Biography

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• SM in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• SB in Computer Science and Engineering

Academic Appointments

National University of Singapore
Professor (Practice), Dept. of Computer Science, School of Computing (SoC)  (2017 to date)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, SoC (up to 2017)

Singapore Management University
Professor (Education), School of Information Systems (SIS) (2015 to 2017)

Administrative Appointments

AI Singapore
Director, AI Technology (2017 to 2021)

National University of Singapore
Vice-Dean, External Relations, SoC (2008 to 2013)
Member, Computer Science Curriculum Committee, SoC (2008 to 2011)
Co-Chair, Singapore-MIT Alliance Computer Science Program (SMACS) (2002 to 2004)
Co-ordinator, Medical Computing Laboratory, SoC (1995 to date.)

Honors and Elected 
Professional Memberships

Founding Fellow, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI)
Fellow (International), American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
Member, Eta Kappa Nu (Honor Society for Electrical Engineers)

Professional Appointments (selected)

National
Board Member, Health Sciences Authority of Singapore (Apr 2020 - )
Member, Ministry of Education (MOE) Autonomous University Digital Readiness Workgroup ( 2019 - 2021)
Member, Working Committee-1 on Technology and R&D, Singapore Infocomm Technology and Media Master Plan 2025 (Commissioned by Ministry of Communication and Information, Singapore) (2013 - 2015)
•   Chair, Subcommittee on Cognitive Systems and Advanced Robotics (2014-2015)
Member, Infocomm Technology (ICT) Vision Core Panel, National Research Foundation, Singapore (2012 - 2013)
Member, H2 Computing Curriculum Review Committee, Ministry of Education, Singapore (2009-2010)
Advisory Board Member, Parkway College, Singapore (2008 - 2012)

International
Expert Member, World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Group on Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health (May 2019 - June 2021)
Expert Member, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Working Group on AI and Pandemic Response (July 2020 -)
Expert Member, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-WHO Focus Group on AI for Health (FG-AI4H) Regulatory Considerations Working Group (May 2020 –)
Advisory Board Member, School of Computing and Info Sci, Caritas Institute of Higher Education (CIHE), Hong Kong (May 2019 - Jun 2021)
Board Member and Vice President of Working and Special Interest Groups, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) (2013 – 2016)
Advisory Board Member, Institute for Computing and Society (Formerly Int’l Institute of Software Technology), United Nations University, Macau, China.(2012 - 2015)

Journal Editorships

Co-Editor (2021 - ), Series on Artificial Intelligence, New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Group, Massachusetts Medical Society.
Associate Editor (2017 -2021) Applied Clinical Informatics, Shattauer.
Associate Editor (2002 - 2017 ), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Elsevier.
Associate Editor (2007 - 2015), Editorial Board Member (2005 - 2007 ), Methods of Information in Medicine, Shattauer.
Editorial Board Member (2001 - 2012), Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Elsevier.
•.  Guest Editor (2007- 2008). Special issue on Computerized Decision Support in Critical and Emergency Care.

Program/Organizing Committee Memberships (selected)

International
Member, Senior Program Committee, 32nd Conference on Uncertainty Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2016), USA (2016).
Member, Program Committee, Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2015), USA (2015)
Member, Senior Program Committee, 31st Conference on Uncertainty Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2015), Netherlands (2015)
Member, Senior Program Committee, International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), Argentina (2015)
Member, Senior Program Committee, 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2014), Canada (2014)
Co-Chair, Scientific Program Committee, 14th World Congress on Health and Medical Informatics (MEDINFO 2013), Denmark (2013)
Member, Senior Program Committee, 29th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2013), USA (2013)
Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Machine Learning for Health Care Applications in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), UK (2012)

Professional Memberships and Appointments

Member, American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Member, Association for Computing Machinery(ACM)
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society
Member, American Medical Information Association (AMIA)
Education Counselor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1994 to date)