Programme:

1:30pm – 1:45pm: Opening Remarks

• Professor Mohan Kankanhalli, Provost’s Chair Professor; Deputy Executive Chairman, AI Singapore; Director, NUS AI Institute
• Mr Richard Liu, Founding Partner of 5Y Capital; Donor of the Asian Young Scientist Fellowship; Director of the Future Science Ltd

1:45pm – 2:15pm: Keynote Address: The Impact of Fundamental Science on Innovation and Our Future

• Professor Xueming Yang, Vice President, Southern University of Science and Technology; Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; The Future Science Prize 2022 – Physical Science Prize Laureate

2:15pm – 3:00pm: Panel Discussion: Aligning Fundamental Research with Technological Innovation

Moderator

• Mr Richard Liu, Founding Partner of 5Y Capital; Donor of the Asian Young Scientist Fellowship; Director of the Future Science Ltd

Panelists

• Professor Hong Wu, School of Life Sciences, Peking University; 2024 Chair of the Steering Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship
• Mr George Loh, Associate Vice President, NUS
• Dr You Yang, Presidential Young Professor, NUS’ Founder of HPC-AI Tech startup
• Professor Xueming Yang, Vice President, Southern University of Science and Technology; Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; The Future Science Prize 2022 – Physical Science Prize Laureat

3:00pm – 3:15pm: Coffee Break

3:15pm – 4:45pm: From Innovation to Application: Transformative Technologies: Bridging Innovation and Real-World Solutions

Session Remarks

• Professor Li Shiuan Peh, Provost’s Chair Professor, NUS; Member of the Steering Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship

Presentations

• Dr Reza Shokri,  Associate Professor, NUS; 2023 AYS Fellow – Mathematics and Computer Science 
• Dr Ziwei Liu, Assistant Professor, NTU, Singapore; 2024 AYS Fellow – Mathematics and Computer Science 
• Dr Daishi Fujita, Principal Investigator, Associate Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University; 2023 AYS Fellow – Life Science
• Dr Wei Wu, Principal Investigator, A*STAR Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN); Associate Professor, NUS; 2024 AYS Fellow – Life Science