Date：2025/8/28 14:30
Location：R101, CSIE
Speakers：Dr. Hwee-Pink TAN, Head AiOT, 59stVenture
Host：巫芳璟教授
Abstract:
By 2026, Singapore and Taiwan will transition from an Aged society to a Super-aged society, where 20% of the population will be over the age of 65. In the past decade, Singapore has developed and field-tested various approaches for supporting elderly-community-care that leverage sensing, analytics, IoT and AI as part of an end-to-end community care platform that simultaneously meets the needs of key stakeholders including government entities, care partners, and technology operators. In this session, we will share key lessons learnt and draw on current trends towards technologically and socially scalable, maintainable and economically accessible AIoT systems for Ageing-in-Place.
Biography:
Hwee-Pink is an advisor for Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Scientific Data Strategy Office 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, evidence-based and citizen-centric approach to health promotion through state-of-the-art data best practices to maximize data quality 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 cross-disciplinary team to bring together IoT technologies, and social-behavioural research to enable ageing-in-place, in close partnership with A*STAR, TCS, various government agencies, regional 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 research team 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 of wireless networks.
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, evidence-based and citizen-centric approach to health promotion through state-of-the-art data best practices to maximize data quality 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 cross-disciplinary team to bring together IoT technologies, and social-behavioural research to enable ageing-in-place, in close partnership with A*STAR, TCS, various government agencies, regional 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 research team 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 of wireless networks.