Dr Geraldine Wong

Dr Geraldine Wong is Group Chief Data Officer at GXS Bank (GXS), one of the two successful digital full bank licence applicants in Singapore. GXS is backed by a consortium comprising Grab and Singtel.

At GXS, Dr Wong is responsible for driving and building the bank’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data strategy with the goal of leveraging ecosystem data assets, promoting data-driven financial inclusion and reimagining the way customers engage and experience the digital economy. Her career spans across industry and academia, where she has led teams in developing and executing regional AI initiatives across the public, transport and infocommunications sectors.

Dr Wong was named in the SG100 Women in Tech list (2021) by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in recognition of her contributions to Singapore’s technology industry. For her data analytics achievements, she was recently named one of the global top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics by Business of Data (2022).

She is currently part of the Technology Advisory Committee at Synapxe, Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Future-Enabled Skills workgroup and an Adjunct Associate Professor at NUS’ Department of Statistics and Data Science. She also seeks to inspire and nurture the next generation, through her active mentoring for Girls in Tech and NUS’ Uplift mentorship programme, as well as being an ExCo member of the Free and Open source software group at the Singapore Computer Society.

Dr Wong holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Professor Lok Shee Mei

Prof Lok Shee Mei is a Provost’s Chair Professor in the Emerging Infectious Diseases programme in Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She was also a National Research Foundation (NRF) fellow (2009 to 2014) and an NRF Investigator (2016 to 2021).

Prof Lok is a structural virologist specialising in X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy. Her research focuses on the structural and therapeutics aspects of flavivirus such as dengue and zika viruses.

Her laboratory made significant discoveries in the morphological diversity of dengue virus particles, neutralisation mechanisms of potent antibodies against flavivirus particles, the flavivirus assembly process and also the structures of the secreted dengue NS1 - an important factor that causes severe dengue disease.

Prof Lok obtained her MSc and PhD in NUS and did her postdoctoral training in Purdue University, United States, under the supervision of the late Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences Michael Rossmann.

Associate Professor Giorgia Pastorin

Assoc Prof Giorgia Pastorin received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2004 from the University of Trieste, Italy. After a research fellowship at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France, she joined NUS where she is currently an Associate Professor at NUS’ Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Assistant Dean (Research and Development) at the Faculty of Science and Director of the NUS Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Centre.

Her main research interests include production, characterisation and evaluation of cell-derived nanovesicles (CDNs) as novel biocompatible and targeted drug delivery systems of bioactive molecules such as Pt-based anticancer complexes.

She is the editor of two books related to drug delivery and author of > 160 articles of internationally peer-reviewed journals. She has received both university-level and international awards for the work performed by her BioNanotechnology group.