Innovation and mentoring
Tern Poh's work spans applied AI, venture building, and past program mentoring across AI Singapore, NUS GRIP, Duke-NUS, Google for Startups, 500 Global, and Antler. He is currently available to mentor AI-first founders.
Selected work
Examples span AI readiness, healthcare AI, startup mentoring, venture incubation, and MedTech innovation.
Work spanning AI readiness, applied models, governance and AI-assisted development.
2018-2022
Associate Director (Strategy and Special Projects) and Principal AI Consultant
Worked on AI readiness, advisory, product, standards, security, and applied AI delivery at AI Singapore.
Applied AI · AIRI · AI standards · Enterprise AI
2019
Senior AI Engineer
Worked with teammates to scope the problem, explore the data, select features, and train a model with a one-week prediction window. After seven months, its performance was comparable with the RenalTeam medical team.
Applied AI · Healthcare · Problem scoping · Decision support
Public project
Project author
Built a weather dashboard with Codex and Claude Code, covering product choices, implementation, debugging and verification. The public repository demonstrates an AI-assisted development workflow.
AI-assisted development · Codex · Claude Code · Public repository
Past program mentoring and current availability to support AI-first founders on product direction and go-to-market choices.
Past programs
Startup Mentor
Mentored AI-first founders through past Google for Startups and 500 Global programs on AI strategy, product direction, and go-to-market choices.
Startup mentoring · AI strategy · Product · Go-to-market
NUS GRIP, Duke-NUS, and Antler work across venture incubation, healthcare sensing, and MedTech innovation.
2024
Founder-in-Residence
Joined Antler Singapore's startup incubator while completing the NUS-PKU MBA and worked on early-stage AI startup ideas and business validation.
Antler · Venture building · AI startups · Business validation
2023
Business Fellow, Health Innovator Programme
Worked in a cross-functional Duke-NUS team and co-developed a cervical cancer screening innovation with clinicians. The project led to a Singapore patent application filed in March 2024, and NUS reports that it secured S$50,000 in innovation grant funding.
MedTech · Duke-NUS · Patent application · Innovation grant
2020
COO
Served as COO for Wise/WiSeCue in NUS GRIP. The venture worked on a wireless sensing platform for implant monitoring.
NUS GRIP · WiSeCue · Healthcare sensing · Venture building
Innovation and mentoring
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