SoCo SNP Advisor and NUS Professor Beng Chin Ooi. Photo from the database system research at NUS.

AUG. 20, SINGAPORE. — SoCo SNP Advisor Beng Chin Ooi was one of eight blockchain and tech experts chosen to serve on Huobi’s Public Chain Expert Advisory Group. The advisory group is a team of consultants from a variety of academic, investment and industrial backgrounds whose duty is to guide Huobi Public Chain’s future development and governance issues, as well as provide advice during the leader selection campaign.

Ooi is a distinguished professor at the National University of Singapore, where his forte is computer science. He is an adjunct professor at Zhejiang University (which is a member of the Yangtze Delta Universities Alliance), a member of the Zhejiang Expert Committee on Artificial Intelligence Development, as well as a fellow at the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Moreover, Ooi founded MediLOT, a blockchain-based healthcare company that uses AI and “database management system technologies for patients, healthcare providers, researchers and commercial companies” (MediLOT Technologies).

Ooi’s research focuses on database performance, blockchain, index technology, management of of memory data, cloud computing and parallel systems. He is also passionate about and dedicated to the innovation and industrialization of AI, big data, and cloud computing.

Ooi is a member of SoCo SNP’s advisory team.