Programme

1.00pm

Registration

1.30pm

Welcome by NUS President

1.35pm

Welcome by UM Vice Chancellor

Symposium Session 1: AI in Healthcare

1.40pm

Invited Talk: Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing AI in Smart Hospitals (NUS)

Speaker: Adjunct Professor Ngiam Kee Yuan 

Head, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore 

Head, Artificial Intelligence Office, National University Health System  

Head & Senior Consultant, Division of General Surgery (Endocrine & Thyroid Surgery), Department of Surgery, National University Hospital 

Senior Consultant, Division of Surgical Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, Singapore 

1.55pm

Invited Talk: Digital Transformation in Healthcare – A Hospital-Wide Implementation Journey (UM)

Speaker: Professor Dr Adina Abdullah

Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya

2.10pm

Thematic Discussion and Expert Exchange

Panel:

• Adjunct Professor Ngiam Kee Yuan (NUS)
• Professor Dr Adina Abdullah (UM)

Moderator: Associate Professor Dr Terence Ong Ing Wei

Department of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya

2.40pm

Break

Symposium Session 2: AI in Science

3.30pm

Invited Talk: Quantum AI-Driven Precision Healthcare and Computational Drug Discovery Platform for Cancer and Natural Product Therapeutics (UM)

Speaker: Professor Dr. Vannajan Sanghiran Lee

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Malaya

3.45pm

Invited Talk: When AI Meets Physics – Toward Next-Generation Molecular Modeling for Drug Discovery (NUS)

Speaker: Professor Yang Zhang

Department of Computer Science, School of Computing

Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore

4.00pm

Thematic Discussion and Expert Exchange

Panel: 

• Professor Dr Vannajan Sanghiran Lee (UM)
• Professor Yang Zhang (NUS)

Moderator: Lee Wee Sun

Professor of Computer Science, National University of Singapore and Deputy Director, NUS AI Institute

4.30pm

Break

Keynote

5.00pm

Keynote Presentation: AI and Robotics for a Resilient Future – Bridging Innovation and Impact (UM)

Speaker: Prof Dr Loo Choo Kiong 

Faculty of Science Computer and Information Technology

University Malaya

5.20pm

Keynote Presentation: Towards Trustworthy Multimodal AI (NUS)

Speaker: Prof Mohan Kankanhalli

Provost’s Chair Professor of Computer Science, National University of Singapore and Director of NUS AI Institute

5.40pm

End of Symposium

7.30pm

UM-NUS Gala Dinner