Assoc. Prof. Tan Tin Wee served as a Resident Fellow at Sheares Hall for 10 years before becoming the Master of Eusoff Hall, a position he held for another 10 years. He was the Founding Director and Chief Executive of the National Supercomputing Centre, on secondment from the Department of Biochemistry at NUS. Lauded as an internet pioneer in Singapore, who founded the multilingual internet domain name system, and was instrumental in its internationalization. Assoc. Prof. Tin Wee was inducted into the Internet Society’s Internet Hall of Fame in 2012. He has a wealth of corporate and entrepreneurial experiences, and lends important help as a mentor & facilitator in the “Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship” course at RC4.

He is also a classical guitarist and volunteers with Caregivers Alliance as a dementia caregiver trainer, and helps with Waterways Watch, SG75 and ASEAN HPC Task Force.

A/P Tan Tin Wee won the Outstanding Visionary Leadership Award from the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNET) for his pioneering work on biocomputing and bioinformatics since 1991. The award was given out at the Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference in Okinawa (22-25 Oct 2024).