Kai Thia
VP, Head Of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Centre, Group Technology Office
Singapore
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Top SchoolKai Thia is a VP and Head of AI & Analytics with 12 years of experience building production-grade AI across finance, eCommerce, media and healthcare, currently leading applied R&D in Multi-Agent AI, Robotics AI, Distributed Edge and Urban Computing at ST Engineering. He has a track record of converting research into deployed products—from sentiment and risk models at LSEG to real-time recommender and fraud systems at Lazada and DBS—that delivered measurable economic impact and operational scale. Kai secures multiyear R&D funding and strategic partnerships, and his team’s work has been presented at EMNLP, CoCoMARL and ICITT, bridging academic rigor with industry delivery. He pairs a Georgia Tech MSc in Computer Science with hands-on leadership in ML roadmap, MLOps and explainable, fair AI, and has led cross-regional teams across APAC, EMEA and the US. Notably, he has moved between startup and enterprise contexts—from founding a data consultancy to building product P/L and paid features at Tech in Asia—bringing both product instinct and deep technical craft.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Information Systems Management, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems Management at Singapore Management University
Github Skills (26)
code-sharing10
toolbox8
robotics7
quantile7
stable-baselines6
python6
robustness5
reinforcement-learning5
machine-learning5
pytorch5
openai4
deep-learning4
deep-reinforcement-learning4
data-structure4
online-algorithms3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
datasciencesg/knowledge-base
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Knowledge base for DSSG. Learning Materials, MOOCs, Code Sharing.
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 months
moocsknowledgesharingknowledge-basedssg
thiakx/leetcode
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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