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    Dr. Rick Goh

    Director, Computing & Intelligence (CI) Department, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*Star

    Singapore

    Dr. Rick Goh is the Director of Computing & Intelligence (CI) Department at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), a research institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

    Rick leads a team of more than 60 scientists and engineers in performing world-leading scientific research, developing technology to commercialisation, and engaging and collaborating with industry. His department's core capability areas are Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Computing. For AI, his team focuses on physics-based, efficient, multimodal, autonomous, and safe AI. And for Advanced Computing, the focus is in high performance computing using GPU and FPGA, and decentralised computing such as blockchain and federated learning.

    His team has coupled these areas to collectively solve many real-world challenges in domains such as Digital Healthcare/MedTech, Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering, Smart Nation & Digital Economy, and Food & AgriTech.

    Rick contributes to various committees both internally and externally, such as the ASTAR's ITSS Steering Committee, ASTAR Cloud Initiative Task Force, Coordinating Committee for Smart Nation, Singapore Data Science Consortium and IMDA's SDE Technology Roadmap for AI, Data, Blockchain.

    Rick received his PhD and Bachelor degrees in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He received certificates in Technopreneurship, and Commercial Law and Technology Transfer. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 refereed publications, organised several international scientific conferences as general co-chair, and has several patents filed and granted. Also, with his leadership, and the excellent researchers under his care & mentorship, his department had won many awards. These include emerging as the Finalist for the 2019 UITP (International Association of Public Transport) Awards, 2019, and the NSCC Outstanding HPC Innovation Award 2017, among many others.

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