Bio

Koo has traversed through data analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence in his career for the past 17 years. With an MBA degree and vast experience, he is able to determine where possible values are from data collected. He does it differently by building internal capabilities, through training, consulting, and mentoring, allowing businesses to continuously take advantage of their data. Uniquely, Koo is experienced in the full process of getting value from data, from data collection, management & governance to implementation of insights through strategy and business performance measurement. His research interest is in how an organization can build Data Science & Artificial Intelligence capabilities, Artificial General Intelligence, and Smart Cities with a focus on the standard of living. Co-founded DataScience.Sg (grassroots community) in Nov 2013, growing it to more than 10,000 members (as at 2020). Former Chairman of Working Committee, Singapore SAS User Group. Conducted more than 2000 man-hours of related training mostly in Singapore and various countries and received average ratings of 4.4 (out of 5.0). Supervised Masters students on their data science project. Instructor and lecturer in various institutions such as NUS SCALE, SMU Academy, SUSS, and ESSEC. Chief Mentor & Trainer in SAS-IMDA Data Science Programme. Gave talks at NLB, BCA, IRAS. Facilitator for IDA Data Science MOOC Initiative (1st & 2nd Cohort). (http://bit.ly/1lLfj8s) - spoken to more than 200 people on Data Science. Appeared in an SG TV program, ''Time Machine'' (https://bit.ly/2jYEmMQ). Speaker at MicroElectronics Tech Asia (https://bit.ly/2QubPxj), SAS Bites & SAS Forum (http://bit.ly/1vEvP4O). Facilitator at Data Literacy Bootcamp for Journalists organized by World Bank & IDA (https://bit.ly/2OlGEni). Presented papers at SAS Global Forum. Data Ambassador for DataKind Singapore. (http://bit.ly/1Q0vXiP).