Mei May Soo

Chief of AI Global Solutions Specialist, Dell Technologies

Mei May is a highly accomplished AI leader with over two decades of experience in Data Science and AI, having been named as the Top 10 CAIO, #1 Top AI Leader in APAC, Top 10 Women in Tech APAC, Top 50 Women Tech Leader in APAC, Top 10 AI Influencers and many more. As the lead of Dell Technologies’ AI/ML initiatives for Global Solutions Specialist, she works closely with customers to solve problems scientifically and objectively, exemplified by her team’s design and development of a Deep Learning model that recognizes and identifies different types of corals for the conservation of the Great Barrier Reef. Her leadership and innovation in this project were recognized in CIO World Asia. Another AI initiative with a Singapore university to develop a Smart Fundraising machine learning model led to the winning of two Circle of Excellence awards (Global Grand Gold and Best Asia Pacific). Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Mei May led the data science team at Cisco Systems, where she discovered that people, not data, are at the centre of everything. She strives to connect the two worlds by incorporating elements of humanity and behavioural sciences in the interpretation of data. As such she is able to explain complex data concepts to stakeholders at all levels of an organization. Mei May’s passion for promoting diversity and inclusion has seen her lead the Singapore Chapter of Dell Technologies’ Women in Action employee resource group (ERG), working toward the organisation’s 2030 goals of 50% of its global workforce and 40% of its global people leaders being those who identify as women. As the lead for the Mentoring pillar within WIA Singapore, she champions the flagship cross-company cross-industry mentoring program, MentorConnect, which has benefited over 500 mentees early in leadership from 15 partner companies.