Dr Cao leads the firm’s data science and AI competency, AI strategy works, and various data science / AI / data platform client engagements throughout presales, pursuits to delivery. He is an AI evangelist / thought leader with rich experience to develop complex and tailor-made AI and BI solutions in practice for his client’s business transformation. He is also a winner of the EY better-begins-with-you top regional innovation awards for two consecutive years from 2018 to 2019 and was selected as the global innovation finalist. He has a research background with numerous top-tier publications in data mining, signal processing and image forensics. His PhD work in data-driven image forensics received the best paper award in IWDW 2010 and honorary mention in ISCAS 2010. He is also a winner of multiple international data competitions, such as GE Flight Quest in 2013. Since 2022, he has been a member of AITC, Singapore, and leads the initiative of watching international AI standard for Singapore. He has served as the chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Singapore chapter, during 2017 – 2018.