William Lee Wai Leong

William Lee worked for 10 years at Panasonic Corporation (under the Matsushita Electric Industrial Scholarship, Osaka Japan) as a R&D Engineer; and upon completion of his post-graduate training in New York City, he worked for another 13 years at Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, California) as Principal of Technology Operations within the Printing and Personal Computer Systems Group. He has gained deep industrial experiences from research innovation, product development, manufacturing, procurement, supply-chain operations, go-to-market and commercialisation strategy; including NPV justification for new program corporate funding allocation, business model creation and breakeven projections.

As Associate Director of Advanced Robotics Centre at the National University of Singapore, with the task to bring Research outcome of AI-driven Robotics Autonomous Technology-to-Market. William cofounded AImatix Pte Ltd, a NUS Enterprise-enabled Startup, into the space for high-density pedestrian pathway with autonomy as the last-mile solution. NUS Research role includes Co-Principal Investigator to BCA-HDB Façade Inspection Project funded by NRF; BCA-Surbana-Jurong BIM Digital Inspection Robotics funded by A*STAR; ST Engineering Autonomous Bus funded by NRF/MOT/LTA; Collaborative AI-Robots funded by A*STAR; SIA-NUS Digital Aviation Corporate Lab funded by NRF, while concurrently serving as Deputy Director; he also has teaching assignments as Adjunct Associate Professor, advises NUS Deep Technology spin-offs.