Professor Ooi Beng Chin is an Independent Non-Executive Director of ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited. Professor Ooi is a member of the Board Risk Committee and the Strategy & Investment Committee. He is also a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of VICOM Ltd.

Professor Ooi is a Qiushi Professor at Zhejiang University, China. He is also a Distinguished Visting Professor at National University of Singapore, a visiting Chair Professor at Peking University and visiting Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, China.

In 2017, he co-founded MediLot Technologies Pte Ltd (MediLot) which is in the business of healthcare data management and analytics. He currently serves as a Director of MediLot as well as AlDigi Holdings Pte Ltd.

Professor Ooi’s research interests include database, blockchain, distributed processing, machine learning and large scale analytics, in the aspects of system architectures, performance issues, security, accuracy, and correctness. He is also interested in leveraging information technology for production and process reengineering, with applications in fintech innovation,healthcare innovation, food analysis, metaverse, and smart city.

He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the China Computer Federation (CCF), the Singapore National Academy of Science and the Singapore Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of Academia Europaea and Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards in the field of computer science, including the 2011 Singapore President’s Science Award.

Professor Ooi was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2013 and the Long Service Medal in 2018 by the President of the Republic of Singapore.

Professor Ooi holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) and a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University, Australia.