Beng Chin Ooi

Beng Chin Ooi (1961 to April 25, 2026) was a Singaporean computer scientist and academic who was Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University. He previously served as Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor and as Dean of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore from 2007 to 2013. He was a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, the China Computer Federation and the Singapore National Academy of Science, and a foreign member of Academia Europaea and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He earned his BSc in 1985 and PhD in 1989 from Monash University. He received the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2020.