Dr Li is heading the AI Development Office from the FinTech & Innovation Group in MAS. The mandate of the AI Development Office focuses on promoting the usage of Artificial Intelligence in the Singapore financial sector. It will develop and implement the AI strategy for Singapore financial industry, facilitate industry-wide AI projects within and beyond the financial sector as well as embark on initiatives to develop a sustainable ecosystem that supports the experimentation and deployment of AI-based technologies in the financial sector. Dr Li’s major expertise covers areas such as machine learning, big data analysis, cloud computing, text mining etc. He also has strong commercial software development experience. Before joining MAS, he was a scientist at VISA and UBS. He holds a PhD in machine learning.