As hubs of ideation and implementation, our Centres of Excellence in Smart Health and e-Government Leadership continues to engage organisations locally and abroad for capability development and innovative collaboration opportunities. Through programmes tailored for organisation’s needs, we coach and mentor organisations to embrace new skills and develop strategic and forward-thinking mindsets to deliver citizen-centric services through technology.
Smart Health Leadership Centre
The healthcare ecosystem experienced a ton of pressure with the Covid-19 pandemic in the past year adding onto issues such as an ageing population, chronic illnesses and resourcing challenges. Rising above these demands, NUS-ISS’ Smart Health Leadership Centre continues to engage partners with bespoke cross-industry collaboration and co-creation, equipping industry partners with capabilities and competencies to digitally transform, while delivering speaking engagements and research projects to build a smarter health future.
"NUS-ISS was a delight to work with as they are aligned with NCSS in having a genuine interest in building the innovation capabilities of the Social Service Sector. During the implementation of the design challenges, the team was agile in adapting their curriculum and workshop structure to the needs of participants from various backgrounds. They also helped to contextualise some of the innovation tools and frameworks that were published in the Social Innovation Starter Kit for the Social Service Sector, with a co-creation and testing approach in its development. It has been a smooth and wonderful partnership between NCSS and NUS-ISS and we look forward to working with them again in the near future."
- Yishun Health: Data Driven Smart Health Programme
Watch Highlights - The MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation: Design4Impact
- The MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation: Consulting services
- National Council of Social Service (NCSS): Social Innovation Toolkit
- CygniSENSE – A hand assessment and rehabilitation system with Intel RealSense. HealthTEC Seed Grant (2020-2021)
- Development of an m-Health Rehabilitation System for Stroke Patient Recovery. Tote Board Enabling Lives Initiative Grant. (2018-2021)
- Intelligent Gait (iGait) Assistive Device for Elderly with Gait Dysfunctionalities. Enabling Innovation Grant, National Innovation Challenge for Active and Confident Ageing, National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Ministry of Health. (2017-2020)
- School of Medicine: An Integrative Cardiac Rehabilitation Employing Smartphone Technology (i-CREST) for patients with post-myocardial infarction: A randomized controlled trial. Funded by National Medical Research Council. (2020 – 2022)
- Licensing of hand-tracking software technology to Roceso Technologies
- Collaborative partnership with Roceso Technologies in the HealthTEC Seed Grant: CygniSENSE – A hand assessment and rehabilitation system with Intel RealSense
- EU Digital Healthcare Mission to Singapore
- D4I Innovators' Ecosystem talk: Designing a Digital Solution
- Invited Speaker - The Healthcare Data Lifecycle Roundtable by the Ortus Club, Singapore
- Keynote Speaker - Paradigm Shift with Digital Healthcare by Diraagu, Maldives
- Panel Moderator – WorldAIShow by Tresco, Singapore
- Keynote Speaker - Clariden Global AI and Robotics in Hospital and Healthcare, Singapore
- Judging Panel - Commonwealth Digital Health Awards by CWCDH, Switzerland
- Panel Moderator - Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics 2020 by APAMI, Japan
- Panel Moderator – World CX Summit 2020 by Tresco , Singapore
- Keynote Speaker - HPE & SAS Workshop & Hackathon by NUS SSHSPH, Singapore
- Session Chair and Speaker - Asian Conference on Computer Aided Surgery (2020)
- Featured Speaker - Clariden Global AI and Robotics in Hospital and Healthcare (2020), Singapore
- Featured Speaker - Scoot Learning Festival 2020, Singapore
- Speaker - The Healthcare Data Lifecycle Roundtable by the Ortus Club (2020), Singapore
- Speaker - NUSMED Immunology Programme Seminar Series (2020), Singapore
- Speaker - SkillsFuture @ NTU on Integrating IoT and AI for Digital Community Health (2020), Singapore
- Host and Moderator – SkillsFuture Series Webinar 2020 “Driving Urban Transformation through Artificial Intelligence Robotics and IoT”, Singapore
- Guest Speaker - Catholic Junior College STEM Festival 2020, Singapore
- Guest interviewee – Channel 5 Talking Point on Tray Returns at Hawker Centres
See Behind The Scenes
- Ho N, Wong PM, Hoang NS, Koh DK, Chua M & Chui CK (2020). CPS-based Manufacturing Workcell for the Production of Hybrid Medical Devices. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. doi: 10.1007/s12652-020-02798-y
- Sua JN, Lim SY, Yulius MH, Su X, Yap E, Yeh HY & Chua M (2020). Incorporating Convolutional Neural Networks and Sequence Graph Transform for Identifying Multilabel Protein Lysine PTM Sites. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. doi: 10.1016/j.chemolab.2020.104171
- Yin JH, Chng CB, Wong PM, Ho N, Chua M & Chui CK (2020). VR and AR in Human Performance Research – An NUS Experience. Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.2096-5796.20.00021
- Liao JJ, Luo JJ, Yang T, So R & Chua M (2020). Effects of Local and Global Spatial Patterns in EEG Motor-Imagery Classification using Convolutional Neural Network. Brain-Computer Interfaces. doi: 10.1080/2326263X.2020.1801112
- Deb S, Ou-Yang Y, Chua M & Tian J (2020). Gait identification using a new time-warped similarity metric based on smartphone inertial signals. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. doi: 10.1007/s12652-019-01659-7
- Unnikrishnan B, Singh PR, Yang X, & Chua M (2020). Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Heart Sounds Classification in Restricted Data Environments. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.02610.
- Pham HN, Tan RJ, Cai YT, Shahril M, Yeo Ngan Chong, Lim HJ, Do TT, Binh PN & Chua M (2020). Automated Grading in Diabetic Retinopathy using Image Processing and Modified EffcientNet. International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2020). Vietnam. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-63007-2_39
- Khang N, Chee J, Soh CW, Hoang NS, Lim JH, Binh PN, Chui CK & Chua M (2020). Classification of Gait Patterns using Overlapping Time Displacement of Batchwise Video Subclips. The 5th International Conference on Research in Intelligent and Computing in Engineering (RICE 2020). Vietnam. (accepted)
- Khang N, Gan MRJ, Binh PN, Chua M & Ou-Yang Y (2020). Classification of Parkinson’s Disease Associated Gait Patterns. The 5th International Conference on Research in Intelligent and Computing in Engineering (RICE 2020). Vietnam. (accepted)
- Quang HN, Gong M, Liu T, Ou-Yang Y, Binh PN & Chua M (2020). Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks for the Detection of Prostate Cancer in Multi-Parametric MRI Scans. The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI 2020). Vietnam. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49536-7_20
- Chan JH, Lim HJ, Hoang NS, Lim JH, Khang N, Binh PN, Chui CK & Chua M (2020). Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network Ensemble for Activity Recognition in Mobile Phones. The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI 2020). Vietnam. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49536-7_25
- Lim KC, Sin SH, Lee CW, Chin WK, Lin J, Khang N, Quang HN, Binh PN & Chua M (2020). Video-based Skeletal Feature Extraction for Hand Gesture Recognition. The 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Soft Computing (ICMLSC 2020). Vietnam. doi: 10.1145/3380688.3380711
- Quang HN, Ramasamy M, Laxman S, Gopa S, Anh CT, Binh PN & Chua M (2020). Diabetic Retinopathy Detection using Deep Learning. The 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Soft Computing (ICMLSC 2020). Vietnam. doi: 10.1145/3380688.3380709
e-Government Leadership Centre
NUS-ISS e-Government Leadership Centre had a successful year, despite challenges imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, delivering learning journeys for 334 public service officers and private sector leaders, that included 34 nationalities. 12 sessions were conducted, out of which 7 were delivered in a synchronous online mode.
Programme Highlights
Virtual Global Leadership Practice Programme for the Australian Government Officers, with Mr. Dominic Chan, GovTech, Mr. Geok Seong Wah, IMDA and Dr. Leong Mun Kew, Director (Graduate Programmes), NUS-ISS. November 2020
eGL hosted a Virtual Global Leadership Practice Programme session for Senior Australian Government Officers on 18 Nov 2020. Participants interacted with thinkers and fellow leaders from Australia and 5 partner countries including Singapore, to discover how to better lead through turbulence, create resilient organisations, transform the way we think and do things for a greater good.
"A great example of how one country has used strategic approaches over the lifespan to embed technological literacy into the day to day lives of its people to achieve the common goal of inclusive access to technology. Speakers were very knowledgeable and all had an engaging and inclusive style. Content was relevant with great examples. Presentations were interesting with good linkage of themes."
A2i Closing: His Excellency Md. Tauhedul Islam, High Commissioner of Bangladesh in Singapore, graced the closing ceremony of the Singapore segment of the Data Driven Decision Making Program for a2i. The ceremony was attended by senior leaders from Temasek Foundation, UNDP Singapore, a2i, and NUS-ISS. October 2020
Another significant deliverable was the Singapore segment of the Data Driven Decision Making program, co-funded by Temasek Foundation and Aspire to Innovate (a2i), ICT Division, Bangladesh. Successfully delivered via synchronous mode, this programme yield Data Analytics Models for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) initiatives in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh ICT Minister, Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak, at the launch of the Specialist Training Program on Artificial Intelligence for the IT & ITES Industry, under the LICT Project, Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Bangladesh ICT Ministry. June 2020
Highlights include an outcome-based learning journey curated for 50 professionals from 10 organisations, sponsored by the Leveraging ICT (LICT) programme , ICT Division Bangladesh. This 4-month programme was delivered in two segments. A 2-week segment delivered synchronously online that covered AI topics, followed by a 6-week project development period was delivered, during which NUS-ISS experts provided guidance and mentoring to enable the teams to deliver a minimum viable product, well on the trajectory to commercialisation.
From NUS-ISS' e-Government Leadership Centre to Dhaka: Behind the AI-based app, DriveSafe by Zantrik
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"It has redefined my 2 years of understanding and experience in AI. Now black boxes no longer exist in this field for me."
Integrated Cybersecurity Management and Systems Programme, under the Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, February 2020 | *Photo was taken before circuit breaker
The Singapore Cooperation Programme sponsored by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore continues to be a key sponsor for the programmes conducted in 2020.
Other Engagements
Read about the AI -based `Queue Pro’ app which will detect customer’s face mask and social distancing in a gathering and predict waiting time for appointment and service! Read more
"I liked the real world use cases to facilitate discussions. The instructors were knowledgeable and experienced. Content was relevant for IT transformation projects"
*Photo taken before circuit breaker