Daniel Ting
Clinical Surgeon AI Innovator, Singapore National Eye Centre

Daniel Ting

Assoc. Prof. Daniel Ting is a Senior Consultant in the Surgical Retina Department at the Singapore National Eye Centre, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Director of the Cluster AI Office at SingHealth, and Head of AI and Digital Innovation at the Singapore Eye Research Institute. His research interests include AI, big data analytics, surgical innovation, retina diseases, and much more. In collaboration with several leading eye centers globally, he and his team have developed and validated a novel and robust AI system using deep learning to detect referable diabetic retinopathy, referable glaucoma suspect, and age-related macular degeneration. He is actively involved in the healthcare AI space, serving in several AI executive committees and editorial boards, and has published >200 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals. Assoc. Prof. Ting has received many prestigious scientific awards, including the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Nakajima Award and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Bert Glaser Award for Innovative Research in Retina. He was also ranked as the world’s most influential deep learning healthcare researcher between 2010 and 2021 by Expertscape.