Benjamin Lee

Your favourite/ most memorable project

• Microfinance company based in Myanmar
• Local boutique hotel
• Local insurance broker
• Local seafood supplier

Publications or published articles related to SMU-X projects (if any).

• “善用数据分析提升企业决策质量” 联合早报, 中小企业专版, 7 March 2019
• “Enhancing SME’s data analytics capability through university tie-ups”. The Business Times, 23 April 2019 (written with Gary Pan and Seow Poh Sun)
• “Grooming the Next Generation of Accounting Professionals for the Age of AI”, book chapter in Charting the future of Accountancy with AI (pp. 48-61), CPA Australia, July 2019 (written with Clarence Goh, Gary Pan and Seow Poh Sun) ISBN : 978-981-14-2062-7
• “Daung Capital: Managing the Credit Risk Challenges Of Microfinance in Myanmar” Singapore Management University Case Series, 2020 (Co-authored Teaching Case with Gary Pan and Lipika Bhattacharya)
• “Digitalisation of SMEs in Singapore: an Institute of Higher Learning-Enterprise Partnership Model”, Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) Journal, 15th May 2020 (Co-authored with Gary Pan)
• “Leveraging Digital Technology to Transform Accounting Function: Case Study of a SME”, International Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting, 10(2), 2020, pp. 1-15 (Co-authored refereed journal publication with Gary Pan)

What you envision for your area(s) of interest and research etc

Improved adoption of technologies from SMEs that will help them develop and grow as well as stronger partnerships between them and academia so that students will have a greater exposure through SMU-X projects

If you might have a favourite book/ quote/ movie/ musical/movie character /special talent.. please do share your favourite(s)! And let us know why it is your favourite!

• I’m also a songwriter and pianist
• Quote:  “Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.” ― R. C. Sproul
• Why? 
  As an invention, AI is not going to suddenly do something that we didn’t expect it to do.  If AI goes rogue, it’s because we taught it something wrong and not because it decided to become Ultron from nothing. We ought to be rational enough to differentiate between reality and science fiction.