Prof. SUEN Wai-mo
Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, ClusterTechProf. Wai Mo SUEN obtained his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is the founder and CEO of ClusterTech Limited, a company providing advanced computing solutions. He is also a professor of theoretical physics at the Washington University and an honorary professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prof. SUEN has over 30 years of experience in advanced computing technologies, and has led multi-national supercomputing projects on relativistic astrophysics starting in the 90's. As a researcher in theoretical physics, Prof. SUEN got the 1995 Outstanding Young Researchers Award from the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers, recognising his contributions to the numerical study of general relativity and black hole physics. As an entrepreneur, he was awarded Asia Pacific Entrepreneur Awards 2017 Hong Kong by Enterprise Asia in 2017, the InnoStars Award 2019 by Our Hong Kong Foundation (OHKF) and the IFTA Fintech Achievement Award 2019 - Iconic Star by The Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia (IFTA), in recogniztion of his contributions to technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Under Prof. SUEN's leadership, ClusterTech, which he found in year 2000, has served over 20 Fortune 500 companies, 80+ government departments, 400+ universities and 30+ institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with solutions on High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, Big Data Infrastructure and Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.