Summary
Sujay Thakur is a policy-focused technologist with eight years’ experience at the intersection of AI, defence and healthcare finance in Singapore’s public sector. Currently serving as Assistant Director for Finance Policy at the Ministry of Health after shaping Singapore’s National AI Strategy, he blends technical training from Harvard (SM in Computational Science & Engineering) and Cambridge with hands-on machine learning and software engineering experience. He has a track record of translating advanced AI research and prototyping (GANs, spiking nets, ML tools for military use cases) into operational policy and digital services. Comfortable moving between strategy and implementation, Sujay has led cross-ministerial initiatives on compute, geopolitics of tech, and public-good AI while also building apps and analytics tools used by large user groups. Pragmatic and community-oriented, he’s especially interested in leveraging AI to empower communities beyond purely technical metrics.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Information and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Information and Computer Engineering at University of Cambridge
Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard University
Raffles Institution
English, Hindi