CEO and Co-founder, Dorje AI | Founder Analyse Podcast
Singapore
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I am the co-founder and CEO of Dorje AI, an enterprise AI startup focusing on building the next generation business operating systems to take us into an ERP-less world. I am also advising AI and web3 startups and a formal advisor to Undivided Ventures. My former experiences: I am an experienced senior executive with an extensive business and technology management background in the digital transformation and enterprise GTM for new technologies in the Asia Pacific market. Managed P&Ls of > US$30M and lead teams > 500 people of business units. My skills include building, managing and motivating teams with strong leadership to achieve positive business outcomes and go to market motions for new and innovation technologies to customers in the Asia Pacific market from drones to AI/ML. A serial entrepreneur & early stage investor, who have built, advised and lead companies to successful exits. My past corporate roles include Group Chief Digital & Information Officer - Woh Hup, Head of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML), Amazon Web Services, Head of Airbus Aerial Airbus under Airbus, Head of Post Office Network (Retail Business) and Digital Services for Singapore Post Ltd and Technology Manager from Vistaprint.
I am currently an angel investor with the XA network and an entrepreneur-in-residence for INSEAD Business School in the Singapore campus based on my past background as a startup entrepreneur (with one failure and one exit), angel investor and a connector to the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem. I am the founder of Analyse Asia, a weekly podcast on technology, business and media with notable industry players and thought leaders all over Asia. Graduated from Global Solutions Program 2016 in Singularity University & PhD in Physics from Cambridge University. I am a senior accredited director certified by the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and certified practitioner on AWS AI, Cloud and Machine Learning Practices.
You can check out my speaking engagements here:
http://www.bernardleong.com/engagements/
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Bernard Leong shared thisMost executives still misunderstand podcasting. They treat it as a marketing accessory. A side-channel for brand building. A vanity project for founders who like microphones and cameras. That is the wrong frame. After my conversation with Borko Kovacevic, co-founder of Poddster Singapore and Podyx, I think podcasting is better understood as strategic infrastructure. The key point Borko made, and one I strongly agree with, is that consistency beats polish far more often than people want to admit. That is uncomfortable for senior leaders because it destroys the usual excuses: “We need a better studio.” “We need a content strategy deck.” “We need to perfect the format first.” No, you do not. What you need is the discipline to publish consistently enough for the market, search engines, and increasingly AI systems to understand who you are, what you know, and why you matter. That is the real game now. In a world shaped by algorithms and large language models, your digital presence is no longer a branding layer. It is a knowledge layer. If you are not creating enough signal online, you are teaching the internet nothing about you. If the internet learns nothing about you, you become invisible. This is also why podcasting matters in B2B. Buyers do not make serious decisions because of a polished ad or a clever slogan. They buy when they trust how you think. Long-form conversations reveal that in a way corporate messaging never can. My thanks to Borko for a superb discussion on entrepreneurship, content, and the future of digital authority. My own view is simple: The winners will not be the people with the best content. They will be the people who create enough credible content to become impossible to ignore. #podcasting #contentcreatorBernard Leong shared thisThe biggest lie in #podcasting is that quality wins. It does not. Consistency wins. That was the sharpest insight from our conversation with Borko Kovacevic, co-founder of Poddster Singapore and Podyx with our founder Bernard Leong, and it cuts directly against how most people still think about content. Too many founders, executives, and brands overestimate polish and underestimate repetition. They obsess over lighting, graphics, set design, intros, edits, and brand guidelines. Then they publish once every few weeks, lose momentum, and wonder why nothing compounds. This is not a production problem. It is a commitment problem. The internet does not reward people for having one excellent episode. It rewards people who show up often enough for search engines, audiences, and AI systems to build a map of their expertise. That is what Borko understands unusually well. Podcasting is not just media. It is a discoverability machine. Increasingly, it is also a trust machine. That matters because most corporate communication is ineffective by design. It is over-scripted, low-trust, and instantly forgettable. Buyers can tell when they are being managed. They can also tell when they are listening to a real conversation. That is why long-form content matters. It does not just capture attention. It builds conviction. This episode also makes a broader point: podcasting is maturing from creator hobby into business infrastructure. Studios are becoming networks. Production is becoming operationalized. Software is being built around repeatable workflows. The market is getting serious. The implication is straightforward. If you are still treating podcasting as a nice-to-have brand exercise, you are already behind. The future belongs to people and companies that publish with enough consistency, clarity, and credibility to train the market to remember them. Read the full transcript and watch the whole episode 👇Building the World's Largest Podcast Studio Network: Poddster & Podyx with Borko KovacevicBuilding the World's Largest Podcast Studio Network: Poddster & Podyx with Borko Kovacevic
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Bernard Leong shared this#Podcasting is not won by the best content. It is won by the most consistent signal. In my conversation with Borko Kovacevic of Poddster Singapore and Podyx on Analyse Podcast, we discussed a truth that many creators and executives still underestimate: frequency and consistency beat perfection. The future internet rewards those who are consistently present, consistently publishing, and consistently legible to algorithms. That is how discoverability compounds. That is how search improves. That is how authority gets built. It is the new playbook for anyone building in public. If you want to understand what it takes to build the best podcast out there, this might be just the episode to help you understand as Borko provides his perspectives in working with many content creators out there. Of course, we dropped a gem here which Borko explained the one thing he knows about podcasting which very few people do! Full episode drops tomorrow before noon. #Podcasting #Discoverability #ContentStrategy #PersonalBranding #Media
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Bernard Leong shared thisThe Real AI Divide Is Not Left vs Right, Optimist vs Pessimist, or Human vs Machine Across boardrooms and policymaker circles, we keep asking whether people are optimistic or pessimistic about AI. That dichotomy misses the point. The real divide is between societies where AI threatens the incumbent order and those where it offers a ladder to mobility. Anthropic’s survey of 81,000 AI users showed that concern about jobs and the economy predicts negative sentiment in wealthy markets, while respondents from Asia, Africa, and Latin America are more optimistic because AI represents an affordable way to learn, to build businesses and to overcome structural barriers . Too much of the global AI discourse is dominated by Western anxieties about displacement and surveillance. Those fears matter, but they are incomplete. In many parts of Asia Pacific, AI is not primarily an automation story—it is an opportunity story . The students, founders, freelancers and families I meet view generative models as a springboard to mobility rather than a threat to their future. This distinction matters because the strategic question for our region is not “Will AI replace work?” but “Can we build the institutions, educational systems and capital pathways to translate AI into broad-based mobility?” If we fail, AI will consolidate power among incumbents. If we succeed, it could democratise opportunity across the region. That is the debate we need to have now. Please comment if you have different perspectives or disagree with me on what I have said: Source: Anthropic What 81K people want from #AI https://lnkd.in/gRiN3WHk #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #AsiaPacific #FutureOfWork #AIPolicy
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Bernard Leong shared thisThe global #podcasting industry is still early, fragmented, and widely misunderstood. Yet it is rapidly becoming one of the most important platforms for narrative, trust, and brand-building. That is why I am excited to bring Borko Kovacevic, co-founder of Poddster Singapore, Poddster UAE and Podyx, onto Analyse Podcast for an upcoming episode on where podcasting is headed next as I have been part of the community for a very long time. We will explore how businesses, creators, and PR agencies are navigating this transition, why authenticity and storytelling now matter more than polished corporate messaging, and what it takes to build podcasting businesses that can scale globally. Borko has a front-row seat to this transformation, and I am looking forward to sharing both his story and his perspective on building Poddster and Podyx beyond Singapore. This will be a timely conversation for anyone thinking seriously about media ecosystem, influence, and the future of content. #contentcreator #poddster
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Bernard Leong shared thisEveryone talks about prompt engineering. The more important conversation now is context engineering. Recently on Analyse Podcast, Ken Exner of Elastic explains why building reliable AI systems is no longer just about better prompts or larger models. It was a great conversation to have, given Ken is a former Amazonian as well as we geek out on the state of software development with AI today. It is about how you retrieve the right data, apply permissions correctly, narrow the scope of what the model sees, structure tools and workflows, create relevance across fragmented enterprise systems. That shift matters. Because enterprise AI does not fail only because of weak models. It often fails because organizations do not have a clean way to connect models to their operational reality. This is where the discussion gets interesting: search, retrieval, observability, security, and agent orchestration are no longer separate technical domains. They are converging into the architecture of modern AI systems. A strong conversation for anyone thinking seriously about enterprise AI beyond demos and prototypes. Watch the full video or read the full transcript here: https://lnkd.in/gE_3dWVv #ContextEngineering #EnterpriseAI #AIArchitectureHow Elastic Bridges Enterprise Data and LLMs with Ken ExnerHow Elastic Bridges Enterprise Data and LLMs with Ken Exner
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Bernard Leong shared thisWhy Every Developer is Now a Manager of Agents 🤖💼 I recently sat down with Ken Exner, Chief Product Officer at Elastic, and he dropped a truth bomb that every developer needs to hear. We’ve spent decades perfecting the art of being an "IC"—writing the lines, fixing the bugs, and owning the execution. But according to Ken, that role is evolving. Fast. In the very near future (or perhaps right now), developers will transition into Managers of Agents. The skill set is shifting from syntax to: Context Engineering: How do you feed the right data to the LLM? Goal Setting: How do you direct a fleet of agents toward a business outcome? Review & Governance: How do you ensure the AI output meets the gold standard? At Analyse Podcast, we’re obsessed with how these shifts impact the region. If you’re a developer in Singapore, China, or Bangalore, you’re no longer just competing on code—you’re competing on how well you can lead an AI workforce. Watch the full clip below. What do you think? Are you ready to manage your first "agent" team? The full episode will drop tomorrow on Analyse Podcast! #contextengineering #AI #softwaredevelopment #entepriseAI #elastic
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Bernard Leong shared thisIn Asia, #podcasting is not a media business. It’s a reputation business. If you try to build a podcast purely on advertising revenue in Singapore or Southeast Asia, the economics are very difficult. The market is small, ad infrastructure is still developing, and there is no clear pricing benchmark. You are fooling yourself, thinking that podcasting is a great business. So why do we still do it? Because in Asia Pacific, a podcast is not an advertising business. It is a reputation, trust, and network business. I never see myself as a podcaster or journalist, but a media outlet owner with my own voice, and as a former tech executive who can have a frank conversations with anyone in my own right. Over the past decade, being the pioneer to the race, I have built Analyse Podcast as a brand and never to chase views. I have beaten all the local players in the span of the past 3 years on YouTube. The podcast is built to: – Have serious conversations with builders, leaders, and policymakers – Create long-form content that outlasts news cycles – Build a global audience, not just a local one. We focus on US and China audience on Day 1. – Use media as a platform to open doors across Asia Pacific and beyond Our ambition is simple today: To become the trusted brand where the world comes to understand Asia and the global landscape through our lens — through conversations with the people building its future. That’s the reality highlighted in this recent Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报 article by Pingying (Ulrica) Lin entitled "悉看大势：本地播主开麦侃侃而谈 无奈市场太小赚钱太难" or translated to "Local streamers speak confidently and at length, but the market is too small, and making money is too difficult": https://lnkd.in/gkC7gghu #brandbuilding #analysepodcast
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Bernard Leong shared this🚀 Coming soon on Analyse Podcast. I recently sat down with Ken Exner, Chief Product Officer at Elastic, and one idea crystallised very quickly: Enterprise AI is not constrained by models. It is constrained by context. Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, has quietly evolved over the past decade — from search infrastructure into observability, security, and now what I would describe as the context layer for AI systems. In our conversation, we unpack: - Why context engineering is emerging as the critical discipline for AI deployment - How vector search and retrieval determine whether AI systems actually work in production - Why most enterprises are stuck in pilot mode despite massive AI investments And a fundamental shift underway: → Software engineers are becoming managers of AI agents Ken brings a rare perspective — three decades building product and engineering organizations, including 16 years at AWS where he led developer tools used at global scale . What stood out to me is this: - We are no longer talking about AI as a feature. - We are talking about AI as an operating layer for the enterprise. 📸 Sharing a few behind-the-scenes moments from the recording. 🎙️ Episode dropping soon. Picture credits: Sara Pereira and special thanks to Bryan Koh from Elastic and the Poddster Singapore team in the recording of the full video #Elastic #VectorDatabase #EnterpriseAI
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Bernard Leong shared thisLast Monday, I have Isaac Timothy Tay from ShopBack to talk about the transformational journey in shifting the organization towards becoming AI-fluent in my #DigitalTransformation class in NUS Business School. I learned a few key lessons from him specifically in how to cultivate an AI-native workforce and transform the way how the different teams work in leveraging AI tools and workflows for productivity: 1/ Innovation happens only when people learn visibly, repeatedly and together. 2/ Communication on the why learning AI is extremely important. The messaging should focus on how the changes augment and amplify their existing capabilities because we are in a transitory period of change where roles and responsibilities are changing. 3/ Treat the AI agents like a team you train with context and with skills. The more you invest, the better your team performs. Of course, we are living in interesting times! #DigitalTransformation #AI
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Bernard Leong liked thisBernard Leong liked thisHumbled and honored that my new book, "FUTURE YOU", has officially taken the #1 bestseller spot at Matichon’s shop at the National Book Fair! A massive thank you to everyone who has picked up a copy and supported this journey. This milestone belongs to you. My gratitude to my publisher, Matichon, for their dedication. Thank you all for the incredible support. 🙏
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Bernard Leong liked thisBernard Leong liked thisAfter a wonderful 3.5 year adventure, I am graduating from Liminal (previously known as Menyala) this month🙏🏾 Thanks to the kind trust of Pradyumna Agrawal, Martin Geh and Sonny Vu I learnt from the precious opportunity to help our portfolio Founders and CEOs play the tough inner game of building the businesses they are each uniquely suited to build. 😘 However after an ADHD diagnosis last year and some deep introspection, I realized I had not been practicing what I had preached. I have been hiding behind fancy logos and job titles rather than building what I am uniquely suited to build! 😶🌫️ So in line with living for the principles most important to me (curiosity, freedom, growth, simplicity and fun) I am designing my second act at coachparin.com to: - coach and invest in founders and CEOs around the world - write about things I find interesting re: human behaviour - build/own private assets + buy/hold public assets - pursue random side quests with people doing fun things I'm also designing this in a way that will let me go boxing and walk with friends everyday and never miss making day to day memories with my kids. I want to do what I want, when I want, with who I want and for as long as I want. The work will feel like play and will allow me to unapologetically be myself - accepting of all the strengths and weaknesses that I have. 🎭 I haven't found a fancy way to describe this new setup yet - but I'm also finding I don't really care to explain it like I maybe once did. 🥳 The ability to be in the moment and build what we are each uniquely suited for is what I admired most about the Founders and CEOs I worked with at Liminal and Menyala. I am excited to finally join them in that way of being! 🤠 Thank you very much if we worked (or more likely walked!) together over the last 3.5 years 🥰 📸: The best airport in the world!
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Bernard Leong liked thisBernard Leong liked thisFarewell lunch at Lucence! It has been an honor to serve Dr Min-Han Tan’s visionary leadership and help scale this exceptional mission-driven team. Thanks to their hard work, my children will one day see cancer the same way we now view diabetes: a preventable disease detected early and proactively managed. We’ve achieved pivotal milestones together over an intense 2+ year sprint: Medicare and multiple USA payor coverage, collaborations signed with Mayo Clinical Laboratories, Agilus Diagnostics and other key healthcare partners, upgraded lab digital systems & CAPEX, built our finance, fundraising, HR and marketing capabilities and so much more. The team is in great hands with Jit-Min Lim (CFO), Jonathan Poh (COO) and Sam Rad leading our Palo Alto lab. I’ll share more about my next chapter next week. In the meantime, please feel free to ping me to catch up over the walks or social gatherings I’m organizing for when I’m back from travel in May. I’m excited to see Lucence’s future inventions and growth that will save more lives, improve healthspan and advance the science of longevity. Onwards and upward!
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Bernard Leong liked thisBernard Leong liked thisRaz Kotler & I will keep our DM's open in case any Asian AI juggernauts want to have a discussion :) https://lnkd.in/gB7RW-3H
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Bernard Leong liked thisBernard Leong liked thisGood to be at GHI Asia sharing how SATS Ltd. is building the Hub Handler of the Future at Singapore Hub. My message was a simple one: the future of ground handling will need to be safer, smarter and more resilient — but it must remain people-led at its core. Technology, automation and AI will play a bigger role, not to replace people, but to equip teams to operate better in a more complex and dynamic environment. The SATS Hub Handler of the Future is not one project. It is a connected operating model across safety, sustainability, automation, innovation, data, and talent. And we are building it now at Singapore Hub so that future growth can be absorbed with stronger resilience and better service quality. Appreciated the opportunity to exchange views with industry partners on the future of airport operations, service quality and workforce readiness. Thank you to GHI and everyone for the thoughtful discussions. #GHIAsia #SATS #SingaporeHub #ChangiAirport #GroundHandling #Automation #AI
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Bernard Leong liked thisBernard Leong liked thisTen Years at Creative Strategies, Inc. What Has Changed, and What Never Will Ten years ago, Ben Bajarin Bajarin and I recognized something in each other before we recognized it as a business model. We both understood what the other brought to the table, not just in terms of coverage areas, but in how we thought about technology, its business implications, and its human consequences. That mutual respect was the foundation. Everything else followed. I left a large tech organization because I wanted to work differently. The large analyst houses were moving in a direction that felt increasingly at odds with what clients actually needed. I wanted to be an extension of my clients, a trusted partner with insights that were both deep and broad. To do that, I had to reprogram myself. I had spent years looking at one area of the market closely. Working with Ben meant learning to see across the whole board and knowing when to come together and when each of us could carry the work independently. That operating principle is still how Creative Strategies works today. Every analyst on our team (Max Weinbach Austin Lyons) addresses a different audience, goes deeper in different areas, and brings a distinct perspective to the work. There are no gatekeepers here. The value is not concentrated in one place. The individual contributions are strong. The collective intelligence is stronger. When we bring the full team to a problem, clients feel it. What has never changed is where the value is rooted. Advisory is our core. The media we produce, the content, the commentary, the analysis published across platforms, grew from the credibility we built through that advisory work. Press and investors look to our insights because of the depth behind them. That will not change in the next ten years either. With AI reshaping every part of business, clients need advisors who can see across silos, who understand the dependencies and friction points that determine whether strategy actually lands. That has been our model since day one. Ten years in, it turns out to be exactly the right one.
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Bernard Leong liked thisBernard Leong liked thisGood Friday is a time for reflection. Easter is a time for renewal. Wherever you are in the world, we hope this weekend gives you a bit of both — time to reflect, and time to reset for the road ahead. Thank you for being part of the Analyse Podcast community. Enjoy this little video made from Grok Imagine. Image generated first by Gemini Nano Banana before going to Grok.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, NUS Business School, NUS-Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore
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Independent Angel Investor - Web3 & AI
Angel Investor
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Technology Manager, Most of Worlds Business Unit
Vistaprint
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Co-Founder/Director
TriplePoint Media - SGE
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Partner
Thymos Capital LLP
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Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Chalkboard Pte. Ltd.
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Chief Operating Officer
SENATUS Pte Ltd
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National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Centre
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Research Scientist
Genome Institute of Singapore
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Education
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Cambridge University
Ph.D (Physics) Theoretical Physics
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Activities and Societies: Cambridge University (CU) Entrepreneurs, Darwin College Student Association (DCSA), Cambridge Union, Cambridge University Malaysia and Singapore Association (CUMSA), Darwin College Origins (Drama Society)
- Thesis on Cosmology: Research on alternative cosmologies, search for extra-dimensions in cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering.
- Elected Treasurer of the Darwin College Student Association 2000-2001: Managed a budget about 26,000 pounds for the student population on sport clubs, welfare and other activities,
- Producer for Darwin College Play: "The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty":
- Stage Manager/Producer for Cambridge University Malaysia and Singapore Association…- Thesis on Cosmology: Research on alternative cosmologies, search for extra-dimensions in cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering.
- Elected Treasurer of the Darwin College Student Association 2000-2001: Managed a budget about 26,000 pounds for the student population on sport clubs, welfare and other activities,
- Producer for Darwin College Play: "The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty":
- Stage Manager/Producer for Cambridge University Malaysia and Singapore Association Ball Play, "Masquerade"
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Singularity University
Global Solutions Program 2016 Exponential Technologies
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Singularity University's Global Solutions Program (GSP) empowers participants with the tools, knowledge and skills for positively impacting billions of people. Join technologists, scientists, entrepreneurs, designers, physicians, and others on a path to discover technology-based solutions to improve the lives of billions.
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National University of Singapore
BSc Physics and Materials Science
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Activities and Societies: Founder/President for National University of Singapore Astronomical Society (Zeroth Committee) 1997-1998, Chairman, Undergraduate Science Research Programme 1996-1997
- I was the founder and president of the National University of Singapore Astronomical Society. I built the team, wrote the constitution of the society and organized various activities in the organization.
- I was the chairman of the Undergraduate Science Research Programme, and I organized the National Annual Undergraduate Science Congress (conference) in 1998 and compiled all the research proceedings of that year.
- In the Talent Development Programme under the Science Faculty. In…- I was the founder and president of the National University of Singapore Astronomical Society. I built the team, wrote the constitution of the society and organized various activities in the organization.
- I was the chairman of the Undergraduate Science Research Programme, and I organized the National Annual Undergraduate Science Congress (conference) in 1998 and compiled all the research proceedings of that year.
- In the Talent Development Programme under the Science Faculty. In additional to the modules taken for the double major in physics and materials science, I have taken two modules of study on business finance (with the business & administration faculty) and public policy (arts faculty).
- Did two research projects under the Undergraduate Research Project, one on satellite tracking and the other on atomic force microscopy with biological cells. I published both works in the annual research proceedings.
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Licenses & Certifications
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Fellow
Singapore Computer Society
- Present 16 years 2 months
Science and Technology
SCS Fellowship comprises individuals who hold senior tech positions and have an established reputation of eminence or authority in the field of tech. As a Fellow of SCS, the individual must have advanced SCS as the premier infocomm society in Singapore and made positive influence to the tech community.
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence
INSEAD
- Present 15 years 4 months
Education
- Meetings with INSEAD MBAs and help to establish connections to the network within the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Asia.
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Advisor
Singapore Cybersports & Online Gaming Association
- Present 17 years 8 months
Education
Sits on the advisory board for Singapore’s Cybersports & Online Gaming Association (SCOGA.org), an organization dedicated to the Singapore gaming scene, especially in promoting Cybersports, or more commonly known as eSports.
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Steering Committee Member, Tech3 Forum
Singapore Computer Society
- 2 years 7 months
Science and Technology
Steering committee member for Tech3 Forum, an annual leadership event for information technology professionals and members of Singapore Computer Society.
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Steering Committee Member, Special Program of Science 20th Anniversary
National University of Singapore
- 10 months
Education
Raised funds and provided guidance and direction for the Special Program of Science (SPS) 20th anniversary dinner.
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Executive Council Member
Singapore Computer Society
- 3 years
Science and Technology
Executive Council Member
- Chairman and Editor of the IT Society Publication
- Review strategic issues and policy changes within the society and recommendations to strategic policy reviews with local government institutions such as Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)
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Joyful Frog Digital Incubator
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Education
Mentor to JFDI.Asia incubatees, deliver talk on product development, marketing and management in 2012.
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Vice President
Cambridge University Entrepreneurs
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Economic Empowerment
Vice President (2014-2015):
- Oversees internal matters with the President of CU Entrepreneurs, particularly focusing on sponsorship, logistics and recruitment for this committee.
- Management of External Relations with business communities, entrepreneurial societies and Cambridge community for the society.
- Involved with other external strategic initiatives on behalf of the society.
GSW Lead Organizer UK (2003-2004)
- Plan and organize the most successful conference in…Vice President (2014-2015):
- Oversees internal matters with the President of CU Entrepreneurs, particularly focusing on sponsorship, logistics and recruitment for this committee.
- Management of External Relations with business communities, entrepreneurial societies and Cambridge community for the society.
- Involved with other external strategic initiatives on behalf of the society.
GSW Lead Organizer UK (2003-2004)
- Plan and organize the most successful conference in the MIT-$50K Global Startup Workshop (GSW) history with the highest number of delegates.
- Lead a team of 40 people from both MIT and Cambridge, which includes MBAs from Sloan Institute of Management (MIT) and Judge Institute of Management (Cambridge).
- Raise and manage £90K for the conference.
- The GSW conference is a worldwide conference to share the best practices of business plan competitions and entrepreneurship and has run for six years in Boston, Singapore, Spain, Italy, Australia and China.
Publications
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Is an enterprise framework necessary for an entrepreneurial university? A comparison of entrepreneurial university technology start-ups in Singapore & Sweden
Science and Public Policy, 35(9):647-656
Applying information from a series of case studies of university technology start-ups, we found that in Singapore the enterprise framework adds value in fundraising, reputation enhancement, business development and linkages with industry and government. In Swedish counterparts the entrepreneurs sought direct assistance without an embedded enterprise framework. This study reveals preliminary insights into the entrepreneurial university model that is moving gradually towards a mixed system of…
Applying information from a series of case studies of university technology start-ups, we found that in Singapore the enterprise framework adds value in fundraising, reputation enhancement, business development and linkages with industry and government. In Swedish counterparts the entrepreneurs sought direct assistance without an embedded enterprise framework. This study reveals preliminary insights into the entrepreneurial university model that is moving gradually towards a mixed system of market forces and government incentives.
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A Machine Learning Strategy to Identify Exonic Candidate Binding Sites in Human Protein-coding Sequence
BMC Bioinformatics 7:419
Background
The splicing of RNA transcripts is thought to be partly promoted and regulated by sequences embedded within exons. Known sequences include binding sites for SR proteins, which are thought to mediate interactions between splicing factors bound to the 5' and 3' splice sites. It would be useful to identify further candidate sequences, however identifying them computationally is hard since exon sequences are also constrained by their functional role in coding for…Background
The splicing of RNA transcripts is thought to be partly promoted and regulated by sequences embedded within exons. Known sequences include binding sites for SR proteins, which are thought to mediate interactions between splicing factors bound to the 5' and 3' splice sites. It would be useful to identify further candidate sequences, however identifying them computationally is hard since exon sequences are also constrained by their functional role in coding for proteins.
Results
This strategy identified a collection of motifs including several previously reported splice enhancer elements. Although only trained on coding exons, the model discriminates both coding and non-coding exons from intragenic sequence.
Conclusion
We have trained a computational model able to detect signals in coding exons which seem to be orthogonal to the sequences' primary function of coding for proteins. We believe that many of the motifs detected here represent binding sites for both previously unrecognized proteins which influence RNA splicing as well as other regulatory elements.
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Power Laws, Maximal Efficiency and the Turnover of Sports Managers
Physica A, 370(2):697-703
We show that the tenure lengths for managers of sport teams follow a power law distribution with an exponent between 2 and 3. We develop a simple theoretical model which replicates this result. The model demonstrates that the empirical phenomenon can be understood as the macroscopic outcome of pairwise interactions among managers in a league, threshold effects in managerial performance evaluation, competitive market forces, and luck at the microscopic level.
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Gravitational Binding, Virialization, and the Peculiar Velocity Distribution of the Galaxies
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 608, Issue 2, pp. 636-646
We examine the peculiar velocity distribution function of galaxies in cosmological many-body gravitational clustering. Our statistical mechanical approach derives a previous basic assumption and generalizes earlier results to galaxies with halos. Comparison with the observed peculiar velocity distributions indicates that individual massive galaxies are usually surrounded by their own halos, rather than being embedded in common halos. We then derive the density of energy states, giving the…
We examine the peculiar velocity distribution function of galaxies in cosmological many-body gravitational clustering. Our statistical mechanical approach derives a previous basic assumption and generalizes earlier results to galaxies with halos. Comparison with the observed peculiar velocity distributions indicates that individual massive galaxies are usually surrounded by their own halos, rather than being embedded in common halos. We then derive the density of energy states, giving the probability that a randomly chosen configuration of N galaxies in space is bound and virialized. Gravitational clustering is very efficient. The results agree well with the observed probabilities for finding nearby groups containing N galaxies. A consequence is that our local relatively low-mass group is quite typical, and the observed small departures from the local Hubble flow beyond our group are highly probable.
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A universe that changes its symmetry
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
We explore the development of galaxy clustering after an extremely long time in a flat Einstein-de Sitter universe. The time-scale for growth of clustering in this universe is shorter than the global expansion time-scale. This eventually leads to a single cluster of arbitrary large size, which dominates each expanding particle horizon. Since the particle horizons expand faster than the metric, one cluster may ultimately dominate the universe. Assuming that the distribution of galaxies in such a…
We explore the development of galaxy clustering after an extremely long time in a flat Einstein-de Sitter universe. The time-scale for growth of clustering in this universe is shorter than the global expansion time-scale. This eventually leads to a single cluster of arbitrary large size, which dominates each expanding particle horizon. Since the particle horizons expand faster than the metric, one cluster may ultimately dominate the universe. Assuming that the distribution of galaxies in such a static, bound cluster becomes approximately isothermal, we show how it can be represented by a general relativistic metric embedded in an expanding Einstein-de Sitter universe. The embedding is achieved by means of a `Schwarzschild membrane'. Pressure is important, unlike in previous Tolman-Bondi models of inhomogeneities. These new hybrid models generalize previous descriptions of growing clusters and show how a changing equation of state for the matter may alter the large-scale symmetry of space-time over growing regions in the universe.
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Spin Torsion, Braneworlds and Changing Symmetry in the Universe
PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge
See publicationIn this thesis, we explore three phenomenological alternatives to the current paradigm of the standard inflationary big bang scenario. The three alternative themes are spin torsion (or Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama) theories, extra dimensions (braneworld cosmology) and changing global symmetry. In the spin torsion theories, we found new cosmological solutions with a cosmological constant as alternative to the standard scalar field driven inflationary scenario and we conclude that these toy…
In this thesis, we explore three phenomenological alternatives to the current paradigm of the standard inflationary big bang scenario. The three alternative themes are spin torsion (or Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama) theories, extra dimensions (braneworld cosmology) and changing global symmetry. In the spin torsion theories, we found new cosmological solutions with a cosmological constant as alternative to the standard scalar field driven inflationary scenario and we conclude that these toy models do not exhibit an inflationary phase. In the theme of extra dimensions, we discuss the dynamics of linearized scalar and tensor perturbations in an almost Friedmann-Robertson-Walker braneworld cosmology of Randall-Sundrum type II using the 1+3 covariant approach. We derive a complete set of frame-independent equations for the total matter variables, and a partial set of equations for the non-local variables, which arise from the projection of the Weyl tensor in the bulk. The latter equations are incomplete since there is no propagation equation for the non-local anisotropic stress. In the simplest approximation, we show the braneworld imprint as a correction to the power spectra for standard temperature and polarization anisotropies and similarly show that the tensor anisotropies are also insensitive to the high energy effects. Finally in the theme of changing global symmetry, we constructed a bounded isothermal solution embedded in an expanding Einstein de Sitter universe and showed that there is a possible phase transition in the far future.
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Braneworld tensor anisotropies in the CMB
Physical Review D
Cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations provide in principle a high-precision test of models which are motivated by M theory. We set out the framework of a program to compute the tensor anisotropies in the CMB that are generated in braneworld models. In the simplest approximation, we show the braneworld imprint as a correction to the power spectra for standard temperature and polarization anisotropies.
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(1+3)-Covariant Dynamics of Scalar Perturbations in Brane Worlds
Physical Review D
We discuss the dynamics of linear, scalar perturbations in an almost Friedmann-Robertson-Walker braneworld cosmology of Randall-Sundrum type II using the 1+3 covariant approach. We derive a complete set of frame-independent equations for the total matter variables, and a partial set of equations for the nonlocal variables which arise from the projection of the Weyl tensor in the bulk. The latter equations are incomplete since there is no propagation equation for the nonlocal anisotropic stress.…
We discuss the dynamics of linear, scalar perturbations in an almost Friedmann-Robertson-Walker braneworld cosmology of Randall-Sundrum type II using the 1+3 covariant approach. We derive a complete set of frame-independent equations for the total matter variables, and a partial set of equations for the nonlocal variables which arise from the projection of the Weyl tensor in the bulk. The latter equations are incomplete since there is no propagation equation for the nonlocal anisotropic stress. We supplement the equations for the total matter variables with equations for the independent constituents in a cold dark matter cosmology, and provide solutions in the high and low-energy radiation-dominated phase under the assumption that the nonlocal anisotropic stress vanishes. These solutions reveal the existence of new modes arising from the two additional nonlocal degrees of freedom. Our solutions should prove useful in setting up initial conditions for numerical codes aimed at exploring the effect of braneworld corrections on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum. As a first step in this direction, we derive the covariant form of the line of sight solution for the CMB temperature anisotropies in braneworld cosmologies, and discuss possible mechanisms by which braneworld effects may remain in the low-energy universe.
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Patents
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Generation and analysis of representations of skin conditions
Issued US US20120155722 A1
See patentTechnologies are generally described for methods and systems for generating a representation of a skin condition. The method may include receiving first image data relating to a first image of a skin condition and second image data relating to a second image of the skin condition. The method may further include performing a component analysis of the first and second image data to generate a first and second weighted component analysis results for the first and second image data. The weighted…
Technologies are generally described for methods and systems for generating a representation of a skin condition. The method may include receiving first image data relating to a first image of a skin condition and second image data relating to a second image of the skin condition. The method may further include performing a component analysis of the first and second image data to generate a first and second weighted component analysis results for the first and second image data. The weighted component analysis results may represent the respective image data as a weighted sum of components. The method may further include performing a sampling analysis to the weighted component analysis results to generate a weighted image representation for the skin condition. The weighted image representation may represent the skin condition as a weighted sum of the components.
Projects
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SingPost Alpha
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Singapore Post (“SingPost”) today announced a joint development with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) for a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, also known as drone).
A last mile mail and packet drone delivery trial was successfully completed between Lorong Halus and Pulau Ubin. The drone which was built upon the Pixhawk Steadidrone platform by IDA Labs to meet the new conceptual delivery platform from SingPost, and tailored for use in a challenging environment like…Singapore Post (“SingPost”) today announced a joint development with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) for a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, also known as drone).
A last mile mail and packet drone delivery trial was successfully completed between Lorong Halus and Pulau Ubin. The drone which was built upon the Pixhawk Steadidrone platform by IDA Labs to meet the new conceptual delivery platform from SingPost, and tailored for use in a challenging environment like Singapore.
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Honors & Awards
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Postal & Parcel Technology International: Digital Innovation of the Year
Postal and Parcel Technology International
Digital Innovation of the year: SingPost’s SAM self-service kiosks and online services.
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World Post & Parcel Award 2017: Retail Access Category
WMX Europe
The SAM Omni-channel platform won the retail access category for World Post & Parcel Award 2017.
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Formation National Serviceman of the Year 2014
Singapore Armed Forces
Letter of Commendation from Singapore Armed Forces for military reservist duties.
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Professional of the Year
Singapore Computer Society IT Awards
Recognized for outstanding achievement by an ICM Professional.
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Chinese
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English
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Singapore Institute of Directors
Ordinary Member
- PresentJoined as an ordinary member for Singapore Institute of Directors, and taking courses in certification.
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Singapore Computer Society
Ordinary Member
- PresentOrdinary Member of Singapore Computer Society and volunteered in the executive committee from 2010-2013, and also sitting on the steering committee for Tech3 forum from 2016 to 2017.
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