Summary
Feida Zhu is an accomplished professor and blockchain entrepreneur who blends academic rigor with industry impact, currently serving as Aptos Move Chair Professor and Associate Dean at Singapore Management University. With a Ph.D. from UIUC and over 100 peer-reviewed publications in venues like SIGMOD and KDD, her research focuses on Web3, AI, collaborative intelligence, and data governance with practical deployments in finance. She founded the Pinnacle Lab for Analytics and DBS-SMU Life Analytics Lab, driving funded collaborations that translated social and mobile data mining into production platforms for Fortune-500 banks and insurers. As Founder and Chief Scientist of SYMPHONY, she architects privacy-by-design blockchain protocols to democratize data intelligence, reflecting a rare combination of deep technical scholarship and product-minded protocol design. Active in Singapore’s blockchain ecosystem as a BAS board member and an A*STAR adjunct scientist, she uniquely bridges policy, industry consortia, and cutting-edge research to operationalize data-driven innovation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Fudan University
Shanghai Foreign Language School Affiliated to SISU
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign