Event
BIOE Seminar: Dean Ho
Friday, November 21, 2025
10:00 a.m.
A. James Clark Hall, Room #2121
Catherine Kuo
ckk@umd.edu
Dean Ho
Professor
National University of Singapore
(Virtual)
Speaker Bio
Professor Dean Ho is currently Provost’s Chair Professor, Director of The Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; Director of The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1), and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). In 2024, Professor Ho and team launched a first-in-kind trial - with Professor Ho as the test subject - to optimise his performance and biomarkers with digital technologies. This study has been featured on television and digital media programming, and major global meetings. Prof. Ho and team also manage a portfolio of over 10 prospective, interventional human oncology clinical trials with life-saving outcomes. A serial entrepreneur, he has advised health/human performance teams, nutrition and wearable firms, and venture funds on digital medicine deployment. Professor Ho is an elected Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Ho is Co-Chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group for the regulation of AI for Health.
