Innovation and mentoring

AI projects and startup 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

Projects and mentoring

Examples span AI readiness, healthcare AI, startup mentoring, venture incubation, and MedTech innovation.

Applied AI and transformation

Work spanning AI readiness, applied models, governance and AI-assisted development.

Public project

SG Weather Ops Dashboard

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

GitHub

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AIxTech Certificate of Completion (Power-Up Phase)

SG Weather: a personal build

Simplified architecture, based on the public repository. The dashboard calls an Express API, which stores locations and weather snapshots in SQLite and fetches Singapore weather data.

Dashboard · React / Vite

API · Express

Storage · SQLite / Drizzle

Weather · data.gov.sg

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2018-2022

AI Singapore applied AI and AIRI work

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

NUS Business School

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GITEX AI Asia Speakers 2025 AI Readiness Index - Where Are You on the AI Journey?From AI Apprentice to Beyond: My Career Transformation with AI Apprenticeship Program (AIAP)Tern Poh Lim - Deloitte | LinkedIn TR 99:2021 Artificial intelligence (AI) security

2019

RenalTeam kidney hospitalisation prediction

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

AI Singapore

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Predicting Hospitalisation of Kidney Dialysis Patients with AI

Startup mentoring and ecosystem

Past program mentoring and current availability to support AI-first founders on product direction and go-to-market choices.

Past programs

Google for Startups and 500 Global mentoring

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

SGInnovate

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Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia Tern Poh Lim - Deloitte | LinkedIn Lim Tern Poh - The NUS MBA

Venture building and MedTech

NUS GRIP, Duke-NUS, and Antler work across venture incubation, healthcare sensing, and MedTech innovation.

2024

Antler Singapore founder-in-residence

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

NUS Business School

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Generative AI for Business Leaders and Elevating Experience with AI Agent and LLM Tern Poh Lim - Deloitte | LinkedIn

2023

Duke-NUS MedTech innovation

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

NUS Business School

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Duke-NUS Health Innovator Programme

2020

NUS GRIP Wise / WiSeCue

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

NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme