Beng Ooi

Beng Chin is the Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor and an NGS faculty member at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also an adjunct Chang Jiang Professor at Zhejiang University and a visiting Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, China. He serves as the Director of NUS AI Innovation and Commercialization Centre at Suzhou, China. He obtained his BSc (1st Class Honors) and PhD from Monash University, Australia, in 1985 and 1989 respectively.

He is a co-founder of MZH Technologies (2018) for blockchain based healthcare data management and analytics. He serves as an independent director of ComfortDelgro and AlDiGi. Beng Chin serves as a member of Hangzhou Government AI Development Committee (AI TOP 30). He was an advisor to Huobi on its Huobi Chain, and Cynopsis Solutions.

Beng Chin's 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 (eg. NUHS, JurongHealth, SGH and Tan Tock Seng Hospital on healthcare analytics and prediabetes prevention), and exploits IT for efficiency in various application domains, including healthcare, finance and smart cities.

He is the initiator of Apache SINGA, an Apache top level project (TLP) -- the first Apache Software Foundation (ASF) distributed platform for deep learning. He and his team have released the first blockchain benchmarking system, called Blockbench, and enhanced Hyperledger Fabric called FabricSharp. He has released numerous other open sources (https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~dbsystem/). He has recently outlined his vision on Metaverse https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10326

Beng Chin has served as a PC member for international conferences such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, WWW, and SIGKDD, and as Vice PC Chair for ICDE'00,04,06, co-PC Chair for SSD'93 and DASFAA'05, PC Chair for ACM SIGMOD'07, Core DB PC chair for VLDB'08, and PC co-Chair for IEEE ICDE'12 and IEEE ICDE'18,, Industry track of VLDB'19, and ACM SoCC'20. . He was an editor of VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)(2009-2012), founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Journal on Big Data Research, the founding editor-in-chief of ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (2018 -2021), and a co-chair of the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Thesis Award committee. He has served as a trustee of VLDB endowment 2006-2017, as its secretary 2010-2013, and president 2014-2017, and as an Advisory Board Member of ACM SIGMOD, 2012-2017. He is serving as and Communications of ACM (CACM), and a member of ACM Publications Board (2022-).

Beng Chin is the recipient of ACM SIGMOD 2009 Contributions award, a co-winner of the 2011 Singapore President's Science Award, the recipient of 2012 IEEE Computer Society Kanai award, 2013 NUS Outstanding Researcher Award, 2014 IEEE TCDE CSEE Impact Award, 2016 China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Contributions Award, and ACM SIGMOD EF Codd Innovation Award. He is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE , Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) and Academia Europaea.

Beng Chin has participated in the last three once-every-five-years database self-assessment meetings: Claremont, Berkeley 2008, Beckman, Irvine 2013, Seattle 2018.