PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Mong Li Lee

Also known as Lee Mong Li, Lee Mong Li Janice

Mong Li Lee is a computer scientist at the National University of Singapore whose data management research reaches into deep learning for health screening and into the study of online misinformation. She won the IEEE Singapore Information Technology Gold Medal in 1989 as the top computer science student and was a visiting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. With Wynne Hsu and Tien Yin Wong, she shared the 2014 President's Technology Award for ocular image analysis technology, and in 2017 she coauthored a JAMA paper on a deep learning system for diabetic retinopathy. Singapore's inaugural 100 Women in Tech list named her in 2020. She is a professor of computer science at NUS and Director of its Centre for Trusted Internet and Community.

Badges

Timeline

  1. 1989

    IEEE Singapore gold medal

    She receives the IEEE Singapore Information Technology Gold Medal in 1989 as the top student in the Computer Science program. Her B.Sc. (Hons 1), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science all come from the National University of Singapore.

  2. 1999–2000

    Wisconsin-Madison and QUIQ

    She is a visiting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA in 1999 and a consultant at QUIQ in the USA in 2000.

  3. 2014

    A President's Technology Award

    In 2014, she shares Singapore's President's Technology Award with Wynne Hsu and Tien Yin Wong for novel ocular image analysis technology that screens and evaluates significant clinical problems in eye and vascular diseases. The platform, developed in collaboration with the Singapore Eye Research Institute and A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research, lets doctors detect and track the progression of three major eye diseases that cause blindness.

  4. 2014

    Convolutional networks for eye screening

    She coauthors a 2014 paper on transformed representations for convolutional neural networks in diabetic retinopathy screening with Gilbert Lim, Wynne Hsu and Tien Yin Wong, published at the AAAI Workshop on Modern Artificial Intelligence for Health Analytics.

  5. 2017

    Deep learning for diabetic retinopathy

    In 2017, she is among the coauthors, with Wynne Hsu, Tien Yin Wong and others, of a JAMA paper on a deep learning system for diabetic retinopathy and related eye diseases, built from retinal images of multiethnic populations with diabetes. The screening system examines retinal fundus photographs for diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma, and it is validated on nearly half a million retinal images.

  6. 2017

    Tools against misinformation

    She coauthors iFact, an interactive framework to assess claims from tweets, for the CIKM conference with Wee Yong Lim and Wynne Hsu in 2017. Her ICDE 2017 paper with Chonggang Song and Wynne Hsu, on temporal influence blocking, looks at minimizing the effect of misinformation in social networks.

  7. 2020

    Singapore 100 Women in Tech

    In 2020, she is named in the inaugural Singapore 100 Women in Tech list, alongside NUS Computing colleagues Wynne Hsu, Tulika Mitra and Kwong Yuk Wah.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and centre director

    She is a professor of computer science at NUS and Director of the NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community. She is on the NUS AI Lab faculty, with interests in data analytics, deep learning and AI in healthcare, and her ongoing projects include Digital Information Resilience and JARVIS_DHL, which uses AI to transform chronic care for diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia.

Career

  1. NowNational University of SingaporeProfessor of Computer Science
  2. 2000QUIQConsultant
  3. 1999University of Wisconsin–MadisonVisiting Fellow

Education

  1. National University of SingaporeB.Sc. (Hons 1)

From the biography.

  1. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes National University of Singapore. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes National University of Singapore. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes National University of Singapore. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes National University of Singapore. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. LEE Mong Li - NUS Computing comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. 2014 | President's Science & Technology Awards (PSTA) psta.gov.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Singapore's Top Scientists Honored at PSTA 2014 – Asian Scientist Magazine asianscientist.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Singapore biomedical innovation wins President's Technology award biospectrumasia.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. MedicalResearch.com | Deep Learning System Can Screen For Diabetic Retinopathy, Glaucoma and Macular Degeneration medicalresearch.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Retina Images for Diabetic Retinopathy and Glaucoma – NUS AI Lab nusail.comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Four NUS Computing professors and seven alumni named in inaugural Singapore 100 Women in Tech list - NUS Computing comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Lee Mong Li Janice's Home Page comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. People – NUS AI Lab nusail.comp.nus.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.