xData
“X from Above! " HTX xData Director, Deputy Chief AI Officer & Chief Data Officer Lim Kian Boon (holding his drone) with his teams, joined by Chief AI Officer & ACE (Digital & Enterprise) Ng Chee Wee. (video credit: HTX/Lim Kian Boon)
Our Shared Mission
“Force Multiply” the Home Team by harnessing the power of data. We transform data into actionable solutions and cutting-edge products that secure Singapore.
Our Purpose - Why We Do, What We Do
From data to decisions, from insight to action — we harness data, AI and technology for public safety. By applying data science, AI, and engineering, we build enterprise data and exchange platforms, innovative products, and sensor-driven systems that transform complexity into situational awareness for the Home Team, safeguarding our nation’s future.
Our Leadership
“Stronger together: our leadership team in action!” Led by HTX’s xData Director (Award-winning for Data & AI Excellence Leader 2025). (Photo: HTX/Fam Jimmy)
Our leadership team is dedicated to empowering Singapore’s Home Team with innovative, data-driven solutions. They lead our mission to enhance public safety by ensuring the Home Team has the critical insights needed to serve our nation.
Our Culture
"Capturing team moments!” HTX’s xData Director Lim Kian Boon snaps a group selfie (Photo: HTX/Lim Kian Boon)
Drawing from diverse backgrounds and industry experiences, we bring fresh perspectives and welcome new ideas. Our team values open dialogue, learning from each other, and finding practical ways to innovate. Together, we embrace challenges and collaborate closely to build impactful AI-value solutions that advance public safety capabilities.
Behind xData: Meet Our Teams
Product Squad
HTX's first dedicated xData AI Product Team with Director Lim Kian Boon! (Photo: HTX/Fam Jimmy)
Our Focus
We focus on designing and delivering innovative data products and AI solutions that address critical challenges. We translate user needs into practical, integrated AI solutions that deliver real impact, enabling the Home Team to make smarter, faster, and data-driven decisions.
Our Responsibilities
We are the united force of Product Management and Engineering, driven by a shared vision to strengthen our public safety mission. Through strategic product development and cross-team collaboration, we set new standards for how technology serves, enhances, and protects HTDs.
From discovery and research to design, development and launch, we transform complex challenges into impactful solutions through our user-centric approach and strategic product thinking. The Product squad also collaborates closely with existing system teams and system owners from the HTD to architect, build, and deploy scalable products to the production. Through quality engineering practices, we ensure our systems are robust, secure, and seamlessly integrated with existing infrastructure.
Our Contributions
We translate HTD’s vision into impactful AI-value solutions that strengthen operations, enabling the Home Team to operate smarter, faster, and more effectively.
Language AI, Research & Development
(Photo: HTX/Fam Jimmy)
Our Focus
We aim to lead in applying AI to language-related tasks, with a focus on advancing speech and natural language capabilities. We explore how these capabilities can be harnessed and adapted to meet the unique needs of the Home Team.
Our Responsibilities
We delve into emerging language AI technologies, analysing and evaluating its potential before implementing practical solutions. Our research focuses on translating cutting-edge innovations into applications tailored for the Home Team. We conduct extensive benchmarking to validate these technologies and build robust and scalable end-to-end pipelines for deployment across Home Team departments.
Our Contributions
Our work has led to the development of multilingual speech and language technologies - including speech transcription, speech synthesis, and natural language understanding - that have transformed frontline operations and enhanced multiple Home Team products.
Sensemaking
(Photo: HTX/Fam Jimmy)
Our Focus
Delivering AI-driven video sensemaking solutions to enhance operational excellence and advance Singapore’s safety and security through innovation.
Our Responsibilities
We design and build enterprise platforms and applications that drive the Home Team’s sensor and sensemaking capabilities.
Our Contributions
We streamlined operations, equipped officers with advanced tools, and achieved measurable improvements in response time for sensor and sensemaking operations.
Data Platform
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Our Focus
Our Data Platform focuses on enabling secure, scalable, and unified data access, data exploitation across whole of Home Team, empowering teams and individuals to leverage data and analytics for their operations and daily works.
Our Responsibilities
We are responsible for designing, developing and deploying data and analytics platform that fits the evolving needs of our Home Team officers.
Our Contributions
Our contributions have empowered officers with tools ranging from data visualization, geospatial and data analytics, data discovery, that enabled operational efficiency and new operation capabilities.
Resource Optimisation
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Our Focus
Our focus is on crafting forward-thinking optimisation models that empower the Home Team to plan and allocate resources with maximum efficiency and impact.
Our Responsibilities
We are responsible for translating Home Team planning considerations into accurate resource planning models, collaborating closely to ensure they are fit for operational use, and continuously refining them to meet their evolving needs.
Our Contributions
Our contributions have equipped the Home Team with powerful tools that enable faster, more precise resource planning-navigating complex and evolving priorities that would be impractical to manage manually.
Risk, Sensemaking & Analytics
(Photo: HTX/Fam Jimmy)
Our Focus
Our focus is on developing intelligence models that uncover hidden relationships and risks, empowering the Home Team to strengthen security enforcement with sharper insights and foresights.
Our Responsibilities
We are responsible for translating Home Team planning considerations into intelligent and predictive models, working closely to ensure they are tailored to fit operational contexts, and continuously enhancing them to meet evolving needs.
Our Contributions
Our contributions have empowered the Home Team with AI-driven tools that seamlessly integrate into daily operations, enabling the discovery of hidden patterns and risk profiles that enhance decision-making and operational readiness.
Process Modelling & Simulation
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Our Focus
We develop capabilities in Modelling and Simulation to help the Home Team leverage data in resource planning and operations.
Our Responsibilities
We are committed to being the centre of expertise for simulation techniques and its applications in Home Team operations. We will continue to push the boundaries of applications in simulation applications, including simulation in Digital Twins and near real-time simulation models.
Our Contributions
We have supported various Home Team departments in planning studies to support their new operation concepts. We also develop tools to support resource planning in operations. Some of the projects we are actively supporting include ICA for their RTS development and SPF in Division planning. Concurrently we are actively developing new capabilities in Digital Twins for use in MHA operations.
AI Data Engineering
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Our Focus
AI Data Engineering is focused towards building a robust, scalable and reliable data infrastructure that powers all AI initiatives and applications. Specialistes in transforming high-volume, high-variety and high-velocity data into clean, trustworthy data assets for model training.
Our Responsibilities
- Data Pipeline Building: Designing and optimising end-to-end data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and loading of data.
- Data Quality & Governance: Implementing checks and policies to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and security.
- Feature Engineering Enablement: Creating reproducible pipelines for managing features used in AI/ML models.
- Data Infrastructure Optimisation: Fine-tuning data systems for performance and cost-efficiency to support high-performance AI/ML model training.
- Collaboration with AI teams: Helping xData AI teams to accelerate experimentation and deployment.
Our Contributions
- Accelerating Innovation: Providing clean, AI-ready data that allows Data Scientists to focus on model development, leading to faster time-to-market for new AI products.
- Boosting Model Performance: Ensures high-quality data that results in more accurate and reliable AI models.
- Enables Scalability: Delivers scalable, cost-efficient infrastructure that allows AI initiates to grow and handle increasing data volumes.
- Building Trust: Providing a reliable source of truth and clear data governance for AI-ready data.
CDO Office
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Our Focus
The CDO Office safeguards and governs data while enabling its strategic use to advance public safety.
Our Responsibilities
The CDO Office oversees HTX’s data strategy and data governance, ensuring effective and secure use of data to support operations and decision-making.
Our Contributions
Through strong governance and strategy, the CDO Office ensures data is both protected and put to work for impact.
