Johnson & Johnson and NUS BAC ink collaboration agreement

From left: Kenneth Cheng, Senior Data Scientist, NUS BAC; Visiting Senior Fellow Quek Khor Ping, NUS BAC; Associate Professor Khoo Siau Cheng, Co-Director, NUS BAC; Associate Professor James Pang, Co-Director, NUS BAC; Senior Vice President and Global Head – Data Sciences Georgia Papathomas, Johnson & Johnson; Senior Vice President Finance Shah Bhavesh, Johnson & Johnson); and Senior Manager FP&A Systems & Data Analytics Gurdeep Singh, Johnson & Johnson

Recently, the NUS Business Analytics Centre (BAC) signed a three-year MoU with pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to provide guidance and industry experience to Master of Science Business Analytics (MSBA) students for their Capstone projects. Besides internships, organising competitions like hackathons and hosting students for their projects, this is a prestigious opportunity to work […]

NUS, Alibaba Cloud partner in big data, AI

From left: Mr Raymond Ma, Head of ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand, Alibaba Cloud; Dr Wanli Min, Chief Machine Intelligence Scientist, Alibaba Cloud; Mr Yeming Wang, Business President, Alibaba Cloud; Dr Balakrishnan; Prof Yeung; Prof Mohan; and Assoc Prof Pang (Photo: Alibaba Cloud)

NUS and Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, have partnered to launch an innovation incubator programme to nurture Singapore’s data science talents in line with the country’s Smart Nation initiative. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by both parties at the Alibaba Cloud Summit-Infinity 2018 on 15 August. The signing ceremony […]

ABEJA Singapore and NUS collaborate to promote AI research and education

ABEJA SINGAPORE PTE LTD ( Head office: Republic of Singapore, Representative / Director: Naoki Tonogi, hereafter referred to as “Local affiliate” ), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABEJA Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo, CEO and CTO: Yosuke Okada, hereafter referred to as “ABEJA”) that develops AI business solutions utilizing deep learning, and the National University of […]

NUS, CFLD partner for smart cities

In conjunction with the setting up of its global headquarters in Singapore, the international arm of leading new industry city (NIC) developer China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NUS Business Analytics Centre (BAC) — a partnership between NUS Business and NUS Computing — on 17 March to drive innovation and […]

MSBA students win ANZ-NUS Financial Services Innovation Challenge

Team Finnovation (left to right): Lyu Peijin, Xu Yuwen, Wang Yi, Wang Ji, Sylvia Liaw, Anna Ang, Chen Xiang

Congratulations our Masters in Business Analytics students Lyu Peijin, Xu Yuwen, Wang Yi, Wang Ji, Sylvia Liaw, Anna Ang and Chen Xiang (Team Finnovation) for winning the ANZ-NUS Financial Services Innovation Challenge. Organised by ANZ and NUS Business Analytics Centre, the competition challenged students to apply business analytics to come up with innovative solutions in […]

DBS Bank, A*STAR’s I2R and NUS join forces to develop analytic talent

In order to support a growing demand for specialised analytic talent across the region, DBS Bank, A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have formed a three-year partnership. Through this partnership, NUS students will have the opportunity to work on real banking challenges with data analytics experts from I2R […]

SAP and NUS Partner to Help Transform Enterprises in a Digital Economy

SAP and NUS signed an agreement today to help enterprises and students become better positioned in today’s digital economy. Both the entities will take part in joint activities to support the further understanding of information processes and their applications to transform enterprises. This new agreement builds on existing collaborations initiated several years ago, on Enterprise […]

NUS and Swiss Re sign agreement to co-develop talent for insurance industry

(From left to right) Robert Burr, Head of Life & Health Asia, Swiss Re; Professor Bernard Yeung, Dean of NUS Business School; Sharon Ooi, Country President of Singapore, Swiss Re; Professor David S. Rosenblum, Dean of NUS School of Computing and; Associate Professor Teo Yik Ying, Vice Dean (Research), Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at NUS at the signing ceremony.

Swiss Re and the National University of Singapore (NUS) signed an agreement on 10 June to collaborate in joint activities using big data, business analytics and information technologies. The collaboration will incubate innovative solutions that can address complex risks caused by digitisation, societal and urban challenges. These include ageing population, healthcare advances, changing risk landscape […]