Singapore’s Senior Minister visits campus
Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited laboratories in Imperial’s South Kensington campus on Tuesday 18th October, before meeting with Singaporean students.
Lee was welcomed by President Hugh Brady and shown Imperial-led research in fast-growing scientific fields such as artifitial intelligence (AI), neurotechnology and quantum computing.
The research showcase included presentations of Nightingale AI, an initiative to build an AI model trained with scientific data and specialised on healthcare, and an Imperial-built quantum sensor with applications in satellite-free navigation.
Lee also held an “engagement session” with Imperial’s Singapore Society, of which half of the College’s 400-odd Singaporean students are members.
The Singapore Society told Felix, “It was a great opportunity to connect with Senior Minister Lee and have the opportunity to share with him our experiences studying in Imperial, as well as hear his valuable insights.”
Lee, the son of national founding father Lee Kuan Yew, served as Prime Minister of Singapore from 2004 to 2024. The South-East Asian city state was ranked the world’s fifth-most innovative country in 2025, one place above Britain.
“We are proud to be building a shared future of discovery and progress,” Brady remarked at the event.
Last year, the College launched Imperial Global Singapore, an overseas research and innovation centre, which focusses on “high impact collaborative research projects” such as public health, climate and AI. The centre should also allow Imperial to scale up activities in the region like startup accelerators student placements.
