the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to SoC, he was a Senior Lecturer in NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) teaching AI and Data Science to adult learners. Before joining the NUS, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, where he was serving as a professor of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He was born in Isfahan, Iran. He studied towards BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), and Shiraz University respectively. He got his PhD in computer engineering, pattern recognition and image processing, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, in 2005. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, IoT, Data Science, and their applications.

He has taught the artificial intelligence courses, including AI, Advanced AI, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Science since 2005 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded the best university teacher of the province in 2012. He also has studied Learning Management Systems, E-Learning, and E-Learning for workplaces since 2007.

Dr Monajemi has registered a few patents in the fields of AI, Machine Vision, and Signal Processing applications, including an AI and machine vision-based driver drowsiness detection system and a low power consuming spherical robot. He also has published more than a hundred research papers in peer-reviewed, indexed journals and international conferences (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and so on), and supervised several Data Science, IoT, and AI industrial projects in various scales, including Isfahan intelligent traffic system delivery and testing, and red light runners detection. He is experienced in different sub-domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from theory to practice, including Deep Learning, Logic, and Optimisation.

Dr Anand Bhojan

Dr Anand Bhojan graduated with B.Sc. in Computing with Gold Medal from Bharathiar University in 1994, Professional Masters in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University in 1999, PGC in Teaching Higher Education from University of Sheffield, UK in 2003 and P.hD. from NUS in 2011. He received research achievement award and his thesis was nominated for best PhD thesis award. He is a member of the Communication and Internet Research Lab (www.cir.nus.edu.sg) and Graduate studies committee. He is the founder of Anuflora Systems (www.anuflora.com) and Virtual and Augmented Reality Labs (www.varlabs.org). He is the Associate Editor of Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier. He is the Vice President of International Researchers club, Singapore. He has been serving as Organizing Chair and Program Chair of several International conferences and in the Program Committees of several International conferences. He has given Keynote talks in IEEE/ACM International Conferences.

Ms Samantha Sow

Ms. Samantha Sow is currently a Senior Lecturer in the department of Information Systems and Analytics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has over 8+ years of experience in Business Analytics and Data Science and she conducts training for both government agencies and corporate clients. Before joining NUS, she lectures at Temasek Polytechnic, teaching Business Analytics and Data Science to professionals, managers and executives (PMEs). Prior to being an academia, Samantha worked in the research and development at Infineon Technologies. Her research and project areas include Business Analytics, Data Mining, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics.

She has a passion for engaging and inspiring participants to enhance their workplace analytics capabilities and increase business intelligence quotient within their organisations. Her interests lie in the applications of data analytics, predictive modelling and optimization techniques to derive actionable insights for commercial effectiveness. She is familiar with typical analytics tools such as Python, R, and SAS, SPSS and Tableau. She also has working knowledge in the area of Analytics, Data Science and Machine Learning.

Samantha completed her Master of Education from University of Sheffield and graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor’s in Engineering, First Class Honours. She has also completed THEC (Teaching in Higher Education) and ACTA (Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment). She is a member of the adult associate educator (AEN) by Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), Singapore.

Her certifications include:

Microsoft Certified Azure Data Scientist Associate. Microsoft Certified Data Analyst Associate. SAS Certified Predictive Modeller in SAS Enterprise Miner. Tableau Certified Desktop Specialist.

Mr Shashank Shekhar Tripathi

Mr Shashank Shekhar Tripathi is an Instructor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics (DISA) at the School of computing, National University of Singapore. He teaches “Application development for business analytics” and “Systematic trading” to the undergraduate students. He holds the designation Chartered Market Technician (CMT)and Certified Financial Technician(CFTe) . Prior to this, Shashank worked as a Senior Software Engineer at the NUS Fintech Lab where he worked on developing applications related to financial technology. He has a vast experience in oil and gas industry in the domain of corporate finance, financial evaluations, and simulations. He has a huge interest in financial markets, blockchain technology and data analytics. He researches extensively to design, develop and test strategies for algo trading utilizing machine learning, fundamental analysis, and technical analysis. He is an experienced trainer and consultant of data visualization, robotic process automation, and algo trading.

Dr Guo Lei

Dr Guo Lei is an active educator and researcher in data science, behavioural study and design thinking, with extensive experience in delivering practice-based learning programmes and applied research projects with successful results.

Starting her career in Singapore as a marketing practitioner, Dr Guo worked across manufacturing, entertainment and education industries. She was the Chief Representative in China for a Singapore listed company. She was also responsible for setting up Shanghai Office and promoting executive education programmes for NUS Business School in Greater China market.

With the aspiration of bridging the gap between research and practice, Dr Guo pursued her PhD in the UK, where she worked on large-scale research projects with Cambridge University Service Alliance, BAE Systems and China Mobile.

Dr Guo returned to Singapore and joined NUS as a faculty member in 2011. She has particular experience in tackling complex challenges through applied research and education. She was the Principal Investigator for a series of research projects to inform better public transport policy decisions. She consults corporate clients on data analytics, user experience design and service innovation. Dr Guo teaches executive programmes of Data Analytics and Design Thinking at NUS. She has a passion for engaging and inspiring working professionals at all levels by applying the theory to real world business applications.

Dr Guo holds a PhD in Marketing from University of Exeter, an MBA from University of Adelaide University and a BA in Literature from Beijing Normal University.

Ms Diana Leng

Ms Diana Leng has extensive experience in the development and implementation of business strategies, corporate planning, banking and finance. Prior to becoming the CFO of an international offshore Drilling company she was the Director of Treasury of a singapore listed company. Before joining the Group, Ms Leng held various banking positions with ING Group internationally. She holds a Master of Science International Business from Maastricht University. She enjoys reading, photography and travelling and mentoring.

Ms Joelle Choo

Ms Joelle Choo brings with her 24 years of international advisory and leadership experience, spanning across Audit, Finance, Systems and Process Design. A LEAN Six Sigma advocate, she is passionate about helping her clients select and implement the right solutions using a practical and cost effective approach.

She started her career as an Auditor with a Big 4 accounting firm, and held various finance and consulting roles in software, manufacturing and banking companies in different locations across Asia, US and Europe. Her primary focus was ERP implementation, process re-engineering, global program management and execution.

She spent 11 years with an American multinational conglomerate, residing in USA, Europe and Asia, driving various global ERP and transformation projects. She also led a team of Black Belts in process re-engineering and optimization, and supported various acquisitions integrate using the Agile methodology while applying LEAN Quality principles.

She was the IT leader for Acquisitions during her 5 years tenure at an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, CA USA. In her role, Joelle was charged with integrating various acquisitions to ensure a unified user and customer experience. She led the Global Supply Chain Transformation initiative, drove engagements across business and IT, defined an executable IT and Business Transformation roadmap, strategy and approach.

She relocated back to Singapore in 2014, working as an advisor to the Chairman of an Indonesian Conglomerate, driving IT transformation for the food Division, addressing specifically the SAP platform. Joelle recently served as CTO for a food manufacturing and port operation company operating in SE Asia, besides rolling out the SAP S4Hana system, she drove centralization of the IT organization, defined required skills, assessment and training across the various system users in different locations, to drive system usage integrity and compliance. She established a data platform and initiated the cloud migration to ensure low cost of ownership with optimal output and IT usage.

Joelle is currently a NUS Fellow, continuing her passion to help clients achieve impactful business outcomes, using cost-effective solutions through Human Capital Transformation via education and Digital/Technology Transformation advisory.

Mr Jon Scheele

Mr Jon Scheele provides IT strategy, data analytics, security, interoperability and industry specific consulting and training to management and workgroups at leading companies in the financial services and telecommunications industries. Jon also trains, coaches and mentors to develop high performing teams and identifies how to apply emerging technologies to meet evolving customer needs. A special focus is helping companies build their ability to partner within and beyond their industry using Open APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Jon has provided several clients’ projects to define an API strategy and roadmap to support their business strategy, build multi-disciplinary teams to identify customer needs, create, publish and govern APIs, and foster developer communities to extend the firm’s core offering to its customers. Amongst others, Jon has implemented initiatives for ANZ Banking Group, Singtel, Telecom Italia, Telefonica Germany and Telstra. Jon holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration, a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, and Graduate Diplomas in Applied Finance and Digital Communications.

Mr Phil A. Woods

Mr Phil A. Woods is the Founder and CEO of the Abele Group, a Singapore based fintech firm focused on delivering advanced technological solutions in financial services. He teaches courses on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology use cases through the NUS Fintech Lab. Prior to the Abele Group, Phil spent 15 years working in financial services at UBS Investment Bank and Citigroup in Markets businesses. Phil is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he studied History and Civil Engineering. Phil served as a US Army Aviation Officer prior to embarking upon a corporate career.

Mr Uli Hitzel

Mr Uli Hitzel has been working with data engineering, automation, and distributed systems since the early days of the internet. Previously with companies including Microsoft, Red Hat, Yahoo! and IBM, he is now focusing on technology innovation at Dyson. In recent years, he has worked on building a digital healthcare platform in times of a pandemic, as well as leading a platform engineering team for an e-commerce unicorn expanding into Asia-Pacific.

As the founder of Electric Minds, Uli is looking to combine machine intelligence with human ingenuity to inspire new ways of thinking and help solve some of the most challenging problems we face as a global society today. He has been teaching at National University of Singapore since 2020.

Mr Dixant Mittal

Mr Dixant Mittal is a final year PhD student at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Professor Lee Wee Sun. His research interests include Machine Learning and Robotics. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore in 2018 and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra in 2015. He worked as a Backend Software Engineer in Snapdeal, an e-commerce company.

Dixant has a strong aptitude for algorithms and computer programming. His insatiable thirst to seek knowledge led him to pursue higher studies in Singapore and become an expert in his research area. He is passionate about teaching and believes in learning at all stages of life, which motivated him to join as a co-facilitator in the FintechSG course organised by the National University of Singapore.

Assoc Prof Danny Poo

Assoc Prof Danny Poo brings with him 35 years of Software Engineering and Information Technology and Management experience. A graduate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, Dr Poo is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University, Dr Poo was with the System Operations at DBSBank, Singapore.

A Steering Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Dr Poo is actively involved in Information Management and Healthcare Analytics research. A well-known speaker in seminars, Dr Poo has conducted numerous in-house training and consultancy for organizations, both locally and regionally. Dr Poo is the author of 5 books on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Java Programming language and Enterprise JavaBeans.

Dr Poo notable teaching credentials include:

• Data Strategy
• Data StoryTelling
• Data Visualisation
• Data Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Data Management
• Data Governance
• Data Architecture
• Capstone Projects for Business Analytics
• Software Engineering
• Server-side Systems Design and Development
• Information Technology Project Management
• Health Informatics
• Healthcare Analytics
• Health Informatics Leadership.

Industry Credentials

• Deutsche Bank
• Gemplus
• Micron
• NCR
• PIL
• PSA
• Rhode-Schwarz
• Standard Chartered Bank
• ST Electronic
• Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Infocomm Development Authority
• National Library Board
• Ministry of Manpower
• Nanyang Technological University
• Nanyang Polytechnic
• National University Hospital.

Dr Ai Xin

Dr Ai Xin is currently a Lecturer with the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has many years’ experience on teaching Artificial Intelligence and Data Science courses, e.g. machine learning, deep learning, data mining and etc.

She graduated from NUS with a PhD degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research focused on Game Theoretical Modelling, Optimization Methods, Algorithm Design and Wireless Networks.

She worked in BHP Billiton Marketing Asia for eight years and gained a lot of industry experience through different functions, e.g. risk management, supply chain management, sales and marketing planning and etc.

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning with the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to SoC, he was a Senior Lecturer in NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) teaching AI and Data Science to adult learners. Before joining the NUS, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, where he was serving as a professor of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He was born in Isfahan, Iran. He studied towards BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), and Shiraz University respectively. He got his PhD in computer engineering, pattern recognition and image processing, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, in 2005. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, IoT, Data Science, and their applications.

He has taught the artificial intelligence courses, including AI, Advanced AI, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Science since 2005 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded the best university teacher of the province in 2012. He also has studied Learning Management Systems, E-Learning, and E-Learning for workplaces since 2007.

Dr Monajemi has registered a few patents in the fields of AI, Machine Vision, and Signal Processing applications, including an AI and machine vision-based driver drowsiness detection system and a low power consuming spherical robot. He also has published more than a hundred research papers in peer-reviewed, indexed journals and international conferences (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and so on), and supervised several Data Science, IoT, and AI industrial projects in various scales, including Isfahan intelligent traffic system delivery and testing, and red light runners detection. He is experienced in different sub-domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from theory to practice, including Deep Learning, Logic, and Optimisation.

Dr Ganesh Neelakanta Lyer

Dr Ganesh Neelakanta Lyer is a Lecturer in in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he worked as a lead DevOps engineer at Salesforce.com. He had also served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering (University first rank) from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India in 2004 and Masters and PhD degrees from National University of Singapore in 2008 and 2012 respectively. He brings in a decade of industry experience in various companies including Sasken Communication Technologies, NXP semiconductors and Progress software. He has handled several roles in the software industry including QA Architect, Technical Support Manager, Engineering development and Technology Evangelist.

He has strong inclination towards Game Theory. He applies game theory for handling conflicts, enforcing cooperation and for multi-agent systems. His technical knowledge and experience are in various areas including Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing Paradigms (including cloud platforms, containers and Kubernetes), Computer Networks, Software Engineering practices (Agile) and Quality Analysis, Economic models (Game Theoretic principles) and current day practices on cloud-based enterprise architectures, Machine Learning and technology for traditional Indian dance (such as Kathakali) popularization. His mathematical interests include game theory, graph theory, optimization principles etc. Over the past several years he has acquired practical knowledge and experience in various cutting-edge software engineering methodologies including Agile framework and has experience formulating and implementing various software engineering principles using Agile for large and small product development teams.

Dr. Iyer is active in doing practical industry-oriented research on the above topics of his interest. He also aspires to do research on technological innovations to popularize traditional classical arts such as Kathakali and Koodiyattam.

He has published two book chapters in the “Encyclopaedia for Cloud Computing” in 2016 in addition to several book chapters, journals and conference publications. Dr. Iyer has delivered several practical workshops and talks on various cutting-edge technology topics in many academic and industry events in several countries including USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. Many of these were on the contributions made by him in his industry engagement for software quality analysis with current day software engineering principles such as Agile for application development involving cloud platforms, mobile platforms and IoT based systems.

Dr. Iyer is an IEEE Senior Member. He has been a reviewer of many internationals Journals including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and several international conferences. He was also the program chair for several international conferences including ICCCI and ICIWE.

Dr. Iyer has strong teaching skills and boundless passion for teaching. He was a visiting faculty at IIIT-H (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad), and has been teaching various subjects including “Game Theory for Computer Science”, “Computer Networks”, “Advanced Computer Networks” and “Scripting and Computer environments” for which, he has framed the syllabus, developed the materials and references, structured the grading scheme and formulated continuous assessment strategies. Further, he was a member of Board of Studies at JNTU-H (a premium university in India) where he participates in framing the syllabus for the university’s upcoming academic year.

He is also an expert in performing Kathakali, a traditional Indian dance. He has composed a story in Kathakali and he spends a considerable amount of his personal time to uplift this traditional art by organizing Kathakali performances, workshops and demonstrations and performance by himself. He has also composed a Kathakali story “Sri Mookambika Mahathmyam” which has been staged in multiple venues in India.

Dr Lu Weiquan

Dr Lu Weiquan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing in NUS who examines the User Experience (UX) Design of technologically-empowered learning environments. He designs and utilizes experiential learning technology (such as simulations, Augmented and Virtual Reality) in the courses he teaches, and his education research interests include figuring out how all this technology tangibly and measurably affects human learning using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He also advises the government in the fields of UX design and experiential learning, and he develops Metaverse applications for industry clients. He holds a B.Comp. in Computing and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NUS.

Assoc Prof Danny Poo

Assoc Prof Danny Poo brings with him 35 years of Software Engineering and Information Technology and Management experience. A graduate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, Dr Poo is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University, Dr Poo was with the System Operations at DBSBank, Singapore.

A Steering Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Dr Poo is actively involved in Information Management and Healthcare Analytics research. A well-known speaker in seminars, Dr Poo has conducted numerous in-house training and consultancy for organizations, both locally and regionally. Dr Poo is the author of 5 books on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Java Programming language and Enterprise JavaBeans.

Dr Poo notable teaching credentials include:

• Data Strategy
• Data StoryTelling
• Data Visualisation
• Data Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Data Management
• Data Governance
• Data Architecture
• Capstone Projects for Business Analytics
• Software Engineering
• Server-side Systems Design and Development
• Information Technology Project Management
• Health Informatics
• Healthcare Analytics
• Health Informatics Leadership.

Industry Credentials

• Deutsche Bank
• Gemplus
• Micron
• NCR
• PIL
• PSA
• Rhode-Schwarz
• Standard Chartered Bank
• ST Electronic
• Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Infocomm Development Authority
• National Library Board
• Ministry of Manpower
• Nanyang Technological University
• Nanyang Polytechnic
• National University Hospital.

Assoc Prof Soo Yuen Jien

Assoc Prof Soo Yuen Jien has been in NUS for more than 20 years. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D degree from NUS in year 2000, 2001 and 2006 respectively.

Starting off as a teaching assistant in year 2000, he has since enjoyed teaching for 10 plus years. Yuen Jien is now an Associate Professor in Computer Science Department of School of Computing.

Dr Ai Xin

Dr Ai Xin is currently a Lecturer with the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has many years’ experience on teaching Artificial Intelligence and Data Science courses, e.g. machine learning, deep learning, data mining and etc.

She graduated from NUS with a PhD degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research focused on Game Theoretical Modelling, Optimization Methods, Algorithm Design and Wireless Networks.

She worked in BHP Billiton Marketing Asia for eight years and gained a lot of industry experience through different functions, e.g. risk management, supply chain management, sales and marketing planning and etc.

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi

Dr Amirhassan Monajemi is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning with the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to SoC, he was a Senior Lecturer in NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) teaching AI and Data Science to adult learners. Before joining the NUS, he was with the Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, where he was serving as a professor of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He was born in Isfahan, Iran. He studied towards BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), and Shiraz University respectively. He got his PhD in computer engineering, pattern recognition and image processing, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, in 2005. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, IoT, Data Science, and their applications.

He has taught the artificial intelligence courses, including AI, Advanced AI, Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Science since 2005 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded the best university teacher of the province in 2012. He also has studied Learning Management Systems, E-Learning, and E-Learning for workplaces since 2007.

Dr Monajemi has registered a few patents in the fields of AI, Machine Vision, and Signal Processing applications, including an AI and machine vision-based driver drowsiness detection system and a low power consuming spherical robot. He also has published more than a hundred research papers in peer-reviewed, indexed journals and international conferences (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and so on), and supervised several Data Science, IoT, and AI industrial projects in various scales, including Isfahan intelligent traffic system delivery and testing, and red light runners detection. He is experienced in different sub-domains of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from theory to practice, including Deep Learning, Logic, and Optimisation.

Dr Anand Bhojan

Dr Anand Bhojan graduated with B.Sc. in Computing with Gold Medal from Bharathiar University in 1994, Professional Masters in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University in 1999, PGC in Teaching Higher Education from University of Sheffield, UK in 2003 and P.hD. from NUS in 2011. He received research achievement award and his thesis was nominated for best PhD thesis award. He is a member of the Communication and Internet Research Lab (www.cir.nus.edu.sg) and Graduate studies committee. He is the founder of Anuflora Systems (www.anuflora.com) and Virtual and Augmented Reality Labs (www.varlabs.org). He is the Associate Editor of Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier. He is the Vice President of International Researchers club, Singapore. He has been serving as Organizing Chair and Program Chair of several International conferences and in the Program Committees of several International conferences. He has given Keynote talks in IEEE/ACM International Conferences.