Team

The multi-disciplined team is formed by experts and scholars from Singapore and China to promote the innovation and application. of artificial intelligence in health care, financial technology and etc. C-TReND from Smart Systems Institute and School of Computing of NUS will also work in-depth with Suzhou AI Center and provide solid support for its innovation and commercialization.

Director

Director
Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Commercialization Center
Smart Systems Institute

Director of Smart Systems Institute; distinguished professor of Computer Science; NGS faculty member; Singapore National Academy of Science; ACM FELLOW、IEEE FELLOW.
His research interests include database systems, distributed and blockchain systems, machine learning and large scale analytics, in the aspects of system architectures, performance issues, security, accuracy and correctness. he works closely with the industry, (NUHS, Jurong health and Tan Tok Seng Hospital on healthcare analytics and prediabetes prevention) and exploits IT for efficiency in various application domains, including healthcare, finance and smart city.He is a co-founder of yzBigData (2012) for Big Data Management and analytics, and Shentilium Technologies (2016) for AI and data driven financial data analytics, MediLot Technologies (2018)for blockchain based healthcare data management and analytics. He serves as a non-executive and independent director of ComfortDelgo (listed on SGX), an advisory council member of a RegTech company, Cynopsis Solutions, and an advisory to blockchain based KYC traceto.io ICO. Beng Chin serves as a member of Hangzhou government AI Development Committee (AI TOP 30)
He obtained his BSc (1st class honors) and PHD from Monash University, Australia in 1985 and 1989 respectively. He served as the head of School of Computing from 2007 to 2013. Now he is the director of Smart Systems Institute and Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Commercialization Center.

Deputy Director
Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Commercialization Center
Smart Systems Institute

Head of Research in SSI; Associate Professor of practice in the Computer Science Department, School of Computing.
His research interest is in the computer vision as well as multimodality processing on mobile devices.He obtained his PH.D from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, and his M.Sc and Bachelor degrees from NUS in 1992 and 1988.
he was with the defence R&D Ministry of Defence of Singapore for almost his entire career. Prior to joining NUS, he was the head of the Signal Processing Lab of DSO National Labs, which is the major defence R&D organization in Singapore. He had also served a year in Media Development Authority as a program director in the Interactive Digital Media R&D Program Office.

Team in Suzhou

Assistant Professor
Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Commercialization Center

NUS School of Computing，Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor
Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Commercialization Center

NUS School of Computing，Assistant Professor

Business Manager
Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Commercialization Center

Operations Manager
Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Commercialization Center

Financial Manager
Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Commercialization Center

Team in Singapore

Director
Computing Translational Research and Development Center (C-TReND Center)

Associate Professor of School of Computing

Deputy Director
Smart Systems Institute

Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Executive Director of the Institute for Infocomm Research（I2R)（2002-2006）

Deputy Director
Smart Systems Institute

Associate Professor of School of Computing; Adjunct Associate Professor of University of South California; Senior member of IEEE and member of ACM.He has co-authored a book, five patents and more than hundred conference publications, journal articles and book chapters in the areas of multimedia and information management.