Yiing Chau Mak

Yiing Chau Mak has a diverse work experience that spans over a decade. They started their career at the Ministry of Law, where they held the positions of Assistant Director in Copyright, Enforcement & International Affairs and Assistant Director in Planning. During their time at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, Yiing Chau Mak served as a Senior Assistant Director and played a key role in the development of Singapore's cybersecurity legislation and cybersecurity strategy. They then joined Shape Security (Part of F5 Networks) as Director of Data Science, where they built and led a team to create an anti-fraud product and provided leadership in data science, analytics, and AI/ML for a portfolio of products. Most recently, Yiing Chau Mak worked at MetaMap as Head of Data, where they built the data engineering, data science, and analytics capabilities from scratch. They are currently the Head of Data & AI at Gather.

Yiing Chau Mak completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University from 2007 to 2010. Following that, from 2010 to 2011, Yiing Chau Mak pursued a Master of Science degree in Management and Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before these higher education degrees, Yiing Chau Mak received a GCE 'A' Levels qualification from Hwa Chong Institution in 2006.