A/Prof Cheng Lock Donny Soh is an Associate Professor in the Infocomm Technology Cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), where he serves as the Programme Leader for both the Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Applied Artificial Intelligence and the SIT x NVIDIA AI Centre (SNAIC) Artificial Intelligence Training Programme.

Prior to joining SIT, Dr Soh Cheng Lock started a firm in Artificial Intelligence, creating their own A.I. Product in sports analytics. He also consulted at a drone company and was instrumental in both creating and launching their A.I. Platform to carry out image classification/recognition of drone images.

Another one of the highlights of his career included the development and launch of a nation-wide LPG ordering system, empowered with data analytics for ExxonMobil. Dr Soh also served at I2R, A-Star for three years as part of his PhD bond. There he was the Principle Investigator of several key industrial projects within the Data Mining Department, including projects with a financial MNC, (on Fraud Detection) and a local SME(Customer Analytics).

Dr. Soh graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London, Masters from Singapore MIT Alliance and holds a Bachelors (First Class Honours) in Computer Engineering from NUS.

Soh briefed National Press Foundation fellows in June 2026: Human Oversight Vital to AI Accountability.