Title：Use and Promotion of Data and AI in Health: Singapore Examples
Date：2024/12/13 14:20-15:30
Location：CSIE R103
Speakers: Dr. Hwee-Pink TAN, Advisor for Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Scientific Data Strategy; Consultant for Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB); Affiliate Faculty at Singapore Management University (SMU) Academy
Host: Prof. Fang-Jing Wu
Synopsis
In 2019, as one of the first countries to introduce a National AI Strategy (NAIS 1.0), Singapore embarked on National AI Projects in Healthcare, among other areas. NAIS 2.0, launched in 2023, anchors its vision on achieving AI for the Public Good, for Singapore and the World. The Government plays a key role in promoting and using AI to realise this vision. We will illustrate these roles through real-life use-cases in Health in this talk.
Consultant, Data Management, IoT and Smart Healthcare
Hwee-Pink is an advisor for Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Scientific Data Strategy as well as a consultant for Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) in data change management. He has also been Affiliate Faculty with the Singapore Management University (SMU) Academy since 2019, where he helms the instruction of modules related to Internet of Things (IoT) Technology and Applications and Smart Healthcare.
Between 2021 and 2023, as HPB’s inaugural Chief Data Officer and Director, Research Collaborations and Analytics, Hwee Pink led new teams to advance the data-driven and citizen-centric approach to health promotion while promoting safe usage of data.
Between 2015 and 2020, as Associate Professor of Information Systems (Practice) as well as Academic Director of the SMU-TCS iCity lab at SMU’s School of Information Systems, he led a team of technology and social science researchers to bring together IoT technologies, and social-behavioural research to enable and sustain ageing-in-place, in close partnership with A*STAR, TCS, various government agencies, health systems as well as Social Service Agencies.
As Programme Manager for the A*STAR Sense and Sense-abilities Program at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) between 2008 and 2015, he led a team of 30 research scientists and engineers to design, pilot and evaluate architectures to support large scale and heterogeneous sensor systems to enable Smart City applications.
He graduated from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel in August 2004 with a Ph.D. In December 2004, he was awarded the A*STAR International Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology and Trinity College Dublin on the design and evaluation