Victor Tong

Dr. Victor Tong is currently the Chief Digital & Information Officer at National Gallery Singapore. He was previously the Founding Director of Social and Cognitive Computing Department with A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing. He also served as a Senior Innovation Advisory Board Member of Pfizer and was the pioneering Research Manager in charge of SAP Research headquarters for the APJ region in Singapore. Tong has received over 20 professional awards for his work, including the MIT TR35 Award, World Economic Forum Young Scientist, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and the Singapore Youth Award for Science & Technology. He has a PhD in Biochemistry from the National University of Singapore.