Summary
Xue Tan is an AI scientist with eight years of experience combining academic rigor and product delivery, holding a PhD in Digital Financial Technology from NUS and First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering. She has applied state-of-the-art ML, explainable AI, NLP and generative models to real-world financial problems—risk modeling, fraud detection and information extraction—while also delivering production banking systems at DBS. Now leading agentic AI strategy and prototyping at IMDA, she bridges research, safety due diligence and ecosystem growth to advance national AI capabilities. Certified in PMP, CSM and AWS, she pairs strong project and cloud engineering credentials with a track record of shipping reliable, MAS-regulated platforms. Outside of work she codes her own trading bot, plays piano and even speaks Suzhounese, reflecting both technical breadth and cultural curiosity. An Erdős number of 5 hints at a deep academic collaboration network that complements her public-sector impact.
8 years of coding experience
Fall Semester Exchange Programme, GPA 4.0/4.0, Fall Semester Exchange Programme, GPA 4.0/4.0 at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Digital Financial Technology, GPA 5.0/5.0, AIDF Scholar, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Digital Financial Technology, GPA 5.0/5.0, AIDF Scholar at National University of Singapore