Professor Tze-Yun Leong

Tze Yun Leong is Professor of Practice of Computer Science at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS).

Tze Yun received her SB, SM, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Her research interests include responsible AI, dynamic decision making, neurocognitive modeling, reinforcement learning, artificial general intelligence, and biomedical and health informatics. She is an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and a founding Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).

With a background in academia and business, Tze Yun participates in program committees and editorial boards of leading academic conferences and journals. She also contributes to policy work in education, research and development, and ethics and governance strategies in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Health Informatics. Previously, she served as a Board Member of the Health Sciences Authority in Singapore (2020-2023) and as Director of the former NUS Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (2022-2024). Currently, she is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Group on Ethics and Governance of AI for Health and the World Economic Forum (WEF) AI Governance Alliance. She is also a member of the Advisory Council on AI in Uzbekistan.