Dr Lee Hing Yan

Hing-Yan LEE PhD is Director of National Cloud Computing Office at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, where he oversees the national programme in cloud computing. Under his purview are initiatives such as grid service provisioning, SaaS incubation centre, cloud innovation centre, SaaS Enablement Programme, Technology Evaluation Programme, Data-as-a-Service Programme, development of cloud security standards, CloudAsia as well as collaboration in Open Cirrus and IBM Cloud Lab Singapore. Prior to this, Hing-Yan was Deputy Director of National Grid Office at the Agency of Science, Technology and Research as well as Principal Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research. He also held senior management and technical positions at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Japan-Singapore Artificial Intelligence Centre, Information Technology Institute (applied R&D arm of the National Computer Board) as well as two high-tech start-ups.

Hing-Yan is an Adjunct Associate Professor in National University of Singapore, member of School of Digital Media & Infocomm Technology advisory panel at the Singapore Polytechnic, vice chair of Special Interest Group on Enterprise Cloud Computing & Virtualisation and Fellow (Singapore Computer Society), as well as member of Cloud Computing Standards Coordinating Task Force (IT Standards Committee). He has served on the NatSteel Corporate R&D advisory panel, Singapore National Archives Board, Australia-Singapore Joint ICT Council, and co-chair of National Infocomm Competency Framework (NICF) technical committee on Cloud Computing.

He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in USA with PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science, specializing in artificial intelligence and software reuse. He previously studied at Imperial College London in UK where he obtained a BSc (Eng.) with 1st Class Honours in Computing and MSc in Management Science.