Prof Tan Tin Wee

Tan Tin Wee is the founding director and current Chief Executive of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore (2015-) which manages Singapore’s first national petascale facility. He is an Associate Professor of the Department of Biochemistry at the National University of Singapore (1990-) and is well known in the Bioinformatics field.

He established in Singapore the Internet Research and Development Unit (IRDU)(1995), the Bioinformatics Centre (BIC) (1996) and APBioNet (1998) for the Asia Pacific region, and was instrumental in establishing SingAREN (1997) and APAN (1996) for the field of advanced Internet networking. As the inventor and founder of multilingual internationalised domain names and a pioneer of the Internet, he was inducted into the inaugural Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society in 2012. He has also spun off a number of companies, including the Technet Unit which became Pacific Internet Inc in 1995.

He is currently a Senate member of the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) and also serves as a Board Director of Keppel Data Centre REIT Management. He is the Singapore Focal Point in the Board of Advisors (BAC) of the ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI) having received the ASEAN Science and Technology Meritorious Service Award in 2008 for service in the Subcommittees on Biotechnology, and on Infrastructure and Research Development.

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